University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's tennis coach Carlos Garcia will play for Team USA against Canada in the Sorlien Trophy competition in Toronto this weekend. It runs Friday through Sunday at the Donalda Club under the auspices of the International Lawn Tennis Club. Garcia, now 50, is a former University of Tennessee standout who just completed his 14th season at UTC. He is ranked 20th in the United States in men's 50-over singles. "I am extremely excited to represent our country in this prestigious event," Garcia said in a UTC release. "I am grateful to the USIC for choosing me to be a part of the team and look forward to some excellent competition."
* Ester Yang of St. Andrew's-Sewanee was one of the 12 players selected to the Division II-A Middle-East All-Region girls' high school tennis team for 2015. She just completed her freshman year. The team included five girls from Knoxville Webb and three from University School of Nashville.
Baseball
* Larry Simcox is back as an assistant baseball coach at the University of Tennessee, introduced Monday as Dave Serrano's new hitting coach. The former East Ridge, Cleveland State and Ole Miss standout - and member of the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame - served as a Volunteers assistant from 1991 to 2007. He was on the staff with Serrano in 1995 and 1996, two years in which Tennessee reached the NCAA tournament - including the College World Series in 1995 - and he is the father of Vols shortstop A.J. Simcox. "Larry was, to me, the perfect fit," Serrano said in a news conference, as quoted by the Knoxville News Sentinel. Simcox has been running the Diamond Baseball-Simcox Academy but has to give that up. "I'm just excited to be a part of Dave's staff. I've always thought Dave is an outstanding coach," the KNS story quoted Simcox, who was on the staff for eight NCAA tourney teams and three that got to Omaha. Eleven of the teams with which he worked hit better than .300. This year's 24-26 Tennessee team was last in the Southeasten Conference in hits, runs and RBIs.
* Jake Wyrick and Juan Forte combined on a four-inning no-hitter as the Charleston MoJo beat the East Ridge Lookouts 15-0 in the first game of their Chattanooga United States Adult Baseball League doubleheader Sunday at Charleston, Tenn., and the Mojo added a 16-0 win as Nick Clerc pitched a three-hitter and Chris Caffrey homered, doubled and batted in four runs. Wyrick stuck out eight batters in his three innings for the first-place Mojo (9-1), who will face the second-place Cleveland Bulls this Sunday at Lee University. The Mojo scored 10 runs in the first inning against East Ridge, including a two-run double by Clerc and two RBI singles by Dustin Crumley. Cameron Strickland had a two-run homer and Jeff Harrison had an RBI single and a two-run double in game two.
Auto Racing
* Local classic super car dealer Ron Lane not only repeated as the top race winner Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip, but his second car driven by Mikey Gentz was second to the one he drove. Lane won the Super Pro class with a 4.84-second run on a 4.84 dial in his 632-cubic-inch Chevrolet-powered dragster. Gentz had a 5.04 run on a 4.98 dial. Melvin Croft was third with a 7.60 run on a 7.61 dial in a 1969 Dodge Dart. Scotty Roberts won the Foot Brake class with a 14.40 finish on a well-dialed 14.39 in his 2000 Chevy S-10, the slowest vehicle in the class. Marty Goldsmith was second with a 7.99 on an 8.01 in his 1986 Dodge. Kaleb Winters won the Junior Dragster class with Mattie Keener second. Cynthia Warnock had the low elapsed time (4.61) and high speed of the meet (149.50 mph) in her Chevy dragster prepared by her father, Ronnie Warnock.
* Darren Goins won the Sportsman Shootout race Saturday night at I-75 Speedway in Sweetwater, and Cory Hedgecock won the Limited Late Model division with Jason Welshan second. John Smith was second to Goins in the featured Sportsman event, with Terry Poore third. Other division winners included Dustin Campbell in Thunder, D.J. McMahan in B-Hobby and Bryan Gregory in Four Cylinder.
Golf
* Zac Bombassi shot a 68 Monday to win the CDGA Junior Tour tournament at Moccasin Bend Golf Course. Bombassi won the Boys 16-18 division by three shots over Dylan Lillard. Kaitlyn Sneed needed a three-hole playoff to edge Ryan McCuistion for first in Girls 15-18 after each shot 76, and Tyson Venable nipped Jesse Felker in a one-hole playoff in Boys 14-15. They shot 70s, one better than Parker Gray. Tucker Windham won Boys 12-13 with a 73; Taylor Gardner won Girls 12-14 by six strokes with a 77.