Dalton State seniors Ladaris Green and Sean Tate followed up their team's NAIA Division I national championship Tuesday night with All-American honors announced Thursday. The 6-foot-10 Green was a first-team All-American and the 5-8 Tate was a third-team selection. Green wound up second in the NAIA in total rebounds and rebounds per game (11.63) and second also in blocked shots. He had 13 double-doubles this season and was the Southern States Athletic Conference player of the year. Tate was the SSAC leader in free-throw percentage and assist-to-turnover ratio. DSC's Jordan Bowling was the NAIA tournament most valuable player, Preston Earle joined him on the all-tournament team and Tony Ingle was named NAIA national coach of the year. A "victory lap" parade in the Roadrunners' honor will begin at 6 tonight in front of the Dalton Depot Restaurant, and a ceremony will follow.
* Lee University freshman Emileigh Swafford from Meigs County was a first-team National Christian College Athletic Association Division I women's All-American but was unable to play in the NCCAA postseason, and the Lady Flames won the national championship with freshman Shelby Brown as the most outstanding playier and junior Kayla Beavers joining her on the all-tournament team. Lee's Erin Walsh and Tennessee Temple's Amanda Rector were second-team All-Americans. Lee's Cory Billingsley men's 10-man All-American first team, and Flames teammate Chase Cullen was on the six-man all-national-tournament team. Tennessee Temple's Cameron High received All-American honorable mention.
Golf
* Agathe Sauzon of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga was the Southern Conference women's golfer of the week after her third consecutive top-15 finish. She tied for 14th in the Briar's Creek Invitational at Johns Island, S.C., shooting 220 for 54 holes with a closing 2-under-par 70. The Mocs will host the inaugural Chattanooga Classic at Council Fire Golf Club on April 6-7.
* The Georgia State Golf Association's first state championships of the year will be determined today through Sunday with the Georgia Four-Ball Tournament at Valdosta Country Club and Kinderlou Forest Golf Club. Tony Patterson of Dalton with Tre Lamb of Calhoun will be in the championship flight along with Matt Oxford of Rocky Face and a Kennesaw partner.
Tennis
* Sewanee had both Southern Athletic Association tennis players of the week, and both came from Chattanooga high schools. Bronte Goodhue from Girls Preparatory School was the women's honoree after going 3-0 at No. 1 singles and 4-0 at No. 1 doubles in four impressive team victories; she is 8-3 in singles and 8-2 in doubles this year. Baylor graduate Alex Cooper earned the men's honor with a 4-0 record in singles and doubles in team wins over two ranked teams; he won the Tigers' deciding singles match in each case, rallying from double match point in one.
* The Dalton State women's tennis team lost 7-2 to Brenau on Thursday at Lakeshore Park in Dalton, but the Lady Roadrunners' Daniela Sanchez won 0-6, 6-0, 6-3 at No. 4 singles and Lucy Lovinfosse and Maria Alejandra Bejarano won 8-5 at No. 3 doubles.
Track & Field
* Lee University freshman Harold Smith from Bradley Central was the NCCAA student-athlete of the week after his first-place and NCCAA season-best 1:52.01 in the 800-meter run last weekend at the Emory University track and field meet. That time is the sixth best in NCAA Division II so far this year.
Lacrosse
* The Sewanee women's lacrosse team improved to 11-0 for the season and gave Michele Dombrowski her 100th lacrosse coaching win -- she also coaches field hockey -- but the Tigers had to rally from a three-goal halftime deficit to beat visiting DePauw 17-13. Mallory Grimm had six goals and an assist, Ellie Murphy had four goals and an assist and Katie Riddle and Sally Anne Greenwood scored two goals apiece for Sewanee. Crawford Horan made 14 saves.
Softball
* Caroline Holmes had two hits and Courtney Saunders had an RBI in the first game, and Shayla Vandergriff scored in each game and was 2-for-3 in the second as Sewanee lost 12-1 and 13-2 to visiting Wesleyan (Ga.) in softball Wednesday.
Media
* Former Chattanooga News-Free Press sports writer Rex Sanders died this month in Augusta, Ga., at age 77, and anyone who would like to honor his memory can make a donation to the University of Alabama Alumni Scholarship Program, P.O. Box 861928, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486. Sanders attended Alabama and worked as a student assistant to football legend Bear Bryant before beginning his journalism career at the Tuscaloosa News. He worked at many other newspapers throughout the South, including Chattanooga's afternoon paper in the 1960s and '70s.