Lee University's Adrian Martin finished second in the women's 100- and 200-meter dashes in the National Christian College Athletic Association national track and field meet Saturday at Rome, Ga., and the four Flames who set an NCCAA record in the 4x800 relay on Friday -- Harold Smith, Emmanuel Kipchumba, Terris Elliott and Adam Gullette -- finished second, fifth, eighth and 36th in the 800 on Saturday. Anyone with a top-three finish was an All-American, and Lee had thirds from Jessica Childress in the women's 800 and Elizabeth Sillcocks in the 5000. Audrey Smith was fourth in the women's 3000 steeplechase, and Childress was seventh in the 1500 with Emily Bryan eighth in the 400 hurdles. In other men's races, Lee's Seth Eagleson was sixth with Smith ninth in the 5000, Camden Perez was eighth in the 3000 steeple and Rick Barry and Hunter Goforth were eighth and ninth in long jump. The Lee men were eighth as a team; the Lady Flames were 12th. Eagleson won the 10,000 in 32:03.89 and Joseph Crook was sixth on Friday, when the 4x800 guys beat Grace College's 14-year-old record by five full seconds with their first-place 7:35.61.
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior Amanda Cotter finished sixth in the women's 800-meter run Saturday at the Tennessee Challenge track meet in Knoxville, and Mocs sophomore Maddison Melchionna set a personal best and finished ninth in the women's 800. Carson-Newman's Tiana Mills from Girls Preparatory School was fourth in the triple jump, and the Eagles' T.J. Davis and Randall Freeman from Ooltewah were sixth in the men's long jump and seventh in triple jump, respectively.
Softball
* Shaliyah Geathers from East Hamilton hit a three-run walk-off home run Sunday to give the Tennessee softball team a 4-1 win over Kentucky and a sweep of their weekend SEC series. Geathers had a two-run double in the 12th-ranked Lady Vols' 6-5 win Saturday night, when Tory Lewis from GPS drove in a run and scored one. Kelsey Nunley from Soddy-Daisy pitched Saturday for No. 21 Kentucky (29-23, 5-19) and allowed only six hits and three earned runs, but Annie Aldrete's two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh won that game for the Lady Vols (39-13, 15-9). Nunley pitched the first four innings Sunday, allowing two hits and one run with seven strikeouts.
Sailing
* Although several states were represented, three Privateer Yacht Club sailors finished in the top five of the Chattanooga Challenge Regatta for Catalina 22 boats on Lake Chickamauga. Bill Robertson had a third and a second in Saturday's races to tie Dennis Slaton from Lake Lanier for first, and David Bergevin and PYC Commodore Scott Irwin were fourth and fifth behind Lake Martin's Keith Bennett. Those results held up when unsettled wind Sunday morning prevented more racing. Slaton and Bennett are former Cat 22 national champions.
Football
* Kash McColley and Brandi Oliver scored touchdowns for the Tennessee Train in their Independent Women's Football League game Saturday night at Central High School, but the visiting Huntsville Tigers won 34-16. The Train take a 1-2 season record to Durham, N.C., and a matchup this Saturday with the Carolina Phoenix.
General
* Matt Woods, who followed his Georgia Northwestern Technical College basketball playing career by serving the Bobcats as an assistant coach, was inducted into the school's athletic hall of fame last Thursday night along with the late Robert Hitchcox, a local Coca-Cola executive who served on the GNTC and GNTC Foundation boards, among extensive community activities. He died on March 10. "The very first time I met him, he asked what he could do to help and said he could help with anything we needed," Bobcats basketball coach and athletic director David Stephenson said of Hitchcox in a school release. "On days when I was frustrated or depressed about something, he would always be very encouraging and reassured me that everything would be OK. From a purely athletic standpoint, many of the things we have and many things we give out to students and spectators at our games came from him." Stephenson said Woods "just epitomizes what our program can be and should be." Woods graduated from Dade County High School in 2005 and attended Kennesaw State before joining the Army and serving in Iraq. Upon his return to the area, he enrolled at GNTC and tried out for the basketball team. He played for Stephenson for two years and then became his assistant, meanwhile earning a bachelor's degree at UTC, and now he's headed to medical school at the Mayo Clinic. "This school has done so much for me," Woods said at Thursday's banquet in Calhoun.