Lee University men's basketball coach Tommy Brown has announced the signings of three perimeter players for the 2015-16 season, including Rico Overall from Cleveland State and former McCallie School star C.J. Reese, transferring from Southeast Missouri State. The other is Cam Boyd, directly out of national high school power Greater Atlanta Christian. Overall was Cleveland State's male athlete of the year after averaging 20.5 points a game and making 44 percent of his 3-point shots as a sophomore. Reese started one year at Westlake in Atlanta and three years at McCallie, where he was first-team all-state and a McDonald's All-American nominee for a team that won 24 games in a row, and he played for the Atlanta Celtics AAU team that was ranked No. 1 in the nation and won an Adidas Super 64 national title in Las Vegas. He redshirted his first year at SEMO and wasn't happy with his playing time as a freshman. Boyd scored 1,007 points and hit a school-record 251 3-point shots for a GAC team that was 107-19 in his four years. "Cam comes from an incredibly successful high school program where he had an outstanding career," Brown said in a Lee release. "He's a great competitor and a guy that can really fill it up from the outside. C.J. is a big guard that sees the floor. He gets people involved and can really defend. He had a very good career at McCallie, and we're thrilled that he's decided to come back to this area of Tennessee. Rico put some really good numbers in a very tough Tennessee junior college league. He can score in a variety of ways and play multiple positions for us."
Boxing
* Chattanooga native Ryan Martin improved to 13-0 as a professional lightweight boxer with a first-round TKO of Ivan Zavala in their scheduled eight-round bout Saturday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Martin, who fights out of Cleveland, Ohio, but still considers Chattanooga home, is a 22-year-old Central High School graduate.
Softball/Baseball
* Lee's softball team rolled into the National Christian College Athletic Association national tournament with a 9-1 victory over Mississippi College in the Mid-East Region championship game Saturday. Angie Hughes (16-7) pitched a three-hitter and Emily Dagnan was 3-for-3 with an RBI and scored three times for the Lady Flames (33-17), while Lexie Dean and Qiley Lewis each was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Kaylie Drew and NiaRaye Ceasar combined to walk five times and scored two runs apiece. Madison Oliver homered for the Choctaws (27-22). The national event begins Wednesday in Botetourt, Va. Lee teams already have won four NCCAA national titles this school year.
* Lee hosts the NCCAA Mid-East Region baseball tournament starting Tuesday, when the top-seeded Flames are scheduled to play Ohio Christian or Johnson at 7 p.m. Hiwassee is the No. 3 seed and faces Morthland in the tourney opener at 11 a.m., and that victor faces No. 2 seed Bluefield in the 4 p.m game.
* The Tennessee Wesleyan softball team is scheduled to play Monday at 6 p.m. CDT against top-seeded host Auburn-Montgomery in one of 10 NAIA national tournament opening brackets. Davenport (40-8), from Michigan, and Georgia Gwinnett (36-14) play at 3:30 ahead of AUM (39-8) and the Lady Bulldogs (31-7). Reinhardt (28-17) from TWC's league is seeded third in the William Carey Bracket.
* Appalachian Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament champion Tennessee Wesleyan (43-10) is the No. 1 seed for the NAIA baseball opening-round bracket in Kingsport, Tenn., where Lindsey Wilson (38-17), Freed-Hardeman (35-142), LSU Alexandria (39-14) and Judson, Ill. (40-18) are seeded second through fifth. TWC plays Tuesday at 6 p.m. against the winners of the 11 a.m. game between LSUA and Judson. AAC tournament runner-up Bryan (44-16) is seeded third in the Daytona Beach bracket and faces second-seeded host Embry-Riddle on Tuesday. Auburn-Montgomery is the No. 1 seed.
Tennis
* After a dramatic victory by Sewanee freshman Maggie Crumbliss from Baylor School capped a 5-4 victory over 11th-ranked Washington University of St. Louis in the NCAA Division III women's tennis regional Friday on the Sewanee courts, the 12th-ranked Tigers (19-6) lost 5-2 to No. 2 Emory on Saturday. Friday, Sewanee was down 1-2 after doubles but got straight-sets singles wins from freshmen Christina Merchant and Clementina Davila and a three-setter from junior Lindsey Liles before Crumbliss broke a 4-4 tie by coming back from a 5-2 third-set deficit and surviving six match points. Against Emory (18-3), Liles won in singles and in doubles with Bronte Goodhue from GPS, and Goodhue won 6-1 in the first set of her unfinished No. 1 singles match.
Track & Field
* Winthrop freshman Preston Elwell from Signal Mountain placed fifth in men's javelin in the University of Georgia Invitational track and field meet Saturday. Elwell's best throw was 188 feet, 8 inches.
Running
* Geno Phillips and Jessica Marlier were the overall winners Saturday in the 4-mile King of the Mountain run on Lookout Mountain. Phillips, 43, won in 21 minutes, 53 seconds. Jack McGinness, 22, was second in 22:17 -- 12 seconds ahead of Joe Goetz, 32, and Dean Thompson was the masters winner and fourth overall in 22:57. Marlier was the fastest female and 11th overall in 24:31; Lisa Logan was the female masters winner and 39th overall.