Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga distance runner Lanni Marchant added to her Olympic opportunities for next summer on Sunday, when she qualified to represent Canada in the marathon at the 2016 Rio Games. Marchant, 31 and a native of London, Ontario, finished fifth overall at the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon, covering the 26.2 miles in 2 hours, 28 minutes and 9 seconds. Marchant, who lives part-time in Chattanooga and is a criminal defense attorney, had already qualified to represent Canada in the 10,000-meter run; she plans to compete in both events next summer in Brazil.
* Matthew Leonard of Johnson City, Tenn., won the 7 Bridges Marathon on Sunday morning in Chattanooga with a time of 2 hours, 51 minutes, 24.9 seconds for the 26.2-mile course. Lorna Wilson of Chattanooga was the women's winner in 3:21:02.3. Chris Edmondson of Southside, Ala., and Mark Wulff of Asheville, N.C., were second and third overall in 2:52:03.9 and 2:53:43.5, and Kacey Cox of Indiana and Kristin Phillips of Nashville were the second and third female finishers. Samuel Palmer in 1:15.22 and Meredith Tribble in 1:18.53 were the overall winners in the accompanying half marathon, and teenagers Walt Douglas and Anna-Blair Self were the 5k winners.
Golf
* Council Fire golf professional Richard Rebne shot a 2-over-par 74 Sunday and finished in a seven-way tie for 21st place at 1-under 287 in the Senior PGA National Championship in Seaside, Calif. That group was 10 strokes off winner John Dalcorobbo, but Rebne exceled nonetheless, advancing through two rounds of cuts to be among the final 35 players after the tournament started Thursday with a field of 264 at the Bayonet and Black Horse courses. For being among the final 35, Rebne earned the right to play in next year's Senior PGA Championship at The Golf Club at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Mich., where the competition will include Champions Tour professionals.
* Sport Allmond, who won the Chattanooga Men's Metro in July, claimed the Chattanooga TPC championship on Sunday at Council Fire Golf Club. Allmond, a senior at Heritage High School, defeated Jay Potter 1-up in the afternoon session after dismissing Winston Brown 5 and 4 in the morning semifinals. Potter, who plays most of his area golf at Brown Acres, advanced to the final by defeating Justin Hickman 2 and 1. The senior championship required a sudden-death playoff that Larry McGill won with a birdie on the 19th hole to defeat Neil Spitalny. Allmond's season included a win at the Metro, a runner-up finish at the Ira Templeton Open and a third-place finish at the Brainerd Invitational. "I couldn't have asked to end the season any better than this," Allmond said. "I'm going to celebrate by doing homework."
Soccer
* Lee University split a Gulf South Conference doubleheader Sunday at Mississippi College, with the Flames winning 2-1 and the Lady Flames losing by the same score. The Flames (10-2-2, 5-0-1) led 2-0 at halftime behind goals from David Perez - his 15th of the season - and Gabe Franco, with Jonathan Finlay assisting on Perez's score and Franco converting a penalty kick. The Lady Flames (8-4-2, 7-2), who had won seven straight matches, took the game's first lead on Lauren Peters' unassisted goal in the ninth minute, but their hosts tied less than two minutes later and scored the go-ahead goal in the 63rd minute.
* In a Southern Athletic Association doubleheader Sunday at Birmingham-Southern, Sewanee's women won 3-0 and the men lost 1-0. In the women's win, Katie Morrison scored twice, Tyler Edell had the other goal, Nikki Johnston, Dayla LaRocque and Callie Ruf each had an assist and Olivia Glascoe made four saves for the Tigers (9-3-2, 5-0-1). The men's match was scoreless until the 56th minute. Sewanee dropped to 6-9-1 overall and 1-5 in the SAA.
Volleyball
* Sewanee lost 25-13, 25-6, 25-15 at Millsaps on Sunday, falling to 10-12. Lucy Riddle had a team-best five assists and Sara Jayne Sutton led the Tigers with 16 digs.
Swimming & Diving
* Sewanee's swimming and diving teams began their 2015-16 season Saturday with home wins over Centre College, 127-109 for the women and 120-98 for the men. After Centre won the opening 200-yard medley relays, Sewanee got 1,000-yard freestyle wins from Emily Gay and Michael Whitehead and a first and second from Meghan Mulhern and Ashley Krueger in the women's 200 free. Mulhern and Whitehead later won the 500 free events, Will Ralston won the men's 50 free and 100 backstroke, Mallory Graves won the women's 100 back, Mac McNally won the men's 100 free and Courtney Moore and Winston Westbrook were first and second in both men's diving events. Krueger, Erin Neil, Bonnie Wakefield and Mulhern won the women's 200 free relay.
* Jess and Samantha Vargo from Signal Mountain contributed greatly to King University's 171-79 women's swimming and diving win Friday against Milligan and 115-111 victory Saturday at Mars Hill. Against Milligan, both were on the first-place 200-meter medley and freestyle relays, Jess won the 200 individual medley and Samantha won the 100 butterfly. Saturday, Samantha won the 100-yard backstroke and was second in the 100, Jess was second in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes and the 200 IM, Samantha led off the winning 200 freestyle relay and both were on the first-place medley relay.