Baylor's Harper CaswellBaylor School player Jack Gray of Ooltewah and Marshall Sullivan of Memphis lost 9-7 to the top-seeded duo of Michael Apple of Memphis and Kalyan Chadalavada of Goodlettsville in the Boys' 16s doubles final as the 2012 Tennessee State Junior Qualifying tennis tournament for 18- and 16-under players concluded Tuesday at the Champions Club. Gray, a five seed, finished third in singles by edging third-seeded Chadalavada 2-6, 6-1, 1-0(3). Apple lost 6-1, 4-6, 1-0(8) to fellow Memphian Spencer Richey in the 16s singles final, after Matthew Heinrich of Hendersonville defeated Nicholas Wilson of Bristol in the 18s final Monday. Also Monday, Emerald Able of Memphis beat Chattanooga's Harper Caswell of Baylor for the Girls' 18s singles title and 18s doubles winner Kenya Jones of Memphis (with her sister) topped Anna Feaster of Knoxville in the 16s final. Feaster and Carley Hatcliff of Murfreesboro, the top seeds, downed GPS teammates Michelle Fleenor of Lookout Mountain and Jennie McBrayer of Hixson 8-3 in the 16s doubles final. Memphis-area players Austin Essary and Healy Fuess won the Boys' 18s doubles title Tuesday with an 8-5 victory over Wilson and Memphian Walker Sims.
Basketball
• Recent Sonoraville High School graduates Tre-Vaughn Bostic and Tavish Reynolds will be continuing their basketball careers at Georgia Northwestern Technical College. Reynolds, a 6-foot point guard, was the leading scorer for the Phoenix as a senior, and the 6-3 Bostic had 27 points and 13 rebounds in a win over LaFayette and is Sonoraville's all-time leading rebounder. "We are hoping to take a lot of his athleticism and speed and turn him into a slasher of sorts," Bobcats coach David Stephenson said, adding that Reynolds "has a great shot" in the competition to replace Matt Woods at the point. "I really like what Coach [Brent] Mashburn is doing and hope this is just the beginning of a pipeline of student-athletes from Sonoraville to Georgia Northwestern." Mashburn said the two new Bobcats "are both great young men who do what they are supposed to on and off the court. They really meant a lot to our team."
Baseball
• The Chattanooga Cyclones K baseball team went 3-1 and finished second out of six teams in the Southern Wood Bat University of West Georgia Invitational tournament this past weekend. Logan Baldwin had three hits with three runs and an RBI and Jake Wyrick and Lee Gibson drove in four and three runs with two hits and two runs apiece in a 17-2 rout of Atlantic Sportstech with Austin Morris and Thomas Boals providing strong pitching. Drew Williams was the winning pitcher and had two hits, three RBIs and two runs in a 10-1 defeat of the Dalton Bombers, when Josh Poole had two hits and two RBIs and Nick Chambers and Gibson each had two runs and an RBI. Gibson had an RBI double and Jackson McClain took a tough pitching loss when the Cyclones fell 2-1 to the OTC 18s, but the Cyclones beat OTC Black 11-2 with Wyrick pitching a no-hitter with eight strikeouts, Baldwin drilling three hits and three RBIs and Chambers and Morris each getting two hits and matching Baldwin's two runs.
General
• The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athletes as a group tied a program record with an aggregate 2.97 grade point average for the spring semester. This was the fourth successive term in which the Mocs and Lady Mocs posted at least a 2.92 and the sixth semester in a row in which more than half the athletes made the athletic director's honor roll with 3.0 or better GPAs. "I am very proud of the work of our student-athletes in the classroom," AD Rick Hart said in a school release. "Our program has a clearly stated vision of establishing comprehensive excellence as the UTC standard, and this is another example of how we are working toward that goal."