UTC shares ninth at Old Waverly and more Chattanooga region sports news

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's golf team is tied for ninth in relation to par at 9 over with the second round still to be finished in the Old Waverly Collegiate tournament at West Point, Miss., but the Mocs' Ewan Scott is tied for 10th individually at 3 under and Liam Johnston shares 20th at even par. Ole Miss leads at 7 under with UAB next at 4 under. UTC is tied with Troy and UNC Greensboro. Rain delayed the event's start Monday by an hour and stopped play during the second round.The Mocs will play April 19-21 in the Southern Conference tournament at Pinehurst in North Carolina.

* Dalton State golfer Levi Nix shot a 71 Monday and finished fourth individually at 217 in the Golfweek NAIA Spring Invitational at the Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort near Orlando, Fla., and teammate Sean Elliott tied for eighth at 219 as the 10th-ranked Roadrunners finished seventh out of 14 teams at 899. Also at 219 was Hunter Cornelius from Heritage High School, whose third-ranked Coastal Georgia team -- the 2014 NAIA national champion -- won by 21 strokes with two players tied for second. No. 1-ranked Oklahoma City was the runner-up at 887.

Auto Racing

* Kevin Rodden of Cleveland won the Super Pro top prize of $2,000 Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. Rodden won on a 5.84-second burst on a 5.84 dial in a 1972 Chevrolet Vega with a modified 434 small-block engine. Matt Grayson of Whitwell was second in a Chevy dragster with a 4.64 run on a 4.65 dial. Ringgold's Marty Goldsmith won the Foot Brake class for the second week in a row with a 7.88 run on a 7.86 dial in his 1976 Plymouth Duster, and Jeff Montgomery of Powder Springs, Ga., was second. Mattie Keener of Dunlap won the Junior Dragster competition with a 7.92 on a 7.90 in a 1-cylinder Briggs & Statton-powered dragster, with Mycah Jordan of Cleveland second. Cynthia Warnock had the low elapsed time of the meet, 4.56 seconds at 149.5 mph, in a 632 Chevy big-block dragster set up by her father, Ronnie Warnock.

* I-75 Raceway at Sweetwater had five first-time winners Saturday night: Cory Hedgecock in Limited Late Model, David Price in B-Hobby, Allen Walker in Thunder, 14-year-old Kyle Courtney in Four Cylinder and Thomas Harrill in Front Wheel Drive. Patrick Duggan won the Sportsman race for the second time in the young season.

Baseball

* Maryville College senior infielder Nick Dean from Mineral Bluff, Ga., and Fannin County High School was the USA South baseball player of the week after going 11-for-22 with a .591 on-base percentage and a 1.050 slugging percentage in four games. He had two home runs, a triple, two doubles, three stolen bases, 10 RBIs and seven runs as the Scots went 3-1.

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