Former Bradley Central High School and Clemson University basketball star Amy Geren McGowan officially is a legend. Or at least she will be in 10 days. She is Clemson's representative for the Atlantic Coast Conference's 11th class of Women's Basketball Legends presented by New York Life. The 15 selections will be honored at a brunch at 10 a.m. on March 7 in Greensboro, N.C., and introduced that afternoon at halftime of the first ACC tournament semifinal in the Greensboro Coliseum. Tickets to the brunch cost $35 and are available by calling 1-336-369-4673. McGowan, who now is the Cleveland Middle School girls' coach and the data manager for Cleveland High School, was a first-team All-ACC player in both 1998 and 1999, averaging 13.5 points a game both seasons, and was on the Tigers' league-championship teams in 1996 and 1999. She also was the national 3-point shooting contest champion in 1999 and had a career free-throw percentage of .848 (335 of 395).
* Senior Morgan Woodward from the women's team and sophomore Z Arima from the men's team were the Covenant College representatives on the USA South All-Sportsmanship basketball teams announced Tuesday. No Covenant players received all-league recognition. The Lady Scots' season is over at 3-22, 2-14 in the league, but the Scots (9-16, 7-7) will play in the USAS South tournament Saturday at 7 p.m. in Danville, Va., as the eighth seed against top-seeded host Averett.
Baseball/Softball
* The Lee University baseball team shoveled and swept Tuesday at Olympic Field in Cleveland. The Flames cleared snow from the outfield and the tarp covering the infield in the morning and edged Bellarmine 2-1 and 1-0 in the afternoon. Chevis Hoover got the pitching win in the first game with two innings of hitless, four-strikeout relief of Rob Gustitus, and Kyle Briner recorded his fourth save of the season. Trenton Hill was 2-for-2 and Zack Zyburt was 2-for-3 in that game, and Siosi Poti was 1-for-3, was hit by a pitch and had both an RBI and a run for Lee (11-1-1). Jacob Potts, Ryan Zimmer and Ridge Ackerman combined for the five-hit shutout in game two, Ackerman getting his second save, and Hill batted in Poti for the run.
* Tennessee Temple's baseball Crusaders bounced back from a humbling loss Monday against one Appalachian Athletic Conference member, Reinhardt, by edging another strong AAC team Tuesday. Nico McElrath's grand slam in the top of the ninth inning held up for a 7-6 win over Bryan. McElrath and Caden Shadrick each was 3-for-4 for Temple (4-2), and Micah Wyatt was 3-for-5 and pitched the last three innings for the win, allowing only one run. Bryan (13-4) was coming off weekend splits in Marietta, Ga., against Taylor and nationally ninth-ranked Missouri Baptist. The Missouri Baptist games both were 4-3.
* Area softball games involving Tennessee Temple and Bryan against out-of-state teams and Tennessee Wesleyan at Hiwassee were called off Tuesday, but Temple and Lee had not yet postponed today's scheduled doubleheader in Cleveland. Wesleyan's nine-inning baseball game at Faulker in a matchup of ranked preseason NAIA teams also was wiped out by the weather.
Golf
* Dalton State recently signed Canadian Carly Shane to join its women's golf program as a junior in 2015-16. Shane, who's from Waterloo, Ontario, plays now for Northern New Mexico College and has a 3.4 grade point average as a business administration major. She admitted that visits to The Farm and Dalton Golf and Country Club helped sway her to the Roadrunners. "We are really excited to add Carly to our program," Jim McGrew, one of the DSC coaches, said in a school release. "She gives us another girl with college experience and one who has won on the collegiate level. ... Carly is an outstanding student and person and will fit in well at Dalton State."