Andy Morgan from Dayton, Tenn., did not three-peat as the Walmart FLW Tour's angler of the year, but he did finish second in the final regular-season tournament of 2015 to finish in the top 10 yet again. He was ninth. Wesley Strader of Spring City, who led the points standings for part of the year, wound up sixth overall after tying for ninth in 2014, and Michael Neal of Dayton continued his late-season climb with a 31st-place points finish. Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., leaped to the top spot and AOY status with a sixth-place finish this past weekend on the Potomac River, where Clark Wendlandt of Leander, Texas, won with 60 pounds of bass in four days and Morgan totaled 55 pounds, 12 ounces and earned $28,309. Leading after two days, Wendlandt got a huge boost Saturday from fellow Texas resident Shinichi Fukae, who let him take over Fukae's boat after Wendlandt's broke down. Bryan Thrift of North Carolina dropped from first in the points after the next-to-last tournament on Lake Chickamauga to third with a 74th-place finish; Floridian John Cox was the AOY runner-up.
Baseball
* The first-place Charleston Mojo won 5-3 and 8-6 over the Chattanooga Nationals in a Chattanooga United States Adult Baseball League doubleheader Sunday in Charleston and are 12-2 with a two-game lead over the second-place Cleveland Bulls. Caleb Longley hit a tying two-run home run in the first inning of the day for the Mojo, who got an RBI double from Cameron "Jammer" Strickland in the second and a homer by Dustin Crumley in the fourth. Strickland was 2-for-3 and Matt Roueche pitched a five-hitter with 10 strikeouts, improving to 4-0 with a 0.88 earned run average and 28 strikeouts in 24 innings for the season. Joe Marangella had two hits for the Nationals. Strickland, Longley and Gabe Rich had RBI hits in the first inning of the second game, when Longley also stole home; he added another RBI single in the second inning. The Mojo's Brady Valliere reached base four times, doubled in a run and scored two, and he has 11 RBIs and 11 stolen bases for the season. Jay Carter had a two-run single and Marangella an RBI single for the Nationals. The Mojo next play July 12 against the Rhea County Iron Eagles at Rhea County High School. Admission is free.
Softball
* The University of Tennessee was well-represented Monday in the first day of the World Cup of Softball X in Irvine, Calif. Tennessee rising sophomore Meghan Gregg started at shortstop as the USA Softball junior women's national team beat Argentina 14-0 in five innings, and she was 1-for-1 with two walks, an RBI and two runs scored. For the main Team USA in a win over Mexico, former Lady Vols Raven Chavanne and Lauren Gibson went 2-for-2 with an RBI and 1-for-1 with two walks and an RBI, respectively. Mexico's starting pitcher was another former Tennessee player, Cheyanne Tarango, who allowed four runs, two earned, in five innings.