Lauren Johnson medalist in Women's City qualifying and more Chattanooga region sports news

Lauren Johnson was the medalist with a 74 in qualifying Monday for the Chattanooga Women's City golf tournament at Lookout Mountain Golf Club. Darlene Werhnyak and Blakesly Warren tied for second with 76s, Rachel Rebne shot a 78 and McKenzie Frizzell completed the top five with an 81. Match play begins today along with the senior division's 36-hole tournament.

* Logan Price shot a 68 Monday to win the CDGA Junior Tour event at WindStone Golf Club. Reese Scobey with a 70 and Ben Rebne with a 71 were close behind in the Boys 16-18 division, and Carter Grant's 70 won the 14-15 division by four strokes. Heidi Barringer and Ryann McCuistion led the girls with 80s.

Auto Racing

* Kevin Pass from Dallas, Ga., won the Super Pro class Saturday night at the one-eighth-mile Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip with a time of 5.16 seconds on a 5.15 dial-in. He drove a dragster powered by a Chevy big-block engine with injected alcohol. Josh Powell of Trenton was second in a new Racecraft dragster tuned by his father, Rocky, a former strip champion, and twin Jeremiah Powell was third. Jeff Montgomery of Centerville, Ga., won the Foot Brake class with a 6.49 run on a 6.48 dial in a 1986 Mustang GT, and Dennis Smith of Dalton was second in a 1990 Mustang. Mattie Keener of Dunlap was the Junior Dragster winner with Andrew Womac of Cleveland second.

* Boyd's Speedway is scheduled to host the United Sprint Car Series and its Outlaw Thunder Tour this Friday night. Those winged vehicles exceed 700 horsepower and 130 mph. Ultra-light, ultra-fast Mini Sprints will be racing as well.. Also on the Friday program will be area Limited and Crate Late Models racing for a $1,000 top prize, A and B Hobby and Road Warriors competition. Pit gates will open at 4 p.m.; grandstand gates will open at 5; racing is to start at 7.

Baseball

* The first-place Charleston Mojo beat the Rhea County Iron Eagles 16-4 in three innings and 8-0 in five in Chattanooga United States Adult Baseball League games Sunday in Evensville, Tenn. The Mojo (14-2) scored six runs in the first inning and nine in the second in game one and had a five-run fourth inning in game two, when Dustin Crumley pitched a one-hitter, Cecil Thompson went 3-for-3 with two RBI singles and two stolen bases and Josh Niswonger had a two-run single. Koltyn Plumb was 2-for-2 with an RBI triple, a walk, two steals and two runs scored in the first game, when Crumley had two RBI doubles and a steal of home and Jeremiah Dills and Jake Wyrick had two-run doubles. It was the first game as a player in three months for Dills, also a Mojo assistant coach, who had a forearm fracture. The Mojo have a two-game lead on the second-place Cleveland Bulls, who will visit them for a doubleheader starting at 1:30 Sunday at Walker Valley High School. Admission is free.

* The MLB Pitch, Hit and Run national finals including Ooltewah's Madison Hayes were only partly completed Monday in Cincinnati. Severe thunderstorms caused the event to be suspended until today. Hayes, the national 11-12 girls' age-group winner last year, is one of three 2015 finalists in girls 13-14.

Basketball

* The Tennessee Xtreme eighth-grade girls' basketball team beat the Arlington (Texas) Hurricanes 48-28 in its opening game Monday in the YBOA national tournament in Orlando, Fla. The Xtreme play the New Orleans Lady Raiders this morning.

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