NASCAR drivers Austin and Ty Dillon will be at Boyd's Speedway tonight, competing in the Southern Nationals Super Late Models 40-lap race. The winner will receive $3,500. The grandsons of longtime NASCAR team owner Richard Childress also will take part in an autograph session for fans, and a silent auction will award the winners ride-alongs with the brothers in the Team Dillon two-seater. The pit gates will open at 3 p.m. and the grandstands will open at 4. Racing is set to start at 7:30.
* Rick Millard Jr. of Chattanooga won the Super Pro class and $3,000 Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. Millard won with a 5.50-second run hitting 125.50 mph on the eighth-mile strip in his 1963 Corvette Sting Ray with a big-block Chevrolet engine. Derek Pickle of Red Bank finished second; his new dragster was unable to run in the final race. Toby Barnes of Newnan, Ga., won the Foot Brake class with a 7.50-second run on a 7.50 dial, with Brady Kittle of Henagar, Ala., second with a 6.30 on a 6.31. Tucker Kay was the Junior Dragster winner with an 8.06-second run on a 7.96 dial, Jake Clayton finishing second with an 8.09 on an 8.00. Kevin Rodden had the low elapsed time and top speed of the meet (146.80 mph) with four 4.45-second runs.
Tennis
* Daniel and Emily Hangstefer from a Signal Mountain family won the mixed doubles gold medal at the World Deaf Tennis Championships in Nottingham, England, with a 6-1, 6-1 defeat of a Chinese Taipei duo Sunday. The Hangstefer siblings took the silver two years ago at the Deaflympics in Sofia, Bulgaria. Both were born with hearing disabilities - about 60 percent below normal - but went on to solid college careers at Lipscomb and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, respectively. Their sister, Katie Mancebo, another former Moc, was the coach of the United States team in the competition involving more than 70 players from 20 countries. Emily was unseeded in singles but reached the final, falling 7-6 (5), 6-3 to a woman from Spain, and she also earned a silver medal in women's doubles. Daniel, who reached the men's doubles semifinals, is the men's and women's tennis coach at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
Lacrosse
* Sewanee's Michele Dombrowski has been chosen the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association Division III West Region coach of the year for her team's 17-2 record this past spring. She already had been voted the Southern Athletic Association women's coach of the year for the second time. The Tigers ranked second in the nation in win percentage and scoring and reached the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament. Nine Sewanee players were All-SAA, including offensive player of the year Ellie Murphy, and five earned IWLCA all-region honors. Dombrowski also coaches Sewanee field hockey, and that sport's season starts Sept. 3 at home against Washington and Lee.
Softball
* The United States national softball team, including former University of Tennessee stars Raven Chavanne and Lauren Gibson, wound up with the silver medal in the Pan American Games this past weekend in Toronto. Host Canada edged the U.S. team 4-2 in eight innings in Sunday's final. The U.S. had won six straight games, including two against Canada, to reach the gold-medal game. It was scoreless through seven innings, but Canada scored four runs in the top of the eighth and the Americans managed two in the bottom half - both on RBIs by the former Lady Vols. Chavanne was 2-for-4 in the loss and was 10-for-22 with a home run, five RBIs and five runs for the seven games. Her 10 hits led the team. Gibson, who singled and walked Sunday, played in six games and went 4-for-15 (.267) with two walks, two runs and the last RBI of the tournament. She has batted .308 with seven runs and four RBIs with the national team this summer, while Chavanne is hitting .526 with eight runs and six RBIs. Team USA will play Aug. 7-9 in the Japan Cup.