Tennessee Wesleyan College set a record of 970 points in winning this year's Duard Walker All-Sports Trophy for the Appalachian Athletic Conference, and the Athens school's Donny Mayfield was honored for the fourth time and second in a row as the league's athletic director of the year. TWC won 13 AAC regular-season and tournament championships during the 2014-15 school year. "I am humbled to be honored with the AAC AD-of-the-year award," Mayfield said in a school release. "This honor is a reflection of the accomplishments our athletic department made during the past year." Crediting the dedication of the coaches and student-athletes for the all-sports award, Mayfield added, "This year's accomplishment in winning the Walker trophy was even more special knowing that we set a conference record in points totaled."
Baseball
* The Chattanooga Cyclones K baseball summer team comprised of 15- and 16-year-olds went 4-0 last weekend at the Coastal Carolina Wood Bat Invitational tournament. Cade Evans had three hits, stole two bases and scored a run in a 6-0 defeat of the Rawlings SC team; two hits, a steal and two runs in a 7-6 win over Team Nine Elite; two hits, two steals and two runs in a 9-3 victory over the South Carolina Diamond Devils Black; and an RBI triple and a run in a 6-3 win over the Diamond Devils Blue. Alex Barbee, Justin Morris, Cruz Bautista and Seth Wicker got the pitching wins and Sydney Schultz and Brandon Boyd had saves. The 7-6 win came with five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, capped by a two-run single from Grant Galbreath. Morris hit a grand slam and a single, scoring twice, against the Devils Black, and Max Riemer, Jonathan Hickman and Colby Morgan were other offensive leaders. A week earlier, the Cyclones beat the Excel Blue Sox 17U, the Marquis Grissom Georgia Eagles and the nationally ranked Excel Blue Wave 16s before losing to the nationally ranked Blue Wave 17s in the 18-under final of the Southern Wood Bat Memorial Weekend World Series.
Basketball
* Georgia Northwestern basketball coach David Stephenson has been collecting some versatile, scrappy leader types for his 2015-16 women's team. His latest recruit adds much-needed height as well. "She not only has size but legitimate size," Stephenson said in a release about recent Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe graduate Madison Lewis. "To get someone 6-foot-2, almost 6-foot-3, with skill and talent is huge for us. She's a hard-working girl with a sweet spirit and character about her. If we can get her the ball under the basket, she's going to be hard to stop. Plus, she's a pretty good defender." Lewis tore a knee ligament in her junior season, but LFO coach Dewayne Watkins said she is nearly back to full strength. "She's the hardest worker we've had here in a while," he said. "You can't teach the size, but the work ethic she has is amazing. The injury was a setback and it put a damper on her senior year ... but it's been a little more than a year since the injury and I think Coach (Stephenson) is going to see something special from her the next two years."
Running
* The BlueCross Annual Riverbend Run & Walk will be held Saturday morning at the Riverbend Festival grounds along Riverfront Parkway, and competitive 5- and 10-kilometer runs and a 1-mile fun run will benefit Children's Hospital at Erlanger. "A portion of proceeds will go to Children's Hospital at Erlanger, and BlueCross will match what is raised," the insurer's Sarah Raines said in a news release. "Last year the event raised $10,000 to benefit the hospital's tremendous work." Registration for the 7:30 a.m. runs will cost $25, or $20 for ages 12-under and 60-over, and the fun run will cost $18. There will be overall cash prizes for the runs, which will be on courses certified by USA Track and Field. For more information or to register, see Riverbendfestival.com/runwalk.