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.
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