The late Rhonda “K.K.” Mikes from Chattanooga High School will be one of six inductees in the Northwest Mississippi Community College Sports Hall of Fame next week. The ceremony is set for Oct. 10 at 4 p.m. CDT in Senatobia. Mikes, who died April 21, 2018, in Chattanooga, is described in Northwest’s announcement release as “women’s basketball legend.” In her two seasons with the Lady Rangers, they were NJCAA Division I runners-up in 1984 and national champions in 1985, she was a two-time NJCAA and Kodak All-American, and she had eight 30-point games. She still has school records of 52 points in one game (plus the next four highest), 1,699 career points and 31.5 points a game for her career.
Football
* For the second time this season, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga running back Ailym Ford received honorable mention for the STATS national freshman of the week. He ran 30 times for 195 yards in the Mocs’ 60-36 homecoming win over Western Carolina and now leads freshmen throughout the nation with 88.2 yards a game. That average is the third highest in the Southern Conference.
Volleyball
* Chattanooga State improved to 6-5 in its second volleyball season Monday night with a 3-0 “pink out” victory over the visiting Bryan College junior varsity. Madysun Steele had 11 kills and Dakota Rawiszer contributed 18 assists and four aces for the Lady Tigers, and Brieana Hemphill had six kills and five blocks.