JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Lookout Mountain’s Zan Guerry and partner Fred Robinson of Charlotte, N.C., are in today’s doubles final of the PowerAde USTA National Men’s 55s Clay Court Championship tennis tournament at the Atlanta Athletic Club. Seeded No. 2, they defeated fourth-seeded John Callen of Johns Creek and Marvin Pearson of Oxford, Miss., 7-5, 6-2 in Saturday’s semifinals. For the championship, Guerry and Robinson will face fifth-seeded Sal Castillo of San Antonio and Claude England of Timonium, Md. Robinson is playing Castillo in the singles final.
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior Annie Green defeated Wofford’s Sam Sullivan 6-3, 7-6(3) in the Flight 4 singles semifinals Saturday of the Steve Baras Fall Classic at the Champions Club, and UTC’s Shaina Singh and Jenna Nurik are in the Flight 2 doubles final after beating a Wofford duo including freshman Sarah Evans from GPS.
Running
* LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Four University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s runners were among a group who fell Saturday in the pack of the largest college cross country meet in the South, and the Mocs tied Kentucky for 19th out of 38 teams in the Gold division of the Greater Louisville Classic at Tom Sawyer State Park. Bryan College was 22nd. The UTC women were 24th out of 35 teams. Mocs senior Emmanuel Kirwa finished 15th in the 8-kilometer race in 24:06.28, and junior teammate Chris Berry was 30th. “It looks like we were in a knife fight,” UTC coach Bill Gautier said in a school release. “Lucas [Cotter] went down and stayed down. He’ll end up with some stitches. And Josh [Vasquez] has a bad cut on his knee.” Anneli Uys led the Lady Mocs with a 37th-place finish in the 5k. Tara Gietema dropped out on Gautier’s advice after losing a shoe when her foot was stepped on. Freshman Brandon Lord from Baylor School led eighth-place Georgia with a 41st-place finish in the men’s race, and Bryan’s Bryson Harper was 54th. Lee University’s women were third in the Blue Division, led by Anna Hrushka’s fifth-place 18:21.06, and Bryan’s women were 26th with Ericka Simpson finishing 61st.
* MARYVILLE, Tenn. – The Covenant College cross country teams both won the Maryville College Invitational on Saturday. Tera Woods and Aften Whitmore led the Lady Scots’ eight-team triumph with a first-place 27:40 and second-place 27:42 in the 6k, with Stephanie Ammons 14th. Simon Holzapfel of second-place Tusculum won the six-team men’s 8k, but Covenant’s Jonathan Preg, Zach Smith, Jonathan DiGioia, Jake Groenendyk and James Veldhorst were second, third, fifth, sixth and 10th.
* Sewanee’s Cara Martin ran a personal-best time of 23 minutes, 45 seconds for six kilometers and finished second behind Birmingham-Southern’s Mary Elaine Williamson in the Tiger Twilight Invitational cross country meet Sewanee hosted Friday evening. Sewanee teammates Willow Smith (23:55) and Caroline Roberts finished sixth and 14th and the team was third. Clayton State was the women’s team winner. The Sewanee men were second in the 8-kilometer race, only two points behind West Georgia, with the Tigers’ John Gilmer running a personal-best 27:20 for third place and teammates Chris Hague (27:24), Clay Bond (27:44) and Will Mohr coming in fourth, sixth and 10th. North Alabama’s Hirbo Hirbo was the individual winner.
Auto Racing
* Skip Arp of Georgetown got the $3,000 prize for winning the October-Fast 40-lap race Friday night at Boyd’s Speedway. Riley Hickman of Ooltewah was second in the Southern Regional Racing Series event. Mike Weeks of Friendsville, Tenn., was third, and Ray Cook of Brasstown, N.C., and Randy Weaver of Crossville finished fourth and fifth. Chattanooga’s Ronnie Johnson and Ringgold’s Kevin Gibson were sixth and seventh. Gibson started on the pole.
Golf
* ORLANDO, Fla. – Chattanooga’s Neil Spitalny is tied for 78th place after the first round of the USGA Senior Championship tournament. He shot a 77 Saturday at Lake Nona Golf and Country Club, seven shots behind the trio of leaders. Jim Brown from Tellico Village shot 82.
General
* DAYTON, Tenn. – Soccer players Carlos Vega (1979), Francisco Cleaves (’81) and Boe Barinowski (’85) joined high-scoring former Cumberland County High School basketball star Ronnie Cox (’89) in being inducted Saturday evening into the Bryan College Athletics Hall of Fame.
* UTC athletic director Rick Hart will be the guest speaker for the Chattanooga Quarterback Club’s noon luncheon meeting Monday at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited. Attendance costs $10 with a hot meal, $2 without.
Fishing
* FLORENCE, Ala. – The University of Tennessee duo of Hunter Shults and Bradley Cooper won the final tournament in the National Guard FLW College Fishing Southeast Division series Saturday on Pickwick Lake with a six-bass limit totaling 14 pounds, 13 ounces. Austin Peay, Florida, Auburn and Lipscomb rounded out the top five teams.