Tennis partners Wesley Cash of Chattanooga and Mark Vines of Naples, Florida, continued an amazing streak in amazing fashion Friday in Palm Springs, California. They have reached the finals of all 16 USTA Category 1 national tournaments in which they’ve played together, and Saturday they will try for their 12th age-group title as they take on Mike Fedderly of Palm Desert and Michael Tammen of Portland, Oregon, in the 2019 Men’s 60 Hard Court final. Cash has won three nationals with Tammen. Friday, Vines and Cash rallied to defeat Californians Randy Berg and Doug Ditmer 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, after overcoming match points with their opponents serving at 5-2 and 5-4 in the second set. Cash and Vines had won 6-3, 6-0 on Thursday.
Fishing
» Hixson resident Miles Burghoff weighed only three bass Friday and slipped from third place to 14th in the FLW Tour tournament on Oklahoma’s Grand Lake, but he remained solidly in the top 30 going back out Saturday. The field started with 165 pros. Burghoff’s total for the first two days was 28 pounds, 14 ounces. Bailey Boutries of Daphne, Alabama, took the lead at 35-4. Whitwell’s Hensley Powell and Chickamauga’s Buddy Gross finished 38th and 39th at 20-11 and 20-10, each earning $10,000.
Golf
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team was tied for eighth place with Kansas at 306 after the first round Friday in the 10-team LSU Tiger Classic in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Campbell and TCU were first and second at 291 and 294. UTC’s Monica San Juan and Kirsty Beckwith were tied for 23rd at 76, one shot ahead of teammates Maddy McDanel, Rheagan Hall and Esme Hamilton.
» The father-and-son team of Mike and Nash Nance of Calhoun shot a 7-under-par 65 Friday at Southern Landings Golf Club in Warner Robins for a one-stroke first-day lead in the 31st Georgia Four-Ball tournament. Another Calhoun duo, Rhett McGowan and William Hamilton, is tied for third overall and is second in the second flight at 67. The tournament also is using Houston Lake Country Club in Perry.
Volleyball
» Best of Preps and all-region player Sierrah Lemons from Soddy-Daisy High School has signed to continue her volleyball career at Lincoln Memorial University in NCAA Division II. Lemons, recently honored by the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame for overcoming adversity, has vision in only one eye yet totaled 761 kills, 122 blocks and 113 digs in her Lady Trojans career.
Softball
» Brooke Parrott pitched a no-hitter with nine strikeouts in the first game and Ashlyn Holland was 3-for-4 with a home run, a double and five RBIs in the second as Chattanooga State began its TCCAA home softball series against Jackson State with 3-0 and 12-4 wins Friday. Rilee King struck out six in the six-inning second game, when Savannah Hood was 2-for-2 with four stolen bases and four runs scored and Breanna Vinson had two hits and two runs for the 13th-ranked Lady Tigers (25-5, 10-2). Haley Smith was 2-for-3 with two doubles and Madison Tidmore had a double and scored twice in the opener.
» Cleveland State won 8-6 and lost 7-3 in its TCCAA doubleheader at Columbia State. Kaitlyn Crump homered and drove in four Lady Cougars runs in game one, when Leslie Harris was 3-for-5 and Aubrie Bowman and Hailey Galvan had two hits apiece, each of those three with an RBI. Auburn Collake was 2-for-4 with all three RBIs in the rematch.
» Abby McKinney hit a tying double in the seventh inning and the deciding two-run homer in the eighth as Lee University pulled out a 7-6 Gulf South win at West Georgia. Lee (16-19, 5-10) scored five runs in its last two at-bats. McKinney and Zoe Miller each was 2-for-5 with a homer and Taylor De Adder was 2-for-4 with a double and scored twice. Kiley Longmire was 2-for-4 with an RBI, and Kayla Louie stole three bases and has 26 for the season. Claudia Jones also had three steals Friday – the Lady Flames had nine in all – and center fielder Lily Hatcher made a lunging catch to end the Lady Wolves’ two-run seventh and send the game to an extra inning. Cassie Henderson was 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs for West Georgia (19-22, 5-14).