Jessica Alexander of Riverview, Fla., won the Golf Capital of Tennessee Women’s Open golf tournament Saturday with a closing 1-over-par 73 at the Stonehenge Golf Club at Fairfield Glade near Crossville. Alexander’s consistent 72-73-73 for a 218 gave her a two-shot win over Amanda Steinhagen of Oak Hill, Va., first-day leader Corinna Rees of Nashville and Katelyn Sepmoree of Austin, Texas. Another Austin resident, Bertine Strauss, was fifth at 221. Chattanooga teenager Blakesly Warren closed with a 72 and tied for 10th at 225. Chattanooga’s Jordan Britt wound up at 230, and former Walker Valley player Avery George was at 236 with Ooltewah’s Maddi Everts at 237.
• Dalton’s David Noll Jr. and former Baylor School golfers Carlton Forrester and Keith Mitchell are among the 132 players competing Tuesday and Wednesday at Georgia’s Capital City Club-Crabapple for five spots and two alternate positions in the 113th U.S. Amateur Championship being held next month in Brookline, Mass. Mitchell is a Chattanoogan; Forrester lives in Atlanta.
Boxing
• Ryan Martin from the Chattanooga Y-CAP boxing program won his 12th national championship recognized by a variety of organizations by stopping Daniel Pack of Huntsville, Ala., in the 141-pound open final at the National Bobby Hughes tournament presented by Ringside. The tournament ran Thursday and Friday in Johnson City, Tenn. Two of Martin’s teammates coached by Andy Smith also won their weight classes: Kiwon Toney at 85 pounds with a decision of Donatae Bengimin from Cleveland, Ohio, and Tony Hartman at 80 pounds with a decision of Willie Blackmon of Dothan, Ala. It was Toney’s second national title, Hartman’s first.
Basketball