LOUDON, Tenn. – University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golfer Steven Fox of Hendersonville and Lookout Mountain resident Steve Johnson each won twice Thursday in the 2011 Tennessee Golf Association Match Play Championship at Tennessee National and will play a former champion in the semifinals this morning. Johnson, who beat Logan Hance of White Pine 4 and 3 and then whipped Knoxville’s David Novinger 6 and 5, faces Murfreesboro’s Spencer Provow, the 2007 winner. Fox takes on 2009 champ Todd Burgan of Knoxville after winning 4 and 3 and 1 up over two other Knoxvillians, Nick Willenborg and Jeff Golliher, on Thursday. The final is set to start at 1:30 this afternoon. In the senior division, Loudon’s Jim Brown reached the final by edging Signal Mountain’s Tom Baird 2 and 1 and Chattanooga’s Neil Spitalny 1 up. Spitalny beat Loudon’s Jim Nancarrow 1 up in the quarterfinals. Brown’s opponent this morning is Mike Nixon of Nashville.
• COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Lauren Johnson of Signal Mountain and Andy Stout of Manchester were the 13-15 age-group winners Thursday in the two-day Tennessee PGA Junior golf tournament at Cookeville Golf Club. Johnson tied incoming Middle Tennessee State freshman Haley Cothran from Soddy-Daisy for seventh overall in the girls’ competition at 148, six strokes behind winner Emily Wiliams of Lawrenceburg, and Stout was seventh at 138 among the boys. Rand Wasson of Norris, Tenn., was the boys’ overall winner with his 65 Thursday for a 133 total. Logan Stewart of Crossville tied for fifth in 13-15 boys at 149, and John Blevins of Ringgold, Ga., was seventh at 152.
Diving
• Former Baylor School standout Jordan Mauney is one of four University of Tennessee divers competing today through Sunday in the Zone A USA Diving National Preliminary Meet at Christiansburg, Va. Entered in the 1- and 3-meter and platform events and in the 3-meter synchronized competition, he will be trying to qualify for the national championships Aug. 9-14 in Los Angeles.
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