Chattanooga State men’s basketball team opens season today

Jay Price

The Chattanooga State men’s basketball team opens its 2015-16 season tonight by visiting the Reinhardt junior varsity, and coach Jay Price has only two healthy returners from 2014-15. Tramon Moore is having knee surgery Wednesday, but Cameron Davis returns to run the point and Brandon Shingles will play off guard. Sophomore transfer Larry Spicer from Memphis could be a starter or top reserve, and DaV Moore from Brainerd likely will start at the 4 with fellow freshman Boban Jacdonmi from England at center with his 6-foot-8, 260-pound frame. Develyn Williams from Fort Wayne, Ind., is the other probable starter. Dwight Harris Jr., son of a former UTC player, is another freshman likely to play a lot, along with Milos Andelic from Hamilton Heights and Marquis Tipton from Brainerd. Ladesta Woodson is another freshman center.

‘ The Georgia Northwestern women’s basketball team opens at 5:30 p.m. today at the Rossville Athletic Center with a visit from the Truett-McConnell junior varsity. GNTC’s Lady Bobcats played the second semester last season with only five players, after starting with eight, and went 0-14. But there are nine freshmen with two returners this year, and coach David Stephenson said they “have a lot more talent and depth” now. The sophomores are Ashley Farrell from Gordon Central High School and Chelsea “C.C.” Ludy from LaFayette. Farrell averaged 12.4 points a game and was a Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association Division III first-team player.

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‘ University of Tennessee at Chattanooga senior Katie Polk won her singles flight this past weekend at the Roberta Alison Fall Invitational in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Her 6-3, 6-0 defeat of Kennesaw State’s Cristina Martin was one of four UTC singles wins on the final day Saturday, when the Mocs also won three of six doubles matches. Senior Alison Storie and freshman Delaney Edwards won two doubles matches together (7-5 and 6-0) and a singles match each, and junior Rachele Gazzola and freshman McKenzie Barco won and then lost in doubles. Gazzola had a close loss in the final of her singles draw. Sydney Patton had the other UTC singles victory, a three-setter. The Mocs had seven singles wins Friday.

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