Junior defender Alexis Crittenden and high-scoring seniors Sally Anne Greenwood and Ellie Murphy represented the Sewanee women’s lacrosse team on the IWLCA all-region first team, and teammates Mallory Grimm and Relly King were second-team selections. The Tigers went 17-2 this season, losing 18-4 Sunday at Washington & Lee in the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament. King scored two of the goals, Greenwood and Katie Riddle adding the others while Crawford Horan made 10 saves. Murphy was the Southern Athletic Association offensive player of the year with 36 goals and 34 assists, after Greenwood earned that honor in 2014. Greenwood had 42 goals and 29 caused turnovers this season, when classmate Grimm had 56 goals and 28 assists and freshman King had 50 goals and 17 assists.
Auto Racing
* Steve Dowdy from Ringgold won the Super Pro class and $2,000 Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. He won in a dragster powered by a modified 454 Chevrolet engine with a 5.01-second run on a 5.00 dial. Cody Holloway of Whitwell was second with a 5.78 run on a 5.78 dial in his 1964 Chevy II. Marty Goldsmith of Ringgold won the Foot Brake class for the second week in a row with a 7.99 on a 7.99 in his 1974 Plymouth Duster; Calhoun’s David Bigham was second. Khloe Wilson, a 10-year-old Flintstone girl, was the Junior Dragster winner with Kahole Winters of Soddy-Daisy second. Kevin Roden of Cleveland repeated with the meet’s low elapsed time (4.48) and top speed (156.o5 mph) in his supercharged Chevy dragster.
* John Burger survived 100 laps starting with 18 cars and a long red-flag delay for a car fire Saturday night to win the first 100-lap Enduro race at Sweetwater’s I-75 Raceway. The red flag was waved on lap 73. Mike Hale was second with Steve Moore third. Ruben Mayfield won the Limited Late Model race from the pole, and Anthony White was second with Heath Hindman third. Other winners were John Smith in Sportsman, Danny Bray in B-Hobby, Michael Barnard in Thunder, David Singleton in Four Cylinder and Kane Pelfrey in Front Wheel Drive. Their runners-up were Nick Bowling, Nathan Adams, Jonathan Hampton, Rocky McNabb and Tyler Tidwell, respectively.
Golf