Cynthia Warnock of Chattanooga won the $10,000 Super Pro class race Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. The 37-year-old ultrasonographer defeated 67 cars in nine rounds of competition, winning with a 4.63-second run on a 4.62 dial in a dragster owned by her father, Ronnie Warnock, with a Steven Farrow-built 632-cubic-inch Chevy motor using alcohol injection. Jonathan Wigley of Fayette, Ala., was second with a 5.74-second run on a 5.73 dial in a 1977 Chevy Vega with a 468-ci big-block engine. Jerry Wilson of Flintstone was third with a 4.86 run on a 4.85 dial in his Chevy dragster. David Bigham of Calhoun, Ga., won the $1,000 Foot Brake prize with a 7.93 run on a 7.90 dial in his 1969 Dodge Dart. Mike Dyke Jr. of Hampton, Ga., was second. Tucker Kay was the Junior Dragster winner with 2014 strip champion Jake Clayton second. Kevin Rodden again had the low elapsed time and top speed of the night, 4.50 seconds at 144.50 mph, in his supercharged big-block dragster.
* Matt Henderson won the NeSmith Late Model race Saturday night at I-75 Speedway at Sweetwater. Cory Hedgecock and Anthony White were second and third in that race and first and second in Steel Head Late Model, where Brad Coffey was third.The victors in the other divisions were Micah Collins in Mod Lite, Scott Gardner in Sportsman, D.J. McMahan in B-Hobby, Dustin Campbell in Thunder, Michael Courtney in Four Cylinder and Nick Adams in Front Wheel Drive.
Golf
* Led by Julia McQuilken in a tie for second individually and Katie Dalton in a tie for fourth, the Dalton State women’s golf team grabbed the first-day lead Monday in the Coastal Georgia Invitational tournament at the Jekyll Island Club’s Pine Lakes Course. McQuilken is at 73, one stroke out of the lead, and Dalton shot 75. Teammates Erika Wardzinski and Caroline Griffin are tied for 10th and 14th, respectively, at 78 and 79, and Rachel Rebne carded an 81. The Roadrunners’ 305 total is six better than second-pace Faulkner, with defending NAIA national champion Keiser third at 312 in the 11-team field.
* The Lee University men’s golf team is third at 285, five shots behind leader Georgia Southwestern, after the first day of the Montevallo Blue Moon Invitational tournament at Timberlake Golf Club in Montevallo, Ala. Lee’s Peyton Sliger is tied for third individually at 2-under-par 68, and Adam Wright shares 12th place at 71 with Matt Strube and Taylor Davis in a group at 73. The Flames’ non-counting score was a 74 by Shea Sylvester. Young Harris is the second-place team at 283.