Manker Patten Tennis Club professional Wesley Cash cramped up in the third set and lost in the men’s 55 singles semifinals Saturday in the Raymond James Super Senior Grand Prix tournament at the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Country Club, but he and Mark Vines of Lynchburg, Fla., won their doubles semifinal 6-4, 6-4 over the Atlanta-area duo of Keith Banister and Tom Smith. Cash passed up the third-place singles match after falling 6-7, 6-2, 6-4 to Orlando’s Stuart Saiki, who trailed 4-1 in the third set.
Swimming/Diving
• As he did two days earlier in the 500-yard freestyle, University of Michigan senior and former McCallie School standout Sean Ryan from Hixson finished fifth Saturday in the men’s 1650 freestyle event in the Big Ten Conference swimming meet in Michigan’s pool. With teammates finishing first and third, Ryan was part of a 50-point Wolverines event with his 14:58.27 time.
• Kansas senior Alison Lusk from Baylor School finished fifth in the women’s 100- and 200-yard breaststrokes at the Big 12 Conference swim meet at Austin, Texas. She had a career-best time of 1:02.26 in the 100 Friday night and a 2:14.51 Saturday in the 200.
• Natalie Smallen and Kilie Wilson from the Baylor Diving Club finished fourth and sixth in 11-under girls’ 3-meter competition Friday, and Wilson was third with Smallen seventh in 1-meter Saturday in the Spring Junior Olympic Region 3 USA Diving Championships at Oakton, Va. Top-six finishers qualified for the East Nationals in April in Largo, Fla. Both are area fourth-graders.
