University of Tennessee at Chattanooga tennis All-American Candy Reynolds is among the 11 inductees announced Tuesday for the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2017. They will be inducted June 3 at the Omni-Nashville Hotel, and tickets are available through lynnpowelltoy@gmail.com or 615-202-3996. Also going into the hall will be former University of Tennessee football players Chad Clifton, Willie Gault, Haskel Stanback and Al Wilson; Vanderbilt basketball players Chantelle Anderson, Ashley McElhiney Ayers and Will Perdue; and former major league umpire Julius Chuck Meriwether. Graham Vowell, UT’s first All-American, and Negro League All-Star and Mexican Baseball Hall of Fame member Burnis “Wild Bill” Wright will be inducted posthumously. Knoxville native Reynolds, now 61, went from UTC to a professional career that included the French Open doubles title with Rosalyn Fairbank in 1983. She was a doubles runner-up in the 1981 French Open and the 1980 Australian Open, where she also was a singles quarterfinalist, and a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 1980, and she reached the U.S. Open mixed doubles semifinals twice. Her pro career records were 396-187 in doubles (with 28 titles, four with Martina Navratilova, and 23 No. 2 finishes) and 79-125 in singles, and she was on the WTA board of directors from 1982 to 1991.
Basketball
* The Bryan College men’s team lost 81-78 Wednesday night at Hiwassee, which won its fourth straight game to open the season. The Lions are 1-2.
Soccer
* Bryan College sophomore Rafael Mentzingen added the Tennessee Sports Writers Association men’s soccer player of the week award to his conference offensive-player honor. He scored two goals in each of the 14-1-3 Lions’ two matches last week and added an assist. They are ranked 12th in the NAIA and seeded second in the AAC tournament this week.