-Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golfers Stephan Jaeger and Jonathan Hodge and Jaeger’s fellow Baylor School alumnus Keith Mitchell are clustered right behind leader Ken Looper with one round to go in the Web.com tournament at Knoxville. Looper is at 17-under-par 196 after three days of the News Sentinel Open at Fox Den Country Club, and Jaeger is tied for second at 200 after a 67 on Saturday. Hodge (67) and Mitchell (65), who played collegiately at Georgia, are in a four-way tie for fourth at 201, while former Dalton High School player Blake Adams is tied for 37th at 206. Jaeger is projected to rise from third to first on the Web.com Tour money list, and he already is assured of a PGA Tour card for 2018. Mitchell or Hodge would move into the top 25 and PGA Tour status with a win.
-Kate Mashburn of Calhoun and Tori Owens of Chatsworth are tied for first at 78 among the girls after Saturday’s round in the two-day Southeastern Junior Golf Tour event at Dalton Golf & Country Club, and 12-14 age-group leader Kyndall Shamblin of Cleveland is third overall at 79 with Miranda Rich of Ringgold tied for fourth at 81. Chatsworth’s Katelyn Skiffen and Dalton’s Destiny Hill share eighth place at 82 while Cleveland’s Hannah Nall is 10th, and second in 14-15, at 83. In the boys’ part of the SJGT Dalton Junior, Dalton’s Davis Smith is in a five-way for third at 71 behind Buck Brumlow of Cartersville and Will Chambless of Culloden, and Jake Levine of Chattanooga, Harden Chambless of Dalton and Gage Winkler of Chatsworth are tied for 11th at 73. Winkler is fourth in the 14-15 age group. Dalton’s Carter Pendley and Cohutta’s Jake Allstun are tied for 17th overall at 74. Among the 12-13 boys, Wyatt Brackett is tied for second at 73 and fellow Dalton resident Matthew Rollins is ninth at 82.
Soccer
-UTC takes a 1-0 record into its women’s soccer game today at 2 p.m. at Finley Stadium against Eastern Kentucky after edging one of the Colonels’ Ohio Valley Conference rivals, Austin Peay, at Finley on Friday night. The 3-2 victory was a good performance by the team and an outstanding one for Jordan Mueller, who had two goals and the assist on Catherine Meyer’s deciding score. Mueller made the All-Southern Conference freshman team last year. “We started off with a win. That’s fantastic,” Mocs coach Gavin McKinney said in a UTC release. “I thought there were moments in the game where we were quite good. We looked dangerous off the counterattack, which is where two of our goals came from.” Specifically of Mueller, he added, “We converted Jo into a center forward last spring. We thought she had a knack for getting in the right area in the box. She scored four goals last year as a center mid(fielder), and she’s getting better every day. She and Chloe (Arnold) are a handful up there. Great start for Jo.” Meyer was playing for the first time since recovering from an ACL injury. Her goal from a Mueller cross in the 58th minute gave the Mocs a 3-1 lead. The Governors scored four minutes later but then the UTC defense held. “Defensively, I thought the girls worked extremely hard for each other,” McKinney said in the release. “Team spirit was phenomenal, particularly at the end. They were stepping out to block shots and doing whatever it took to win the game.” As with all UTC soccer games, there is no charge for attending today’s contest.
Softball
-The USSSA Pride with former Soddy-Daisy ace Kelsey Nunley as one of their pitchers won the National Pro Fastpitch regular-season championship for the fourth year in a row and sixth time since 2009, going 40-9, and played Houston’s Scrap Yard Dawgs in the first game of the best-of-three NPF Championship Series on Saturday night in Baton Rouge, La. Game two is this afternoon. Nunley pitched 60 innings in the regular season, third most on the team, and was 8-1-1 with a 2.22 earned run average and 52 strikeouts with only 15 walks. She started Friday’s 3-1 win over the Chicago Bandits that got the Pride into the weekend finals and allowed only hit, a double leading off the sixth inning, before giving way to a reliever, Angel Bunner, who allowed a tying triple but wound up with the win.
Volleyball
-Point University freshman outside hitter Te’a Owens from Ridgeland High School had a good start to her college volleyball career Thursday and Friday with 11 kills and eight digs in a five-set loss to Southeastern, eight digs with four kills in a 3-0 win over Brewton-Parker and 11 kills and 13 digs in a 3-0 win over Pensacola Christian. The matches were at home in West Point, Ga.