Johnny Majors highlights clinic at Sewanee

Former University of Tennessee star and coach Johnny Majors will headline a football coaching clinic Friday and Saturday at Sewanee, where his father was the head coach from 1957 to ’77 with a 93-74-5 record. Majors, who won the 1976 national championship as Pittsburgh’s coach and was inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame in 1987, will speak at 8:30 p.m. CDT at the Sewanee Inn, and an opportunity for discussion will be included. Other clinic speakers will be Ed Weiser from the University of the Cumberlands, Ashley Ingram from Navy, Rick Whitt from McCallie School — a longtime college assistant — Bruce Lussier from Father Ryan, Joe Cauthen from Middle Tennessee State, Paul Standard from St. Piux X in Atlanta, Scott Cummings from Knoxville West and Ron Aydelott from Riverdale High. Registration is from 3 to 4 p.m. CDT Friday, and Weiser gets the program started at 4 in Gailor Hall. Registration costs $45, and that includes dinner, breakfast and refreshments. Sewanee coach Tommy Laurendine can provide more information at 931-691-5917.

Baseball

• Lee University has been chosen again as one of the nine host sites for the May 10-14 opening round of the NAIA baseball tournament. Each site will include five teams in a double-elimination format, with the winner at each joining perennial host Lewis-Clark State for the NAIA World Series May 25-June 1 in Lewiston, Idaho. The Flames will be hosting a first round for the fourth consecutive year, along with Oklahoma City University and Embry-Riddle. Ranked No. 2 in the NAIA, Lee (42-8-1) will host No. 8 Tennessee Wesleyan (34-9) at 6 tonight. Wesleyan’s Josh Culler was the Appalachian Athletic Conference pitcher of the week for last week. The junior was honored for his two-hitter with 12 strikeouts in a seven-inning 4-1 win over Bryan. He is 7-1 with a 2.70 earned run average for the season, with 67 strikeouts in 53 innings.
• The Tennessee Temple University baseball doubleheader originally scheduled for Monday at Emmanuel College has been moved to Wednesday with the Lions coming to Chattanooga instead. It will start at 1 p.m. at Signal Mountain High School. Temple is scheduled to play today at Sewanee.

Softball

• Former Hixson High School and Chattanooga State standout Whitney Galloway of Armstrong Atlantic State was the Peach Belt Conference softball player of the week announced Monday. Galloway, now listed as a Rossville resident, batted .500 with nine RBIs and the Pirates, ranked No. 6 in NCAA Division II, went 4-0 in PBC play and clinched a share of the league championship with a chance to clinch the outright title in a doubleheader today at Francis Marion. She was 4-for-7 with a double and seven RBIs in a sweep at USC Aiken. She shares the PBC lead in RBIs for the season.
• Former Calhoun (Ga.) High School standout Maddie Monroe was announced Monday as the Appalachian Athletic Conference softball pitcher of the week for the third time in a row and the fourth time this season. She was 3-1 with a 0.00 earned run average in four appearances last week, and those included a five-inning perfect game and a seven-inning one-hitter. Her loss was in relief, with an unearned run. She struck out 27 batters in 21 innings and allowed only six hits in 65 at-bats for opponents.

Auto Racing

• Kevin Gibson won Limited Late Model/Crate races Friday night at Boyd’s Speedway and Saturday night at Cleveland Speedway. Jason Welshan was the runner-up Saturday with Shannon Bearden, Lamar Scoggins and Craig Burrows completing the top five. Jordan Rodabaugh, B.J. Wilson, Steven Campbell and Daniel Burnette won the A-Hobby, B-Hobby, Pony and FWD classes, respectively, with Chuck Cooper, Lee Harbin, Mike Truelove and Richard Hickman as their runners-up.

Golf

• Bryan College’s Audrey Nelson repeated as the AAC women’s golfer of the week after she won the league’s spring regular-season tournament with a 36-hole 157 total at Dayton Golf and Country Club.