The “Road to Victory” fundraising banquet for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes organization in southeastern Tennessee will be held as scheduled tonight at 6:30 at the Chattanooga Convention Center, area FCA director Jay Fowler said Monday, and limited seating is still available. Former Alabama and Seattle Seahawks star running back Shaun Alexander will be the special speaker. Admission costs $50 and can be arranged by calling Fowler at 309-4255.
Fishing
* Sahadut Mughal and Luke Lackey from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga bass fishing club finished second to the Alabama duo of Charles Hurst and Ethan Flack in the FLW College Fishing Southeastern tournament Saturday on Lake Seminole. Hurst and Flack won $2,000 for their club with a five-limit total of 25 pounds, 3 ounces. Mughal and Lackey caught 22-12 and earned $500. Another UTC pair, Patrick Hoskins and Dillon Falardeau, was 11th at 16-9.
Basketball
* Reinhardt University sophomore Erika Woodfin from Dade County was the Appalachian Athletic Conference women’s basketball player of the week after scoring 48 points in two road league wins that pushed the Lady Eagles into a tie for second place. She had a career-high 32 points with seven 3-point baskets Saturday against Point.
Golf
* Hunter Cornelius from Heritage High School in Ringgold matched a teammate’s 71, one behind another teammate, as defending NAIA men’s golf champion Coastal Georgia opened play in its Winter Invitational at the Sea Island Golf Club with a second-place 285 Monday. Coastal Georgia, ranked fourth in the NAIA, is one shot behind No. 6 Johnson & Wales, and a Mariner playing as an individual is tied with a J&W player for first place at 69. Coastal Georgia is third in the women’s tournament, behind Thomas University and The Citadel.
Lacrosse
* Ellie Murphy’s three goals and two assists led the Sewanee women’s lacrosse team to an 11-7 season-opening victory Saturday over Southern Athletic Association rival Centre, which was outshot 3 3-16 and got 14 saves from Allison Eisner. Mallory Grimm had two goals and two assists and Payton Fields, Katie Riddle and Relly King also scored two goals each for Sewanee. GPS alumnae Audrey Powers and Haden Gibbons were two of the three Centre players with two goals.
* Sewanee sophomore goalkeeper Selby Austin was the SAA men’s lacrosse defensive player of the week for his nine saves in Friday’s season-opening 11-5 win over Colorado College.
Rugby
* The UTC women’s rugby club team won 31-7 on the road against the North Georgia Rhinos on Sunday, after allowing the hosts the first score. Monica Brown scored twice for UTC (5-1-1), and Rachael McGrail had a try and two conversions. Emily Fillmore and Rakerria Mines scored once each. UTC plays Saturday on Saturday and hosts Lee University on Feb. 28.
Equestrian
* Sewanee’s equestrians were the high point team both Saturday and Sunday at the MTSU Show at Murfreesboro. After the first competition of the spring semester, nine Sewanee riders already have qualified for the IHSA Zone 5 Region 1 meet. Sara Parks was the high point rider of the day Saturday in the intermediate division, with first-place finishes in the over fences and flat categories. Leslie Goodman won in advanced walk-trot-canter, teammates Buckley Wallace and Emily Guest won open and novice over fences titles and Sammy Head won in novice flat. After Sunday’s events, Sewanee’s Iris Harrison leads the region in total points. She matched Wallace with an open over fences win, and Hannah Adams was second in that category. Marshall Fariss won novice over fences, Kimberly Williams won in walk/trot and Abigail Bray and Madison Wright won in walk/trot/canter. Harrison, Parks, Wallace, Guest, Fariss, Goodman, Kathryn Miller, Lindsay Stevenson and Caroline White are region qualifiers.