Bryan College athletic director Sandy Zensen, the Lions’ soccer coach for the 22 years before this one, and one of his former players, Isidro Loaiza, were inducted into the Dayton school’s athletic hall of fame during homecoming festivities Saturday. Zensen was 267-134-27 and a six-time Appalachian Athletic Conference coach of the year with two national coaching honors. Loaiza, who now lives in Chattanooga, played for him from 1997 to 2000 and was on three conference championship teams and two National Christian College Athletic Association All-America teams.
Golf
• Led by medalist Courtney Shelton with a 139 for 36 holes, the Lee University women’s golf team finished first out of 22 teams in the Birmingham Southern College Shootout with a 292 Sunday and a 295 Monday. The Lady Flames finished seven strokes ahead of runner-up University of the Cumberlands. Lee’s Sloane Skinner was eighth at 147 and Bernadette Little tied for ninth at 148 with Madison Alexander sharing 27th place at 153. The Sewanee team tied for 18th at 118, but Tigers freshman Emily Javadi from Baylor tied for second at even-par 140 and Signal Mountain graduate Sarah Dolmovich of host BSC was fourth at 143.
Fishing
• Thomas Helton of Charleston, Tenn., finished seventh among the boaters in the Walmart Bass Fishing League Regional tournament this past weekend on Lake Seminole at Bainbridge, Ga. His 15-bass limit for the three days totaled 35 pounds, 7 ounces and earned him $700. Wayne Christopher of Huntsville won with 43-6 and got a Ranger Z518 boat with a 200-horsepower outboard motor plus a Chevrolet 1500 Silverado. The top six finishers earned entry into the BFL All-American. In the co-angler ranks won by Jason Norris of Ohatchee, Ala., John Cook of Scottsboro was fifth, Jett Loach of Ringgold was ninth and Jody Moore of Dalton was 10th.
