UTC’s Coca-Cola Scrappy Awards will be presented Wednesday at the Tivoli Theater, and admission is free, courtesy of the Mocs Club. Tickets cost $40 for a 5:30 p.m. VIP reception (with valet parking) preceding the 7:30 program. The awards will cover UTC’s spring sports season of 2016 through the just-concluded winter season, and categories include male and female student-athletes, scholar-athlete, victory, play, individual performance, newcomer, team, coach, fan and professor of the year, as well as comeback and behind-the-scenes honors. Contact Alex Ware at alex-ware@utc.edu or 423-425-5866.
Tennis
– Top-seeded Wesley Cash of Chattanooga and Mark Vines of Naples, Fla., won 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 Friday over Oregon residents Leonard Wofford and Paul Wulf and will play today for their first USTA Men’s 60-over national championship together after multiple titles in 55s. This one is the hard courts nationals at Rancho Mirage, Calif., and their opponents today are Californians Randall Berg and Doug Ditmer, the No. 2 seeds. Vines is in the singles semifinals as the No. 1 seed, but Cash lost 6-4, 6-1 to fellow 9 seed Timothy Garcia of Santa Fe, N.M., in the quarterfinals.
Baseball
– With Wade Weinburger hitting two home runs to raise the school single-season record to 15, Bryan College beat Union College 16-5 in their AAC baseball series opener Friday in Dayton. Weinburger was 4-for-5 with four RBIs and three runs for the Lions (26-12, 10-6). Brookes Jones, Justin Morhardt and Lake Burris each homered and doubled, combining for seven RBIs, and Jacob Justice hit a pinch-hit grand slam.