GREENVILLE, S.C. – The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team fell to second place Sunday in the 24-team Furman Intercollegiate tournament with a score of 879, 14 shots behind No. 18 Clemson, and UTC freshman Stephen Fox finished tied for first individually with Clemson’s Ben Martin at 6-under-par 210. Derek Rende finished 17h with a score of 222, and Stephan Jaeger was 20th at 224.
Baseball
* Soddy-Daisy won Hixson’s Wildcat baseball classic without playing a game Sunday after the tournament was canceled due to inclement weather. The Trojans won four tournament games without a loss. Runner-up Sequatchie County also went without a loss but the Indians had a time-limit tie with host Hixson. Sunday’s semifinals were to have been Soddy-Daisy vs. Red Bank and Sequatchie County vs. East Hamilton. Georgia teams Dalton and Murray County might have been in the semis but Georgia state association rules prohibit their teams from Sunday competition. The next tournament on the schedule is the Ooltewah Invitational this week.
Auto Racing
* Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., received $10,000 for winning the Southern All Stars Shamrock 60 race Saturday night at Cleveland Speedway. That was Davenport’s second dirt-track $10,000 payday this month. At Cleveland he edged Chickamauga’s Dale McDowell, a longtime racing instructor at the track. Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., finished third with Chris Wall of Holden, La., fourth and Chris Madden of Gaffney, S.C., fifth. Completing the top 10 were William Thomas of Phenix City, Ala.; Randy Weaver of Crossville; Tommy Kerr of Rockford, Tenn.; Rick Rogers of Knoxville and David Payne of Murphy, N.C.
Swimming
* Sewanee’s Courtland Day from Barnesville, Ga., earned All-American distinction with a 16th-place finish in the 200 breaststroke Saturday at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis. Day, the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference champion in the 200 breast and runner-up in the 100, set a Sewanee and SCAC record with a 2:04.22 time in the national preliminaries and finished in 2:05.94 in the finals. He was 29th in the 100 breast in 58.71 and 42nd in the 200 individual medley in 1:59.97. “Courtland put a nice cap on a nice weekend today,” Sewanee coach Max Obermiller said Saturday, “and he had an excellent meet for his first time (at the nationals). It’s a challenging environment.”
Lacrosse
* The Tennessee Wesleyan College men’s lacrosse team continued its outstanding season by winning 24-5 Saturday at Reinhardt. That made the Bulldogs 8-2 overall and 4-0 in league play.