LA JOLLA, Calif. — Fourth-seeded Wes Cash and Zan Guerry from Chattanooga won Friday in the men’s 55 doubles quarterfinals of the mammoth International Tennis Federation Seniors World Individual Championships held throughout the San Diego area. They defeated fifth-seeded Alec Allen of Great Britain and Joakim Berner of Finland 7-5, 7-5 and play in the semifinals today.
Running
* Former Baylor School and Samford University standout runner Cameron Bean represented the United States in two races in Ireland last week. Team USA won both the 5k event Feb. 9 in Armagh, where Bean was 11th out of 68 runners in a personal-best time of 14 minutes, 13 seconds, and the hilly, muddy Ras nah Eireann 6k on Sunday when he was fifth in 18:18. At least six countries were in each race.
* Danielle Alfano from Chattanooga and Notre Dame High School broke her own King College record for the women’s 1,650-meter run by nearly five seconds with a 5:12.32 last week at the Fast Track Invitational meet. King is at Chapel Hill, N.C., for the Gene Anderson Invitational this weekend.
Auto Racing
* Longtime area dirt-track racer Ray Cook of Brasstown, N.C., won the Night 3 race Wednesday in the 36th annual Dart Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, Fla. Cook earned $7,000 for the victory, and Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., started from the pole and finished second. Cook, who was a longtime instructor at Cleveland Speedway, battled Kentucky’s Steve Francis for most of the race, and Davenport overtook Francis late. Tennessean Scott Bloomquist was fourth. Francis won Thursday’s race, when Cook was sixth.
Football
* Duke University freshman defensive lineman David Helton from Baylor was named to the Academic All-ACC football team. Helton played in nine games for Duke and totaled 25 tackles, 2.5 for loss and 1.5 sacks.
Basketball
* The Tennessee Wesleyan basketball teams end their regular seasons this afternoon having already earned the Appalachian Athletic Conference regular-season championships. The TWC men are 20-9 overall, 13-2 in the AAC, after winning 91-90 at Montreat on Wednesday. That kept today’s guest, second-place Reinhardt (16-10, 11-4), unable to catch the Bulldogs. The Lady Bulldogs (21-7, 14-3) are ranked 16th in NAIA Division II and are two games up on 25th-ranked runner-up Union after wining 64-51 at Montreat.
* Freshman Keta Robinette from Marion County led the Young Harris College women’s basketball team (20-3) to an 85-66 victory Thursday night at Tennessee Temple with 22 points and four assists. She was 5-of-8 on 3-pointers. The Young Harris men (19-4) earned their second overtime win in a row, 78-76, as Vince Martin and Frank Adams scored 17 points each and three teammates added 14 apiece. Jarrett Smith had 13 points, 11 rebounds and six assists for Temple (9-12), while Desmin Hall had 12 points and seven rebounds and Joe Quinn grabbed 10 missed shots. Samantha Ricks led the Lady Crusaders with 19 points, and Amber Charles had 11 points and eight rebounds.
* SEWANEE, Tenn. — The Sewanee women’s basketball team upset visiting Rhodes 55-53 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play Friday night, but the Rhodes men won 61-60 in overtime. Dana Middleton hit 13 of 16 free throws and scored 20 points for the Sewanee women, and Kayla Sewell had 16 points, nine rebounds, four assists and three blocks. She assisted on Middleton’s go-ahead score with 16 seconds left. Sharwill Bell had 15 points and eight rebounds for Rhodes (16-7, 10-5). Andrew Galow scored 27 points including the winning layup with 10 seconds left in overtime for the Rhodes men (17-6, 11-5). Brett Bouldin led Sewanee (11-12, 5-11) with 16 points including three 3-pointers, and Tyler Brown added 10 points.
* Cleveland’s Ishmael Sanders scored 27 points with four 3-pointers in Carson-Newman’s 96-93 overtime loss Wednesday at Mars Hill. He is second on the team at 16.3 points a game and leads the Eagles with 72 3-point baskets (in 201 attempts) and 68-of-84 free-throw success. The Eagles host Newberry at 4 p.m. today with Basketball All-America Reunion festivities.
Lacrosse
* Attacker Davis Brown and defender Brandon Barrett of Sewanee, both sophomores and Centre College’s Patrick Vaughn from Baylor made the 12-man preseason All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men’s lacrosse team for 2012. Sewanee opens its season today in St. Louis against Fontbonne. The Tigers were 7-8 overall last year, 5-2 in the SCAC.