GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Led by a fifth-place 70 from sophomore Jordan Britt, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team compiled a first-round 302 Friday and is tied with 14th-ranked Baylor for 10th place in the 17-team SunTrust Gator tournament. Second-ranked Alabama and No. 10 Georgia are first and second at 284 and 286, and Georgia’s Emilie Burger is the individual leader at 67. Alabama senior Brooke Pancake from Chattanooga and Baylor School and teammate Hannah Collier are tied with Britt, who played at GPS and Signal Mountain. UTC’s next best scores Friday were Mette Kryger’s 75 and Sophie Weilguni’s 77. The UTC men’s team plays Sunday through Tuesday in the Collegiate Match Play presented by Callaway at Bradenton, Fla.
Running
TAMPA, Fla. — UTC junior Lucas Cotter won the men’s 1500-meter run in a personal-best time of 3 minutes, 51.92 seconds Friday as the outdoor track and field season began at the USF Bulls Invitational meet. Teammate Emmanuel Kirwa won the men’s 3000 in 8:35.79, and the Mocs’ Chris Berry and Mark Cole were second and fourth in the 5000 in 14:34.86 and 15:18.05. Freshman Dezerick Frazier was seventh in the 400 in 48.69, 0.34 second off the UTC record, and the Lady Mocs’ Keeley Stewart and Amanda Sumner were fifth in the women’s 3000 and seventh in the 1500, respectively. Joshue Vasquez was eighth in the race Cotter won. “It was a great day,” UTC coach Bill Gautier said. “We had a lot of positives from both the men and the women.”
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Red Bank High School track coach Hugh Enicks of Signal Mountain finished fifth in his 50-54 age group in the 3000-meter run Friday of the national masters track and field meet at the University of Indiana. The 9:59 time was a personal record at that distance for Enicks, who is running the mile today. Those are relatively short distances for the retired Army lieutenant colonel, a multiple marathon winner.
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