The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team set a 36-hole record for the program in taking the first-day lead Monday at the 15-team Starmount Fall Classic at Greensboro, N.C. Colette Murray’s Mocs had back-to-back rounds of 5-over-par 289 at Starmount Forest Country Club and lead second-place Campbell by 10 strokes and Maryland by 12 with 18 holes to go. UTC’s Agathe Sauzon is tied for second at 141, one shot off the lead, with Jordan Britt fourth at 142 and Emily McLennan fifth at 143; Isabella Loza is tied for 33rd at 152. “It was a good day. I’m proud of them and the way they ground it out today,” Murray said in a school release. “We really executed our game plan.”
• Led by Matt Emery’s 142 and Hunter Vest’s 143, Lee University is in third place after Monday’s play in the 18-team Aflac/Cougar Invitational college golf tournament at the Country Club of Columbus (Ga.). Emery and Vest, who played at area high schools, are tied for third and eighth, and teammates Taylor Davis and Shea Sylvester also are in the top 30 at 146 and 147. At 576, the Flames are one stroke behind second-place West Florida; Columbus State leads at 563.
• Eight-time champion Maggie Scott of Charleston took the early lead with a 78 Monday in the 35th Tennessee Women’s Senior Amateur golf tournament at Ridgeway Country Club in Germantown, and Cleveland’s Linda Mullins is in a three-way tie for second at 81 in the 54-hole event. Another Chattanooga-area player, Debbie Durham, is fifth at 83, and 2009 and 2011 champion Georgia McCravey of Chattanooga is tied for eighth at 86. Defending champion Jean Roise of Crossville shares 11th place at 87.
• Sewanee’s Jenna King and Emily Javadi finished second and fifth at 152 and 154 in the four-team Rhodes Collegiate Classic golf tournament Sunday and Monday, and Javadi’s former Baylor School teammate at Centre, Alyssa Brown, tied for third at 153. Led by Nikki Isaacson’s 148 and Jessica Zweifel’s 153, Rhodes was the team champion at 617, six shots ahead of runner-up Centre. Javadi’s 71 Sunday was the tournament’s best round.
Football
• Furman University redshirt freshman linebacker T.J. Warren from Ooltewah High School made his first college start an award-winning one. Stepping in for an injured teammate, the 6-foot-2 Warren had seven solo tackles, including three for a total of 16 lost yards and a 9-yard sack, and was the Southern Conference football defensive player of the week. The Paladins held The Citadel to 132 rushing yards, 186 below the Bulldogs’ season average.