University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball coach Jim Foster picked up another piece for his team Thursday with the addition of Jacksonville University guard Queen Alford. The 5-foot-10 guard from Decatur, Ga., led the Dolphins in scoring in her two seasons at Jacksonville and was an All-Atlantic Sun second-team selection. “We are delighted to have a player of her abilities join our program,” Foster said in a released statement. “It is not often that you get a player of this caliber in this fashion.” Alford scored 717 points and shot 41.5 percent from the field in two seasons, averaging 13.4 points per game as a sophomore, ninth most in the A-Sun. She also led the Dolphins in steals with 2.1 per game and was second on the team with 6.2 rebounds per game, and she had 24 points and 13 rebounds in a Dec. 4 win over Tennessee State. She will sit out the 2014-15 season because of NCAA transfer rules and will have two seasons of eligibility at UTC.
Golf
• While longtime star amateur golfer Tim Jackson of Germantown surged into the lead of the 99th Tennessee Amateur with a third-round 66 Thursday at Memphis Country Club, UTC player Zac Stolz followed Wednesday’s 70 with a 69 and moved into third place at 212. Jackson is at 2-under-par 208 going into the final round, and Oklahoma-bound Grant Hirschman from Collierville is at 210. Chattanooga’s Taylor Lewis is tied for 15th at 216, Lee University’s Taylor Davis shares 19th at 217, former Baylor School and Lee golfer Matt Emery and McMinnville’s Brett Patterson are at 219, and UTC’s Brooks Thomas, Harrison resident David Weeks and former local Nick Blakely are at 220.
Auto Racing
• Tonight is the makeup date for the United Sprint Car Series “Outlaw Thunder” Tour’s visit to Boyd’s Speedway, provided the weather cooperates, unlike on July 18. The race for the 1,300-pound, 700-horsepower, winged open-wheel cars will award national championship points as well as USCA Mid South and Southern Thunder regional points. Speeds are expected to exceed 120 mph. The six-car Hoosier Speed Dash will begin the night’s sprint car competition, and the USCS 600 “Mini Sprints” also will be in action. Boyd’s regular Crate Late Model and A- and B-Hobby classes will take their turns on the oval as well. Gates open at 5 p.m.; racing starts at 7.