The Chattanooga Elite 16-under boys won the AAU national basketball championship last week in Orlando, Fla., going 7-0 with a 75-56 victory over Team New York in the semifinals and a 71-61 defeat of the Wellington Wolves from Coral Gables, Fla., in the championship game. Members of the team coached by Karl Williams and Keith Easterwood were Trey Autry, Malik Beavers, Patrick Good, Devante Jones, Emmanuel Lane, Bradley McCurdy, Corey McDonald, Ryan Montgomery, Peyton Parker, Dajuonta Ross, Isaiah Shopshire and Adrian Thomas. They represent seven high schools, including six from the Chattanooga area.
• The Lady Trotters based in Jefferson City, Tenn., will play the Greensboro (N.C.) Gaters for the AAU seventh-grade girls’ Division I national basketball champoionship today at McKenzie Arena. The Lady Trotters were designated AAU fifth-grade national champions two years ago. This year’s team went 3-0 in pool play and on Monday won 42-31 over the Cincinnati Heat Premier and 60-55 over North Texas Lights Out. The Gaters won 46-42 over CBC Boyd from North Carolina and 65-56 over Peak Performance Black from Georgia to reach the final. In Division II, the Jacksonville (Fla.) Lady Rams beat the Alabama Sparks 54-48 and Kentucky’s Central Sparx downed the Dayton (Ohio) Vipers 36-28 to reach the 12:45 final at McKenzie. In Division III, the Chattanooga area’s hastily pulled together Tennessee Xtreme girls will play for third place against Clarksville SOL at 9 a.m. at Maclellan Gym, before the Garden Sparks Teal face the Indiana’s Finest Fry in a showdown of Hoosier State teams for the championship at 11:30 in McKenzie. The Xtreme won 43-38 over the McMinn Fire on Monday evening.
Golf
• Samantha Griffith of Ooltewah, who is about to begin her Lipscomb University golf career, shot a 73 Monday at Council Fire to lead stroke-play qualifying for the 2014 Chattanooga Women’s City tournament. Griffith began her day with 15-foot downhill putts for par and birdie at Nos. 1 and 2 and added a short putt for birdie at No. 6 and a chip-in birdie from behind the bunker on No. 12. She will face Pam Austin in the championship flight quarterfinals this morning, when No. 2 seed Rachel Rebne takes on Linda Carter, Phyllis Loftsgard meets Natalie Javadi and Kathy Vaughn plays Hazel Davis. Carlene Ryon heads the first flight quarterfinals that have Nancy Logue, Patty Donahoo, Lynn McGee, Jeanie Reedy, Barb Monaghan, Rosalie Basten and Debbie Durham seeded two through eight. The second-flight matchups are No. 1 Casandra Godbold against Judy Mabe, Lesley Dunn against Karen Martin, Sharon Powell against Nancy Hora and Kate Gerbitz against Lynn Heck, and the third-flight pairings are Patty Jones and Evelyn Williams with byes, Brittany Marcum against Vicki Dolan and Edwina Montgomery against Pam Potter.
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