Lauren Johnson was the medalist with a 74 in qualifying Monday for the Chattanooga Women’s City golf tournament at Lookout Mountain Golf Club. Darlene Werhnyak and Blakesly Warren tied for second with 76s, Rachel Rebne shot a 78 and McKenzie Frizzell completed the top five with an 81. Match play begins today along with the senior division’s 36-hole tournament.
* Logan Price shot a 68 Monday to win the CDGA Junior Tour event at WindStone Golf Club. Reese Scobey with a 70 and Ben Rebne with a 71 were close behind in the Boys 16-18 division, and Carter Grant‘s 70 won the 14-15 division by four strokes. Heidi Barringer and Ryann McCuistion led the girls with 80s.
Auto Racing
* Kevin Pass from Dallas, Ga., won the Super Pro class Saturday night at the one-eighth-mile Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip with a time of 5.16 seconds on a 5.15 dial-in. He drove a dragster powered by a Chevy big-block engine with injected alcohol. Josh Powell of Trenton was second in a new Racecraft dragster tuned by his father, Rocky, a former strip champion, and twin Jeremiah Powell was third. Jeff Montgomery of Centerville, Ga., won the Foot Brake class with a 6.49 run on a 6.48 dial in a 1986 Mustang GT, and Dennis Smith of Dalton was second in a 1990 Mustang. Mattie Keener of Dunlap was the Junior Dragster winner with Andrew Womac of Cleveland second.
* Boyd’s Speedway is scheduled to host the United Sprint Car Series and its Outlaw Thunder Tour this Friday night. Those winged vehicles exceed 700 horsepower and 130 mph. Ultra-light, ultra-fast Mini Sprints will be racing as well.. Also on the Friday program will be area Limited and Crate Late Models racing for a $1,000 top prize, A and B Hobby and Road Warriors competition. Pit gates will open at 4 p.m.; grandstand gates will open at 5; racing is to start at 7.