Chattanooga will be hosting the Junior Team Tennis state tournament Friday through Sunday, mainly at the Champions Club but also at Baylor School and the Brainerd courts. The teams will include boys and girls together in 10-, 12-, 14- and 18-under age groups. According to Tara Williams of USTA Tennessee, there will be three advanced teams each in the 12s and 14s, playing each other twice Friday and Saturday, and 21 in 18s intermediates, 16 in 14s, 10 in 12s and six in 10s. Play will begin at 9 a.m. Friday, 8 a.m. Saturday and 8:30 a.m. Sunday, and there is no admission charge.
Basketball
* The Georgia Northwestern Technical College basketball teams, both coached by David Stephenson, will begin their 2015-16 seasons the first week of November, the Lady Bobcats opening on Nov. 2 at the Rossville Athletic Center against Truett-McConnell’s junior varsity and the men’s team starting Nov. 6 at 7 p.m. at the RAC against Welch College from Nashville. Both GNTC teams will play in Welch’s Flames Classic on Nov. 13-14, after the Lady Cats host Welch and visit Oakwood in Huntsville, Ala. The first-ever Bobcats Invitational will be held Dec. 11-12, including men and women. Two nights later the teams will play at West Georgia Tech and then take a long holiday break, the men until Jan. 7 and the women till Jan. 14. The GCAA and NJCAA Region XVII tournament is set for Feb. 20-21 at Oxford College.