Lee University’s Taylor Davis from Franklin, Tenn., is the Cleveland school’s first male golfer to be named an NCAA Division II PING All-American by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Davis made the All-America second team. He already was a Christian college first-team All-American and Scholar Athlete. Davis won two tournaments, finished second once and was third three times in the 2014-15 season for the Flames, who won five of the 10 events they entered, including the Gulf South Conference tournament where they could be only unofficial champions this year. “This was one of the best individual seasons in our program’s history,” Lee coach John Maupin said in a school release. “I’m very excited and happy to see Taylor get some recognition after such an outstanding season. I feel because we were in transition to DII, Taylor had to work twice as hard to achieve this honor. Taylor gives his best in everything he does, on and off the course.”
* Five Whitfield County golfers made the 75-player cut for the final round today of the 50th Georgia Junior Championship at West Lake Country Club in Augusta, led by Dalton’s Landon Hicks in a tie for sixth place at 2-under-par 142 after a second-round 67 Tuesday. The event could be called the S.M. Lee Show, as the Buford resident padded his lead to eight strokes with a 67 that put him at 14-under 130. Dalton’s Allen Behr, Davis Kirk and Jackson Quarles are tied for 38th, 62nd and 67th, respectively, at 151, 155 and 156, and Cohutta’s Jake Allstun is tied for 58th at 154. Behr shot 71 on Tuesday.
* Carson Roberts of Dalton shot a 76 Tuesday and moved into a tie for first place in Flight 3 and 28th overall in the Georgia Girls’ Championship at Coosa Country Club. Her total is 159. Chatsworth’s Savanah Satterfield is tied for 10th in Flight 1 and 41st overall at 165, and Chatsworth’s Tori Owens and Calhoun’s Kate Mashburn also are in the top 55 and are sixth and 10th in Flight 3 at 167 and 172.
Lacrosse
* McCallie School goalie Tate Boyce made USA Today High School Sports’ 2015 All-USA boys’ lacrosse second team, as picked by Casey Vock of 3d Rising. A recent graduate headed to Providence College, Boyce helped the Blue Tornado go 19-2 and win the Tennessee state championship. He had 15 saves in the 13-11 state-final win over Memphis University School. “Boyce showcases incredible reflexes, sees the ball from the release to his stick and keeps rebounds to a minimum,” Vock wrote in his player-by-player evaluations posted Tuesday. “His season was highlighted by a 22-save performance against Super 25 No. 2 Landon. He denied 64 percent of the shots he faced and allowed only five goals per game. He made 15 or more saves in six games this year.”
Triathlon
* Midnight tonight is the cutoff for online entries in the 2015 Chattanooga Waterfront Triathlon, an intermediate distance race set for Sunday morning downtown, but registration will continue Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. at the event expo at Ross’s Landing, where the transitions from swimming to cycling and then to running will take place Sunday. The first swimmers will hit the Tennessee River at 7:30 a.m. There are about 1,000 entries, race director Jenni Berz from the Chattanooga Track Club said Tuesday night. Registration costs $160 for individuals, $200 for two-person relays and $225 for three-person relays. It can be done today at team-magic.com or www.chattanoogatrackclub.org. Saturday’s expo will include numerous food, apparel and other vendors, some of whom will be providing giveaways or conducting drawings for merchandise.
Academics
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga had 118 athletes on the Southern Conference 2014-15 academic honor roll released Monday, and those included 17 with 4.0 grade point averages for the year – second in the league only to Mercer. UTC had 66 earn the Commissioner’s Medal for a GPA of 3.5 or better. The honor roll required a 3.0.