Lee University men’s basketball coach Tommy Brown has announced the signings of three perimeter players for the 2015-16 season, including Rico Overall from Cleveland State and former McCallie School star C.J. Reese, transferring from Southeast Missouri State. The other is Cam Boyd, directly out of national high school power Greater Atlanta Christian. Overall was Cleveland State’s male athlete of the year after averaging 20.5 points a game and making 44 percent of his 3-point shots as a sophomore. Reese started one year at Westlake in Atlanta and three years at McCallie, where he was first-team all-state and a McDonald’s All-American nominee for a team that won 24 games in a row, and he played for the Atlanta Celtics AAU team that was ranked No. 1 in the nation and won an Adidas Super 64 national title in Las Vegas. He redshirted his first year at SEMO and wasn’t happy with his playing time as a freshman. Boyd scored 1,007 points and hit a school-record 251 3-point shots for a GAC team that was 107-19 in his four years. “Cam comes from an incredibly successful high school program where he had an outstanding career,” Brown said in a Lee release. “He’s a great competitor and a guy that can really fill it up from the outside. C.J. is a big guard that sees the floor. He gets people involved and can really defend. He had a very good career at McCallie, and we’re thrilled that he’s decided to come back to this area of Tennessee. Rico put some really good numbers in a very tough Tennessee junior college league. He can score in a variety of ways and play multiple positions for us.”
Boxing
* Chattanooga native Ryan Martin improved to 13-0 as a professional lightweight boxer with a first-round TKO of Ivan Zavala in their scheduled eight-round bout Saturday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Martin, who fights out of Cleveland, Ohio, but still considers Chattanooga home, is a 22-year-old Central High School graduate.
Softball/Baseball
* Lee’s softball team rolled into the National Christian College Athletic Association national tournament with a 9-1 victory over Mississippi College in the Mid-East Region championship game Saturday. Angie Hughes (16-7) pitched a three-hitter and Emily Dagnan was 3-for-3 with an RBI and scored three times for the Lady Flames (33-17), while Lexie Dean and Qiley Lewis each was 2-for-4 with an RBI and Kaylie Drew and NiaRaye Ceasar combined to walk five times and scored two runs apiece. Madison Oliver homered for the Choctaws (27-22). The national event begins Wednesday in Botetourt, Va. Lee teams already have won four NCCAA national titles this school year.