Cris Perez was one of three UTC women’s golfers who shot 73s Monday in helping the Mocs move up to third in the Palmetto Intercollegiate tournament at Kiawah Island, S.C.The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s golf team shot a collective 295, Monday’s second best round, and moved up from ninth place to a share of third two-thirds of the way through the Palmetto Intercollegiate tournament at Kiawah Island, S.C. Furman leads the 20-team field at 577 with Campbell at 582 and UTC and Illinois at 590. The Mocs’ Megan Woods, Emily McLennan and Cris Perez each shot 73 Monday, and Woods is tied for ninth individually at 146 with the other two tied for 13th at 147. Monica San Juan is tied for 34th at 150.
* The UTC men’s golfers ended their 54-hole tournament in two days, winding up 13th in the 14-team Bridgestone Golf Collegiate at Greensboro, N.C., with a 308 round Monday. The Mocs began with a 294 and followed with a 299, and their highest finishers counting for the team were Wes Gosselin at 222 and Stuart Thomas at 223, tying for 35th and 41st. Brooks Thomas shot 227, Lake Johnson 233 and Andrew Weathers 235. UTC’s Cory Webb played as an individual and shot 218, tying for 24th, with a final-round 73. Nationally 20th-ranked Purdue won the tournament at 834 with No. 18 North Carolina at 836.
* The Dalton State women’s golf team, ranked No. 2 in the NAIA, is No. 1 in the Chick-fil-A Collegiate Invitational going into the final round today at Coosa Country Club in Rome, Ga., and Tennessee Wesleyan is third. DSC’s Roadrunners shot a 304 on the rain-soaked course Monday, and reigning NCAA Division III champion Methodist compiled a 308. It was another 13 strokes back to TWC, with Berry and Oglethorpe sharing fourth place at 328 in the 10-team field. Dalton State’s Julia McQuilken is tied with two Methodist players for first individually at 73, and Katie Dalton is fourth at 75 with Caroline Griffin fifth at 76 and Erika Wardzinski tied for 11th at 80. “It rained most of the round, and the course played longer because of the weather,” DSC coach Jim McGrew said. “I’m really proud of the girls for fighting through tough conditions and posting a solid score.” TWC’s Abby Dukes and Kinsley Vincent share seventh place at 78, and Maddi Balthrop shot 80.
Auto Racing
* Amy Farrow defeated her husband, Steve Farrow, in one of his cars in the final Super Pro race Saturday night at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip. Amy got the $1,500 top prize with a 5.37-second surge on a 5.36 dial on the eighth-mile strip, while Steve clocked 4.86 seconds on a 4.85 dial. He built the Chevrolet big-block engines in both dragsters. Boonie Cunningham won the Foot Brake class with a 9.15-second run on a 9.14 dial in his new Dodge Ramcharger pickup, and Chase Hasty was second with a 7.99 run on a 7.97 dial in his 1976 Camaro SS. Kaleb Winters was the Junior Dragster winner with an 8.69 on an 8.67, with Bryson Kaiser second with an 8.62 on an 8.57.
Soccer
* The UTC women’s soccer team finished eighth in the Southern Conference regular-season standings and will host VMI at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Finley Stadium as the league tournament gets under way. The winner will play top-seeded Samford in a quarterfinal Saturday night in Birmingham. VMI edged the Mocs 2-1 at Finley on Oct. 11. Also Wednesday night, seventh seed Wofford will host The Citadel with the survivor playing Sunday afternoon at No. 2 Furman.
* Two Premier Soccer Academy teams based in Red Bank won top-bracket age-division championships at the Under Armour Boys Bash in the Boro this past weekend in Murfreesboro. The PSA Rockets under-18 team coached by Kevin Stophel tied for first in the u-19 Blue Division with a 2-2 draw against the host city’s Strikers ’98 Premier, a 2-1 win over the Tennessee Soccer Club’s 2016 Premier and a 3-0 defat of the Eagle Express 98 Red. Coach Maho Karajic’s PSA River Plate beat Knoxville’s Crush ’01 Juventus 3-0 in the u-15 Blue final after winning 3-0 over the TSC 2019 Elite and 2-1 over the Camp Forest FC 2k1.