Chattanooga’s YCAP Boxing Club has four young fighters in the finals today of the seven-state Silver Gloves regional tournament in Little Rock, Ark.
The fourth was 13-year-old Sencere Hayes, who beat Braiden Coleman from Hot Springs, Ark., in the 100-pound class after defeating Edgar Trejo from Oklahoma City on Thursday. Other YCAP finalists are Billy Hodge, 15, at 147 pounds; Keyvon Long, 13, at 125; and Georral Adams, 13, at 65. Regional winners advance to the Silver Gloves nationals Feb. 4-6 in Independence, Mo.
High School
* Girls Preparatory School was presented Thursday with the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Championship Series Award for the highest performing athletic program in TSSAA Division II-AA in the 2014-15 school year. It is GPS’s second time to win in the four-year history of the BCBST award, which honors programs for overall classification success with no unsportsmanlike incidents. In 2014-15, the Bruisers won a state soccer title, finished second in the state in softball and third in golf and cross country and tied for third in bowling and tennis.
Tennis
* The UTC women’s tennis team plays Sunday morning at Memphis in beginning the spring-semester schedule. UTC’s Mocs are 7-7 all-time against the Tigers but have five starters back from a group that won 18 matches for the third year in a row last spring. Kayla Jones, a two-time first-team All-Southern Conference player who happens to be from Memphis, is joined by three other seniors for coach Jeff Clark: Kelsey Coots, Katie Polk and Alison Storie.
Basketball
* The Covenant College basketball teams won two tight USAS South games Friday at William Peace in Raleigh, N.C., 75-71 in three overtimes in the women’s game and 79-77 in the men’s. Aleigha Williams and Joanna Smith had 17 and 16 points, 10 and 13 rebounds and five and four steals for the Lady Scots, who got five assists apiece from Smith and Kaley Hallmark and 11 and 10 rebounds from Hallmark and Rachel Price. Bailey Spragg and T.J. Cox scored 17 and 16 points and Will Portlock, Berto Dryden and Chris Boyd also reached double figures for the Scots, who shot 55.4 percent, and Connor Sears grabbed eight rebounds. Portlock had 13 points, including the fadeaway jump shot that beat the final buzzer for the winning points.
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