Tennessee Wesleyan College basketball and golf coach Mike Poe of Athens and partner Bob Rice of Pikeville will play Memphis-area golfers Tim Jackson and Buzz Fly today in the Tennessee Senior Four-Ball Championship final match at Rarity Bay Golf & Country Club in Vonore. While Jackson and Fly were the No. 1 seeds after stroke play, Poe and Rice were seeded No. 3 but won 3 and 2 in a semifinal against the No. 2 seeds, three-time defending champions Steve Golliher of Knoxville and Danny Green of Jackson. Poe and Rice won their quarterfinal match 1 up. After going 19 holes to win their semifinal, Dan Dent of Vonore and Phillip Hoy of Loudon will play for the Super Senior championship (ages 65 and older) against Dan Schorsten and Eddie Sherlin of Hendersonville.
* A field of 95 golfers is set for the 84th Tennessee Women’s Amateur Championship being played Tuesday through Saturday at Nashville’s Hillwood Country Club. There will be 61 in the championship division, 34 in the flighted division, and both groups will go through two rounds of stroke play to set up 32 players for championship match play and the other flights of eight.
Fishing
* Livingston Lures pro Andy Morgan of Dayton, Tenn., is in sixth place among the 10 finalists today in the Walmart FLW Tour bass tournament on Kentucky Lake. Fellow Dayton resident Michael Neal finished 15th and got $12,000 for his three-day limit of 15 bass totaling 50 pounds, 14 ounces. Morgan’s haul is 55-4 after Saturday’s round, when Jason Lambert of Pickwick Dam took the lead at 68-2.
Swimming