Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari visited Chattanooga this week to offer a scholarship to Hamilton Heights Christian Academy guard Shai Alexander, according to Kentucky.com. The 6-foot-4 Alexander, who is from Hamilton, Ontario, is rated by 247Sports.com as the No. 43 prospect nationally in the 2017 signing class. He committed to Florida last November but opened his recruitment last month.
* The Cleveland State basketball teams opened their seasons Tuesday with a doubleheader split against visiting Snead State. Snead’s women won 59-58 on a last-second shot, but the Cleveland State Cougars won 69-63 with 16 points apiece from Kevin Olison and Cam Copeland and 10 from Alfonzo Peoples. Abby Hubert scored 16 in defeat for the Lady Cougars, while Chrisanna Scott had 18 and Jon’nita Henry 16 for the Lady Parsons.
Golf
* The NAIA No. 7-ranked Dalton State men’s golfers won the 36-hole SSAC Preview by 32 strokes Tuesday at Arrowhead Country Club in Montgomery, Ala., and the sixth-ranked DSC women won by 11 shots with freshman Isabel Rijos the medalist at 143, Katie Dalton sharing second place at 149 and Tia Teiniketo and Caroline Griffin finishing eighth and 10th. The Roadrunners’ S.M. Lee was the men’s medalist with a closing 66 and a 135, and Chase Cole and Dalton Johnson were second and third at 140 and 141, and Ben Rebne tied for fourth at 143 with Sport Allmond tying for seventh playing as an individual.
* The Lee University women’s golf team tied for seventh at 623 in the Newberry College Regional Preview in Elgin, S.C. Lee’s Sam Burrus tied for 15th individually at 152, and Annika Gino and Caroline Moore totaled 156 and 157.
* The Covenant College men’s golfers were third out of six teams in the Pinnacle Trust Invitational at Brandon, Miss., with a 36-hole 660. The Scots’ Nathan Hawkins and Ian Johnson tied for sixth and 10th individually at 160 and 164.
Soccer
* Bryan College won 4-0 over visiting Montreat in the Appalachian Athletic Conference women’s soccer tournament Tuesday evening and will play a quarterfinal at No. 2 seed Point University at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Ruth Rosales, Aubri Hughes, Hana Mizoguchi and Keeley Holliday scored for the Lady Lions (10-9), who had a 14-2 edge in shots on goal, and Rosales had an assist.
* The Lee men lost 3-1 at West Alabama in a Gulf South Conference quarterfinal Tuesday and ended their season 9-7-2. Jeremy Bonyaa scored the Flames’ goal.
Volleyball
* Lee lost 3-0 (25-21, 25-23, 25-21) at West Alabama in GSC volleyball on Tuesday. Catherine Conley had nine kills and Brooke Wilsman and Blaire Beamer each had eight, while Sadie Johnson had 21 assists and MaKayla Beebe, Wilsman and Kristi Farley had 15, 14 and 13 digs for Lee (12-13, 8-9). Beebe was the GSC defensive player of the week after totaling 67 digs in three matches, including 28 in a win over league leader West Florida.
* Bryan defeated visiting Bluefield 3-2 (26-24, 22-25, 25-22, 23-25, 15-9) in AAC volleyball as Paige Lawson had 17 kills and Shelby Enochs had 53 assists, 13 digs, four block solos and three block assists. Rachel Mosley and Mariah Dunlop added 14 and 11 kills and Kayla Rymer had 36 digs and three aces.
* Covenant College lost 3-1 (20-25, 25-21, 27-25, 25-20) at home to LaGrange in a USA South tournament quarterfinal match Tuesday, after LaGrange (22-13) defeated Huntingdon 3-0. The Lady Scots ended their season at 19-13 despite 47 assists and 20 digs from Schuyler Moore, 23 kills and 16 digs from Ginny Moore, 12 kills from Hannah Harris and eight apiece from Morgan Opgenorth and Jessica Seehorn and 23 digs from Hannah Stewart.
Tennis
* The UTC coed club team defeated UNC Charlotte 23-17 for seventh place in the bronze bracket of the USTA Tennis on Campus Fall Invitational this past weekend at Hilton Head Island, S.C. Florida beat defending TOC national champion Auburn in the gold finals for the Gators’ third Fall Invitational title in four years.