The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team opens 2016-17 play today in the Turning Stone-Tiger Intercollegiate tournament in Verona, N.Y. Reigning Tennessee Amateur champion Wes Gosselin led the Mocs’ in-team qualifying with a minus-13 over four area courses, and Andrew Weathers, Brooks Thomas, Lake Johnson and junior college All-American Phillip Hickam will join him in the Mocs’ lineup with Canadian Etienne Brault playing as an individual. “We’re definitely ready. I know I am,” coach Mark Guhne said in a UTC release. “The guys worked extremely hard to get here.”
* The City Prep golf tournament will be held Wednesday at The Bear Trace at Harrison Bay. Forty-nine boys and 26 girls from Chattanooga-area high schools will compete for individual titles, and team championships will be awarded, too. Baylor swept all four crowns last year. “We wanted to have something to try to showcase the best players in the Chattanooga area,” said Notre Dame’s Jeff Fisher, this year’s tournament director and a 25-year coaching veteran who noted that the competition was around before his coaching career began. “That’s what we’ve tried to do. We attempted at one time to bring in players from outside the area, but always the spirit of the thing was to show off the best players in the Chattanooga area.” The boys will tee off first. The first threesome is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. The last boys’ group is set to begin at 11:25. The first girls’ threesome is slated to tee off at 11:34 and the last at 12:46 p.m.
Soccer
* Already with a 9-0 win in Lee University’s Olive Garden Invitational men’s soccer tournament, 25th-ranked Lynn beat Lee 6-0 on Saturday as Dominic Docherty had a goal and two assists and Alun Webb scored two late goals. The Florida team scored twice in the first 13:08 and made it 3-0 early in the second half but got the last three scores in the 81st to 85th minutes. Lynn outshot the Flames (1-1) 23-6, and Tristen Putnam had seven saves in defeat.
* Sewanee went to 2-0 in women’s soccer for the season with a come-from-behind 2-1 win Saturday over Roanoke College in the Shellenberger Classic at Lynchburg, Va. That gave the Tigers 11 regular-season wins in a row. Nikki Johnston netted a rebound off the crossbar in the first half and Shelby Meckstroth scored off a loose ball in the 79th minute. Samantha Bourgeois made six saves.