Silverdale Baptist Academy’s Alex Gonzalez signs his commitment papers to play baseball at Covenant College.Bryan College anglers Jacob Foutz and Jake Lee padded their lead Friday in the second day of the Carhartt Bassmaster College National Championship on Lake Bemidji in Minnesota. Foutz and Lee brought in a five-fish limit totaling 18 pounds, 4 ounces for a two-day haul of 34-10. Cole Floyd and Carter McNeil of Bethel are second at 29-13 going into the final round. Tennessee Tech’s Sam Carris and John Berry are 11th at 23-2, and Bryan’s Cole Sands and Nathan Bell moved up to a tie for 16th at 21-13.
Wrestling
-Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga head wrestling coach Ethan Reeve is back with the program as a volunteer coach. “Coach Reeve brings tradition, wisdom and intensity to our program,” coach Heath Eslinger said in a school release Friday. “He has been a part of the UTC wrestling family, and he is passionate about seeing this program succeed.” A four-time SEC champion and two-time All-America wrestler at Tennessee, Reeve compiled a 57-38-2 record with five Southern Conference championships as UTC’s coach from 1985 to 1990. He then shifted his emphasis to strength and conditioning, beginning 1990-95 at McCallie School and with the U.S. women’s rowing team that won four gold medals and a silver at the 1995 World Championships. He then spent six years at Ohio University and the last 16 at Wake Forest.
Golf
-Five golfers spent time in first place in the final round of the 102nd Tennessee State Amateur on Friday at Belle Meade Country Club in Nashville, but it was 24-year-old John Swoboda of Mount Juliet who ended up there as the champion. He birdied Nos. 15-17 and conservatively made the necessary par on No. 18 for a 2-under-par 70 and a 72-hole 282 to edge four players at 283: 2017 high school graduate Austin Carter from Kingsport, Kevin Burns of Johnson City, Ryan Greer of Knoxville and Brayden Garrison of Nolensville. David Watts of Cleveland closed with a 76 and tied for 10th at 287, Blake Maum of Chattanooga and Jack Uselton of Tullahoma tied for 15th at 290, Lake Johnson of Chattanooga and UTC and Tommy Oliver of Sewanee were in the group sharing 18th at 291 and Andrew Weathers of Chattanooga and UTC tied for 24th at 292.