Chattanooga surgeon Neil Spitalny won his second golf tournament of the week and his third Tennessee Senior or Super Senior Amateur championship in as many years with the 2017 Super Senior title Thursday at Chattanooga Golf and Country Club, and Danny Green of Jackson won the State Senior Amateur for his 18th Tennessee Golf Association championship. Each won by five shots, Spitalny with a 214 after watching Nashville’s Mike Nixon knock that many off his seven-shot lead starting the day. Another local, Larry McGill, was third in the Super Senior field at 220, and Mike Jenkins tied for 10th at 239 with Wes Gilliland 12th at 240. Jackson finished at 213 in the Senior Am with Buzz Fly and Tim Jackson from the Memphis area and Jeff Walker from Greenbrier sharing second place at 218. Signal Mountain’s Tom Baird tied for 11th at 224 with fellow locals Richard Keene and Scott Patton tied for 13th at 225, Randy Yoder 17th at 228 and Mike Bennett tied for 19th at 230.
* Lee University sophomore Haverly Harrold was honored as the Gulf South Conference women’s golfer of the month for September. She tied for second individually at the University of Indianapolis Fall Invitational and tied for 21st in the Battle of Old South in North Carolina. “Haverly is off to a great start this year,” Lee coach John Maupin said in a school release. “Our first tournament in Indianapolis included some of the top players in the country, and Haverly was in the mix for medalist the whole way.”
* The Georgia Northwestern golf team tuned up for the USCAA national tournament starting Monday in State College, Pa., with a 36-hole 602-639 defeat of Northeast Alabama Community College on Wednesday at the LaFayette Golf Course. The Bobcats’ two best rounds of the season included a 3-over-par 147 from Branton Bailey, a 149 from Cole Roberts, a 152 from David Manis and a 154 from Lane Strickland. Ethan Everett led Northeast’s first-year team at 152.
Volleyball
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshman libero Megan Kaufman was the Southern Conference volleyball defensive player of the month for September, when she totaled 290 digs in 50 sets for a league-high 5.80 per set. She had double-digit digs in every Mocs match in September, with 42 in one. “Her work rate, competitiveness and desire to be great is inspiring,” coach Travis Filar said in a UTC release. She has 379 digs and 6.02 per set in her first collegiate season, ranking her seventh in NCAA Division I in both categories.