Five NAIA first-team All-Americans comprise the newest class of inductees for the Lee University Athletic Hall of Fame. They will be inducted on Nov. 3 in the school’s Centenary Room, beginning at 5 p.m. The group includes sisters Jenna Achten Sullivan (2006-09) and Jamie Achten Lambert (2008-11) and fellow soccer player Stanley Nyazamba (2005-07) in addition to softball star Johana Gomez (2009-10) and runner Anna Hrushka (2006-10). Gomez was the NAIA pitcher of the year in 2010, when her Lady Flames went 57-5 and she hit a school-record .516. Lambert was a four-time first-team All-American and part of four NAIA national champions, and she was a two-time national player of the year and the 2011 Tennessee amateur sportswoman of the year. She had 83 career goals and her 91 assists are an NAIA record. Her sister was captain of the 2009 national champs and totaled 45 career goals. Nyazamba set the Lee men’s single-season and career assist records with 21 and 60, also scoring 28 goals, and he was a first-round Major Indoor Soccer League draft pick. Hrushka, who qualified for the NAIA cross country national meet, was an All-American in track for the indoor mile in 2010 and 2011 and holds the Lee women’s record for the 1500.
Tennis
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshmen Cooper Long and Jacob Marshall defeated Eastern Kentucky’s Parth Aggarwal and Colin Hart 8-6 in main-draw doubles in the first day of the ITA Ohio Valley Regional tournament in Knoxville. UTC lost its other doubles match and all four singles matches Thursday.
Boxing
* Two-time world champion Marc Castro of Fresno, Calif., continued his successful debut as an elite boxer Thursday night in the USA Boxing Eastern Elite Qualifier and Regional Open Championships at the Chattanooga Convention Center, winning his 123-pound quarterfinal 5-0. And past youth champion Delante Johnson from Cleveland, Ohio, fresh off the Elite World tournament in Hamburg, Germany, also won 5-0 in his 141-pound quarterfinal. Another 5-0 winner, at 132, was Keyshawn Davis of Norfolk, Va., who was declared a title favorite by gym mate Shakur Stevenson, a 2016 Olympic silver medalist who has started a promising professional career. Thursday’s action also included 24 championships for the intermediate and bantam age groups. (Results are at the bottom of this article)