Buddy Gross of Chickamauga, Georgia, had the 10th best first round Thursday in the FLW Tour event on Cherokee Lake in East Tennessee, with a five-bass limit totaling 16 pounds, 9 ounces. Hixson’s Miles Burghoff was tied for 25th with 15-7. Andrew Upshaw of Tulsa, Oklahoma, led the 164 boaters with 18-6. The field will be cut to 30 after Friday’s round.
Football
» University of Tennessee at Chattanooga running back Alex Trotter from McCallie School, standout Tennessee defensive lineman Kyle Phillips – son of a former Girls Preparatory School star – and Sewanee tight end Trey Claus, kicker Michael Jacobs, offensive lineman Travis Nadalini and defensive end Brinley Rhys were among the Hampshire Honor Society members announced Wednesday by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame. Membership for 2019 requires a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 on a 4.0 scale and having finished one’s college football career in 2018 as a “significant contributor.
Track & Field
» UTC runners Kennedy Thomson and Nicole Buehrle were accepted into the Tennessee Relays this weekend in Knoxville and will compete in the women’s 1500-meter race there Friday evening. Thomson also will run in the 800, an event in which she recently set a school record.
» Lee University’s Chloe Flora was the Gulf South Conference women’s track performer of the week for the third time in four weeks, and the Flames’ Jonah Mayes was the men’s field honoree with Siphosethu Boya the men’s freshman of the week. They were selected for their parts in second-place team finishes to host Alabama-Huntsville in the GSC/Peach Belt Challenge. Flora won the 800- and 1500-meter runs, and Mayes won the men’s high jump – resetting his Lee record – and was second in triple jump. Boya ran a national provisional qualifying time in the 400.
Tennis
» Lee again had the GSC tennis freshmen of the week: Jesus Garcia for the fourth time in five weeks and Sierra Donaldson for the first time but following two teammates who have been honored multiple times. Donaldson was 2-0 in singles last week and 2-0 in doubles with Laura Trammell. In his only matches, Garcia topped the nation’s 65th-ranked player at No. 2 singles and won in doubles with Cristian Pons.
» Sewanee junior Aubrey Davis was the Southern Athletic Association men’s tennis player of the week after going 2-0 in singles and 3-0 with Jordan Brewer at No. 1 doubles.
Lacrosse
» The eighth goal of the match for McKinley Puckett came in the second overtime period and gave Shorter University an 11-10 GSC women’s lacrosse win Wednesday night at Lee. Puckett also had an assist for the Hawks (5-8, 2-5), while Emma Hill had six goals and an assist and Becca Broadwick added three goals and an assist for Lee (4-10, 1-5), which outshot the visitors 31-19. It was the first overtime match in the third-year Lee program’s history.
Golf
» Truett McConnell, Point and Tennessee Wesleyan were first through third among 12 teams in the AAC spring men’s tournament Monday and Tuesday at Bear Trace at Harrison Bay with scores of 570, 575 and 583, and Bryan College was 10th at 626. TMU’s Matt Smith was the medalist at 137, and teammate Dawson Day from Trion was third at 140, one stroke and one spot ahead of reigning AAC golfer of the week Simon Nagy of TWU. Tanner Harris and Jeovani Veloz of TWU tied for eighth at 145. Bryan’s Kevin Knudsen tied for 21st at 151.