John Gilpin of Chattanooga won the Chickamauga Chase 15-kilometer race Saturday morning in the national battlefield park in 50 minutes, 31 seconds, and Renee Jackson of Athens, Georgia, was the women’s winner and 14th overall in 1:05:50. Noah Cochran and Joseph Wilson were side by side in second and third in 53:41, and masters winner Van Dick, Jeremy Miller and Hayden Apps also finished in under an hour. Rachel Nokes was the female runner-up and 30th overall. Ringgold residents Jerryd Tennyson, Gavin Chandler and James Mason took the top three spots in the 5k at 17:41, 18:20 and 19:30, and Kristen Bonsor of Ooltewah was the first female and eighth overall in 20:40 with Ashley Humble and Amanda Hodges 17th and 19th. In the 8-mile trail race, Mitchell Kohlmann won by 80 seconds in 56:40, and Lindsay Mies was the female winner and 11th overall in 1:03:44 with Meredith Adams 16th. Matthew Barry, Zach McElrath, Joseph Watson, Adam Dodson and Eric Beveridge joined Kohlmann in beating an hour. The three races totaled 661 finishers.
Fishing
» Dayton’s own Andy Morgan and Michael Neal survived the knockout round Saturday in Stage Four of the Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour out of Dayton Boat Dock on Chickamauga Lake. They are in the 10-angler championship round scheduled for Sunday. Morgan caught 29 bass totaling 56 pounds, 3 ounces Saturday, and Neal – the operator of Dayton Boat Dock – hooked 26 weighing 49-11. Virginian Jacob Powroznik, who won Stage Three two weeks ago at Raleigh, had Saturday’s top haul of 67-14 on 36 fish. Harrison’s Jacob Wheeler finished 15th at 45-11 (25).
Baseball
» Lee University began its Gulf South Conference series Friday night at West Florida with a 1-0 win over the nationally fifth-ranked Argonauts, and Lee won 5-2 before losing 2-1 on Saturday. Friday for the Flames (20-22, 10-12), Parker Stahlman singled and scored on Thomas Zazzaro’s double in the third inning and Logan Workman and Randall Coxwell combined to pitch a shutout. Coxwell came into a bases-loaded situation in the fifth inning and got a 5-2-3 double play and a pop-out. He allowed just two hits in five innings. Saturday, Alex Butler got Lee’s pitching win, allowing six hits and one earned run, and Zazzaro got the save and scored two runs. Fernando Ortiz, Alan Smith and Justin Fragale each had two hits and an RBI, and Justen Freeman was 2-for-4 and scored a run. Zazzaro was 3-for-4 but took the pitching loss in the finale, when Miguel Pimentel and Fragale each was 2-for-3, Pimentel scoring on a Fragale single.