Buddy Gross of Chickamauga, Georgia, zoomed from fifth place to first in the third round of the FLW Tour bass tournament on Lake Toho in central Florida. Gross leads the 10 finalists going for the $125,000 top prize with 62 pounds after weighing a five-fish limit totaling 19 pounds, 12 ounces Saturday. Darrell Davis of Dover, Florida, went even bigger at 25-12 and moved from 13th to second at 60-15 – 12 ounces more than third-place Josh Douglas of Minnesota.
Track & Field
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s Kennedy Thomson won the women’s mile Friday at the Samford Bulldog Invitational indoor track and field meet by 4.6 seconds in a personal-best and meet-record 4:48.69, and Saturday she set a program record in winning the 800-meter run in 2:10.73. Teammate Abby Bateman was sixth. The Mocs’ Makenzie Jones also set a meet record with a 17:25.68 in the 5000, with Hannah Caldwell third and Sophia Neglia sixth; Nicole Buehrle was fourth in the open mile; and Emily Poole was seventh in the 3000 and eighth in the 1000.
Tennis
» The UTC men’s tennis team beat Belmont 5-2 Saturday at Baylor School with doubles and singles wins by Niklas Gerdes, Tomas Rodriguez and Pablo Llebeili and another singles victory by Simon Bustamante. Jacob Marshall teamed with Llebeili in doubles for the Mocs (3-3), who play at UNC Asheville today.