Lee University’s Justin Brooks is the NCAA Division II South Region men’s track athlete of the year for the outdoor season, and the Cleveland school’s Caleb Morgan is the men’s coach of the year, as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Morgan also is the Lee women’s coach and doubled up with Gulf South Conference team championships, the men winning by 40 points with 11 event wins. Brooks, a senior, qualified for this week’s national meet in the 200- and 400-meter dashes and as part of the 4×400 relay. Lee had 22 men and women earn 39 all-region accolades based on top-five event finishes (top three in relays) in the South Region meet. Brooks was all-region in the three events in which he’s participating in Kingsville, Texas, and his twin Josiah Brooks earned four all-region distinctions. Three each went also to Lee’s Charlee Boxall, Chloe Flora and Amber Littlejohn and two apiece to Siphosethu Boya, Casey Guthery, Christian Noble, Jordan Allison, Kiley Brock and Kayla Williams. Other all-region Flames and Lady Flames were Gari Garmendia, Daniel Surman, Thomas Kelton, Teagan Lenox, Ben Tabor, Jeremiah McClain, Amy Carpenter, Becca Umbarger, Brooke Long, Mikayla Beeler and Kristen Blevins.
» Sewanee’s Ash Midyett was a USTFCCCA Division III All-South/Southeast Region runner in the 800-meter event, as his personal-best 1:53.92 last week was the fifth best time in the region. As a junior, Midyett won the men’s 800 in the Southern Athletic Association meet this spring for the second time in three years. He was second in 2018.
Baseball
» Jacksonville State senior Nic Gaddis from Trenton, Georgia, and Dade County High School is the first-team catcher on the 2019 All-Ohio Valley Conference baseball team. Gaddis was fifth in the OVC this season in slugging percentage (.597) and sixth in on-base percentage (.446) and led the 34-21 Gamecocks in those categories plus batting average (.335), hits (69), home runs (13), total bases (123) and runs scored (47). He added 15 doubles and 41 RBIs and had a .981 fielding percentage.
Lacrosse
» Sewanee sophomore defender Logan Bulls and senior goalkeeper Brianna Young received NCAA Division III all-region recognition Monday from the Intercollegiate Women’s Lacrosse Coaches Association. Bulls was selected for the All-West first team; Young made the second team. Bulls forced 43 turnovers, third most in the SAA, and collected 59 ground balls, fifth in the league, this past season. Young stopped 94 of 174 shots for a .540 save percentage and allowed an average of 8.66 goals a match in 2019, and she totaled 381 saves for her Tigers career.
Golf
» Cleveland State’s Colbe Cagle is in the NJCAA Division II men’s golf tournament at Swan Lake Resort in Plymouth, Indiana. It began Tuesday but did not finish the first round, suspended because of darkness. Cagle, who placed 11th with a two-round 162 last month at the District J tourney, is one of about 125 golfers in this week’s 72-hole, no-cut event.
Bowling
» The Knights of Columbus Family Bowling League will hold its four-team Tournament of Champions this Sunday at Spare Time Hixson, beginning at 3 p.m., and Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Soddy-Daisy will be heavily represented – by Don, Matt, Will and Andrew Cambron on Team Genco; John and Eula Purvis and their 6-year-old grandson, Aiden Van Thiel, on Team Fireballs; and Kevin and Erika Perry on Team Under Gutter Gang with Jim Chardos and John Sopko from St. Stephen Catholic Church. The fourth group in the tournament is Team Sir Pinsters, comprised of Tony DiMaiolo, John Hutterer, Al Corkum and Anthony Bruschi from St. Gerard Catholic in Fort Oglethorpe. The league is a fundraising enterprise providing support for the Maclellan Shelter for Families in Chattanooga, and 22 teams competed this spring.