Lookout Valley junior T.J. Arnold won a National Silver Gloves boxing championship Saturday night in Kansas City, Missouri. A member of the Chattanooga YMCA’s YCAP team, Arnold earned the 15-16-year-old 119-pound title. He received a bye in Thursday’s round and defeated Chicago’s Jovanni Calderon in the semifinals and Abel Mejia of Corona, California, in the final. Arnold and a Nashville fighter were the only national champions from Tennessee.
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* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s tennis team extended its winning streak to six matches with two victories Sunday in Birmingham, 5-1 at UAB and 9-0 over Division III program Birmingham-Southern. UTC (6-1) lost all three doubles matches and fell behind 1-0 to the Blazers but won at Nos. 1-5 singles for its first team triumph in the series since 1988. Jeffrey Dewald won 6-2, 6-1 at No. 4, No. 1 Niklas Gerdes and No. 5 Simon Bustamante each won 6-4, 6-4, and the Mocs’ other two wins were even tougher. Kerim Hyatt prevailed 7-5, 7-6 (7-5), and Tomas Rodriguez won 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (10-8). Hyatt’s 6-3, 6-1 breeze was the closest of UTC’s six singles wins against BSC: Gerdes, Dewald, Jacob Marshall, Luke Plaisted and Kaisei Kuroki had a 60-2 margin in games.
* Lee University began its spring-semester tennis season with a 5-2 women’s win and a 4-3 men’s loss Saturday against Carson-Newman at the Knoxville Racquet Club. Lee won all six doubles matches. Singles and doubles winners for the Lady Flames were Lisa Kirr, Micaela Belen Maiz, Sierra Donaldson and Lauren Trammell, and Jesus Garcia at No. 1 singles and Cristian Pons at No. 4 doubled up for the Lee men.
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