UTC announces 2016-17 men's golf schedule and more regional sports news

Adam Campbell talks about putting at the Lookout Mountain Golf and Country Club, where he is head golf professional.
Adam Campbell talks about putting at the Lookout Mountain Golf and Country Club, where he is head golf professional.

After a successful summer playing as individuals, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men's golf team turns its attention to its 2016-17 season as a group starting Sept. 4-5 with the Turning Stone-Tiger Invitational tournament at Verona in upstate New York.

The schedule released Tuesday moves on a week later to Rocky Face, Ga., and the Carpet Capital Intercollegiate at The Farm. The fall semester also includes the Maui Jim Intercollegiate Sept. 23-25 in Scottsdale, Ariz.; the Firestone Invitational Oct. 3-4 in Ohio; and the AutoTrader.com Collegiate Oct. 17-18 in an Atlanta suburb.

"Our fall schedule sets up well," coach Mark Guhne said in a school release. "It's going to be very exciting for our guys to see different areas of the country. It's a great way to get the year started. The Carpet Capital is the biggest event we play; it's one of the best tournaments in the country. Plus we return to the AutoTrader, which is good to us every year getting another event close to home."

* Chattanooga's Richard Keene missed a playoff for a spot in the USGA Senior Amateur by two shots with his 2-over-par 74 Tuesday in a qualifier at Atlanta Country Club. James Stormont of Atlanta led the second and third qualifiers by four shots with his 66.

Auto Racing

* Ooltewah resident Mike Clayton won the 5.70 class and $2,000 at the Brainerd Optimist Drag Strip last Saturday. After six rounds in the heads-up, one-light-start category, he clocked a winning 5.70-second run in a 632-cubic-inch Chevrolet-powered dragster prepared by Steven Farrow. Tracy Cochran of Flintstone was second with a 5.68 run in his new 2016 Miller dragster. Ricky Millard of Chickamauga beat 22 entries in the 6.00 class with a final 6.01 in his 1963 Corvette Sting Ray, and Shane Kay of Ragland, Ala., was second. Spencer Smith from Dalton was first and Bobby Loyd from Rome was second in the 7.0 class. Nicholas Feliciaro of Griffin, Ga., won the Street Car Shootout class in a 1982 Toyota Celica, with Micah Carroll of Ringgold second in a 1995 GMC pickup.

General

* UTC's "Chat with the Mocs" Thursday night radio program presented by Bud Light is moving this school year to Pin Strikes on Lee Highway near Highway 153, starting on Aug. 25. The radio station is 96.1 FM (US 101 The Legend). Voice of the Mocs Jim Reynolds hosts the interactive call-in show with football coach Russ Huesman and then with basketball coaches Matt McCall and Jim Foster and other Mocs coaches in the spring. Fans are encouraged to show up and patronize the Splitz Bar & Grill and the various activities at the Pin Strikes center.

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