The Chattanooga chapter of Ducks Unlimited will hold its annual banquet at 6 p.m. Thursday at Stratton Hall. The fundraiser for wetlands and waterfowl conservation will include live and silent auctions, raffles and games. Tickets are $15 (youth), $50 (single),$60 (couple) or $300 (sponsor). They include a one-year DU membership and are available by calling Ross Malone at 322-3108.
Auto Racing
* The Lucas Oil Southern States Midget Series visited Boyd's Speedway in Ringold on Saturday, with drivers from seven states in the featured event and Kent Christian of Danville, Ind., the winner ahead of Jordan Howell of Columbia, Mo., and Tim Nye of Troutman, N.C. Other top-three finishers by class: Sportsman - Colton Jackson (Chatsworth, Ga.), Billy Callahan, Adam Mitchell; Limited Late Model - Ronnie Johnson (Chattanooga), Heath Hindman, Andy Miller; Crate Late Model - Jason Deal (Copperhill, Tenn.), Chip Brindle (Chatsworth), Craig Burrows; Hobby Stock - Robert Elkins (Murphy, N.C.), Booger Brooks, James Burkhart; Street Stock - Lamar Hughes, Jeff Paige, Jim Gilbert. Boyd's next event is the Peach State 30 on Oct. 7, a Mid-South Big 8 Street Stocks race.
* Kelsey Keener of Dunlap won $3,000 for first place in the Super Pro drag racing class Saturday night at Brainerd Motorsports Park. Keener, 24, the only woman in the class, won with a 5.49-second burst on a 5.47 dial in a dragster owned by her father and powered by a big-block Chevrolet engine. Lookout Valley's Charles Fitzsimmons was second in his 1969 Plymouth. Toby Barnes from Newnan, Ga., won the Foot Brake class with Shane Kay from Rainsville, Ala., second; Wes Brown of Crossville won the Motorcycle class with Crosby Blair second; Scottie Walters was first and Matt Grayson second in the 16-car Shootout paying $1,500. Soddy-Daisy's Kaleb Winters won the 18-entry Junior Dragster class with Whitwell's Cole Grayson second.
Football
* Austin Peay sophomore quarterback JaVaughn Craig from Chattanooga and McCallie School is the Ohio Valley Conference football co-offensive player of the week after the Governors emphatically ended a 29-game losing streak with a 69-13 rout of Morehead State. They set an OVC record with 10 rushing touchdowns, and Craig had four of them on runs of 3, 1, 1 and 5 yards. He totaled 37 yards on nine carries. UT-Martin quarterback Troy Cook was the other co-offensive player for his work against UTC, and UTM lineman Anthony Brown was the defensive honoree.
Soccer
* The Bryan College soccer teams swept the Appalachian Athletic Conference player-of-the-week awards Monday. Freshman Makena Giles was the women's offensive selection for hat tricks in both wins and two assists along with the three goals against Life, and senior Polly Holt was the defensive honoree after helping the Lady Lions win 5-2 and 9-0, adding her first career goal and her first assist against St. Andrews. Bryan's Charlie Clarke earned the AAC men's offensive honor with four goals in two games, and fellow junior Dino Jones got the defensive nod by helping limit St. Andrews to five shots (one on goal), recording an assist and scoring the winning goal.
* Dalton State sophomore Santiago Moore was the Southern States men's soccer offensive player of the week for his three goals and three assists in two overtime wins, including golden goals in both.
Volleyball
* Sewanee's Destiny Stewart was chosen the Southern Athletic Association volleyball offensive player of the week, and teammate Peyton Parent was the defensive honoree. Stewart totaled 68 kills as the Tigers went 2-1, and she leads the SAA in total kills (155) and in attacks, kills and points per set. Parent had 70 digs and 20 assists in the three matches and leads the SAA in digs per conference set.
* The first-year Cleveland State volleyball team beat the visiting Covenant junior varsity 3-0 Monday by set scores of 25-20, 25-18, 25-21 and is 7-3 going into another home match Wednesday against the Bryan JV.
Golf
* Even with Hannah Gasaway's lead-sharing 72 Monday not counting in the team score because she's playing as an individual, the NAIA's fourth-ranked Dalton State Lady Roadrunners are fourth at 301 after the first round of the SCAD-Atlanta Fall Invitational in Covington, Ga. They aer four shots behind co-leaders Northwestern Ohio and Brenau. Dalton State All-Americans Tia Teiniketo and Caroline Griffin are tied for fourth individually at 73, and Isabel Rijos and Haejin Choe shot 77 and 78. Tennessee Wesleyan is fifth at 307, led by Ryann McCuistion and Danielle Bates in a tie for ninth at 75 and Megan Schauer at 77.
* The 25th-ranked Sewanee men's golf team finished fifth out of 19 teams Monday in the Rhodes College Fall Classic at the Tunica (Miss.) National course. The Tigers' 54-hole total of 880 included a 218 for Gray Matthews, tying for 17th individually, and 19th-place 219s for Tommy Oliver and Nic Vandeventer. Matthews had a final-round best 67 Monday.
* Sewanee's Meghan Symonds shot a second-round 74 Monday for an eighth-place 154 in the NCAA Division III Fall Preview at the El Campeon Golf Course in Florida. Sewanee was 10th as a team with Natalie Javadi carding a 166 and Sophia Morrill and Sarah Battye finishing at 171 and 172.