Four-time Baylor School state champion and Cornell University NCAA champion Jordan Leen is going into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association's hall of fame on March 9, and the recent announcement said he is thought to be the first person from Tennessee to be so honored by the oldest conference in college wrestling. Leen, who grew up in Soddy-Daisy, is by far the youngest of the group being inducted in Binghamton, New York, as the other three graduated from Lehigh in 1958, Yale in 1976 and Syracuse in 1992. Leen was in Cornell's class of 2009. Following his father into college coaching, he now is the associate head coach for the Pittsburgh Panthers after working at Duke and Virginia. After winning Tennessee prep titles in four weight classes and a National High School Seniors championship while at Baylor, Leen was a four-time NCAA qualifier and a three-time All-American at Cornell with eighth-, first- and third-place national finishes. He also was a first-team Academic All-American three times and was captain of EIWA title-winning teams in 2008 and 2009. His college record was 118-29.
Basketball
* The Dalton State College men's team lost 69-56 to the University of the Virgin Islands on Friday at the Life University Classic in Marietta. Sean Cranney had 15 points, seven rebounds and six assists and Aaron Burress had 10 rebounds for DSC (2-3), which shot only 30.6 percent from the field.
* The Cleveland State women dropped to 2-4 with a 76-42 loss at Georgia Highlands. Jordan Smith had 11 points for Cleveland State, which shot 22.9 percent and committed 33 turnovers.
Baseball
* Tennessee Wesleyan University and Bryan College are ranked 12th and 15th in the NAIA baseball preseason Top 25 poll for 2019, TWU after finishing 17th and Bryan after finishing 14th in last season's final poll in June. Bryan, which reached No. 9 last season, also has one of the 17 preseason All-Americans, senior pitcher Stephen Chamblee. He is one of four who were 2018 postseason NAIA first-team All-Americans. He went 11-1 with 131 strikeouts in 102 1/3 innings pitched. Reigning national champion Southeastern is first in the poll with Freed-Hardeman second, Georgia Gwinnett third and Faulkner fourth.
Swimming
* Baylor School dominated the girls' division of the McCallie Invitational swim meet last weekend, with Girls Preparatory School second out of 24 teams, and Dalton, Baylor and McCallie were a tight one-two-three among the 17 boys' teams with 358, 342 and 333 points. Lakeside of Atlanta was fourth with 203. The Baylor girls totaled 429 to 187 for GPS, 180 for Centennial, 178 for Westminster and 177 for Harpeth Hall. Baylor won all three girls' relays, with GPS second in two, and Baylor's Addison Smith and Ellie Waldrep and GPS's Ellie Taliaferro each won two individual events. Arts & Sciences' Carlin Hudson and Signal Mountain's Cecilia Porter were other local girls' winners. Dalton's Henry Bethel and Ross Valdez and Baylor's Jack Kirby won two individual boys' events each, and Dalton's Jonathan Shaheen had a first and a second to Valdez. McCallie's Will Jackson was an event winner also. Baylor, Dalton and McCallie were first, second and third in the 200 medley relay, McCallie won with Baylor second and Dalton third in the 200 freestyle relay and Dalton and McCallie were one-two in the 400 free relay.