John Gilpin of Chattanooga won the Chickamauga Chase 15-kilometer race Saturday morning in the national battlefield park in 50 minutes, 31 seconds, and Renee Jackson of Athens, Georgia, was the women's winner and 14th overall in 1:05:50. Noah Cochran and Joseph Wilson were side by side in second and third in 53:41, and masters winner Van Dick, Jeremy Miller and Hayden Apps also finished in under an hour. Rachel Nokes was the female runner-up and 30th overall. Ringgold residents Jerryd Tennyson, Gavin Chandler and James Mason took the top three spots in the 5k at 17:41, 18:20 and 19:30, and Kristen Bonsor of Ooltewah was the first female and eighth overall in 20:40 with Ashley Humble and Amanda Hodges 17th and 19th. In the 8-mile trail race, Mitchell Kohlmann won by 80 seconds in 56:40, and Lindsay Mies was the female winner and 11th overall in 1:03:44 with Meredith Adams 16th. Matthew Barry, Zach McElrath, Joseph Watson, Adam Dodson and Eric Beveridge joined Kohlmann in beating an hour. The three races totaled 661 finishers.
Fishing
» Dayton's own Andy Morgan and Michael Neal survived the knockout round Saturday in Stage Four of the Major League Fishing Bass Pro Tour out of Dayton Boat Dock on Chickamauga Lake. They are in the 10-angler championship round scheduled for Sunday. Morgan caught 29 bass totaling 56 pounds, 3 ounces Saturday, and Neal - the operator of Dayton Boat Dock - hooked 26 weighing 49-11. Virginian Jacob Powroznik, who won Stage Three two weeks ago at Raleigh, had Saturday's top haul of 67-14 on 36 fish. Harrison's Jacob Wheeler finished 15th at 45-11 (25).
Baseball
» Lee University began its Gulf South Conference series Friday night at West Florida with a 1-0 win over the nationally fifth-ranked Argonauts, and Lee won 5-2 before losing 2-1 on Saturday. Friday for the Flames (20-22, 10-12), Parker Stahlman singled and scored on Thomas Zazzaro's double in the third inning and Logan Workman and Randall Coxwell combined to pitch a shutout. Coxwell came into a bases-loaded situation in the fifth inning and got a 5-2-3 double play and a pop-out. He allowed just two hits in five innings. Saturday, Alex Butler got Lee's pitching win, allowing six hits and one earned run, and Zazzaro got the save and scored two runs. Fernando Ortiz, Alan Smith and Justin Fragale each had two hits and an RBI, and Justen Freeman was 2-for-4 and scored a run. Zazzaro was 3-for-4 but took the pitching loss in the finale, when Miguel Pimentel and Fragale each was 2-for-3, Pimentel scoring on a Fragale single.
» Chattanooga State lost 7-6 and won 11-6 in the first two games of its weekend home series against Columbia State.
» Cleveland State completed a TCCAA series sweep at Volunteer State with a 4-0 win Saturday on Jonathan Hickman's two-hit, seven-strikeout pitching. The Cougars (23-15, 12-7) had a three-run fifth inning on RBIs by Tucker Mendenhall, Lance Dockery and Hickman, and Rhett Baldwin homered in the seventh. Marcial Hernandez and Alex Coulter each was 2-for-4.
Volleyball
» Franklin County High School senior Bailey Orr is coming to Chattanooga State this summer as the first player from the Winchester school to sign to play college volleyball. Orr also has played basketball and softball for four years and has been a football manager for three seasons, and she has a 3.9 grade point average and has been a principal's award winner three years already. She was all-district in volleyball as a junior and a senior.
Lacrosse
» Sophia Fiorino scored six goals and Nicole Federovitch had five plus two assists as Alabama-Huntsville beat visiting Lee 19-8 in GSC play Saturday. Becca Broadwick had two goals and two assists and Emma Hill also scored twice for Lee (4-10, 1-5). UAH (12-4, 5-1) had a 37-17 shots margin.
» Sewanee's women won 18-9 over visiting Southern Athletic Association foe Centre as Catherine Crigler, Preston Cooper, Sarah Strand, Kelly Thomsen and Anna Comer each scored three goals and Hattie Fogarty had two goals and four assists. Grace Zechman had five assists for the Tigers (12-6, 5-1) and set an SAA record with 57 in a season. The win earned Sewanee a semifinal home match in the league tournament.
» The Sewanee men won 19-12 in their SAA match Friday night at Hendrix as Hayden Hunt, Daniel Burnum and Kip McGuire each netted three goals - Hunt and Burnum with an assist apiece - and Henry Burns had three assists and a goal. Also for the Tigers (9-5, 4-1), Ryan Stubits won 21 of 34 face-offs and collected 11 ground balls.