The 104th Tennessee State Amateur golf tournament begins Tuesday at The Honors Course in Ooltewah. A full field of 144 golfers will tee off from 7:30 this morning through 2:30 p.m. After Wednesday's second round, the field will be cut to 60 for the final two days of the 72-hole tournament on Thursday and Friday. This is the fourth time the Honors has hosted the State Am. Admission is free and parking is available on the grounds.
Auto Racing
» Amy Mashburn of Ringgold won the Super Pro class and $2,500 in drag racing Saturday at Brainerd Motorsports Park. The only woman in the class, she won with a 5.32-second burst on a 5.32 dial in her new Miller dragster. Lee Powell of Rising Fawn was second with a 6.34 run on a 6.31 dial in a 1977 Pontiac Firebird. Steve Smith of Spring City won the 4:70 class with a 4.71 in a 1970 Chevrolet Corvette, and Jimmy Harmon of Bremen, Georgia, was the No Box victor in a 1971 Plymouth Duster with Englewood's Vernon Morrison second in a 1991 Ford Pinto. David Bigham of Calhoun, Georgia, won the Sportsman class in a 1993 Duster. Avery Boldin of Rock Island, Tennessee, won the 24-car Junior Dragster class with Cleveland's Rylan Hamby second.
Diving
» Baylor Diving Club and Tennessee Aquatics representative Sarah Griffith finished 17th in the 1-meter event and 28th in the 3-meter this past weekend in the girls' 11-under age group at the 2019 USA Diving Junior Olympic Championships in Knoxville. Griffith is a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Red Bank Elementary School.
Soccer
» The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga announced Monday that its women's soccer home games this season will be played at the new UTC Sports Complex on O'Neal Street instead of at Finley Stadium. The Mocs' season will begin there at 6 p.m. on Aug. 23 against Austin Peay, and there will be no charge for admission. The $7.7 million, 17-acre complex next to Engel Stadium has four synthetic-turf fields for soccer and other sports plus a grass field for rugby and band practice, three sand volleyball courts and a quarter-mile walking track. The facility also has a clubhouse with restrooms, two pavilions and seating areas with shade structures. "We are very excited to announce that the UTC Sports Complex will be the new home of Chattanooga Mocs soccer," coach Gavin McKinney said in a school release. "The university has done a phenomenal job with this facility, and we are grateful for the opportunity to play and train there. With (its) proximity to campus we believe we can create a fantastic atmosphere for matches with support of the student body and our fans. We feel like this is a new beginning of sorts for our program."