Jacksonville State senior long snapper Josh Brady from Silverdale Baptist Academy in Chattanooga was named a 2019 HERO Sports FCS first-team All-American on Monday, after a second-team selection last year, and another Chattanoogan, McCallie graduate JaVaughn Craig at Austin Peay, is the HERO first-team quarterback. HeroSports.com also released Freshman and Sophomore All-American lists, and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga running back Ailym Ford made the freshman first team while 2018 freshman first-team defensive lineman Devonnsha Maxwell received sophomore honorable mention. Ford led all FCS freshmen with 108.1 rushing yards a game in 2019, when Maxwell had 46 tackles, 13 for lost yardage and seven sacks. Brady started 48 games in his JSU career. He was picked for the FCS Bowl and also has been invited to the Husted Kicking College Senior Combine and the Pigskin All-Star Invitational in Mobile. Craig passed for a Governors-record 3,208 yards and 28 touchdowns and ran for 714 yards and nine TDs this season for the Ohio Valley Conference champions, and his 140.36 pass efficiency rating led the league.
Basketball
* Lee University's fifth-ranked women's basketball team ended its undefeated status with a 74-68 Gulf South Conference loss Tuesday night at Valdosta State. Lee won the men's game 88-74. The VSU women (8-2, 2-2) got 21 points and five assists from Kayla Bonilla. Lee's Haley Schubert matched those numbers and Lindsey Roddy and Nicky Widenski scored 12 points each for the Lady Flames (11-1, 3-1). For the Flames (8-3, 3-1), Ryan Montgomery had 16 points and nine rebounds, Parker Suedekum 15 points, Quay Kennedy 14 with seven rebounds and Kentrell Evans and Jason Landman 13 points each. Evans and Kennedy each had five assists.
* Lee's Jayce Willingham was the GSC men's freshman of the week for his 29-point game in which he made 10 of 11 shots from the field and all five 3-point tries.
* Stetson guard Kimia Carter from Brainerd High School was the Atlantic Sun women's basketball freshman of the week for her heroics in Sunday's 66-60 win over Tulsa. Carter scored a career-high 16 points, including the last six of the game. After making the go-ahead basket with 34.6 seconds left, she had two defensive rebounds and hit four free throws. She is averaging 7.1 points a game for the Hatters (5-5).
* The Indiana Tech women, ranked No. 11 in NAIA Division II, came to Dayton and gave No. 17 Bryan its first loss in 14 games this season, 77-52. That ended a 41-game regular-season winning streak. DeAnn Kauffman led the 10-3 visitors with 24 points and 14 rebounds. Sarah Cain and Kaitlynn Hennessee paced the Lady Lions with 13 points each, Cain adding seven rebounds, and Destiny Kassner scored 12.
* The Chattanooga State women won 68-61 Monday at Central Georgia Tech, giving the Lady Tigers four victories in a row and a 7-4 record. Their previous December wins were 105-57 and 110-38 over TCCAA foes Motlow State and Columbia State. Monday they prevailed with a 22-12 first quarter and a 22-10 fourth. Naja Fenelon had 21 points, five assists and three steals, and Melisa Carter and Shaquala Walton scored 14 and 13 points, Carter also with three steals and Walton with 10 rebounds. Central Georgia Tech is 8-6.
Baseball
* Chattanooga native and former major league pitcher Richard Rundles died Monday in Livingston, Alabama, where he has been the pitching coach for his father, Gary Rundles, at the University of West Alabama since 2017. A UWA web post said the 38-year-old Rundles died of natural causes. His dad was a standout Chattanooga High School athlete who went on to great coaching success at Central High and Carson-Newman before compiling a 598-363 record the past 18 years at UWA. Rich was drafted by the Boston Red Sox out of Jefferson County (Tennessee) High and pitched professionally for 14 seasons, with stints in 2008 and 2009 with the big-league Cleveland Indians. He had a 1.50 earned run average for his nine major league appearances and a 3.39 ERA for 836 minor league innings. A service and burial will be scheduled in Jefferson City; there will be a visitation at 1 p.m. CST and a memorial service at 2 this Friday at Livingston First Baptist Church.