Hollie Massey scored the goal for the Chattanooga Lady Red Wolves in a 1-1 draw against Alabama FC in a Women's Premier Soccer League match Friday night in Birmingham. Massey's score came in the first half; the home team equalized in the second half. The Lady Red Wolves now are 8-1-2 for the season with one last regular-season match set for Sunday at 7:30 p.m. EDT on the road against North Alabama FC.
» The Tennessee High School Soccer Coaches Association has released its 2019 all-state teams for Division II, and state champion McCallie had five of the 15 DII-AA selections: midfielders Gui Vivaldini and Neal Carlson, defenders Jonathan Richardson and Noah Tremain and goalkeeper Andrew Prescott. Baylor freshman midfielder Daniel Danquah also was all-state, and the DII-A list included Chattanooga Christian defender Nathan Connor and Boyd Buchanan forward Hayes Wood.
Fishing
» Jacob Wheeler of Harrison and Andy Morgan of Dayton, Tennessee, finished first and second Friday in Group B after Dayton's Michael Neal was second in Group A in Major League Fishing's Bass Pro Tour event this week in Wisconsin. Neal caught a field-most 63 fish totaling 85 pounds, 3 ounces his two days on Lake Winnebago. New Jersey resident Mike Iaconelli leads the Group A top 20 into Saturday's Stage Eight knockout round on Lake Butte des Morts with 98-1 (61 fish), and Kevin VanDam of Michigan is third at 85-2 (58). Wheeler led Group B the first day at 51-4 (33) and wound up at 84-15 (55), while Morgan climbed five spots Friday to a total of 74-13 (45). Wesley Strader of Spring City, Tennessee, ended 11th in B at 62-11 (42). The 40 going out Saturday will start at zero, and the resulting top 10 will fish Green Lake for the championship on Sunday. The MLF's Bass Pro Tour does not have daily limits; the fish are returned immediately to the water after their weights are registered electronically in the anglers' boats for all to see on Scoretracker. Neal and Wheeler are third and fifth in the season points standings.
» Hensley Powell of Whitwell, Tennessee, moved up two spots to fourth Friday with a five-bass limit totaling 18 pounds, 4 ounces in the FLW Tour on Lake Champlain in New York. That gave him a two-day total of 38-2, just 10 ounces out of second place. Tyler Stewart of West Monroe, Louisiana, stayed in first at 40-1. The top 30 continue today in the semifinal round, trying to make the 10-angler final for Sunday. Buddy Gross of Chickamauga, Georgia, slipped to 52nd Friday at 31-15 and received $9,500.
Basketball
» Cleveland State announced Friday the Thursday signing of a Hoosier State standout for its region-champion men's basketball team. The new Cougar is Kycia Washington, the all-time leader in assists for T.C. Howe High School in Indianapolis. A four-year starter for Howe, Washington finished with 1,531 points and 528 assists, and as a senior he averaged 17.8 points, 5.2 assists, 4.7 rebounds and 2.1 steals a game. "He brings outstanding ball-handling skills with quickness at the point guard position, with an ability to score in different ways," coach Lee Cigliano said in a Cleveland State release. "He should be an immediate contributor in our program this coming year."
Golf
» Jaron Leasure of Nashville birdied the final two holes Thursday at Cleveland Country Club and won the 2019 Tennessee Junior Amateur by one stroke with an 8-under-par 208 for three rounds. He closed with a 70 that included four bogeys on holes 9 through 15. Steven Haremski had a Thursday-best 67 for a 209, and fellow Knoxvillian Lance Simpson was third at 210. Braedon Wear of Maryville, who has committed to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, was fourth at 213, Ooltewah resident Sheldon McKnight of Baylor School tied for eighth at 220 and Signal Mountain's Foster Wood tied for 10th at 221. Wear and Leasure were first and second in the Tennessee Boys Junior PGA Championship in early June in Shelbyville, and that earned them spots in the national Boys Junior PGA July 30 to Aug. 2 in Hartford, Connecticut.