Chattanooga State's women beat Cleveland State 83-60, but the Cleveland State men pulled out a 65-63 win in their TCCAA basketball doubleheader Wednesday evening in Cleveland. Kerry Pratt and Jakobey Hitchens led the host Cougars (7-9, 4-4) with 12 and 11 points and six and seven rebounds, and Jon Morgan added 10 points with the winning free throws. Jaquez Hicks also scored 10. Everette Wilson scored 19 in defeat, Richard Nunez and Malcolm Daniels adding 12 each for the Tigers (6-11, 3-5). Michelle Smith and Shaquala Walton paced the Lady Tigers (13-5, 5-3) with 20 and 19 points, 11 and 10 rebounds and four and five assists, while Naja Fenelon had 13 points and five assists, Melisa Carter 13 points and nine rebounds and Gla'Mia Letcher 11 points and 13 rebounds. The team had 28 offensive rebounds. The Lady Cougars (10-6, 6-2) were outglassed 57-27 but got 27 points and six assists from Asjah Harrell, 12 points from Charisma Barner and seven steals from Cassidy Nihoff.
* The Bryan College women, ranked 18th in NAIA Division II, won their Appalachian Athletic Conference game 73-66 Wednesday at Union College (Kentucky), and the Bryan men gave No. 19 Union (14-5, 11-2) a battle but fell 81-75. Keaton Dotson scored 18 points with six 3-point baskets for the Lions (9-9, 8-6), and Brandon Thomas, KJ Hawkins and Isaiah McClain combined for 32 points and 13 assists. Hawkins had nine rebounds. For the Lady Lions (17-1, 13-0), Sarah Cain scored 18 points and Deandra Luna, Karli Combs and Tristan McClellan added 14, 12 and 10.
* The Lee University women's basketball team moved back up to No. 7 this week in the NCAA Division II media poll, and the Lee men made the Top 25 for the first time in the Cleveland school's NCAA era. Riding a 10-game winning streak, coach Bubba Smith's 12-3 Flames are 23rd in the rankings. Marty Rowe's Lady Flames are 15-1.
* Dalton State College zoomed up 13 places Wednesday to No. 6 since the last version of the NAIA Division I men's poll on Dec. 11. With nine wins in a row, coach Alex Ireland's 15-1 Roadrunners matched their 2017-18 preseason ranking; the last time the program was higher was fifth in the 2016-17 final list. Georgetown (Kentucky) is No. 1 at 15-0.
* Covenant College junior forward Will Crumly was included Wednesday in the Top 100 watch list for the 2020 Bevo Francis Award, which goes to the player deemed to have had the best season in small college basketball. That includes NCAA Divisions II and III, the NAIA, the USCAA and the NCCAA. Crumly was the USA South player of the year and an NABC third-team All-American last season and a D3hoops.com preseason All-American this year. He's averaging 16 points and 8.8 rebounds a game for the Scots (9-4, 6-0).
Tennis
* Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame tennis player and coach Marilyn Voges Brown died Jan. 8, and a memorial service for her is set for Feb. 1 at 2 p.m. at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Lookout Mountain, with a reception for family and friends to follow. Brown was one of the top junior players in the South and was nationally ranked in the 1950s, and she was the Girls Preparatory School varsity coach for 14 years. Featured in a May 1959 Time magazine article, "Beauty at the Baseline," she taught tennis to children and adults for almost 30 years at the Lookout Mountain Commons.
Auto Racing
* Longtime Brainerd Optimist Club Drag Strip driver and publicist Charles "Red" Harris died Sunday at the age of 85, and his memorial service is at 5 p.m. Thursday at Wilson Funeral Home in Fort Oglethorpe. Visitation begins at 3. The 1952 Central High School graduate began competing - and winning - at the club's original strip on Crabtree Road in Hixson when it opened in August 1957, and he still was contributing from the Scruggs Road location, now Brainerd Motorsports Park, until last season by providing handwritten race reports to the newspaper. He is in the drag strip's hall of fame.
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