Chattanooga's Chris Brown will be inducted Saturday in Nashville into the Tennessee Tennis Hall of Fame. The induction will take place at the Airport Hilton Hotel. Brown, a member of the Manker Patten club staff for more than two decades, won Southern singles championships in three age groups as a junior player and also three high school state singles titles (1962-64) while at Notre Dame, where he was all-city twice in basketball. A Georgia Tech graduate, he won Chattanooga city singles titles in the men's open division and in five age groups (35s through 55s) and is in the Greater Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain sports halls of fame.
Basketball
* The Chattanooga State basketball teams both beat 1,000-game winners Wednesday evening on the road. The Lady Tigers gave Walters State its first TCCAA loss of the season, 61-60, after forcing overtime with a 15-8 fourth quarter, and then the Tigers won 82-71. A week earlier, Lady Senators coach Dave Kragel joined Walters men's coach Bill Carlyle with a four-digit win total, all of Kragel's in 43 years at the Morristown community college. The women's battle was tied at 50 for the last 35 seconds of the fourth quarter and stayed tight throughout the extra period, but Melisa Carter's layup from a Michelle Smith pass with seven seconds left gave Stacey Franklin's Lady Tigers (15-5, 7-3) the last lead change and last points of the game. Carter rebounded a missed 3-point try as time expired. She had nine rebounds with 10 points for the game, while Naja Fenelon had 15 points, Shaquala Walton 14 points and seven rebounds, Smith 11 points and four steals and Gee Gee Hollingsworth-Pugh also four steals and seven rebounds. Jamya Rogers led the Lady Senators (12-8, 9-1) with 15 points and eight rebounds. For Jay Price's Chattanooga State men (8-11, 5-5), Lorenzo Ferrell scored 18 points with five 3s, Joshua Conrad scored 14 with four 3s and Richard Nunez had 16 points, nine rebounds and six assists. Everette Wilson also grabbed nine rebounds, and Erik Grajales added eight. The Senators are 13-8, 6-4.
* Bryan College won its AAC home games against Truett McConnell, 85-61 for the No. 18 Lady Lions and 80-78 for the Lions, with 20 points including the winners for Brandon Thomas. Isaiah McClain and AJ Jones scored 17 and 16 for Bryan (10-10, 9-7). The Bryan women (19-1, 15-0) got 22 points from Destiny Kassner, 13 each from Kaitlynn Hennessee and Tristan McClellan and 11 from Sarah Cain. Hennessee added seven rebounds and three blocked shots.
Soccer
* Lee University women's soccer coach Chris Hennessey recently added two recruits from Arizona to his 2020 roster: 5-foot-9 forward Tatum Miller from Scottsdale and 5-2 defender Ivy Kitzman from Queen Creek. Miller is a two-time high school state champion and all-region player, and Kitzman's team reached the state semifinals the last two seasons. "Tatum is a very physical player that holds the ball up well. She has a very competitive mindset, and we are looking forward to watching her impact over the next four years," Hennessey said in a Lee release. "Ivy has boundless energy and a unique ability to attack out of the back. She is very athletic and will certainly make an impact from the get-go." Lee's Lady Flames have gone to the Division II national tournament all five years of NCAA eligibility, reaching the semifinals in 2018.
Track & Field
* Lee junior Celine Ritter was the Gulf South Conference women's track performer of the week for her part in the Lady Flames' first-place finish in the Emory CrossPlex Showdown in Birmingham. Ritter, the GSC women's runner of the year for cross country, was the 800-meter runner-up Sunday and won the mile run in a program-record 4:55.26, the best time in the region this indoor season. She and teammates Amber Littlejohn, Chloe Flora and Charlee Boxall will run the distance medley relay Saturday at a meet in Boston.
Compiled by Ron Bush. Contact him at rbush@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6291