Former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga runner John Gilpin repeated his 2018 victory in the Scenic City Scorcher race Saturday morning through Heritage Landing, and this time he set the Tennessee overall road-race record for two miles. His net time was 9 minutes, 29.89 seconds. His time last year was 9:51. Also, Anna Pasternak of Nashville set the women's state record with her 10:53.12 victory, good for 21st overall. Local runners Christian Thompson (9:38) and Emily Bell (11:26) set the previous state standards in the Scorcher two years ago. As they did last year, Chase Faudi and Kevin Huwe set state records for their ages in finishing second and third behind Gilpin - Faudi, 17, in 9:41.76 and Huwe, 32, in 9:44.38. In all, 52 of the 172 finishers set Tennessee 2-mile records for their ages, according to the Chattanooga Track Club. The others were Tyler Boone, Ryan McGinnis, Noah Cochran, Hunter Hethcoat, Kyle Fitzgerrel, John Sillery, Douglas Cross, Jeff Edmonds, Jeff Jones, Paul Archambault, Haskell Murray, Brent Bueche, Mark Carver, Evan Simpson, Tim Ensign, female runner-up Rebecca Walter, Haley Moody, Jennifer Huwe, Ryan Shrum, Hannah Stockdale, Jill Braley, Hannah Faudi, Mitchell Phariss, Andrew Smith, Madeline Wheatcroft, Mayes Starke, Margaret Fitch, Emma Cissna, Kathryn Outlaw, Ginny Kelly, Cheri Etheridge, Leah Golden, Jimmy Layne, Lisa Logan, Jeffrey Sodemann, Scottie Sandlin, Jennie Gentry, Karen Leavitt, John Crawley, Barbara Ensign, Karen Seiferth, Nick Honerkamp, Glynis Hoover, Trish Newsom, Leslie Latterman, Sue Anne Brown, Bonnie Wassin and 90-year-old Lillian Atchley.
Swimming
» Recent Baylor School graduate Addison Smith won the 200-meter butterfly Saturday in the Southeastern Swimming Long Course meet in Huntsville, Alabama, and her 2:13.09 gave her a fourth qualifying time for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. The Princeton-bound Smith previously qualified in the 200 freestyle, 400 free and 200 individual medley.
Golf
» A battle of Nashville college rivals went the way of Lipscomb's Connor McKay from Knoxville against Belmont's Jack Uselton from Tullahoma in the Tennessee Match Play Championship final Saturday at Oak Ridge Country Club. McKay, the 13th seed after two rounds of stroke-play qualifying, beat medalist Nolan Ray from Brentwood 3 and 2 in the semifinals and then edged Uselton 1 up with the two halving the last three holes. Uselton won a Tennessee Golf Association title the week before in the State Four-Ball in Knoxville but had to survive a playoff to get into match play at Oak Ridge as the 15th of 16 seeds. He topped University of Tennessee player Chase Roswall from Bristol and Baylor School, the third seed, 1 up in their semifinal and led McKay 1 up after 13 holes in the championship match. But McKay squared it on the 14th and took the lead with a birdie on the par-3 15th, and nothing changed the rest of the way.
» Blairsville, Georgia, resident Beck Burnette took part in the 44th Georgia-South Carolina Junior Challenge Match this weekend at the Country Club of Spartanburg. Host South Carolina won 10-6 and led 5-3 after Friday's matches, when Georgia got one of its points on a 5-and-4 Burnette victory.
Tennis
» In the City Championship tennis tournament at Manker Patten, the four seeds in the 16-man men's open singles bracket reached Saturday's semifinals as projected and No. 1 Lucas Plesky will face No. 2 Turner Voges at 10 a.m. Sunday for the title. Plesky beat No. 4 Francisco Gallardo 6-2, 6-0, and Voges topped No. 3 Ned Caswell 6-3, 6-0. Also at 10, No. 1 Marina Galey will face No. 2 Drew Hawkins in the women's final. Each won her semifinal 6-0, 6-0.
College
» Kim Hays, the Dalton State College faculty athletics representative since 2016, is the new eligibility chair for the Southern States Athletic Conference. Hays, who has master's and doctorate degrees in zoology from Oklahoma State, is an associate professor of biology at DSC. "Dr. Hays has a strong set of administrative attributes and a very jovial personality," SSAC commissioner Mike Hall said in a release. "She loves higher education, college athletics, coaches and student-athletes and I'm very confident that she will bring us excellent leadership in this very important part of our conference operations." Hays said she is "excited" about the new role and added, "I have learned so much in my time as FAR at Dalton State College, and I am honored to use that knowledge in service to the student-athletes and staff of our conference."