Dalton State wins national opener
Dalton State College, one of the No. 1 seeds, withstood an upset attempt by Harris-Stowe State and won 84-82 in the first round of the 80th NAIA Division I men’s basketball tournament Thursday at Kansas City, Mo. Carnilious Simmons had 23 points and 10 rebounds and
Mike Harden had 16 points and seven rebounds to lead the Roadrunners (28-4), who trailed 46-40 at halftime. Isaiah Box added 12 points and six assists and Sayvon Wilson and
Reed Dungan scored 12 and 10 points for Dalton State, which plays again tonight at 10:15 EDT against Montana Western or LSU Shreveport.
› Union College from the Appalachian Athletic Conference won the NAIA Division II men’s championship Tuesday with a 72-69 victory over Cornerstone from Michigan at Point Lookout, Mo. Paul Stone made four 3s and totaled 26 points with nine rebounds for the Barbourville, Ky., team (35-3), while
Mike Martin scored 17 points,
Gerrard Newby contributed 12 points and 10 rebounds and Tyrone Sherman had six assists with nine points.
FISHING
› The third-year Bryan College fishing team jumped past Alabama, North Alabama, South Carolina and Auburn into first place in the Cabela’s School of the Year standings with Nathan Bell’s and Dylan Pritchett’s big-fish catches last Saturday in the Cabela’s Collegiate Big Bass Bash presented by Berkley on snow-tinted Kentucky Lake. The event was cut from two days to one but included eight sessions Saturday, and Bell — from Riceville — caught the seventh-biggest bass of the day, a 6.81-pounder, in session eight. He got 513 points, and Pritchett — from Evensville — got 505 for his earlier 6.39-pounder. The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga went into the Bash in 17th place and had the biggest fish of session one, a 5.27-pounder by Gavyn Bridges, and 5.78and 5.70-pounders by Patrick Hoskins and Dylan Anderson in session eight. Bryan fishes Saturday in the FLW Southeastern Regional on Lake Hartwell and next weekend in the Cabela’s College Open on Lake Dardanelle.
SOFTBALL
› The UTC softball team ends its pre-conference run of tournaments this weekend at the USF Spring Break Invitational in Clearwater, Fla., beginning with games today at 1:30 and 6:15 p.m. against Monmouth (3-11) and Illinois. The Mocs (7-17), hampered by youth and injuries in the pitching staff, will face Colgate (4-10) and LIU-Brooklyn on Saturday and Fairfield on Sunday morning.
DEATHS
› A funeral service will be held Saturday for Ron “Giant” Evans, a longtime employee of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department who came to Chattanooga in 1978 to play basketball for UTC. He played until 1980. The Saturday service is set for noon at Greater Tucker Baptist Church, where his family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight. Evans’ body will lie in state from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at John P. Franklin Funeral Home on Dodds Avenue. He died last Sunday.
› Former McCallie and UTC wrestling champion Jim Glasser died March 8 in Atlanta, where he coached Lovett School to 13 state titles, and a celebration of his life is scheduled for 4 p.m. on March 28 in the Jim Glasser Wrestling Room at Lovett. A short service will be followed by a reception. After winning a Mid-South championship and two national prep titles during his 1965-67 McCallie career, Glasser won three SEIWA titles with the Mocs.