PGA Tour card official for Jaeger

It’s been all but a done deal for some time, but former Baylor School and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golfer Stephan Jaeger officially has a PGA Tour card for 2018 after a top-25 finish in the Web. Com Tour money list for the regular season that ended Sunday in the Portland Open. He finished fifth, in fact, with the four-event Web.com playoffs allowing another 25 bigtour cards. One of those could go to Jonathan Hodge, who in 2008 preceded Jaeger (class of 2012) as a UTC All-American. He was 37th on the regular-season money list. Jaeger can start playing on the PGA Tour when its 2017-18 season opens the week of Oct. 2-8 in Napa, Calif. “I’m happy. I worked hard all year. I’m excited, man,” he said after Sunday’s presentation, according to a UTC release. “We’ve got four more events left to reshuffle the money list and get our priority rankings better, but I’m excited. First year out there and good things happening.”

› Dalton State’s men’s golf team was ranked second behind Oklahoma City in the NAIA coaches’ preseason poll Monday, and Dalton State was fourth in the women’s poll. The Roadrunners men were tied for fourth in the final 2016-17 rankings, when the Lady Roadrunners were fourth alone.

VOLLEYBALL

› UTC’s Ally Ford is the Southern Conference volleyball offensive player of the week and Mocs freshman Megan Kaufman is the league’s defensive honoree after their contributions in a 2-2 season-opening weekend at Mississippi’s tournament. Ford led the Ole Miss Invitational with 4.85 kills per set and was second in total kills with 63. She had 17 kills and 17 digs in a 3-1 win over Florida A&M and 16 kills and 13 digs in a 3-0 defeat of Louisiana Tech. Kaufman led the tourney with 6.85 digs per set and was second in total digs with 89, including 31 against FAMU. The 89 were the most for a player’s first four matches in UTC history. The Mocs host the Chattanooga Classic this Friday and Saturday.

AUTO RACING

› Brandon Jones of Rainsville, Ala., won the Super Pro class and $3,000 Saturday night in drag racing at Brainerd Motorsports Park. Jones won with a 5.38-second run on a 5.38 dial in his new dragster with a 421-cubicinch small-block Chevrolet engine; the car was prepared by Chattanoogan Steve Farrow. Eric Mann of Summerville, Ga., was second with a 5.12-second sprint on a 5.11 dial. Melvin Croft of Chattanooga won the Foot Brake class with an 8.74 run on an 8.74 dial in his Dodge, and L.C. Bigham of Tunnel Hill, Ga. — the strip’s all-time top winner — was second with a 9.75 on a 9.74 in his 1978 Plymouth. Jesse Long of Woodstock, Ga., won the 18-car Junior Dragster class with Emma Grace of Chattanooga second, and Bud Calhoun of Ringgold was the motorcycle victor with McClain Moore second.

SOCCER

› William Carey won the matchup of high-ranked NAIA men’s soccer teams Monday in Hattiesburg, Miss., with a 3-1 defeat of No. 11 Bryan. Seventh-ranked William Carey (3-0) won with three second-half goals after Charlie Clarke gave the visiting Lions (2-1) the lead from a Kevin Roenpage assist midway through the first half. Michael Conejero scored the first and last goals for WCU, and Joaquin RuizCabello assisted on the last two scores. Alex Horton made five saves for Bryan, which was outshot 14-9, 8-2 on goal. WCU had a 9-2 edge in corner kicks.

FOOTBALL

› The National Center for the Development of Boys and the United Way of Greater Chattanooga are hosting an event tonight at McCallie School to provide parents specifically in the River City Bills football organization updated statistics and advice on raising boys in the modern environment with all its challenges. It will run from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the second-floor team meeting room of the McCallie Sports and Activities Center. Longtime McCallie staff member and lacrosse coach Troy Kemp is the NCDB executive director, and Elizabeth Tallman will be representing United Way.