Chattanooga Times Free Press

Bryan, Hernandez prep All-America

- STAFF REPORTS

Recent McCallie School graduate and Lee University recruit Jonah Bryan and Dalton High School’s Omar Hernandez were among the 2018 TopDrawerS­occer.com Spring All-Americans announced this week. Hernandez, who has committed to Wake Forest, is a first-team forward after totaling 28 goals and 20 assists as a junior, giving him 62 goals and 47 assists for his Catamounts career. Bryan, a second-team defender, is one of only two players on the list from Tennessee, the other being first-team midfielder

Atakelti Gebregzabh­er from Station Camp.

BASEBALL

Former Sequatchie County High School star Dakota Hudson made his major league baseball debut Saturday by pitching the seventh inning with two strikeouts for St. Louis against the Chicago Cubs. He allowed no hits and no walks. Hudson was promoted from Class AAA Memphis, where he was 13-3 with a 2.50 earned run average, 87 strikeouts and only one home run allowed in 111 2/3 innings this season. He was a firstround draft choice in 2016 for the Cardinals.

SWIMMING

Baylor School 2018 graduate and Florida freshman Trey Freeman earned an “A” final spot for the second time in a row Saturday in the Phillips 66 USA Swimming Nationals at Irvine, California, and finished fifth in 3:49.90 in the men’s 400-meter freestyle. Zane Grothe won in 3:46.53. Freeman was eighth in the 200 free Thursday.

GOLF

Northweste­rn University All-American

Hannah Kim won the Golf Capital of Tennessee Women’s Open tournament at Fairfield Glade by one stroke Saturday with a 4-under-par 212 for 54 holes. The two-time Big Ten player of the year ended with a 72 at Stonehenge Golf Club, holding off LPGA veteran Ashli Bunch and Maria Fernanda

Lira Solis at 213. Bunch shot 66 Saturday. Former University of Tennessee at Chattanoog­a standout Emily McLennan finished in a four-way tie for fourth at 214 with a closing 74. UTC senior Monica San Juan, also with a 74, and Tennessee freshman Malia Stovall

(78) from Winchester tied for 32nd at 228, and Middle Tennessee State senior Jenna Burris

(78) from Manchester tied for 37th at 230.

FOOTBALL

Sewanee has set its schedule for its 124th football season and second under coach Travis Rundle, who led the Tigers to a 3-7 record (2-6 Southern Athletic Associatio­n) last year. The Tigers’ 2018 opener is Sept. 1 at Kenyon before hosting Washington & Lee on Sept. 8 and SAA foes Austin and Millsaps on Sept. 15 and 22. Those will be followed by games at Hendrix (Sept. 29), at Berry (Oct. 6), against Birmingham-Southern (Oct. 13), at Trinity (Oct. 20), against Rhodes (Oct. 27) and at Centre (Nov. 3).

TRACK & FIELD

With a cumulative grade point average of 3.44, the Lee University track and field women earned a team academic award this past week from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Associatio­n. Lee’s Jordan Allison, Charlee Boxall, Hannah Buttolph, Emily Buwalda, Amy Carpenter and Audrey Smith were all-academic individual­s for each having a GPA of 3.25 or better and at least a provisiona­l national qualifying standard.

VOLLEYBALL

Georgia Northweste­rn’s 2018 volleyball season opens Aug. 24 at Welch College, and that will be followed by three other road matches — at Bryan (Aug. 27), first-year program Chattanoog­a State (Aug. 30) and Reinhardt (Sept. 4) — before the Lady Bobcats’ home opener against Hiwassee on Sept. 6. That will also be the site of a tri-match with Crown and Judson on Sept. 8. The Lady Bobcats will be at Cleveland State on Sept. 10, then travel to Toccoa Falls for a tri-match with Pensacola Christian on Sept. 15 before hosting Reinhardt on Sept. 18. GNTC’s 2018 Rumble in Rossville tournament is Sept. 22. The rest of the schedule: at Crown (Sept. 25), vs. Bryan (Oct. 1), vs. Andrew and Chattanoog­a State (Oct. 5), vs. Covenant (Oct. 8), at Judson with Coastal Alabama (Oct. 13), at Hiwasee (Oct. 16) and vs. Cleveland State (Oct. 22).

Sewanee will begin its first volleyball season under coach Nancy Mueller-Culver on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 at the Rhodes Invitation­al in Memphis against Dubuque, Brevard, Rust and Huntingdon — representi­ng four states — and will be in another road tournament the next weekend against four Virginia teams: Averett, Bridgewate­r, host Roanoke and Ferrum. The Tigers’ home opener is Sept. 12 against Mississipp­i University for Women, followed by Southern Athletic Associatio­n home matches against Berry on Sept. 14, Oglethorpe on Sept. 15, Centre on Sept. 18, Hendrix on Sept. 22 and Rhodes on Sept. 23. Other home matches will be Oct. 13 against Birmingham-Southern and Oct. 14 against Millsaps.

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