Hilley wins by TKO in Nashville
Former Chattanooga YCAP boxer Roger “The Hitman” Hilley defeated Raul Garcia of Oklahoma City by technical knockout in the fourth round of their 135-pound fight Saturday night at the Limelight entertainment venue in Nashville. Hilley is 5-0 with four knockouts as a professional fighter. A 24-year-old left-hander, he fights for Southpaw Promotions.
GOLF
› Nicole Adam, granddaughter of Red Bank residents Jim and Nancy Sims, won the girls’ 15-18 division of the U.S. Kids Golf Foundation’s 2018 Teen World Championship by four strokes Saturday at Pine Needles Resort in Southern Pines, North Carolina, near her hometown of Pinehurst. Adam shot 2-over-par 218 (71-73-74) for the 54 holes, and players from China, Thailand, Nigeria and Taiwan were second, third, fifth and sixth. Then on Sunday she was one of two United States girls in the 15-18 division of the best-ball Teen Van Horn Cup on Pinehurst No. 2, where the USA edged the international team in a playoff. Hannah Nall of Cleveland, Tennessee, tied for 14th at 242 in the Teen World girls’ 14 age group.
TRACK & FIELD
› Red Bank High School cross country and track and field coach Hugh Enicks finished second in the men’s 10,000-meter run, placed third in the 5000 and anchored the first-place 4x800 relay team this past weekend at the USATF Masters Outdoor Championships in Spokane, Washington. The retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel competed in the 55-59 age group.
SWIMMING
› Luke Massey and Jake Marcum will represent McCallie/GPS Aquatics in the USA Swimming Junior Nationals this week in Irvine, California. Massey, who soon will be swimming for the University of Tennessee, will compete in the 100 breaststroke on Tuesday and the 200 breast on Thursday; 2019 Indiana commitment Marcum will be in the 200 backstroke on Wednesday and the 100 back on Friday. Both were individual finalists in the Southeastern Championships in Knoxville and part of the first-place senior boys’ 400 medley relay with Denison recruit Ethan Bevill and Max Ransom, each of whom was chosen along with club teammates Grayson Payne, Sam Powe, Emma Scruggs, Ellie Taliaferro and Jillian Cantrell for the Southern Zone AllStar meet in Texas. Like Taliaferro, Scruggs, Ransom and Payne, Gabriel Johnson was a finalist in three or more individual events at the Southeasterns and qualified for the upcoming USA Futures Championships in Cary, North Carolina, where two-event Southeasterns finalist Will Jackson and Southeasterns 200-individual-medley finalist Ben Griffith also earned spots. Ransom, Jackson, Payne, Scruggs and Taliaffero also qualified for the NCSA Junior Nationals, plus the Winter Junior Nationals for Payne, and Taliaferro and Powe combined for five McCallie/GPS 13-14 age-group records, four Southeasterns first places and six other Southeasterns finalist finishes to go with Jacob McDaniel’s six finalist performances, Jed Holliman’s four top-fives and Drew Bond’s three top-eights. Taliaferro won four events and was a high-point winner along with Holliman in the Chattanooga Area Swim League city meet, where Marcum and Powe were high-point runners-up, Powe set a meet age-group record for the 50 backstroke and Cece Turner won the 2018 Jennifer Fugate Award. Emma Pulliam added a top-four 50 freestyle in the Southeasterns.
› Baylor School boarding student Jack Kirby also is competing this week in the USA Swimming Junior Nationals in Irvine, where 2018 Baylor graduate and now Florida freshman Trey Freeman on Saturday in the overall nationals became the 18-under 400meter freestyle champion for the second year in a row with his fifth-place finish in the men’s 400. His time in his second “A” final in three days was 3:49.90; he swam a personal-best 3:49.02 in the morning preliminaries. He had a personal-best 1:47.70 in the 200 free preliminaries Thursday. The Baylor Swim Club has four girls going to the USA Futures in North Carolina.