Baylor swimmers win national titles
Baylor School’s swim teams both were the 2017-18 national dual-meet champions for independent schools of up to 800 students in grades 9-12, according to the sport’s interscholastic coaches association. The Bolles School in Jacksonville was second to each of Dan Flack’s Baylor teams. Winning for the fifth time and the second year in a row, the Baylor boys totaled 6,004 points to Bolles’ 5,678, and the Baylor girls rose from seventh in 2016-17 with their 5,855 points to Bolles’ 5,807.
TENNIS
› Two 6-0, 6-0 wins by Girls Preparatory School tennis coach Sue Bartlett helped Great Britain’s 60-over women sweep their Alice Marble Cup matches Sunday and Monday against Turkey and Ireland in the ITF Seniors World Team Championships in Ulm, Germany. Great Britain won 72 of 74 games and plays today against Netherlands, which won 72 of 87 against the same Group C opponents. Manker Patten teaching pro Wesley Cash is part of the United States men’s team in the corresponding Von Cramm Cup; his team won Sunday against Austria and faces Switzerland today.
SOCCER
› The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s soccer team begins its season at 3 p.m. Friday at Finley Stadium against Alabama A&M after tying Belmont 1-1 and Tennessee Tech 2-2 in preseason exhibitions. Tech, picked to finish third in the Ohio Valley Conference, led 2-0 on Sunday in Cookeville before UTC’s Masey Fox scored in the 72nd minute on a Catherine Meyer cross set up by freshman Hollie Massey. Chloe Arnold netted a tying penalty kick in the 75th minute. The Mocs had advantages of 8-6 in shots and 5-2 in shots on goal. “It was a very competitive match against an always tough opponent,” UTC coach Gavin McKinney said in a school release. “We showed great spirit in the match coming back from 2-0 down. We have learned a lot from our two friendlies.” There is no admission charge for the Mocs’ home games, although there is a fee for parking. The stadium has implemented a clear-bag policy this year.
GOLF
› Sewanee golfer Gray Matthews tied for sixth place at 208 for 54 holes in the Carolinas Open tournament last week in Greensboro, North Carolina, and that was with a closing 74. He was second after the first round with a 65 that included six birdies at Starmount Forest Country Club. Matthews made the all-conference first team for Sewanee this past spring, when he finished third in the Southern Athletic Association tournament.
› Harry Hartman Sr. and Jr. won the 2018 Valleybrook member-guest tournament this past weekend by taking Flight 1 and then winning the shootout. The Hartmans defeated Flight 3 winners Cal Atchley and Sam Bedwell in the shootout final. Other shootout participants were Flight 2 winners Jack Pangle and Brent Copeland and Flight 3 runners-up (chosen in a blind draw) Darryl Dodson and Lee Robertson. Ed Shields and Phillip Rossman won Flight 4; Mark Harrelson and Anthony Wallace prevailed in Flight 5. Other runners-up were Jimmy Jones and John Morrison (1), Rick Prichard and Oscar Scruggs (2), Nick Chuba and T.J. Derrick (4) and Royce Raines and Rodney Hayes (5).