Doug Moser dies at age 69

Former Chattanooga High School and Baylor School state champion coach Doug Moser died Tuesday at the age of 69, and funeral arrangements are being handled by Lane Funeral Home on Ashland Terrace. Moser was a women’s basketball assistant coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga between his head-coaching stints at City High, where in 1983 his basketball Dynahs won the school’s only state championship, and Baylor, where he was the first varsity coach for girls’ basketball and softball. As noted in a Baylor web post, he guided the Lady Red Raiders to a basketball state-runner-up finish in 2001 — his last year as head coach — and the first two of their 13 softball state titles. Also a respected math teacher, Moser was on the Baylor faculty from 1985 until 2011. He was a standout baseball and basketball player at City High.

GOLF

› Chattanooga Christian School graduate Scott Stevens qualified Monday for the 2019 U.S. Amateur golf tournament to be played Aug. 12-18 at Pinehurst, North Carolina. Stevens earned one of two spots Monday at Benvenue Country Club in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, with a 5-under-par 139 (70-69), one stroke behind the medalist. Stevens just finished a first-team All-Southeastern Conference and third-team All-America senior season at South Carolina and was announced Wednesday with two other Gamecocks as a Srixon/Cleveland Golf All-America Scholar. Each of the three had a grade point average over 3.7. Another golfer with area connections in the U.S. Amateur is Etienne Brault, who just finished his UTC eligibility. Brault qualified with a second-place 134 at Metacomet Country Club in Rhode Island.

› Lake Johnson, who was a teammate of Stevens at CCS and then of Brault at UTC, also capped his college golf career as a Srixon/Cleveland All-America Scholar, as announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America. That requires a 3.2 cumulative GPA and, for NCAA Division I players, a season stroke average below 76. Johnson’s was 74.2. Also, the Mocs earned a GCAA outstanding team academic award for an aggregate 3.0 or better GPA. UTC’s was 3.14 in the fall semester, 3.22 in the spring.

RUNNING

› The Lee University women’s track and field team earned the designation of all-academic team from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, and the Lady Flames’ Charlee Boxall, Amber Littlejohn and Kiley Brock were all-academic individuals. That means they had GPAs of at least 3.25 and provisional or automatic qualifying times or distances for NCAA Division II indoor or outdoor national meets. The Lee women’s team GPA was 3.36 for the 2018-19 school year.

› Cleveland State recently signed a transfer from an NCAA Division II school for its men’s cross country team. Riley Higginbotham was the only Clayton State freshman to qualify for the Peach Belt conference track and field meet this past spring, after running a 29:20 8-kilometer race and a 38:11 10k in cross country. “Riley is going to bring college running experience to our team,” coach David Kyle said in a Cleveland State release. “I feel he will make a huge impact on the team as a leader with my other two sophomores.” Higginbotham made the Georgia state meet all three years he ran varsity cross country for Locust Grove High School. He was Locust Grove’s most valuable runner as a senior.