Women’s city amateur is set

The 2018 Chattanooga Women’s Amateur golf tournament will be played this year at WindStone, with team competition July 9 and individual play July 16-18. It is open for $85 (plus cart fee) to any female amateur who is a legal resident of Hamilton County or lives within 15 miles of the Chattanooga city limits and has a current USGA handicap of 30.0 or less. Entry deadline is June 20, and forms are available at area courses or by email at chmassey@comcast.net.

› Two-time All-America golfer and NAIA Jack Nicklaus Award winner S.M. Lee from Dalton State College led after two rounds and finished third behind Virginia’s Ashton Poole and Duke’s Chandler Eaton this past weekend in the 2018 Dogwood Invitational at Atlanta’s Druid Hills Golf Club. Lee shot 17-under-par 271 for 72 holes (69-64-70-68). Poole shot 266. Lee, the 98th-ranked amateur in the world, will play this week in the Sunnehanna Amateur in Pennsylvania, next week in the Northeast Amateur in Rhode Island and July 6-8 for Team USA in the Arnold Palmer Cup in France.

SOCCER

› Lee University men’s soccer coach Derek Potteiger recently commented on the previously reported signings of Eemeli Makela from Division II-AA state champion Baylor and Jonah Bryan from state runner-up McCallie. “(Eemeli) brings a wealth of playing experience and a skill set that fits really well with what we are trying to build here at Lee,” Potteiger said of the Finland native. “He has played at a very high level both here in the United States and internationally.” Defender Bryan has state-title and runner-up finishes both with McCallie and his Nashville club team, and Potteiger said, “Jonah had a number of great opportunities in front of him in terms of where he wanted to play college soccer, but we are thrilled that he decided on Lee. Jonah is an absolute physical force in the back but also shows great composure and is quite good on the ball.”

TENNIS

› Covenant College was 17th in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s final NCAA Division III Atlantic South Region men’s team rankings for the 2017-18 season, and the 15-5 Scots’ Matthew Harvie also was ranked 17th in the region. He went 16-2 in singles and 19-2 in doubles with Chris Cox as a senior, and Harvie had 51 singles wins and the program record for winning percentage for his career, plus 54 doubles victories. It was previously reported that the Sewanee men were ranked seventh in the region (and 23rd nationally) with Jack Gray fifth and Andre Carro 19th in singles.