Chattanooga State goes to 10-0 in softball

The long-strong Chattanooga State softball program completed probably the best four-day run in its history Monday with wins of 4-0 and 16-9 over North Idaho, giving the 11th-ranked Lady Tigers a 10-0 sweep of its season-opening visit to Henderson, Nev. Two of their victories were by 7-2 scores against the Nos. 1 and 9 teams in the country, and only a 4-2 win in Friday's second game was by less than a four-run margin. LSU signee Ashley Czechner pitched a no-hitter with 10 strikeouts and one walk in Monday's first game, when Kortney Koroll was 2-for-2 with a home run, Courtney DeLay also was 2-for-2 and Marina Wilkerson was 2-for-4. Chattanooga State jumped to a 12-0 lead in the second game, when it totaled 19 hits. Beth Breeden was 4-for-5 with a first-inning grand slam, Koroll homered again, Andrea Dalton was 3-for-5 with a homer and six RBIs, MeQuilla Franklin was 4-for-5 with four RBIs and Lacye Walker was 3-for-6 with a homer.

• The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball team will host an open house Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at the newly renovated indoor training facility at Warner Park. The Lady Mocs will go through a brief workout after being individually introduced and then will talk to fans and sign autographs. The public is invited, and schedules and ticket information will be available.

Football

• The UTC Mocs Club will hold a football signing day celebration Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Stadium Club at Finley Stadium, and the public is invited at no charge. Free food and beverages will be provided by Country Place Restaurant and the Chattanooga Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and a cash bar will be in service. Coach Russ Huesman will begin the presentation on the newest Mocs at 6 p.m.

• Will Keebler, the only athlete from the former David Brainerd School who has played NCAA Division I athletics, is a junior at Campbell University and recently was named to the Pioneer Football League Academic Honor Roll for the second time.

Auto Racing

• Jerry Coffman of Soddy-Daisy ended a winless streak of more than a year with a "Cabin Fever" Crate Late Model victory Saturday night at Boyd's Speedway. Out of 36 entrants, Coffman started on the front row and led all 20 laps in earning $1,200, though a series of cautions kept it from being a smooth evening. Craig Burrows, the 2010 track champion, battled him throughout and held off teenager Grayson York for second place, and Knoxville's Brad York and Alabama resident Elbert McCullough were fourth and fifth. Crossville's Randy Weaver won the Super Late Model race with Ronnie Johnson second and Mike Weeks, Jake Knowles, William Thomas and Lamar Scoggins completing the top six. Blake Armitage won in A-Hobby and Lamar Hughes in B-Hobby with Chuck Cooper and Clint Carter their respective runners-up, and David Singleton was the Front Runner victor.

Rowing

• UTC finished second to Vanderbilt in the collegiate team point standings in the 23rd annual Tennessee Indoor Rowing Championships this past Saturday in Maclellan Gym, with Murray State, Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn, Berry and Princeton third through eighth. UTC Rowing won the team relay event that includes four men and four women, and Emily Broadrick and Blake Stone represented the host club with second-place finishes in novice events. UTC had numerous top-five showings. Chattanooga Junior Rowing won the youth team point trophy, followed by Atomic (Oak Ridge), Rocket City (Huntsville), Montgomery Bell Academy, GPS and Baylor. CJR got first-place finishes from Kaleb Bledsoe in youth men II (16-18), Ruthie Hopkins in youth lightweight women, Emilio Craddock in youth lightweight men and Grace Kindiger in youth coxswain women plus seconds by Conner Nash, Aubrey Gardin and the relay team and thirds by Vivian Anderson, Tanner Eaton and Michaela Leaf. Lookout Rowing was second in the club team standings with Siobhan Duff winning the veterans women category and the relay team also winning.

Basketball

• The Cleveland State women's basketball team will visit Georgia Northwestern tonight in Rome after losing 79-51 at Columbia State and winning 68-63 at Jackson State this past weekend. Shanavian Woodland scored 25 points in the loss and Robyn Anthony and Chelsea Jones had 15 and 13 in the win. Travis Jones and Barry Griffin scored 21 and 18 for the Cleveland State men in an 88-75 loss at Jackson State after Nick Ross had 23 in an 81-54 defeat at Columbia.