Bridges races set for Sunday and other sports news

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The fourth annual 7 Bridges Marathon will begin at 7 a.m. Sunday from Coolidge Park and take runners across the Tennessee River six times. With it are a 4 Bridges Half Marathon, also starting at 7, and a 2 Bridges 5k going off at 7:30. The big race makes use of the Market Street, Olgiati, Veterans, C.B. Robinson, Thrasher, Riverwalk and Walnut Street bridges. A vendor expo and packet pickup will be held from noon to 6 p.m. today in Coolidge Park, but there will be no registration Sunday morning.

• The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga cross country teams will be hosting Middle Tennessee State, Lipscomb, Tennessee State, Florida A&M, Mercer, Auburn-Montgomery and Fisk in the annual Front Runner Invitational meet this afternoon on the Moccasin Bend course. The women's teams will run a 2-mile race at 3 p.m., followed by the men's 5k. There is no charge for spectators.

Tennis

• UTC's Kelsey Coots won two singles matches and joined Alison Storie for two doubles victories Friday in the first day of the ITA Ohio Valley Regional tournament in Knoxville. That advanced them to the main draw. The duo won against teams from Miami and Xavier, and Coots edged Murray State's Megan Blue 6-2, 7-6(5) and Ball State's Bethany Moore 6-4, 7-6(5). Storie won and then lost in singles, as did the Mocs' Claire Mulyadi and Kaylene Chadwell in doubles. Kayla Jones and Samantha Caswell already are in the doubles main draw today. In the men's ITA regional in Nashville, the Mocs exited with John Peacey and Nic Wilson losing consolation singles matches to players from Tennessee and Tennessee Tech.

• Four Chattanooga-area players won titles, two others were runners-up and two finished third in the 16 divisions of the McCallie John Strang USTA youth tournament last weekend in Chattanooga. It included 229 players from eight states in five age groups. Local players Anna Hawkins and Charlie Park won the 12s singles titles with 6-4, 7-5 wins in the finals -- Hawkins over No. 2 seed Jo-Yee Chan of Fayetteville, Ga., and Park over Knoxville's Pedro Garcia -- and Turner Voges in Boys 18s and Luke Plaisted in Boys 16s downed fellow locals Chad Woodham and Cooper Long, respectively, in straight sets in their age-group finals. Drew Hawkins in Girls 16s and Matt Barnett in Boys 14s were local third-placers.

Golf

• The UTC women's golf team is tied for 13th place at 317 after the first round of the 16-team Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championships at Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville, and the two best Mocs on Friday were Agathe Sauzon and Isabella Loza sharing 33rd place at 76. Emily McLennan was next with an 80 on the course where she won the Tennessee Women's Amateur in June. Kent State is the team leader at 289. Host Tennesee is ninth at 301.

Soccer

• UTC lost 10-0 in Southern Conference women's soccer Friday at Wofford. The Terriers (5-8, 2-4) led 7-0 at halftime and outshot the Mocs (1-13-1, 0-6) 35-7 for the game. UTC's Hannah Dunn made seven saves.

• The Lee University soccer teams beat Delta State in a Gulf South home doubleheader Friday, 5-0 in the women's game and 1-0 in the men's. Kathryn Healy scored 4:34 in and assisted Kaela Leskovar on a goal in the 20th minute for the Lady Flames (7-4-1, 6-1), who outshot their guests 32-2 and in the second half added a goal by Kinsey Cinchowitz and two by Sarah Standley, assisted by Katie Cloud and Molly McLaughlin. For the Flames (7-4-2, 2-2-1), Gabe Franco headed in a David Perez corner kick at 31:12 and Tom Halsall made seven saves.

• Rhodes College beat Sewanee 3-0 in women's soccer and 2-1 in men's play Friday in Memphis. Olivia Glascoe made nine saves for Sewanee (9-4, 2-1) in the women's game, which the Lynx (7-3-2, 2-0-1) led 1-0 from midway through the first half until the last 18 minutes. The Rhodes men (6-5-1, 3-0) led 2-0 at halftime; Ford Emerson scored for the Tigers (4-7-1, 1-1-1) early in the second half, when Conrad Bandoroff made all seven of his saves.

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