East Ridge Hall starting with 16 and other sports news

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The East Ridge High School Athletic Hall of Fame will induct its first 16 members at halftime of the Pioneers' football game on Sept. 19. The school opened in 1958, and the class includes athletes up through the 1980s as well as former administrators and coaches. Among the inductees are Jack Rodman, the school's first principal, and his daughter, Katie Rodman Bonecutter, who was a two-sport Lady Pioneers standout and played volleyball at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Other ERHS athletes in the group are Raymond McDowell, who was in the school's first graduating class; Mickey Haddock, a star runner who became a successful EHRS coach; Charles Goss, the Pioneers' first wrestling state champion and also a track and football athlete who became a renowned wrestling coach and official; football tailback and track standout Mike Miller; three-sport player Lori Massengill, who starred in tennis at UTC and played professionally; baseball star and all-city punter Larry Simcox, who went on to a long baseball coaching career in the Southeastern Conference; and volleyball star Lisa White-Davis, who earned Ohio Valley Conference acclaim at Middle Tennessee State. Other teacher-coaches and administrators being inducted are Foister Davis, Raymond James, Marshall McEwen, Betty Rush Robinson, Mack Franklin, Ed Woodham and Catherine Neely. Neely coached there for 50 years.

Running

• UTC's Teghan Henderson and John Gilpin were the Southern Conference cross country runners of the week, and Henderson also was the SoCon student-athlete of the week after repeating her victory in UTC's PowerAde Invitational meet last Friday on Moccasin Bend. Edging a Tennessee Lady Vol, she set a course record of 10 minutes, 30.08 seconds for the two-mile race. Gilpin led the men's team to five dual wins in the PowerAde, losing only to UT, and was 10th overall in the 5k.

Soccer

• The Covenant College men's soccer team lost a heartbreaking 2-1 match at Emory on Wednesday night. Snoopy Daivdson gave the Scots (2-2) a 1-0 lead in the 53rd minute, but Emory tied the match in the 65th minute and Sebastian Hardington scored the game winning in the 106th minute for the No. 13 Eagles.

• Covenant lost to Berry, 4-0, in women's soccer Wednesday night on Lookout Mountain. Lucy Johnson made five saves in goal for the Scots (2-4).

• Trevecca Nazarene, with six players from the Chattanooga area, won 3-1 in women's soccer Wednesday night at Sewanee. Trevecca Nazerene led 1-0 at the half, on a goal by Lauren Winters, but Tyler Edell tied the match for the Tigers (4-1) in the 77th minute with an assist by Shelby Meckstroth. Former Chattanooga Christian player Anna Hoffman put Trevecca (1-1) back on top a minute later, and Jordon Ponto added the final goal shortly after.

• The Bryan College men's soccer team scored twice in the final 10 minutes of regulation time and tied Lee University 2-2 on Tuesday night in Dayton. Lee's Quade Marinell assisted on a goal by David Perez in the 14th minute and scored himself for a 2-0 lead at 77:32, but the Lions' Jordan Dunstan scored at 80:08 and helped Daniel Branley assist Stephen Ricketts at 89:07, and no one could find the net in two overtime periods. Josh Oldroyd made nine saves for Bryan (3-1-1), while Tom Halsall made three for the Flames (2-0-1), who had a 12-5 edge in shots on goal.

Golf

• Georgia Northwestern Technical College freshman John Rollins from Trion birdied the first playoff hole to pull out the individual win in the SCAD Atlanta Fall Invitational golf tournament Tuesday, and classmate Chase Cole from Dade County matched Rollins' final-round 68 and tied for third place at 140 and joined him on the all-tournament team. The Bobcats finished third out of five teams with back-to-back 288s on The Oaks Course at Covington, Ga. Four-year schools Reinhardt and Bryan were first and second at 567 and 572. Rollins, who shot 70 on Monday, shot 32 on his final nine holes Tuesday. Jordan Estes, a freshman from Ringgold, shot 146 for GNTC.

Volleyball

• King University libero Payton Tipton from Cleveland High School had 17 digs in a 3-1 win over host Concord University on Tuesday in Athens, Va. Before that she served the deciding points (the first on an ace) in the come-from-behind first set as the Tornado edged Alderson Broaddus in an ultra-close 3-0 match (26-24, 26-24, 25-23).

Cycling

• King's Megan Rogers from Soddy-Daisy was the runner-up in the women's B mountain bike race at the East Tennessee State University cycling races last weekend. King riders won three races Saturday and Sunday.

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