Danny Burnette held off Grady Stokes for the Pony Class midseason championship this past Saturday night at Cleveland Speedway. It was the fifth win of the year for Burnette. Chattanooga's Booger Brooks got his first Late Model win with a victory over Knoxville's Jason Cardwell in the Limited LM/Crate race. Brooks has been a dominant A-Hobby racer in recent years, and Lee Harbin and Jody Hixson won the Hobby classes Saturday with Tanner Tyler taking the Cruisers triumph. The track is taking this Saturday off but will host the Southern All Stars on July 14.
Basketball
• Recent Chattooga High School graduate Mariah Price and Pepperell's Kiarra Parks are newly announced recruits for the Georgia Northwestern Technical College women's basketball team. The 5-foot-11 Price averaged 11 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists a game last season for the Summerville, Ga., school, as the Lady Indians went 15-11 after winning only one game the year before. "She could play any position and play it well," second-year Chattooga coach Billy Martin said in a GNTC release. "We made some big changes to the style of play when I came. The first year was an adjustment period. Mariah took what was learned from the 2010-11 season and helped make it work this past year." Lady Bobcats coach Jim Williams said Price "can wear a lot of hats" for his team and added that her "solid and confident character is something that help us go even further." Parks is a 5-4 point guard who averaged 24 points a game for the third-place Georgia Region 7-AA team and scored 17 in the Tennessee-Georgia all-star contest last month. She will join her mother, former Cleveland High School multisport standout Crystal Ware, as GNTC students; ex-Blue Raiders football and basketball star Chris Parks is Kiarra's father. "Kiarra brings solid experience from the backcourt. This is a family committed to doing what it takes to succeed," Williams said. His Lady Bobcats won the NJCAA Region XVII championship in their junior college division last season, and he has signed six newcomers.
Baseball
• The Chattanooga Cyclones K baseball team went 4-0 in winning the Southern Wood Bat Troy University Invitational tournament this past weekend in Alabama. Thomas Boals pitched a no-hitter in a 4-0 win for Cyclones K against Cyclones V, and Logan Baldwin and Drew Williams each had a hit, an RBI and a run scored. Jake Wyrick struck out nine, Baldwin scored twice and Lee Gibson had two hits, two RBIs and a run in a 5-0 defeat of OTC, and Williams was the winning pitcher and Kyle Kapherr had three hits in a 10-2 win over the Wiregrass Cardinals 18-under team. Also in that game, Rick Chambers had two hits and two RBIs, Seth Hickman had two hits and two runs and Baldwin had two runs and an RBI. The Cyclones edged the Wiregrass Cardinals 19s 5-4 -- the Cards' first loss of the summer season -- with Baldwin collecting three hits, two runs, an RBI and the pitching win in relief of Gabe Rich and Logan Fugate. Gibson had the winning single with two outs and two strikes in the bottom of the last inning.
Fishing
• Thomas Helton of Charleston, Tenn., finished second and Jeff Knight of Cleveland was fourth in the Walmart Bass Fishing League Bama Division tournament Saturday on Lake Neely Henry at Gadsden, Ala. Wes Logan of Springville, Ala., won the boater category with five bass totaling 15 pounds, 1 ounce. Helton had 14-14 and earned $1,816, and Knight got $786 for his 13-10 total. Tullahoma's Denny Strunk was fifth in the co-angler group of the BFL Music City Divison event on Old Hickory Lake; he had 10-5.