The Cleveland State baseball team, ranked 22nd in NJCAA Division I, defeated No. 8 Wabash Valley 9-6 on Monday. Cody Ferrell got the win and Matt Lynum recorded a save with two innings of one-hit pitching.

Menisha Vinson, of Soddy-Daisy, was killed in a single-vehicle crash that four others escaped on Old Dayton Pike early Sunday, according to spokeswoman Officer Rebecca Royval.

ROME, Ga. — Lee University’s Tommy Brown, a Chattanooga native, was voted Southern States Athletic Conference men’s basketball coach of the year for the third time in five years, and three of his players — senior Josh Nofflet and juniors Jerel Blocker and Stephen McClellan — made the All-SSAC team.

University of Tennessee senior Phoebe Wright from Signal Mountain and Red Bank High School was added to the Bowerman women’s watch list for top track and field athlete in the country, and Thursday she was announced as the Southeastern Conference indoor women’s runner of the year.

CBL & Associates Properties Inc. on Monday announced it has closed on a $127.9 million preferred stock offering.

Quentin Bowman and Gray Hutchinson homered as Cleveland State topped previously unbeaten Young Harris 10-7 in junior college baseball Tuesday in Cleveland.

Lee University, ranked fifth in the NAIA baseball preseason poll, followed Saturday's two season-opening wins over the University of Saint Francis by sweeping the Indiana team again Sunday in Cleveland, 8-5 and 17-0.

While numerous other area 12th-graders will decide their college football futures Wednesday on national signing day, South Pittsburg's Jonathan Blevins will learn that day if he has has won a scholarship.

As the season has moved along, so have the Howard boys.

Chattanooga-area teams took the top two spots in the G.P. West Invitational wrestling tournament at Brentwood over the weekend.