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2B ❚ SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2018 ❚ THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL

ON THE AIR Sunday Sports Brunch: Television Auto racing: NASCAR Monster Ener- gy Cup Series, STP 500, FS1, 1 p.m. East has 3 on all-state team : MLB Spring Training, St. Louis vs. Washington, FSSE, noon Baseball: MLB Spring Training, Atlan- ta vs. Detroit, FSSO, noon John Varlas Baseball: MLB Spring Training, N.Y. Memphis Commercial Appeal Yankees vs. Tampa Bay, MLB Net- USA TODAY NETWORK - TENNESSEE work, noon Baseball: MLB Spring Training, L.A. Three players from three-time Class Dodgers vs. L.A. Angels, MLB Net- AAA state champion East headlined the work, 8 p.m. list of local players named to the TSWA : NBA, Cleveland at Brook- all-state basketball teams this week. lyn, NBA TV, noon The Mustangs were represented by Basketball: NBA, New York at Wash- senior Alex Lomax and juniors James ington, NBA TV, 5 p.m. Wiseman and Chandler Lawson, all of Basketball: NBA, Utah at Golden whom starred in last weekend’s 72-50 State, NBA TV, 7:30 p.m. victory over Whitehaven that brought Bowling: PBA Tour, Roth/Holman the school its ninth championship. Mr. Doubles Championship, ESPN, 1 p.m. Basketball winner Tyler Harris of Cor- College baseball: LSU at Vanderbilt, dova, Southwind’s Mark Freeman and ESPN2, noon Taelyr Gatlin of Brighton also made the College hockey: NCAA Hockey Tour- 15-member squad. nament, teams TBD, ESPN2, 3 p.m. Jordan Johnson and Martrell : Texas A&M at Flori- Brooks, a pair of seniors who led Hamil- da, ESPN2, 6 p.m. ton to the AA crown, were selected in AA : WGC Tour, Dell Technologies, along with Quatarius York of Fayette- Match Play, semifinals, GOLF Chan- Ware. Mr. Basketball finalistArecko nel, 9 a.m. Gipson of MASE, Jamey Sanders of Golf: PGA Tour, Corales Puntacana W.E.B. DuBois and the Douglass duo of Resort & Club Championship, final Devyn Payne and Antavious Buford round, , 1:30 p.m. made the Class A team. Golf: WGC Tour, Dell Technologies, In Division II, Mr. Basketball finalists Match Play, finals, WMC (5), 2 p.m. Cedric Henderson of Briarcrest and Golf: Champions Tour, Rapiscan Sys- Rossville’s Malik Riddle were picked tems Classic, final round, GOLF with MUS’ John McBride, Lausanne’s Channel, 4 p.m. Sky Forrest and Luke Howard of Har- Golf: LPGA Tour, Kia Classic, final ding. round, GOLF Channel, 6 p.m. Georgia Tech signee Elizabeth Dixon Hockey: NHL, at Pitts- — the only girls player from a TSSAA burgh, WMC (5), 11:30 a.m. member school chosen for next month’s Hockey: NHL, Nashville at Winnipeg, McDonald’s All-American game — leads Chandler Lawson is one of three East players named to the Class AAA all-state FSTN, 6:30 p.m. the AAA girls selections. She was joined team. HELEN COMER/DNJ Hockey: NHL, Boston at Minnesota, by Central’s Jireh Washington, Mun- NBCSN, 6:30 p.m. ford’s Gabby Crawford and Jayla Hem- Men’s : NCAA ingway, who capped her junior year by recent seasons, has made a move it , regional, final, Texas leading Houston to a state runner-up hopes will elevate its program to those Tech vs. Villanova, TBS, 1:20 p.m. finish. levels. Men’s college basketball: NCAA Trezevant’s Sade Hudson and Ake- The Crusaders have named April Tournament, regional, final, Duke vs. ria James of Craigmont made the AA Jauregui as their coach, replacing Ken- Kansas, TBS, 4:05 p.m. team while Derrenishia Jackson of dall Boyd. Jauregui coached at the Uni- Rugby: Premiership Rugby, Leicester BTW was chosen in Class A. Lauren versity of Memphis from 2008-2017 and Tigers vs. Wasps, NBCSN, 9 a.m. Gross and Jade Wells from state run- is the Tigers’ second-longest serving Running: IAAF, Half-Marathon Cham- ner-up Northpoint were chosen in Divi- and third-winningest coach. pionships, NBCSN, 11 a.m. sion II with Miss Basketball finalistSa- Jauregui will be the second former Skiing: Alpine skiing, U.S. Champi- vanna Owens of Briarcrest. Memphis coach in the high school ranks onships, NBCSN, 10:30 p.m. this fall; Carrie Yerty is replacing Carla Winter sports: Curling, Women’s MHEA wins another Anderton and Division II-AA power Bri- World Championship, Gold Medal basketball title arcrest. Match, NBCSN, 2 p.m. Women’s college basketball: NCAA After reaching the reaching the Hensley retiring due to Tournament, regional, final, Oregon championship game of the National rule change St. vs. Louisville, ESPN, 11 a.m. Christian HomeSchool national tourna- Women’s college basketball: NCAA ment five years in a row without win- A rule change is forcing former Col- Tournament, regional, final, UCLA vs. ning a title, the Memphis Home Educa- lierville soccer star Kevin Hensley into Mississippi St., ESPN, 6:30 p.m. tion Association girls team is starting to retirement. get the hang of it. Hensley, a midfielder who has been a Stubby Clapp’s Memphis Redbirds will Radio Coach Tracy Rice’s Eagles won their part of the U.S. National Paralympic play three games in the “Copa de la Baseball: MLB Spring Training, St. second championship in a row — and team for the past four years and its cap- Diversion” this summer. MARK WEBER/THE Louis vs. Washington, WMC 790, third in the last four years — with a re- tain for the last three, announced he COMMERCIAL APPEAL noon sounding 62-28 victory over the OKC was leaving sport. The move comes af- Men’s college basketball: NCAA Storm in Springfield, Mo. ter a rule change by Tournament, WHBQ 87.7/560, 1 p.m. Unlike last year, when the Eagles Federation for Cerebral Palsy Football came from behind in the second half to which states that players with minimal wait to meet the fans. This listing is compiled using in- defeat the Storm, this one was never impairments are no longer eligible to The commitment of our ownership formation supplied by stations and really in doubt. compete. group is going to allow us not just to be networks and is subject to late “We were expecting it to be a close Hensley was a 14-year-old freshman part of the amazing growth of profes- changes without notice. game because they are a very good at Collierville in December 2006 when sional soccer in the but team,” said Rice. “But we were up 20 at he suffered a stroke after being injured also to create something really special halftime. We were making shots; we in a match three weeks earlier. He later here in Memphis.” just came out and hit everything like we went on to become a two-time all-state Bell began as the Battery’s play-by- did in the Central game.” performer and played at Carson-New- play announcer in 1999 and worked in Chen avenges his Olympic flop Rice was referencing a convincing man. various other capacities, including di- with world title 72-44 victory over the Lady Warriors on “The last four years of my life have rector of marketing, director of sales Dec. 12. Central is perennially one of hands down been the best years of my and — starting in 2008 — team presi- ASSAGO, Italy – Nathan Chen’s Memphis’ tougher AAA teams and that life,” he said in an interview on the U.S. dent. redemption is complete. performance was just a taste of what the Soccer Federation web site. “Getting to During his tenure, the Battery won While all of his top competitors Eagles would do against their homes- play the game I love again brought joy USL championships in 2010 and 2012 fell, the 18-year-old Chen completed chool opponents. back into my life. I can never thank head and reached the final of the Lamar Hunt six quadruple jumps in the free pro- “All of our seniors were starters,” Rice coach Stuart Sharp, all of the staff and U.S. Open Cup in 2008. That was the gram on Saturday to become the first said. “They had played together since my teammates enough for giving me the last time a non-MLS team played in the U.S. winner of the men’s world figure they were 10 or 11 years old. They just opportunity to represent the crest.” final of America’s national soccer cup skating title since 2009. have a lot of chemistry together ... (and The U.S. is ranked fourth among the competition. For the rest, it was a fallathon: 14 a) willingness to put selfishness aside. world’s paralympic teams, its highest sprawls, splats, and tumbles among These girls learned from the losses (in ranking ever. Redbirds will participate five competitors as they attempted earlier national finals) and they learned Hensley led the team to a fifth-place in ‘Fun Cup’ the all-mighty quad. from those good times and bad times.” finish at the 2017 IFCPF CP Football There were three falls by silver The experience paid off in the final. World Championship, its best finish at a What’s in a name? For the Memphis medalist Shoma Uno of Japan, who With the Storm electing to key on Anna- major international competition since Redbirds, it’s all about hitting the right matched his Olympic silver, and two liese Burnett and Lindsey Vaughn, 1996. notes within a growing part of the na- by Mikhail Kolyada of Russia, who Rice got a red-hot shooting performance Hensley also captained the 2016 tion. took bronze. from Kylie Loadholt and Ashley Car- World Cup squad in Brazil. This season, the Redbirds will take Skating last, Chen said he knew son, who combined for 25 first-half part in ’s “Copa the others made mistakes - though points. Memphis USL team hires de la Diversion” or “Fun Cup.” The event not quite how bad - and that gave him Loadholt and Vaughn ended with 16 sporting director is a season-long series designed to em- the freedom to attempt six quads, apiece while Carson added 15. Burnett — brace the culture and values that reso- knowing he had room for error. who is headed to Mississippi College The Memphis United Soccer League nate most within the Hispanic/Latino After his woeful Olympic short and was named Mid-West Region player franchise, which will begin play at Auto- communities of the participating program put the podium out of reach, of the year — finished with 11 and eight Zone Park in the spring of 2019, has teams. Chen said at the worlds, “I just want- rebounds. Gigi Lewis, whose older sis- named Andrew Bell as its sporting di- Cup games will be played at Auto- ed to redeem myself in the short, and ter Torri starred for the Eagles and cur- rector. Zone Park on June 6, Aug. 3 and Aug. 26. try to maintain what I did in the long.” rently plays at Ole Miss, had seven as- A native of England, Bell comes to For those contests, the Redbirds will re- He did better than that. He fin- sists. Memphis after spending almost 20 name themselves the “Memphis Musi- ished first in the short, vanquishing Bad news for the Eagles; all five start- years with the USL’s Charleston Battery. ca,” wearing special jerseys and caps. that Olympic ghost. ers are seniors. Good news? Rice is hap- Among his duties will be handling play- The 160-game series begins on April And then in the free, he completed py to report that MHEA also won the ti- er and technical staff-related issues and 8 in Round Rock, Texas. To build aware- six quadruples, with minor deduc- tle in the junior varsity division. building the yet-to-be named team’s ness and create excitement, a 3-foot tall tions for stepping out of the quadru- “That kind of gives us a feel for next front office. “Copa de la Diversión” trophy will em- ple salchow, to score 219.46 in the year,” she said. “Just because the start- “Memphis is a remark- bark on a tour of the participating cities free for an overall total of 321.40. That ers are leaving doesn’t mean this is the able city, and the oppor- as part of a “Cup Tour.” compared to his Olympic free pro- end.” tunity to help build what Sunday Sports Brunch is a weekly gram where he attempted six triples, I’m certain will be an look at movers, shakers and newsmak- completing five cleanly but putting FACS volleyball hires Jauregui amazing soccer club was ers on the Memphis sports scene, from his hands down on a quad-flip. That too big to pass up,” Bell youth level to the pros. If you have an earned him an Olympic record 215.08 The FACS volleyball team, which has said in a statement. “I’m item of interest, please contact John points. Varlas at john.varlas@commercialap- — Associated Press struggled competing against Division Andrew Bell excited to start working II-A foes like Harding and St. George’s in on the project, and I can’t peal.com.