Reagan Ellison of CCMS Soccer

The Coffee County Middle School soccer teams stepped out of conference action on Tuesday as they played host to Algood at the CCMS pitch. A Reagan Ellison hat trick lifted the Lady Raiders to a 5 to 2 win.
Ellison got the scoring started for Coffee County as she notched an unassisted goal in the 5th minute. Algood leveled the score in the 10th minute before Kyleigh Harner put the Lady Raiders back on top 2 minutes later with her own unassisted goal. The Lady Raiders took that 2 to 1 advantage into the intermission. Ellison added goals in the 33rd and 40th minutes and Harner found the back of the net in the 53rd minute to make it a 5 to 1 game.  Algood added a goal in the 55th minute, but it was not enough to give Coffee County their first loss of the season.
With the win, Coffee County is now 3-0-1 on the season. Coffee County is back in action on Thursday when North Franklin comes to town for a conference matchup. That match is set to get underway at 4:30 PM.

Maci Head of CCMS Volleyball

The Coffee County Middle School volleyball hosted South Lincoln on Tuesday night in a non-conference volleyball match at the Coffee County Middle School gym. In a hard fought battle, the Lady Raiders showed their grit and determination to claw out a straight set win. After winning the first set 25 to 20, Coffee County had to battle South Lincoln point for point before winning the second set 32 to 30.
Maci Head led the Lady Raiders in kills with 4 and aces with 3. The Lady Raiders travel to Decherd on Thursday to take on North Franklin in a conference match. First serve is set for 4:30 PM.

CCMS running back Marshall Haney(#12 in red) (Photo by John StClair – www.JohnStClairPhoto.com

Despite a 4 touchdown performance from Marshall Haney, the Coffee County Middle School Red Raider football team fell on Tuesday night in Shelbyville 50 to 28 to the Harris Eagles. The Raiders grabbed an early lead but three scores by Harris in the second quarter and another touchdown at the start of the second half put the Raiders in a deficit from which they could not recover.
Coffee County took the opening drive of the game down the field as Haney carried the ball over for the touchdown. The missed extra point left the score 6 to 0. Harris took a short lead at the end of the 1st quarter, 8 to 6, before Haney added his 2nd touchdown to make the score 12 to 8.
In the 2nd quarter, Harris scored on the first play of the quarter and then twice more in the final 2:30 of the half to take a 28 to 12 lead into the half. Harris added 2 more scores in the 3rd quarter and led 42 to 12 entering the 4th quarter. In the 4th, Haney added a pair of touchdowns and a pair of extra points.
The loss drops Coffee County to 0 and 3 on the year and 0 and 2 in conference play. The Red Raiders return to the gridiron on Tuesday when they travel to Winchester to take on South Franklin. Kickoff is set for 6:30 PM.

The Westwood soccer team stepped out of conference on Tuesday for a match in Winchester with South Franklin. South Franklin used a goal late in the first half to power them to a 3 to 0 win over the Lady Rockets.
Westwood keeper Alana Coker stopped 11 shots in the first half, but a South Franklin goal in the 27th minute put the Lady Rockets in a 1 to 0 halftime hole. South added goals in the 39th and 42nd minutes to hand the Lady Rockets their 2nd straight loss. Westwood’s record now stands at 1 and 2 on the season and 1 and 1 in conference play.
The Lady Rockets will travel to Fayetteville on Thursday for a match with the Lincoln County combined team. That non-conference friendly gets underway at 5 PM.

Along with distancing himself from the nagging ailments that hampered him over the past two months, Julio Teheran fueled the five-run third inning that soured Edwin Jackson’s homecoming and propelled the Braves to a 7-3 win over the Padres on Tuesday night at Turner Field.

Teheran scattered six hits, surrendered two runs and notched eight strikeouts over seven innings en route to his first home win of the season. The All-Star hurler aided his best start in more than a month by opening the five-run third with a double — one of the six hits Jackson surrendered in the inning. Dansby Swanson chased the Padres’ veteran with a single that accounted for the first of his three RBIs.
Jackson, an Atlanta native who pitched for the Braves last year, allowed five earned runs and seven hits over 2 2/3 innings — his shortest start of the season. Oswaldo Arcia who has played for three other Major League teams this year produced his first home run as a Padre when he hit a two-run shot off Teheran with two outs in the fourth inning.
Teheran entered the game with a Major League-low average run support of 2.9 runs per game, but Swanson did his part to increase this figure as he notched the last of the four RBI singles Atlanta recorded in the third inning and also provided some insurance with a two-run double in the fifth inning. The highly-regarded shortstop entered Tuesday with just one RBI through his first 39 career plate appearances.
Arcia’s towering fourth-inning blast was his seventh of the year, as he capitalized on a grooved 1-1 fastball from Teheran. At 40 degrees, Arcia’s blast had the fourth highest launch angle on a Padres home run this season. Only Alex Dickerson and Ryan Schimpf (twice) were higher.
As Teheran struck out two of the first three batters faced and limited his damage to Arcia’s home run, he provided further indication he was just shaking off rust in the two previous starts made since returning from the disabled list with a right lat strain. His fastball sat between 92-94 mph and he seemed to regain a feel for his slider as he notched his highest strikeout total (8) since June 14.
In his first game back at Turner Field, former Brave Christian Bethancourt exited Tuesday’s game early after he strained his left intercostal muscle in the top of the fourth. If Bethancourt’s injury requires a disabled list stint, it’s likely the Padres would call upon Hector Sanchez from Triple-A, instead of their catcher of the future, Austin Hedges. They’ve spoken repeatedly about getting their top youngsters experience in the Pacific Coast League playoffs, and if Hedges remains at Triple-A until Sept. 15, the Padres would gain an extra year of team control.
Matt Wisler will oppose his former organization when Atlanta resumes this three-game series on Wednesday at 6:10 p.m. CT. Wisler was acquired in the multi-player trade that sent Justin Upton to San Diego before the 2015 season The young hurler returned to the Majors last week and flirted with a no-hitter while completing eight strong innings in Arizona.  Thunder Radio will bring you the broadcast of that contest as we will join the Braves Radio Network immediately following the Ryan Sulkowski Show tonight.

Daniel Gossett tossed seven strong innings and the Nashville Sounds drilled three home runs in an 8-2 win over the Iowa Cubs in front of 6,384 fans Tuesday night at First Tennessee Park.

Fresh off a promotion from Double-A Midland, Gossett allowed two runs on six hits in his Sounds (82-56) and Triple-A debut. He retired eight of the final nine batters he faced and threw 91 pitches on the night.

After falling behind 1-0 in the top of the second inning, Nashville blasted three homers to back Gossett’s performance. Matt Chapman, Matt Olson and Bryan Anderson all homered in the win.

They quickly erased the deficit with a five-run second inning highlighted by Chapman’s two-run blast.

Colin Walsh started the inning with a walk, and Rangel Ravelo was hit by a pitch. Drew Rucinski issued his second walk of the inning to Anderson loading the bases with nobody out.

The free passes came back to hurt Rucinski when Josh Rodriguez lined a two-run single to right field to give the Sounds a 2-1 lead. A wild pitch brought home the third run of the inning before Chapman launched the first homer of the night to extend the lead to 5-1.

Gossett allowed a run in the top of the fourth on a run-scoring double but the Sounds got it right back when Olson hit a mammoth homer to deep right field to make it 6-2. It was the 17th of the season for the Sounds’ first baseman.

Gossett went on cruise control and shut down the Cubs after the double in the fourth.

Anderson’s home run came in the eighth inning when he hit a 1-0 pitch from reliever Corey Black to center field for his third homer of the season.

Sean Doolittle worked a scoreless eighth inning and Aaron Kurcz fired a scoreless ninth to close out the win for Gossett.

Every player in the Sounds lineup had at least one hit. Olson and BJ Boyd had multi-hit games for Nashville.

The Sounds have two home games remaining in the regular season.

Game three of the four-game series is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at First Tennessee Park. Right-hander Jesse Hahn (1-6, 3.57) starts for the Sounds against right-hander Jordan Pries (5-3, 5.09) for the Cubs. First pitch is scheduled 12:05 p.m.

Tickets for the 2016 Pacific Coast League playoff dates at First Tennessee Park are now available for purchase at the Nashville Sounds box office and online at www.nashvillesounds.com. The 2016 season is the Sounds’ 19th year in the Pacific Coast League and their second as the Oakland Athletics’ top affiliate.