Maddy Jones(in black) of CCMS dribbles the ball past a Tullahoma defender on Monday night.

Facing their bitter rival Tullahoma on their home pitch was a tall order for the Coffee County Middle School soccer team on Monday. Rising to the challenge, the Lady Raiders used a strong defensive game plan, and a pair of goals by Maddy Jones, to capture a 3 to 0 win over the Lady Cats.
Jones found the back of the net early in each half as she scored in the 3rd minute unassisted and again in the 31st minute off an assist from Alexis Rayman. Reagan Ellison added a goal in the 29th minute to give Coffee County a 2 to 0 lead at intermission off an assist from Kyleigh Harner.
Coffee County’s defense was so disruptive; they allowed only 3 shots on frame for Tullahoma in the match, including a single shot in the 2nd half.  Keeper Lucy Riddle made the necessary 3 saves to record the shutout.
The Lady Raider soccer team will be back in action on Thursday when they welcome Harris to the home pitch. That match is set to kick off at 5 PM and Thunder Radio will be on hand to bring you’re the broadcast as part of the 1st National Bank Hometown Sports Series.

Baylee Nester

The CHS Volleyball team welcomed Fayetteville and Warren County to the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym on Monday for a round-robin doubleheader. The Lady Raiders earned a sweep on the day as they moved their record to 6 and 0 on the season.
Coffee County opened the evening with a rematch with Warren County. The Lady Pioneers were looking to avenge a hotly contested match from last Monday night won by Coffee County. After taking the first set 25 to 21, the Lady Raiders saw Warren County roar back to capture the 2nd set 25 to 11. This set up the decisive 3rd set that Coffee County won 25 to 23. Coffee County had balanced scoring on the night as Bailey Morgan, Baylee Nester and Kaylee Skipper all had 5 kills. Alliyah Williams had a pair of blocks for the Lady Raiders.
The Lady Raiders ended the evening with a 2 set sweep of Fayetteville. Coffee County won by set scores of 25-12 and 25-13. The win was powered by a strong service and net game as Coffee County got 14 aces in the 2 set win. Aerial Williams had 5 aces and Rachel Henley added 4. Morgan Hickerson came off the bench to record 4 of Coffee County’s 14 kills while Nester added 3. Alliyah Williams added another block.
The Lady Raiders hit the court again on Wednesday when they travel to Eagleville for an “in-school” game. First serve for that match is for 1:30 PM.

CHS Golfer John Parigger(file photo)

The Coffee County golf teams welcomed Shelbyville and Stewarts Creek to Willowbrook on Monday for their first home match of the year. Both teams shot exceptionally well on their home course as each team came away with wins in the 18 hole, three way match.
The Lady Raiders continued their early season dominance as they earned a sweep over the visitors. Ashley Gilliam had the low round for Coffee County as she shot a 1 over par 73. Savannah Quick added a 76 to give the Lady Raiders a team score of 149. Stewarts Creek finished at 176 and Shelbyville carded a 231. With the win, the Lady Raiders improved to 25-3 on the season.
The boys team picked up a pair of wins shooting 313 on the day.  Stewarts Creek came in at 329 and Shelbyville had a score of 353. Senior John Parigger led the way shooting a 3 over par 75 to capture the low round on the day. Austin Farris added a 77, Reid Lawrence carded a 79 and Josh Perry got around in 83. With the win, the boys improve their record to 30–6 on the year.
After the match, Coach Mike Ray had this to say about his golfers’ performance.

As Coach Ray said, the Raiders and Lady Raiders are back in action on Tuesday when they travel to Sewanee to take on Grundy County in an 9 hole match at the Sewanee Golf Course. That match will tee off at 4 PM.

Paul Goldschmidt delivered a walk-off homer to lead off the bottom of the ninth, lifting the D-backs to a 9-8 win over the Braves in the opener of a four-game series on Monday night at Chase Field.

“I think the tendency in a tied game or extra innings is try to hit home runs, and we’ve played some extra-inning games and that just has not worked out for me,” Goldschmidt said. “I was fortunate to get a pitch up and get it out of there.”
Welington Castillo hit a three-run double to put Arizona ahead, 8-7, in the seventh, but Freddie Freeman’s second homer of the night tied it at 8-8 in the ninth. It didn’t stay tied for long, however, as Goldschmidt’s fourth career walk-off blast ended it, a deep homer to left off Braves reliever John Gant (1-3).
“When he came up, I said to the coaches, ‘You know what, our first baseman’s up now. Let’s see us do the same thing.’ And I think the lengths of those balls were a long way, both of them,” D-backs manager Chip Hale said of the ninth-inning homers by Freeman and Goldschmidt.
Jean Segura went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, Michael Bourn also collected three hits and Yasmany Tomas hit a two-run homer as the D-backs overcame a five-run deficit to win for just the fourth time in 11 games.
The Braves built an early 5-0 lead, as Freeman hit a two-run homer in the first inning and Adonis Garcia hit a two-run blast in the second. Nick Markakis added to the offense with three hits to back starter Mike Foltynewicz, who allowed four runs on nine hits over six innings, issuing no walks and striking out seven.
“We had the lead and then we obviously gave up some runs, but to come back and just lose it again was just gut-wrenching,” Freeman said.
After missing Sunday’s game while nursing a sore left middle finger, Freeman drilled his first-inning home run on the first pitch he saw. Garcia’s two-run shot gave the Braves a 5-0 lead in the second, which ended with Freeman being thrown out attempting to score on Kemp’s single to left fielder Mitch Haniger. Freeman’s game-tying homer in the ninth completed his ninth career multihomer game, three of which have come in the 16 games he’s played at Chase Field.
“The tightness [in the finger] got better as the day went on and I started doing more things,” Freeman said. “Hopefully, tomorrow it’s even better.”
Tomas’ two-run blast to left-center in the third inning was his ninth homer of the month — all coming at home. He entered August with just three home runs at Chase Field, but now seems to be finding his power stroke. Tomas has homered in seven of his last nine home games, including each of the last four.
“It’s all about experience,” Tomas said through an interpreter. “I recognize better pitches and select a good pitch for making good contact.”
After the D-backs made it a 5-4 game, Foltynewicz stopped the bleeding by retiring 10 of the final 12 batters faced. But reliever Arodys Vizcaino squandered a three-run seventh-inning advantage by surrendering four hits, including Castillo’s bases-clearing double, and issuing a walk while facing just six batters. The former closer has allowed four runs in two of the three appearances he’s made since returning from the disabled list. He declined when asked to speak to the media after Monday night’s loss.
“It’s just command of his pitches,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “I don’t know if he’s feeling for things and he’s aware of that. I think you can try to throw strikes, but they’re just missing out over the plate. It’s an aggressiveness type of thing. He’s been down a long time. His velocity is good and his stuff is really not that bad. It’s pretty much location.”
After turning in his best start of the season last time out, D-backs starter Zack Godley had one of his worst on Monday. He threw a career-high 7 1/3 innings of two-run ball in a win over the Mets on Wednesday, but the rookie right-hander allowed two runs by the game’s third batter and was tagged with five runs by the end of the second in this one. Godley left after allowing a career-high seven runs in five innings, but Arizona’s rally in the seventh took him off the hook.
Rob Whalen will take the mound when Atlanta resumes this four-game series on Tuesday at 8:40 p.m. CT. As Whalen (1-2, 5.73 ERA) nears an innings limit that could shut him down by the end of the month, the rookie will attempt to build off a Friday start in which he limited the Nationals to one earned run over six innings.  Thunder Radio will bring you the broadcast immediately following our 1st National Bank Hometown Sports Series broadcast of Coffee County Middle School football at Tullahoma tonight.

The Nashville Sounds got four hits from Joey Wendle and scored seven runs in the fourth inning on their way to a 12-3 rout of the Omaha Storm Chasers Monday night at Werner Park.

The big win, coupled with New Orleans’ loss, has lowered the Sounds’ magic number to five. At 75-55, Nashville is 20 games over .500, the high-water mark of the season. The win was Nashville’s 42nd of the season on the road – a PCL-era best for the Sounds.

Wendle’s four hits matched a season high, and the Sounds got three hits from Rangel Ravelo and Josh Rodriguez while Matt Chapman homered and Jaycob Brugman belted his second three-run homer in as many days.

Chapman got the scoring started when he drilled his first Triple-A homer, a solo shot into the left field seats to give the Sounds a 1-0 lead. Chapman hit 29 homers with Double-A Midland before joining the Sounds on August 17.

Wendle tripled and Ravelo drove him in with a single to right-center to extend the lead to 2-0 after two innings.

The Sounds broke the game open with a huge fourth inning. Chapman started the inning with a walk, and Wendle followed with an RBI double down the right field line. Bryan Anderson added an RBI double two batters later to give the Sounds a 4-0 lead.

After Rodriguez walked, Brugman crushed a pitch from Andrew Edwards into the left field seats for an opposite-field three-run homer. He finished 2-for-5 with 4 RBI on the night and has 10 RBI in the first three games of the series.

The inning continued and Wendle clubbed his second double of the frame, driving in another two runs to extend the lead to 9-0.

Omaha eventually got on the board with a single run in the sixth. It’s all they would get against Dillon Overton as the left-hander limited the Storm Chasers to one run on five hits in six innings. He picked up his team-leading 12th win of the season.

Nashville added runs in the seventh and ninth innings and cruised to their third straight win. They go for the series sweep Tuesday afternoon.

The series finale is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon at Werner Park. Right-hander Daniel Mengden (6-2, 1.79) starts for the Sounds against right-hander Kris Medlen (0-1, 6.14) for the Storm Chasers. First pitch is scheduled for 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.