Motlow State Community College will hold its 2016 Softball Camp for children 12 years old and younger June 27-29, according to Janice Morey, Lady Bucks’ head coach.

The camp will begin each day at 9 a.m. and last until 12:30 p.m. Campers will develop fundamental skills in defense, hitting, bunting and base running.

The cost is $75 per camper. If a family has more than one child participating, the additional family members will pay only $50.

A registration form is available on the Motlow State athletics website at www.motlowsports.com. For further information contact Coach Morey at jmorey@mscc.edu or 931-393-1617.

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The Marlins were desperate for a starter to go deep into a game, and left-hander Adam Conley delivered on Wednesday afternoon, scattering four hits over eight innings in a 3-0 win over the Braves at Marlins Park.

The eight innings are a career high for Conley, who previously tossed as many as 7 2/3 hitless in Milwaukee on April 29. The left-hander also is the first Miami starter this season to complete eight innings. Miami split its two-game set with the Braves, beating the visitors for just the second time in eight tries in the season series.
“It was exactly what we needed,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said. “We needed someone to get deep into this game. We had a number of [relievers] we weren’t willing to use today. Honestly, we could use another one of these things tomorrow and reset the whole thing.”
The Marlins did all their damage at the plate in the second inning, stringing together five straight hits. Marcell Ozuna blistered a leadoff triple, which Justin Bour followed with a two-run homer into the upper deck in right field. Jeff Mathis drove in Derek Dietrich with a single to cap the three-run inning.
Braves right-hander John Gant worked 5 2/3 innings, and six of the seven hits he allowed came in Miami’s three-run second inning. Gant retired 12 straight before Bour’s two-out single in the sixth inning, after which he was replaced for lefty Ian Krol.
“I think he just got his mix going a littler better,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “They jumped on a couple fastballs, and he hung one breaking ball, a kind of get-me-over with two strikes on Mathis. Overall, he settled down and gave us a chance.”
The loss snapped the Braves’ season-best six game winning streak.
When Jace Peterson singled to open the game and reached second on a wild pitch, it looked like it could have been the beginning of a rough afternoon for Conley. Instead, the 26-year-old regrouped, turning in one of the most impressive starts of his young big league career. The lefty won for the first time since May 16 at Philadelphia, a span where he was 0-2 with a 4.64 ERA over six starts. The 114 pitches Conley threw were two shy of his career high, when he tossed 116 at Milwaukee on April 29.
“I noticed in my last couple of starts, I wasn’t able to get as deep into the game as I had hoped,” Conley said.
Gant received a much needed defensive pick-me-up after allowing five straight hits in the second inning. On Mathis’ RBI single, Braves left fielder Jeff Francoeur threw out Chris Johnson for the first out at third base. Gant settled in after the play, retired 13 of the next 15 batters he faced, yielding just two hits the rest of the way.
“That was a big out,” Gant said. “I was obviously very pleased to see that happen. Sometimes baseball evens itself out. There was a bloop hit, so maybe that’s the game’s way of evening it out for me.”
With the quick turnaround on Wednesday after playing 10 innings on Tuesday night, Miami gave Giancarlo Stanton a breather. Bour moved into the fifth spot, where Stanton has been batting recently with Ozuna hitting cleanup. In the second inning, Bour connected on a no-doubt, two-run homer that Statcast™ projected traveled 419 feet with an exit velocity of 107 mph and a launch angle of 25 degrees. Ozuna started the rally with a leadoff triple.
The Marlins had a chance to add on more in the second, but Johnson was out trying to advance from first to third on Mathis’ hit.
“You really want my thoughts? We could have had five runs there instead of three,” Mattingly said. “Obviously, it’s good to get on the board. Justin gives us those quick two. Mathis gets a big hit for us. [Dietrich] starts the inning back over after Justin. Obviously, it was good to be able to score there. It would have been nice to be able to tack on, and kind of add on and take the stress away. It was that kind of game. Day games seem to be hard to get runs.”
Making his debut: Braves reliever Tyrell Jenkins threw a scoreless eighth inning, inducing three weak groundouts in his Major League debut. Jenkins, who was called up from Triple-A Gwinnett on June 16, is ranked Atlanta’s No. 7 prospect, according to MLBPipeline.com. Over 14 appearances in Triple-A this season, nine of which were starts, Jenkins had a 2.91 ERA.
“There’s kind of never a perfect spot, and right there, we felt like this is as good as any and let’s get him out there,” Snitker said. “I thought he did really good.”
The Braves travel home to open a four-game set with the Mets, starting Thursday at 6:10 p.m. CT. Right-hander Matt Wisler (3-7, 4.23 ERA), who owns a 1.55 ERA in four career starts against the Mets, takes the hill.  Thunder Radio will bring you the broadcast beginning at 6 PM on Thursday as part of the Atlanta Braves Radio Network.

The Nashville Sounds dropped the series opener to the Iowa Cubs as the offense went quiet in a 3-2 loss Wednesday afternoon at Principal Park.
The Sounds (43-30) managed just five hits and went 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position against three Iowa (33-36) pitchers.
Starters Chris Jensen for Nashville, and Jake Buchanan for Iowa, each threw quality starts but Buchanan was better by a slim margin. The right-hander limited the Sounds to one run on just three hits over his six innings in a winning effort. Jensen was charged with the loss after he allowed three runs on seven hits in six innings.
Jensen and the Sounds held a brief 1-0 lead when they scored in the first half of the second inning. Ryon Healy doubled and Matt Olson walked to put a pair of runners on base. Buchanan struck out Joey Wendle and Matt McBride, but couldn’t escape the jam before Bruce Maxwell brought in Healy with a run-scoring base hit up the middle.
The lead didn’t last long as Iowa produced their own two-out hitting to jump in front. With two down and runners at first and second, David Freitas sent a single to left-center that chased home Dan Vogelbach with the tying run.
Munenori Kawasaki gave the Cubs the lead when he sent a ball down the left field line and into the corner. Kristopher Negron scored from second to make it 2-1, but the relay throw from shortstop Chad Pinder to the plate cut down Freitas to end the inning.
The Cubs extended their lead to 3-1 in the fifth, and it stayed that way until the seventh.
With Buchanan departed from the game, McBride launched an offering from Felix Pena over the left field wall for a solo home run – his fourth long ball of the season.
That’s as close as Nashville would get, however, as Pena fired a 1-2-3 eighth inning and Joel Peralta followed suit in the ninth to earn the save.
Maxwell and Healy accounted for four of Nashville’s five hits, with the other coming on McBride’s blast. The rest of the lineup went hitless in 21 at bats.
Games two and three of the series are scheduled for Thursday in Des Moines. Right-hander Chris Smith (4-5, 4.43) starts for the Sounds against right-hander Aaron Brooks (0-1, 15.00) in game one of the doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 5:08 p.m.