CCMS Football coach Bryan Morgan

The Coffee County Middle School will have a pair of new coaches in the upcoming year following the shuffling of some of their current staff. Brock Freeze will become the new head baseball coach in the coming school year as he leaves the football sidelines as head coach. Bryan Morgan will be promoted to the head football coach’s position after serving as an assistant.
Morgan takes over the Red Raider football team after serving as an assistant coach under Brock Freeze for the last 5 years. Morgan has been in charge of the offensive and defensive lines and has also been in charge of special teams. Morgan also served as an offensive coordinator during spring practice for Coffee County Middle.
“I am very excited” said Morgan when Thunder Radio spoke to him on Wednesday night. “I want to do whatever I can to help the high school program” added Morgan as he plans to adapt the middle school offense to fit the system of Coffee County Central.
Morgan’s work begins on Monday(June 6th) as the Raiders will begin non-contact summer workouts. The team will work out from 8:30 to 10:30 on Mondays and Thursdays at the CCMS practice field. The workouts are open to all prospective CCMS football players.
If you need more information, contact Coach Morgan at: morganbryan@k12coffee.net Coach Morgan will be a guest on Saturday’s Coffee Coaches Show here on Thunder Radio. The Coffee Coaches Show is aired live from AL White Ford/Lincoln beginning at 10 AM.

Brock Freeze talks to his CCMS football team following a win (File Photo)

Brock Freeze will move from the football sidelines to the baseball dugout. Freeze, who has served as the head football coach for 10 years, has always had a passion to coach baseball. Freeze helped coach the Tullahoma freshman baseball team while doing his student teaching and served as the head softball coach at CCMS for 4 years shortly after the inception of softball at CCMS.
Freeze has not finalized his assistant coaches yet, but looks forward to talking with last year’s staff after tryouts are completed. Freeze will hold tryouts for next year’s team on Saturday at the CCMS field. Incoming 6th & 7th graders will tryout from 10:00am to 1:00pm while incoming 8th graders will try out from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. There will be a makeup tryout on Thursday, June 9th at 6 PM at CCMS. Players trying out must have a copy of a current physical. If you have any questions please contact coach Brock Freeze at: freezeb@k12coffee.net

Freddie Freeman hit his third career walk-off homer to complete a comeback that provided the Braves a 5-4, 11-inning win over the Giants on Wednesday night at Turner Field. Freeman hit the first pitch Derek Law threw in the bottom of the inning over the right-center field wall.

“This team never gives up,” Freeman said. “That’s the name of the game. You’ve got to keep grinding at-bats and that’s what we did tonight.”
• Freeman, Braves hope walk-off HR is spark
Giants right-hander Albert Suarez pitched effectively in his first Major League start, allowing three runs over five innings. Suarez, who started in place of the injured Matt Cain, also notched his first career hit — a sixth-inning infield single that would have served as the game-winning hit had the Braves not taken advantage of some miscues that allowed them to erase a one-run ninth-inning deficit.
Brandon Belt gave the Giants an early lead with a two-run homer in the fourth inning and the Giants capitalized on some defensive mistakes that influenced the other two runs Williams Perez surrendered over 5 2/3 innings. Perez was taken off the hook when San Francisco closer Santiago Casilla hit Adonis Garcia with a pitch and then allowed Garcia to score on a wild pitch following Nick Markakis’ bloop single.
“That was an ugly run — hit a batter, bloop, wild pitch — that’s a tough way to give up the lead,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “We just couldn’t put it away. We had a couple of chances to get a little bigger [lead]. Still, you like your chances. We had it set up with Casilla out there. They just fought back. Give them credit. It happens.”
Giants right fielder Hunter Pence reinjured his right hamstring as he tried to beat out a fourth-inning grounder. Pence returned to San Francisco’s lineup last Friday at Colorado after injuring the same hamstring kept him out of the lineup for six consecutive games.
Pence is scheduled to undergo an MRI early Thursday morning. He answered multiple questions about his physical condition by repeating, “We’ll see. I don’t know.”
Joe Panik’s fifth-inning sacrifice fly accounted for an unearned run that came with some assistance provided by Braves catcher A.J. Pierzynski and second baseman Kelly Johnson. Pierzynski was unable to corral Gregor Blanco’s leadoff bunt in front of the plate. Kelby Tomlinson followed with a potential double-play chopper that Johnson fumbled, allowing the Giants to put two on with none out.
“[Perez] was really good,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “Like I said, the guys came in, picked each other up again and did a good job of holding the game right there to give us a chance.”
Belt’s second-inning single accounted for the Giants’ first hit before his fourth-inning, two-run homer off Perez opened the scoring. Belt has 10 hits in his last 19 at-bats with two homers, four doubles and five RBIs in that stretch. He’s also batting a team-high .347 (33-for-95) on the road.
Ender Inciarte was fortunate that his fourth-inning triple fell out of a hustling Denard Span’s glove and set the stage for Gordon Beckham’s RBI groundout. Mallex Smith followed suit when he highlighted Atlanta’s two-run sixth inning with his fourth triple within a span of 44 at-bats. Inciarte’s triple accounted for the only ball the Braves hit out of the infield through the first five innings.
The Braves had lost each of the previous 30 games in which they trailed after eight innings. The Giants had won 27 of the previous 29 game in which they led after eight innings.
Atlanta has won four of the first nine games played during this homestand, which they entered with a 2-17 record at Turner Field.
Atlanta will send Aaron Blair to the mound for Thursday afternoon’s series finale. In his first start back from the Minors, the right-hander surrendered two runs and struck out a career-high five batters in Saturday’s 7-2 win over the Marlins. First pitch is set for 11:10 a.m. CT.

The Nashville Sounds furiously rallied for six runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game, but ultimately dropped a 15-9 decision to the Round Rock Express in front of 4,781 fans Wednesday afternoon at First Tennessee Park.

The loss snapped a season-long nine game winning streak and trimmed the American South Division lead to 2.5 games over second place Round Rock.

Trailing 8-2 going into the bottom of the ninth, Josh Rodriguez sparked a rally with a base hit up the middle off reliever Chad Smith. He retired Jaycob Brugman for the first out of the inning before Chad Pinder walked.

With one swing of the bat, Renato Nunez cut the deficit in half with a three-run homer to left. It’s was his 10th of the season and second in as many days.

Ryon Healy kept it going with a solid single up the middle. Andrew Lambo popped out for out number two, but the inning continued when Express third baseman Joey Gallo threw away a grounder allowing Healy to score and Matt McBride to reach safely.

Three pitches later, Matt Olson tied the game with a two-out, two-run homer to right field. The inning ended after six runs came across and with the game even at 8-8.

The good vibes didn’t last long as Round Rock answered back with a seven-run top of the 10th inning. The big hit came off the bat of Brett Nicholas who belted a grand slam off Ryan Brasier to give the Express a 14-8 lead.

It’s only the second loss for the Sounds since May 14 – a dominant 16-2 stretch.

Nashville (32-21) out-hit Round Rock (29-23), 15-12, led by Jaycob Brugman’s 4-for-6 game. He started with a pair of singles, tripled in the seventh and doubled in the 10th.

Lambo extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a base hit up the middle in the fourth. Pinder extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a 2-for-5 day at the dish.

Brasier was tagged with the loss to drop his record to 3-2 and Smith was credited with the win despite allowing the six runs in the ninth.

Game three of the four-game series is scheduled for Thursday night at First Tennessee Park. Right-hander Zach Neal (5-1, 2.53) starts for the Sounds against right-hander Kyle Lohse (2-0, 4.08) for the Express. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.