Diana Davis takes off on her 1st attempt at 10′ on Wednesday at the state track meet

Three attempts to tie her personal record were not enough on Wednesday as Diana Davis settled for a 6th place finish in the pole vault at the TSSAA Spring Fling State Track Meet at MTSU. Davis, who cleared 9’6” in her 2nd attempt at the height, matched her qualifying height from the sectional. Davis set a personal record of 10’ earlier this season.
This is the 2nd straight state track meet in the pole vault for Davis as she competed in Arizona last season before her family moved to Tennessee. Davis also cleared 9’6” in Arizona to finish in 10th place last year. Davis, who is a senior and was a member of the Lady Raider volleyball team, has committed to Harding University(Arkansas) in the fall and hopes to play volleyball and pole vault. Davis is the first female pole vaulter at Coffee County in the program’s history.
We interviewed Davis following the meet and this is what she had to say:

You can see a video of Davis clearing the bar at 9 feet at: https://www.facebook.com/WMSRradio/videos/vb.220712800726/10157165947530727/?type=3&theater

Diana Davis(center) with her medal and CHS Track coaches Stan Jarrell(left) and Samantha Amis(right)

The Spring Fling State Track Meet is taking place all this week at MTSU’s Dean A. Hays Track and Soccer Stadium. Sarah Pearson and Karson Young will each compete on Thursday in 3 events. Young will take part in the long jump at 9 AM and comes back for the triple jump at 10:15. Her final event is the 100M hurdles around 3:30 PM. Pearson takes part in the high jump at 12 PM, the 100M hurdles around 3:30 PM and the 300M hurdles sometime after 4 PM.

After facing the Braves’ entire bullpen and the guy who had been scheduled to start on Saturday, the Brewers claimed a 3-2 victory courtesy of Jonathan Villar’s go-ahead single in the 13th inning on Wednesday night at Turner Field.

Casey Kelly had been scheduled to start Saturday, but he ended up throwing the final four innings for the Braves, who have lost 19 of their first 21 home games. After the Brewers loaded the bases before the first out was recorded in the 13th inning, Villar delivered his game-winning single to left that scored Aaron Hill off Kelly, who had thrown 81 pitches over five innings on Sunday in Philadelphia.
The Braves burned through their ‘pen after starter Mike Foltynewicz surrendered one run over 5 2/3 innings. The Brewers used six of their seven relievers after Junior Guerra escaped multiple threats over five scoreless innings. Milwaukee has won each of the five games Guerra has started this season.
“He put zeros on the board,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “It’s good when a guy can pitch like that. I don’t think he had his best night. I just thought it was time to go to our [bullpen].”
Braves infielder Gordon Beckham’s first career pinch-hit homer — a two-run shot in the sixth inning off Chris Capuano — served as the potential game winner until the Brewers manufactured a run in the eighth inning. Atlanta used six relievers to record the 10 outs that separated Foltynewicz’s exit and the end of the ninth inning.
“I don’t particularly like going out there, but it was just kind of the way things were stacking up,” Braves interim manager Brian Snitker said. “You’d rather not, but it was like we were going to try to win this in nine, especially after Gordo hit the homer.”
The Braves used all seven of their relievers, including three in the eighth inning. Newly-appointed setup man Bud Norris exited after surrendering a Jonathan Lucroy single and Chris Carter double with one out in the eighth. The Braves then opted not to play their infield in and paid the price when Kirk Nieuwenhuis greeted Ian Krol with his game-tying RBI groundout.
Guerra put runners on, but bore down in at-bats with runners in scoring position. He held the Braves hitless in nine such at-bats in his five innings, including retiring Atlanta’s Nos. 3 and 4 hitters — Freddie Freeman and Nick Markakis in the first, third and fifth innings with runners on first and second base. Opponents had gone 7-for-13 against Guerra with runners in scoring position in his four previous starts.
“It’s about mixing and not being too predictable because they’re dangerous hitters,” catcher Lucroy said. “That’s really all it’s about, not being predictable and mixing and just location.”
Foltynewicz touched 100 mph with his first pitch to Braun in the third inning and clocked 97 mph or above with 37 of the fastballs he threw during his 104-pitch outing. But the lone run he surrendered came after he opened the fifth by getting ahead with a 0-2 count before walking Broxton, who had struck out in 14 of his previous 21 career at-bats. Broxton reached third base courtesy of a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch before scoring on Villar’s sacrifice fly.
Lucroy, Carter and Nieuwenhuis had been a combined 1-for-19 in the series with 11 strikeouts and one infield hit (by Carter) prior to the eighth inning. But down 2-1, the trio came through. Lucroy smacked a one-out single to center, Carter followed by bashing a double the opposite way off the wall in right to put runners on second and third, and Nieuwenhuis, who hadn’t put a ball in play in five of his first six plate appearances in the two games, delivered an RBI grounder to second to knot the game.
“[Infielder] Chase d’Arnaud was the next pitcher if we had tied that game. He’s got a loose arm. Shoot, he might go out and get them out for a while.” — Snitker
With his first-inning single, Ryan Braun reached base in his 27th consecutive game. It’s the third-longest active streak in the Majors, behind Miami’s Marcell Ozuna (32 games) and Boston’s Jackie Bradley Jr. (29).
Freeman has recorded one hit in his past 22 at-bats with runners in scoring position and he is hitting .135 (5-for-37) with RISP this season.
Right-hander Matt Wisler will start Thursday’s series finale at 6:10 p.m. CT. Wisler has posted a 1.80 ERA and limited opponents to a .204 batting average over his past four starts.  Thunder Radio will bring you the broadcast of the game as part of the Braves Radio Network as the pregame show begins at 6 PM.

The Nashville Sounds continued their winning ways after scoring two runs in the top of the 12th inning to take a 5-3 win Wednesday night at Cashman Field to win their 10th out of their last 11 games.

The late inning rally started with a lead-off single by Max Muncy to right field. Muncy then stole second base with Andrew Lambo batting. Ryon Healy then delivered the go ahead run with a one-out double to right center field to put the Sounds on top 4-3. Healy advanced to third base on Matt Olson’s ground out to second to set the stage for Rangel Ravelo to add the insurance run. Ravelo then hit an infield single allowing Healy to score to put the Sounds up 5-3 in the 12th.

The 51’s attempted a late rally as Sounds reliever J.B. Wendelken issued a two-out walk to Brandon Nimmo. Nimmo then took second on defensive indifference and rounded second to go to third and was caught stealing by Wendelken to end the game.

Daniel Mengden pitched well and gave up just one run in seven innings in his fifth start of the year for the Sounds. The right-hander surrendered just four hits while striking out three batters in a no decision.

The Sounds took the lead in the fourth inning on a bases loaded RBI single by Jaycob Brugman. Brugman’s single scored Andrew Lambo from third, however Matt Olson was thrown out at home.

Las Vegas answered with a solo home run by 51’s right fielder Travis Tailjeron to tie the game at 1-1 after 4.

The game remain dead locked until Andrew Lambo hit a solo home run to right center field in the 8th inning to give the Sounds a late 2-1 lead.

Ryan Brasier came out of the bullpen to relieve Mengden to start the eighth inning for the Sounds. The right-hander found trouble early as he surrendered three hits and a run. Patrick Schuster came on with two outs and two runners on to try to keep the game tied at 2-2. Schuster balked with Brandon Nimmo on third to allow the go ahead run to score to put the 51’s up 3-2

In the top of the ninth, Jaycob Brugman scored from third on a wild pitch with Josh Phegley batting to tie the game at 3-3.

Wendelken picked up his first win of the season for the Sounds and the loss was credited to Las Vegas’s Zack Thorton.

The series concludes Thursday night at Cashman Field with the Sounds turning to right-hander Chris Smith (2-5, 4.40) and the 51’s will counter with right-hander Seth Lugo (3-2, 7.91). First pitch is scheduled for 9:05 p.m. CST.