Bradley King of CHS baseball

Bradley King threw 6 1/3 scoreless innings and Jacob Langham came in for a 4 pitch save for Coffee County as the Red Raiders blanked Marshall County 2 to 0 on Wednesday evening at Powers Field. The pitching duo combined to throw 4 hitter as Coffee County continues to play strong baseball in the closing weeks of the season. The win evens the season series with Marshall County who beat Coffee County 6 to 3 on April 7th.
King entered the 7th inning with a 1 hitter but a walk and 3 hits had the bases loaded and only 1 out. Coach David Martin brought in Langham who coaxed a groundball back to the mound to key the 1-2-3 double play and end the game.
The Raiders got on the board in the 1st inning when Wyatt Day led off the game by reaching base on an error. A walk and a base hit put him at 3rd base where he scored on a balk. In the 4th inning, Nathaniel Tate led off with a double and scored on a double steal.
The Raiders were held to 6 hits on the game with Tate’s double being the lone extra base hit. Defensively, Coffee County was flawless as they did not commit an error.
Coffee County will be back in action on Saturday morning when they travel to Thompson’s Station for an 11 AM game with Independence.

Hayden Skipper of CCMS Baseball

A 2 run rally in the top of the 7^th inning was not enough to keep the Coffee County Middle School Red Raider baseball season alive on Wednesday as North Franklin eliminated the Raiders 7 to 5 in the CTC baseball tournament at Warren County.  The elimination game was moved up to Wednesday night instead of Thursday night due to the fear of rain on Thursday.

Coffee County took leads of 1 to 0 in the top of the 1^st and 3 to 1 in the top of the 3^rd before North scored 6 unanswered runs in the 3^rd and 4^th innings to take the lead for good.

In the 7^th inning, Coffee County loaded the bases with no one out as Blanton Brown led off with a walk, Hayden Skipper doubled him to 3^rd base and North Franklin intentionally walked Brandon Jernigan.  Braxton White drove in Brown with a single before Skipper scored on an error but the Raiders were retired on a double play to end the game.

Skipper finished the game with 3 hits in 4 at bats and 2 runs scored.  Jernigan was 1 for 1 but reached base after being walked twice and hit by a pitch.  Brown was 1 for 2 with a pair of walks and scored 3 runs for Coffee County.   The Raiders finish the season with a mark of 9 wins and 9 losses.

Jenna Garretson

The Coffee County Middle School track team spilt a meet with South Franklin on Wednesday. With several softball players in attendance, the Lady Raiders dropped the Lady of Troy 74 to 25. The boys’ team was severely under staffed as several athletes were absent due to other commitments. The Red Raiders fell 61 to 37. The Raider teams will welcome North Franklin and South Franklin to Carden-Jarrell Field on Monday for a tri-meet. Field events will get underway at 4 PM. Coffee County medalists were:
Girls – CCMS 74, South Franklin 25
Shot Put: Marissa Douglass-2nd, Marley Perry-3rd
Discus: Marissa Douglass-2nd, Marley Perry-3rd
High Jump: Jenna Garretson-1st, Macy Tabor-2nd
Long Jump: Jenna Garretson-1st, Macy Tabor-2nd
4x100m Relay: 1st-Macy Tabor, Laura Bogart, Ashley Evans, Marissa Douglass
1600m Run: Kaytee Christian-2nd, Trava Brown-3rd
100m Run: Marissa Douglass-1st, Karie Wooten-3rd
4x200m Relay: 1st-Willow Hobbs, Macy Tabor, Mady Gravitt, Kayla Johnson
400m Run: Gracie Pippenger-1st, Ryan Green-2nd
800m Run: Felicia Medina-1st, Jasie Willis-2nd, Lexie Hosea-3rd
200m Run: Reagan Ellison-2nd, Claire Bryant-3rd
4x400m Relay: 1st-Journey Arnold, Emilee Roberson, Emma Singleton, Jade Arnold

Larson Meltzer of CCMS track(file photo)

Boys – CCMS 37, South Franklin 61
Shot Put: Brandon Jernigan-2nd
Discus: Brandon Jernigan-2nd, Ethan Welch-3rd
High Jump: Blanton Brown-1st
Long Jump: Blanton Brown-1st, Jalen Morris-2nd
1600m Run: Larson Meltzer-1st, Ethan Welch-3rd
100m Run: 2nd-Landon Crabtree, 3rd-Michael DeLong
400m Run: 2nd-Ethan Beaty
800m Run: 2nd-Jake Melton
200m Run: 3rd-Landon Crabtree

The Coffee County Middle School soccer team saw their season draw to a close on Wednesday night in the opening round of the CTC post season tournament as they fell to Tullahoma 6 to 0. The Raiders played significantly better than the score indicates as they trailed 2 nil at the half after the Wildcats got a pair of 2nd chance goals off of rebounded shots. The Wildcats added a 3 goal midway through the 2nd half and Coffee County coach Kenny Lockhart emptied his bench in the last 12 minutes. Tullahoma, who did not have JV team members present to match subs, scored 3 times in the last 12 minutes against the younger Coffee County squad.

Instead of extending their winning streak to five games and celebrating what would have been the first great catch of Mallex Smith’s career, the Braves watched Justin Turner deliver a double that proved decisive for the Dodgers in Wednesday night’s 5-3, 10-inning win at Turner Field.

After seeing closer Arodys Vizcaino notch three strikeouts in a scoreless ninth, the Braves watched former closer Jason Grilli put two on before Turner delivered his game-winner, which bounced out of Smith’s glove as he dove toward left-center field. Yasmani Grandal’s single off Alexi Ogando provided an insurance run for the Dodgers, who prevented the Braves from becoming the first team in Major League history to follow a 0-9 start (or worse) with five consecutive victories.
Dodgers starter Ross Stripling endured the first rough outing of his young career — allowing three runs (two earned) over 3 2/3 innings. Meanwhile, Julio Teheran battled through the lingering effects of the fever that led the Braves to push his start back one day. Teheran exited after throwing just 75 pitches through 5 1/3 innings and immediately saw Adrian Gonzalez greet Eric O’Flaherty with a game-tying, two-run homer in the sixth inning.
“It was a good ballgame,” Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. “Julio, after dealing with his sickness, I felt he gave us everything possible that he could give us. We had a chance to win the ballgame, but we didn’t score any runs after the fourth inning.”
The Dodgers’ bullpen has picked up its starters in the first two games of the series. On Wednesday night, Adam Liberatore, J.P. Howell, Chris Hatcher, Yimi Garcia, Joe Blanton and Kenley Jansen combined to throw 6 1/3 innings of one-hit relief. That followed Tuesday’s effort of one earned run and three hits over four innings.
Stripling escaped a 26-pitch first inning unscathed, but he wasn’t as fortunate in the third inning. A.J. Pierzynski took advantage of a Corey Seager error by notching a two-out single that gave the Braves an early lead. Atlanta extended its lead to 3-0 in the fourth, when Erick Aybar delivered a leadoff double and scored on Daniel Castro’s two-out, two-run single.
Adrian Gonzalez continues to wear out Braves pitching. He blasted a game-tying two-run homer in the sixth inning, giving him three hits in the first two games of the series. He’s now hit safely in 11 of the last 13 games against the Braves, batting .353 in that span (18-for-51). In 2016, he’s batting .429 (15-for-35) on the road.
Gonzalez’s home run was one of the three extra-base hits O’Flaherty has surrendered in nine at-bats against left-handed hitters. In addition, it blemished the effort provided by Teheran, who kept the Dodgers scoreless until Nick Markakis’ two-base error in the fifth set the stage for Joc Pederson’s RBI single. Teheran exceeded 89 mph with just five of his 75 pitches, but he still needed just 45 pitches to limit Los Angeles to two hits through the first four innings.
“If you don’t use O’Flaherty there, you’re going to use him in the seventh, like we did with [Hunter] Cervenka,” Fredi Gonzalez said. “So you’ve got to pick the spot where you feel you’re going to be successful.”
Matt Wisler will take the mound when Atlanta concludes this three-game series on Thursday at 11:10 a.m. CT. Wisler will attempt to avoid the “big inning” that tarnished his first two starts against the Cardinals and Nationals. The right-hander was slated to start Tuesday, but was pushed back two days after he notched his first save in a relief appearance on Sunday.