The Coffee County Central High School softball team held their annual Awards Banquet on Monday Night at Boskey’s Grill.  Celebrating the career of 5 seniors, the 2018 Lady Raiders gave toast to a 2018 District 8AAA championship and a Region 4AAA championship.  Head Coach Brandon McWhorter presided over the festivities.

Ten Lady Raider seniors and juniors were recognized by the Tennessee Softball Coaches Association as members of the All-Academic Team.  Seniors Shelby Scrivnor, Lauren Tomberlin, Tatum Baldwin and Raven Rogers all maintained an overall GPA of 3.6 to earn a spot on the squad.  They were joined by juniors Lexi Holder, Haley Miller, Haley Richardson, Alexcia Barnes, Erin Ferrell and Katie Rutledge.

Three members of the Lady Raider team were selected to the All-District 8-AAA team.  Katie Rutledge, Sarah West and Lauren Tomberlin were named to the squad by a vote of the District 8AAA coaches.

For team awards, Erin Ferrell was named the Defensive Player of the Year for the junior varsity and Justus Turner was selected as the Offensive Player of the Year.  For the varsity squad, Kasarah Scheller and Keri Munn were named the Co-Defensive Players of the Year.  Sarah West earned the Offensive Player of the Year.  Tatum Baldwin was named the Team First Award winner by a vote of her teammates and Haley Miller was selected as the Lady Raider Award winner.

The 17U Coffee County Red Raider baseball team played host to Warren County on Monday night at Powers Field.  In a pitcher’s duel, Coffee County was held to 4 hits on the game as they fell 3 to 1 in the 7 inning contest.

Both teams pushed across a run in the 2^nd inning.  After Warren County scored In the top of the inning, the Red Raiders used singles from Owen Neel and Ryan Stephens to set the stage for an RBI sacrifice fly from Kyle Farless.  The visiting Pioneers added single runs in the 3^rd and 7^th innings to get the win.  Gage Edwards and Braeden Brown had the other 2 hits for Coffee County.

The 17U Raiders travel to Grundy County on Tuesday night.  First pitch is set for 5 PM.  On Wednesday, they will visit Lincoln County for a 4 PM game.  The 15U Raiders will be at home on Wednesday as they play host to Shelbyville.  First pitch is set for 5 PM at Powers Field.

The Coffee County Central High School Lady Raider basketball team opened play on Monday in the MTSU team camp.  The varsity and junior varsity Lady Raiders each played 2 games while the freshmen team had one game.

The varsity team lost a pair of nail-biters to Maryville and Gatlinburg-Pittman.  Trailing by 10 at the half, Coffee County went on a 2^nd half tear before falling 50 to 47 to Maryville.  Abby Morgan led the Lady Raiders in scoring with 17 points.  Jacey Vaughn added 11 points and Bella Vinson finished with 9.  Against Gatlinburg-Pittman, the Lady Raiders took an early lead  but went cold in the 2^nd and 3^rd periods to fall behind 39 to 29 entering the final period.  A 4^th quarter rally, including 8 points from Vinson and a pair of 3 point baskets from Morgan Jones was not enough as Coffee County fell 51 to 44.  Vinson finished the game with 21 points while Morgan added 12.

The JV Lady Raiders fell to Summit by 2 points and Wartburg by 16 points.  The freshmen Lady Raiders defeated North by 12 for the bright spot of the day.

The Lady Raiders return to MTSU on Tuesday to conclude their summer scrimmage schedule.  Coffee County will take on East Robertson at 9 AM and Macon County at 1 PM with both games taking place in the Alumni Gym.  The JV will take on White County at 11 AM in Murphy Center’s Auxiliary Gym #2 while the freshmen will tangle with Gibson County at noon in Murphy Center’s Auxiliary Gym #1

After combining for 45 runs on 58 hits in the first two games of the series, the Nashville Sounds and Albuquerque Isotopes came back to earth Monday night as the Isotopes edged the Sounds 3-2. The two ball clubs mustered just five runs on 15 hits.

Nashville’s bullpen was asked to pitch 7 2/3 innings after the game began with a bit of controversy. Sounds starter Ben Bracewell was ejected after recording one out and throwing just three pitches. On his third pitch he threw the ball behind Albuquerque’s Raimel Tapia and was tossed, prompting the Sounds to go to their bullpen much earlier than anticipated. Ryan Dull entered the game and allowed a double from Tapia and a run-scoring single from Josh Fuentes as the Isotopes jumped out to a 1-0 lead. A sacrifice fly from Garrett Hampson doubled Albuquerque’s lead in the second.

Nashville cut the lead in half in the fourth inning. Sheldon Neuse smoked a two-out triple and then came in to score on an error by the second baseman, Hampson, whose relay throw went into the third base dugout. Albuquerque regained its two-run advantage with back-to-back doubles in the fifth inning by Hampson and Tapia.

The Sounds got a run back in the sixth inning as Bruce Maxwell slapped an RBI-single into left field to bring Ramón Laureano home from second base.

In his lone inning of work, Ryan Buchter, on a rehab assignment from Oakland, sat down the Isotopes in order in the fourth on just seven pitches.

Bobby Wahl kept the Sounds in striking distance. The hard-throwing right-hander entered with the bases loaded in two outs in the seventh inning and blew away Fuentes with three fastballs. He then retired the three Isotopes he faced in the eighth. Nashville got the leadoff man on-base in the top of the ninth as Maxwell drew a walk, but the threat was ended as BJ Boyd hit into the Sounds’ fourth double play of the game.

The final game of the four-game series is scheduled for Tuesday afternoon in Albuquerque. Right-hander Edwin Jackson (0-1, 5.40) starts for the Sounds against right-hander David Holman (2-1, 5.52) for the Isoptopes. First pitch is scheduled for 1:05 p.m.

Post-Game Notes

• With Monday’s 3-2 loss, the Sounds dropped to 32-36 on the season.
• Nick Martini extended his consecutive on-base streak to 51 games when he singled in the first inning. Martini’s streak is the longest by a Nashville player in the Pacific Coast League era and is the longest active streak in Minor League Baseball. Since April 14, Martini has reached safely in every game he has played in. The single extended his hitting streak to a career-high 20 games. The 51-game on-base streak is the longest in the Pacific Coast League since at least 2009 when MLBAM began tracking the statistic. The hitting streak is the fourth-longest streak for the Sounds in the PCL era.
• BJ Boyd’s failed to reach base, snapping his road on-base streak at 27 straight games.
• Anthony Garcia’s sixth inning single extended his hitting streak to a season-high 10 games.
• The Sounds hit into a season-high four double plays.

The 2018 season is the Sounds’ 41^st in franchise history and fourth as the Oakland Athletics’ top affiliate. Single-game tickets are available now by calling (615) 690-4487 or by visiting www.nashvillesounds.com.