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CHS Golfers Score Well in Scrimmage Tournament
CHS golfer Samuel Prater[file photo]
Junior Samuel Prater picked up right where he left off in 2016 as he shot the low score for the Raiders with an 80. Senior Reid Lawrence was 2 strokes back at 82 while junior Austin Farris got around the par 72 course in 83 strokes. Junior Josh Perry shot an 86 while fellow junior Matthew Hale carded an 89 on the day. Palmer Saolowski of Father Ryan shot a 70 for the day’s low round.
The Red Raiders will open the regular season on Monday when they welcome Grundy County to Willowbrook for an 18 hole match. That match is set to get underway at 9 AM.
Coffee Co. Sheriff’s Dept. Searching for Owners of Recovered Stolen Property
The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department along with Cannon County and Warren County Sheriff Department Investigators have been working recovering stolen property from burglaries that occurred in the Maple Springs Road area.
The Coffee County Sheriff’s Department would like to thank the other departments for their assistance in the investigations. There are still several items that the agencies recovered that the victims have not identified.
If anyone within the past five days has had any guns, TV’s, or stereos stolen, call Investigator James Sherrill with the Coffee County Sheriff’s Department at 931-570-4404 and give a description of the property and serial number, if you have it, to see if any of the property is yours.
Tullahoma Police and Fire asking for the Public’s Help
The Tullahoma Fire and Police Departments are seeking the public’s help finding an arsonist. Discovered on July 13 by school staff, a fire at Tullahoma High School’s Wilkins Stadium was determined by the Tennessee Bomb & Arson Division to have been intentionally set.
Anyone having information that can help to determine the person or persons responsible for this fire is encouraged to report it to the Tennessee Arson Hotline at 1-800-762-3017. A cash reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information.
Tullahoma Police Department Investigator, Tyler Hatfield, is leading the investigation.
Funding Cuts Put TN Teen Pregnancy Prevention on Hold
Tennessee has made significant progress in preventing teenage pregnancies, but still has one of the highest teen birth rates in the country. (Janine/Flickr)
Bill Albert, chief program officer for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, called the announcement to end a program with a proven success rate, with no opportunity for public input, “alarming.”
“It is one of the few federal government programs that is administered on the basis of what works, rather than ideology,” he said. “The Office of Adolescent Health made this announcement before there was any congressional action on funding.”
Tennessee still ranks in the top 10 states for the highest teen birth rates, with 6,200 births to teen mothers in 2015 alone. The high school graduation rate for teenage parents plummets to 40 percent. Teen pregnancy-prevention programs in Memphis, Morristown and Nashville will be affected by the funding cuts.
Rural communities and communities of color continue to have disproportionately higher rates of teen pregnancy. With one in 19 girls across the United States getting pregnant before their 20th birthday, Albert said, the nation continues to have a higher teen birth rate than other developed societies – and progress was being made to change that.
“We have done such an extraordinary job as a nation and bringing these rates down, that one wonders what’s broken, what needs to be fixed here,” he said. “Our rates in the U.S. are far out of whack with other comparable countries. Our rates remain far higher than those in, say, Western Europe. ”
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that that teen pregnancy and childbirth total more than $9 billion in health-care and foster-care costs in 2010, the most recent data available. According to the United Health Foundation, the Tennessee birth rate is 35 per 1,000 females, ages 15 to 19.
Tennessee data is online at thenationalcampaign.org.
Tennessee Unemployment Rate at an All Time Low
Gov. Bill Haslam says Tennessee’s unemployment rate for June was the lowest in recorded state history.
At a news conference on Thursday, Haslam said the 3.6 percent figure is best the state has performed since at least 1976, when the statistic started being recorded.
June’s preliminary seasonally adjusted rate surpasses the previous low mark of 3.7 percent in March 2000. The last time Tennessee registered below 4 percent was February 2001.
Haslam’s office says the improvement occurred as the national preliminary rate increased by one-tenth of a percentage point to 4.4 percent over the same month.
Haslam pointed to Tennessee’s low taxes, business environment, high quality of life and workforce preparation as reasons for the drop.
C-CCAP Parking Lot Closed This Weekend
The parking lot at the Coffee County Administrative Plaza on McArthur Drive in Manchester will be closed this weekend (July 21 night through 23) starting Friday evening around 5:30 p.m. This is due to pavement striping being performed.
There will be access to the doctor office at the entrance of the plaza.
CHS Volleyball Continues Play in Eagleville Team Camp
The Coffee County Lady Raider volleyball team had a record of 1 and 2 in their trio of matches on Thursday at the Eagleville camp. Coffee County opened the day with a 3 set loss to Community by scores of 23-25, 25-18 & 10-15. Coffee County bounced back to defeat Grundy in 3 sets 25-17, 23-25 & 15-12. The Lady Raiders closed out the day with their best performance at the camp thus far in a straight set loss to Smyrna. Coffee County dropped the 2 sets 22-15 and 23-25.
Coach Andrew Taylor was again pleased with his young team’s effort. As is often the case with young squads, Coffee County struggled with bouts of inconsistency. Senior Tyana Fenton had another good day as she led the team in digs and aces. Sophomore Amanda Mukai led the team in assists and also was a team leader in service aces. Sophomore Keelie Hillis was the leader for Coffee County in kills.
Coffee County returns to Eagleville for a double elimination tournament on Friday. The Lady Raiders will open up bracket play at 8:00 AM. Coach Taylor will be a guest on Saturday’s Coffee Coaches Show to talk about the camp and the upcoming scrimmages for his Lady Raiders. The Coffee Coaches Show is broadcast each Saturday at 10 AM from the showroom of Al White Ford/Lincoln and is held exclusively here on Thunder Radio.
Braves Drop Dodgers in 6 to 3 Win
The Braves crashed the party at Dodger Stadium on Thursday night with a 6-3 victory, snapping the Dodgers’ 11-game win streak. It was just Los Angeles’ fifth loss in its last 36 games.
Freddie Freeman had two hits and two RBIs, while Kurt Suzuki added a two-run homer to back a strong start from Mike Foltynewicz, as the Braves ended their three-game skid. Foltynewicz allowed three runs in 6 1/3 innings, striking out five. The Braves right-hander has gone 5-0 in his last nine starts, striking out 51 and walking 21, while posting a 3.33 ERA and limiting opponents to a .248 average.
“He was on the attack,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said. “It looked like a lot of confidence in what he was doing, the ball was coming out of his hand good. It was just really a nice aggressive outing.”
Playing in front of their home crowd for the first time in 11 days, the MLB-best Dodgers took their first loss at Chavez Ravine since June 26 against the Angels, and their first against a National League opponent at home since June 6 vs. the Nationals. It was also their first loss since July 2 in San Diego.
“It’s a weird feeling,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “It’s different. Even to that last out, I thought we were going to find a way to win the game. But I guess we have got to start another one tomorrow.”
Dodgers starter Brandon McCarthy took the loss, allowing six runs on nine hits over four innings. Yasmani Grandal, who had a root canal earlier in the day, hit a two-run homer, and Cody Bellinger had an RBI single.
McCarthy has a 7.64 ERA over his last four outings, and Roberts said his next start is “to be determined.” McCarthy has dealt with a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand since Spring Training, and it appeared again Thursday. However, the right-hander said it’s not the reason for his recent struggles.
“The blister has been since spring, it just hasn’t ever gone away,” McCarthy said. “There’s no correlation, positive or negative. Command the last few, things have gotten really sloppy, and mechanics have been really shoddy, and this week, we really went to work trying to clean it up. Oddly enough, I feel happy with what happened today, outside of the results.”
The Braves got to McCarthy for two runs in the first, as four of the first five batters had hits. Ender Inciarte led off with a single, then scored on a one-out single by Freeman. Matt Kemp followed with another single, and Matt Adams ripped a double to score Freeman.
Dodgers pinch-hitter Trayce Thompson stepped to the plate representing the tying run in the bottom of the ninth, and with runners on second and third, he lifted a shallow popup into right. But Braves rookie second baseman Johan Camargo made an over-the-shoulder catch for the final out.
“That was a helluva play, wasn’t it?” Snitker said. “That’s just kind of willing yourself to catch that ball, it looked like to me. That’s a huge play.”
With the Dodgers’ loss, the 2013 Braves remain the most recent NL club to win at least 12 games in a row, as they won 14 straight from July 26-Aug. 9 that year.
Braves second baseman Brandon Phillips exited after the top of the sixth with right hamstring tightness. Camargo moved from shortstop to second, and Dansby Swanson entered at shortstop. Phillips, who went 1-for-3 with a triple, is day to day.
Lefty Jaime Garcia (2-2, 4.61 ERA) is scheduled to start, although a reported trade that would send him to the Twins may happen before Friday’s 9:10 p.m. CT game. Aaron Blair was scratched from his scheduled start for Triple-A Gwinnett on Thursday, so he may start should the Garcia trade get finalized.
Nunez’s Ninth Inning Homer Lifts Sounds Past Cubs
Renato Nuñez of the Nashville Sounds (Photo courtesy of MiLB.com)
Renato Nunez clubbed a go-ahead two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to lead the Nashville Sounds to a 7-5 win over the Iowa Cubs Thursday afternoon at Principal Park.
The home run by Nunez was his Minor League Baseball-leading 25th of the season and snapped a 5-5 deadlock in the series finale.
It was the second consecutive day the Sounds beat Iowa after trailing for most of the game. The Cubs scored four runs in the second inning to jump out to a 4-0 lead. Nashville closed the gap to 4-3 in the middle innings before Iowa got another run in the fifth to make it a 5-3 game.
Reliever Josh Smith played a huge part in the come-from-behind win. The right-hander took over for Jesse Hahn in the sixth inning and threw four scoreless frames to pick up his fourth win of the season. Smith allowed one hit and struck out four.
Bijan Rademacher’s three-run homer off Hahn gave Iowa a comfortable 4-0 lead in the second. Nashville chipped away with single runs in third through sixth innings to draw close.
Franklin Barreto launched a solo homer in the third, Matt McBride drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the fourth, Nunez singled home a run in the fifth, and Kenny Wilson’s sacrifice fly scored a run in the sixth.
Cubs’ reliever Felix Pena put up a zero in the seventh to protect Iowa’s 5-4 lead, but coughed it up in the eighth thanks to the sun.
Mark Canha hit a fly ball towards Iowa center fielder Jacob Hanneman to start the eighth. Hannemann lost the ball in the sun allowing Canha to scamper to third with a leadoff triple. Yairo Munoz followed with a run-scoring double down the left field line to make it 5-5. The RBI double capped a perfect 4-for-4 game for Munoz who’s hitting .347 in the month of July.
After Smith fired a 1-2-3 bottom of the eighth, the stage was set for Nunez who belted the two-run homer after Joey Wendle singled with one out. Smith came back out for the ninth and set the side down in order to help the Sounds earn a series split.
Wendle went 3-for-5 and extended his hitting streak to a career-best 12 games.
The Sounds open a four-game series in New Orleans Friday night. Right-hander Chris Jensen (4-1, 4.42) starts for the Sounds against right-hander William Cuevas (1-2, 3.04) for the Baby Cakes. First pitch is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.
Jerry C. Crynes
Jerry C Crynes of Manchester passed this life on Wednesday, July 19, 2017
at Tennova Healthcare – Harton at the age of 65 years. No services are
scheduled.
Mr. Crynes, the son of the late Wilbur and Dorothy Gloy Crynes was born in
Indiana on March 17, 1952. He was a truck driver who enjoyed fishing and
working on automobiles. He also enjoyed racing stock cars.
Mr. Crynes is survived by one daughter, Christin Galyen; life partner,
Laurie Noel Crynes; brothers, Danny, Alan and Ron Crynes; five sisters,
Kathy Abram, Bonnie Rogers, Penny Perez, Charlotte Stricklend and Debbie
Sanders and two grandchildren, Lilly and Frank Perry.
Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.