There will be a youth tennis clinic next week directed by Westwood tennis coach Justin Winton. The clinic begins on Monday, June 5th and will continue thru Friday, June 9th. The camp is open to beginners and advanced tennis players ages 8 to 17. Cost for the camp is $50 per person with additional siblings for $30. The camp will be held at the tennis courts behind the Raider Academy.
There two morning sessions to choose from: 8:15 -9:45A.M. and 10:00-11:30 A.M. The early session will be centered on beginners and ages 8-13, and the later session will be for intermediates and ages 13-17. Students will receive instruction on how to improve their forehands, backhands, volleys, overheads, and serves. They will hit hundreds of tennis balls over the week and have fun doing it. Beginners will learn how to keep score and play matches, and intermediates will learn how to hit topspin and slice.
There is a growing interest in learning to play tennis in Manchester due to the new middle school teams in Coffee County and Manchester City, and the high school team is growing and improving. We’re trying to build a tennis community in Manchester, and that means getting students to start playing when they’re young.
If you don’t own a tennis racquet, you can still sign up. They will have several quality racquets that students can borrow. You need to wear clothes and shoes that you feel comfortable running around in, and you need to bring water. Any days that are rained out will be rescheduled for the afternoon or Saturday June 10th.
You can sign up by downloading the form below. Just click on it to print, then text or email a picture of the completed form.

After going down 3-0, the Nashville Predators came all the way back to even the score – but their opponent found a way to prevail.

Jake Guentzel scored the winner with 3:17 remaining in regulation and the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Predators by a 5-3 final in Game One of the Stanley Cup Final on Monday night at PPG Paints Arena. The loss is Nashville’s first to start a series in these playoffs, marking the first time they’ve trailed in a series in 2017.

Nashville held the Penguins to just 12 shots on goal on the night – including zero in the second period alone – but Pittsburgh ended up on the winning end of the Predators first Stanley Cup Final contest in franchise history.

“From the way we started and the way we continued on after that, I thought our guys played great,” Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “I thought we played a good game. We hate the score. We hate the result. But we’ll move forward.”

“For the majority of the game, I really liked the way we played,” Preds forward Colton Sissons said. “We played fast and really hard. Everybody was committed tonight, but a couple lapses defensively against a team like that is dangerous, and they make you pay for it.”

Nashville controlled the play to begin Game One, and they thought they had a 1-0 lead when P.K. Subban wristed a shot past Matt Murray. But Pittsburgh challenged the play for offside, and once the officials determined Filip Forsberg was over the blue line before the puck was, the tides turned.

The Penguins were given a 5-on-3 power play, and Evgeni Malkin fired a shot past Pekka Rinne for a 1-0 lead. Then it was Conor Sheary who made it 2-0, followed by a Nick Bonino centering feed that went off Mattias Ekholm and into the net for a 3-0 Pittsburgh advantage after one period of play.

Just as they did to start the game, Nashville had the decided edge in offensive chances in the second period, and a power-play tally from Ryan Ellis at the 8:21 mark of the stanza got the Preds on the board. In fact, the Penguins failed to register a single shot in the middle frame.

That trend continued in the third period, and another Nashville power play brought about a Roman Josi snap shot that deflected in off the knee of Colton Sissons to bring the Preds to within one goal. Then, Austin Watson found Frederick Gaudreau in front, and the rookie buried his first-career postseason goal to complete the comeback.

But on Pittsburgh’s first shot in 37 minutes, it was Guentzel who beat Rinne for the game-winner before Bonino added an empty netter to finish it off.

The Predators will now turn their attention to Game Two of the Final, which comes Wednesday night, with an emphasis on keeping the same confidence and resiliency that’s gotten them to this point.

“We’ve stayed positive, regardless of situations because we know we have to play a certain way,” Nashville Captain Mike Fisher said. “We play to our strengths and our identity and whether we’re up or down, that doesn’t change how we play. I think you saw that tonight when we were down 3-0; this team just doesn’t give up. But that being said, it’s a good hockey team. We have to find ways to get wins, and we weren’t quite good enough because we didn’t come out on the good end.”

Notes:

Predators forward Colin Wilson missed Game One due to injury, but Captain Mike Fisher and forward Craig Smith both returned to the Nashville lineup on Monday.

Fisher recorded an assist on Ryan Ellis’s goal, his first point of the postseason. He also picked up an assist on Gaudreau’s tally.

Pittsburgh failed to register a shot in the second period, the first time since official tracking for shots on goal began in 1957 that a team went without a shot in a full period of a Stanley Cup Final game.

Game Two of the Stanley Cup Final comes Wednesday night in Pittsburgh before the series shifts to Nashville for Games Three and Four on Saturday and next Monday, respectively.

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report

Julio Teheran navigated around three solo homers and Matt Adams and Danny Santana hit two-run doubles in a six-run third inning as the Braves topped the Angels, 6-3, in Monday night’s series opener at Angel Stadium.

Atlanta sent 11 batters to the plate in the third, using five hits, a walk and an error by third baseman Cliff Pennington to build a 6-1 lead. Angels right-hander Ricky Nolasco lasted only 2 2/3 innings, yielding six runs (two earned) on six hits while walking two and striking out two.
“Just couldn’t get out of that inning,” Nolasco said. “I let some things get out of hand, and I couldn’t get that last out. It kind of snowballed from there. It’s disappointing.”
The Braves’ offensive eruption was enough for Teheran, who scattered six hits while walking one and striking out five over 6 1/3 innings.
Atlanta manager Brian Snitker lauded his starter, who managed to escape a two-out situation with men on second and third during the fifth inning, by striking out Kole Calhoun to end the threat.
“Big strikeout of Calhoun in the [fifth] inning,” Snitker said of Teheran. “He was good. Got around the homers. He was really good at that.”
Andrelton Simmons, a former Braves shortstop, opened the scoring with a solo shot in the second, and Albert Pujols and Luis Valbuena hit back-to-back jacks in the fourth that cut Atlanta’s lead to 6-3.
Pujols is now only two home runs shy of becoming the ninth player in Major League history to reach 600.
The defeat capped a tough day for the Angels, who learned that they will be without star center fielder Mike Trout for six to eight weeks. Trout suffered a torn UCL in his left thumb on Sunday and will undergo surgery on Wednesday.
Adams’ ground-rule double put the Braves ahead, 2-1, in the third, but the Angels had a chance to escape the inning without allowing further damage. With two outs and runners on second and third, Tyler Flowers lined a hard-hit grounder to third that Pennington could not handle, knocking in another run and extending the inning. The Braves took advantage of Pennington’s miscue, as Rio Ruiz followed with an RBI single and Santana’s double off the right-field wall pushed the Braves’ lead to 6-1 and chased Nolasco from the game. Four of the six runs scored against Nolasco were unearned.
“If we make a couple plays, I think that inning definitely doesn’t get away from us with six runs,” Angels manager Mike Scioscia said.
Down by three, the Angels had a chance to chip away at the deficit in the seventh when they loaded the bases with one out. Martin Maldonado reached on a hit by pitch, and Pennington and Eric Young Jr. followed with back-to-back singles, prompting Snitker to lift Teheran in favor of Jose Ramirez. Ramirez worked out of the jam by inducing a 5-4-3 double play from Cameron Maybin, killing the Angels’ rally and preserving the Braves’ 6-3 edge.
Veteran starter Bartolo Colon (2-5, 6.96 ERA) assumes the mound Tuesday evening against an Angels club with which he won the 2005 American League Cy Young Award. The 44-year-old enters with a career record of 12-7 with a 3.57 ERA in 24 starts against his former team. First pitch is scheduled for 9:07 p.m. CT and you can hear the game right here on Thunder Radio

The Nashville Sounds’ offense continued to struggle in a 6-0 shutout loss to the Colorado Springs Sky Sox in front of a Memorial Day crowd of 9,018 at First Tennessee Park Monday afternoon.

The shutout loss was the second in three games against the Sky Sox. Nashville was also blanked in game one of Sunday’s doubleheader. Over the last three games, the offense has mustered just two runs on 13 hits.

Sky Sox starter Josh Hader and relievers Wei-Chung Wang, Tristan Archer, and Tim Dillard did the job Monday afternoon.

Hader and company received some early offense when the Sox put three runs on the board in the second inning against Sounds hurler Paul Blackburn.

Consecutive hits by Garrett Cooper, Brett Phillips, and Nate Orf started the rally. After Blackburn retired Tyler Heineman for the first out of the frame, he hit Yadiel Rivera to force in the game’s first run. Kyle Wren came up two batters later and made it 3-0 with a two-run single up the middle.

Brett Phillips added a run with a sacrifice fly in the third, and Wren and Ryan Cordell collected run-scoring base hits in the fourth to give Colorado Springs a 6-0 advantage.

The offense never kicked into gear for the Sounds who managed just six hits. They left nine runners on base and went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position.

Jaycob Brugman went 2-for-4 with a pair of singles and extended his on-base streak to a team-high 17 games. It’s the fourth-longest active streak in the Pacific Coast League.

Blackburn was tagged with the loss after entering the day on a scoreless innings streak of 13. Wang picked up the win for Colorado Springs after tossing three scoreless frames.

The Sounds and Sky Sox wrap up the five-game series tomorrow with the completion of Saturday’s suspended game, followed by another seven inning contest. The action starts at 5:05 p.m. Tuesday at First Tennessee Park.