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Westwood Tennis Sweeps St. Andrews
Luz Maria Basurto of WMS tennis
After taking off for 17 days, the Westwood tennis teams played their 2nd match in 4 days on Monday as they welcomed St Andrews-Sewanee to the Raider Academy Courts. The pair of Westwood teams each captured a victory on the windswept afternoon. The Rockets claimed a 6 to 3 win while the Lady Rockets won 7 to 1.
For the Lady Rockets, Lauren Perry, Luz Maria Basurto, and Faith Duke won in singles play while Perry and Basurto won in doubles play. The Lady Rockets also claimed 3 wins via forfeit.
Braeden Massicotte of WMS tennis
For the Rockets, Braeden Massicotte, J.C Crouch, Trevor Bellamy, and Caelan Ducker won in singles and the teams of Massicotte/ Crouch and Bellamy/Drucker won in doubles play.
Westwood is back in action on Friday when they welcome Warren County to the Raider Academy courts. First serve is set for 4 PM.
Middle School Golf Teams Split in Monday Match
The middle school golf teams of Coffee County and Westwood welcomed Fayetteville and Tullahoma to Willowbrook on Monday afternoon. Under windy conditions, Coffee County squared off against Fayetteville and Westwood took on Tullahoma under the Junior PGA 2 team scramble format.
Coffee County captured a 5 ½ to ½ win over Fayetteville. The team of Logan Hale and David O’Connor captured 2 ½ flags in their 9 hole match. The team of Chase Hancock and Keegan Grubbs captured all 3 of their flags.
Westwood fell by a final score of 10 to 2 to Tullahoma. Christopher Robinson and Blake Perry captured 2 flags for both of Westwood’s flags.
The middle school golf teams will be back in action next Monday when they welcome Tullahoma to Willowbrook for a 3 team matchup. Tee time is set for 4 PM.
Conforto Hits HR, Drives in 3 to Power Mets Past Braves
Michael Conforto homered and drove in three runs, and the Mets scored five times in the fourth inning off Julio Teheran before holding out to beat the Atlanta Braves 7-5 on Monday night.
On the day the Mets placed ace Noah Syndergaard on the 10-day DL with a partial tear of his right lat muscle, Robert Gsellman (1-2) almost blew an early 6-1 lead. Gsellman allowed five runs in five-plus innings.
Five Mets relievers combined for four scoreless innings. Jeurys Familia pitched the ninth for his second save.
Conforto led off the game with his seventh homer and added a two-run single in New York’s five-run fourth inning off Teheran (2-2). With New York’s lead down to 6-5, Jose Reyes added a homer off Ian Krol in the eighth.
Atlanta’s Ender Inciarte hit his fifth homer to lead off the first.
The win provided a needed lift for the Mets, who moved out of last place in the NL East, a half-game ahead of Atlanta.
Syndergaard’s injury, suffered in the second inning of Sunday’s 23-5 loss to Washington, came as the team already was missing two injured hitters from the middle of its lineup.
Yoenis Cespedes was placed on the disabled list Friday with a strained left hamstring. First baseman Lucas Duda could have been eligible to return from a hyperextended left elbow, but he had a setback over the weekend while on his minor league rehab assignment.
The Mets’ five runs off Teheran in the fourth matched their scoring total in their last seven games against the Braves’ ace.
Before the game, Mets manager Terry Collins asked for players to “pick up the slack” and some of the team’s struggling hitters came through in the big inning.
Neil Walker, hitting .193, had a run-scoring single. Curtis Granderson, hitting .126, walked to load the bases. T.J. Rivera, hitting .192 as the fill-in for Duda, also had a run-scoring single up the middle. Conforto added a two-run single to right field.
The Mets recalled Paul Sewald from Triple-A Las Vegas to fill Syndergaard’s roster spot. Sewald gives the bullpen a fresh arm, and the team will make another move to fill Syndergaard’s spot in the rotation by Friday. Collins said left-hander Sean Gilmartin and right-hander Rafael Montero are the top candidates to join the rotation.
Matt Harvey will look for his second win over the Braves this season on Tuesday night at 6:35 PM CDT. R.A. Dickey, who won the 2012 NL Cy Young Award with the Mets, will face his former team for only the second time. He beat New York on April 27, when he allowed three runs, two earned, in a 7-5 win.
McBride’s Walk-Off Blast Gives Sounds Dramatic Win
Matt McBride hit a walk-off two-run homer in the bottom of the 12th inning to give the Nashville Sounds a dramatic 6-4 win over the New Orleans Baby Cakes in front of 8,262 fans at First Tennessee Park Monday afternoon.
With the score even at 4-4, Franklin Barreto laced a two-out triple into the right-center gap to set the stage for McBride. He hit the first pitch from lefty Kelvin Marte into the left field seats to give Nashville (10-11) the abbreviated four-game sweep.
The Sounds’ offense was stuck in neutral for the better part of the afternoon. Baby Cakes pitching held them to just one run on three hits through the first seven innings of the game.
Nashville’s comeback started in the bottom of the eighth inning when Renato Nuñez belted his team-leading fifth homer of the season, a solo blast to left-center to trim the deficit to 4-2.
After Sounds reliever Bobby Wahl tossed a 1-2-3 top of the ninth, New Orleans turned to right-hander Brian Ellington to try and close it out.
He struck out Matt Chapman for the first out in the inning before the Ryan Lavarnway sparked a rally with a double down the left field line. Kenny Wilson immediately collected a double of his own, plating Lavarnway to make it 4-3.
Wilson then stole third base and raced home moments later when Melvin Mercedes lined a base hit to right field to even the game at 4-4.
Ellington escaped further damage but the game continued into extras where Nashville relievers kept it rolling. Tyler Sturdevant, Wahl, and Josh Smith combined to throw five scoreless innings to give the Sounds a chance.
Both teams squandered run-scoring opportunities in the 10th. New Orleans and Nashville had a runner at third base with less than two outs but failed to score.
McBride’s blast was the first walk-off win of the season for the Sounds who have now won four consecutive games.
The Sounds hit the road for a four-game trip in Round Rock, Texas. Game one of the series is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. Tuesday night.
5/3/17 — Harold Millsaps
Mr. Harold Millsaps, 84, passed away at the Lynchburg Nursing Center on April 30, 2017.
He was born in Moore County, Tennessee on March 15, 1933 to the late Dock and Ona Chapman Millsaps.
A good, kind man, he loved his flowers and tending to his winter wood supply.
He is survived by his brother Jimmy Millsaps and his wife Elizabeth of Lynchburg along with several nieces, nephews, great nieces and great nephews.
He was also preceded in death by brothers Robert and Fred Millsaps and sister Mary Andrews.
Visitation with family members will be from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 followed by a funeral service at 11 a.m. Burial will be in the Lynchburg Cemetery
5/1/17 — Birthdays
Birthdays:
Bruce Wainright — Pizza Winner!
Charles Williams
Tanda Sain, 51
Matt Johnson
4/30/17 — Birthdays
Birthdays:
Tracy Duke — Pizza Winner!
Anniversaries:
Mary & Jeremy Darnell, 12
Kayla & Sean Ervin, 1
4/29/17 — Birthdays
Birthdays:
Faye Wiser — Pizza Winner!
Casey Webb
Ruby Henneger
Police Say Pot Plants Found Inside Manchester Residence
Pot plants found by Manchester Police
Last week Manchester Police officers went to a residence on South Spring Street to talk with a man about a matter. When officers knocked on the door, no one came to the door and officers could allegedly smell an odor of marijuana coming from the residence. One Manchester officer stayed at the residence while another officer obtained a search warrant. When the officers served the search warrant they allegedly found 40 marijuana plants in a hidden room in the basement area of the residence.
Manchester Officer Daryn Gadeken arrested Jason Ryan Arnold, age 32, of Spring St., Manchester, for manufacturing/delivering/possession of a controlled substance and driving on revoked/suspended license.
The man bonded out of the Coffee County Jail and is set to appear in court on May 23, 2017.
First National Bank Robbed in Murfreesboro
First National Bank (FNB) on Mercury Boulevard in Murfreesboro was held up by a robber just before noon on Monday. First National Bank in Murfreesboro is owned FNB of Manchester. Luckily, no one was injured inside the bank during the holdup.
After the robbery, the suspect fled the scene and was eventually captured about 7 miles away with the help of Murfreesboro Police, the Tennessee Highway Patrol, and the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office. The subject was caught in the area of Medical Center Parkway and I-24 during a short lived pursuit.
Further details on the bank hold up are pending the outcome of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigations. (WGNS)