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The Nashville Sounds scored one run in the ninth and four in the tenth to stun the New Orleans Baby Cakes with a come-from-behind 7-3 win Tuesday night at Shrine on Airline.

Trailing 3-2 in the top of the ninth, Anthony Garcia launched a solo homer off Nick Wittgren to even the game at 3-3. It was Garcia’s second solo blast of the game – his third multi-homer game of the season.

After Liam Hendriks worked his way out of a jam to put up a zero in the bottom of the ninth, Nashville’s offense exploded in the tenth to take control of the game. Sheldon Neuse started the inning at second base and quickly scored when New Orleans shortstop Peter Mooney tried to cut him down at third on BJ Boyd’s fielder’s choice.

Mooney’s throwing error gave the Sounds a 4-3 lead and allowed Boyd second base. Jorge Mateo was hit by a pitch to put two runners on for Boog Powell who drilled an opposite-field two-run double down the left field line to give the Sounds a 6-3 advantage. Two batters later, Dustin Fowler added a run-scoring single up the middle to make it a 7-3 game.

Hendriks returned for the bottom of the 10^th and struck out the side to nail down Nashville’s 70^th win of the season – guaranteeing the team at least a .500 record in 2018.

Eric Jokisch started for Nashville and turned in his fourth consecutive quality start. The southpaw tossed six innings and allowed three runs (one earned) on eight hits. He walked two and struck out four.

Nashville trailed 3-0 in the seventh until Garcia and Franklin Barreto drilled back-to-back home runs to pull the Sounds within a run. Garcia has a team-high 23 home runs and Barreto is second in line with 18.

Reliver Josh Lucas bridged the gap between Jokisch and Hendriks with two scoreless relief innings.

Game two of the three-game series is scheduled for Wednesday night in New Orleans. Right-hander Carlos Ramirez (2-2, 3.44) starts for the Sounds against left-hander Dillon Peters (5-7, 6.02) for the Baby Cakes. First pitch is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

Post-Game Notes

• With tonight’s 7-3 win, the Sounds improved to 70-64 on the season.
• Tonight’s back-to-back home runs hit by Anthony Garcia and Franklin Barreto was the fourth time this season a pair of Sounds hit back-to-back homers in a game.
• Shortstop Jorge Mateo hit his 15^th triple of the season in the third inning. The 15 triples are tied for the most in a single season in Nashville Sounds history (Duane Walker – 1979).
• The multi-homer game for Garcia was his third of the season and eighth in his career.
• Garcia’s 87 RBI are tied for fourth-most in the PCL and his 23 home runs are tied for sixth-most in the league.
• Dustin Fowler extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a single in the 10^th inning.

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.

After dropping a heartbreaker on Saturday night, Nashville SC had its head in the game on Tuesday as the club poured on the offense in a 4-0 win over the Richmond Kickers.

The combination of Michael Reed and Tucker Hume proved lethal with Reed tallying three assists and Hume a brace of goals, including the only goal of the first half.

90′ in a Nutshell

Nashville SC started the match with a few good chances, including a Kris Tyrpak diving header that flew just wide of the net. From there, Richmond brought the ball into the attacking third and took a few chances towards goal, all of which were punched away by Matt Pickens, including one off a redirect in front of the net. From there, the match went back and forth with both teams earning chances, including multiple Nashville SC corner kicks.

In the 41’ minute, Lebo Moloto had a brilliant chance towards goal that curled right into the goalkeeper’s hands. Minutes later, a redirected set piece fell right back to the kick-taker in Michael Reed, who lofted it back in straight to the head of Tucker Hume, who buried the chance to give Nashville SC the 1-0 lead going into halftime.

In the second half, Nashville took the offensive yet again and added another to the score sheet off yet another set piece. Reed sent another service into the box and Bradley Bourgeois got his head to it for his first Nashville SC goal to double Nashville’s lead. Almost 10 minutes later, Nashville continued to pound away, and Kosuke Kimura found the boot of Matt LaGrassa at the net-front for a third tally. The home side didn’t relent and found a fourth tally in the 60’ minute with yet another set-piece service from Reed to the head of Hume, who just put the ball passed the outstretched hands of the keeper.

Nashville held that score for the final half-hour of the match to earn a decisive 4-0 victory.

Goals

42’ NSH – Tucker Hume (assisted by Michael Reed)

48’ NSH – Bradley Bourgeois (assisted by Michael Reed)

57’ NSH – Matt LaGrassa (assisted by Kosuke Kimura)

60’ NSH – Tucker Hume (assisted by Michael Reed)

Quotable

Defender Bradley Bourgeois

“It’s about time. That’s really it. Throughout the year, I think everyone’s kind of had that frustration, along with myself, but no one really wanted to score that goal more than me. That one was for the fans, those incredible fans that keep coming out every night and they kept telling me it’ll come, it’ll come. Mama, we did it.”

Key Stat

Three assists for Michael Reed – The Nashville SC captain was a fiend from set pieces in this one, feeding in three set piece balls that went for header goals, two of which were to Hume. His trio of assists tie a USL-best this season. The only other players in the USL to bag three assists in a game this season are LA Galaxy II’s Julian Buescher, OKC Energy FC’s Jose Barril and FC Cincinnati’s Emmanuel Ledesma.

Standings Update

With the victory, Nashville SC slides back into playoff position in seventh place in the USL Eastern Conference. The club is just two points behind Indy Eleven, but that margin could change depending on Indy’s game tomorrow night against Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC.

Up Next

Nashville hits the road for a pair of contests in the Tar Heel State as the club takes on Charlotte Independence and North Carolina FC over the next two weekends. The club returns home to First Tennessee Park on Tuesday, September 18 for a showdown with the Tampa Bay Rowdies.

The Coffee County CHS golf team welcomed their biggest rival of 2018 to Willowbrook on Monday.  Entering the match with a record of 37 and 2 on the season, the Red Raiders squared off in an 18 hole match against a Cookeville team that has given them their only 2 losses of the year.   Cannon County joined to make it a 3 way match.

The Red Raiders avenged their only losses of the year as they outshot Cookeville by 10 strokes.  Coffee County shot a score of 314 to eclipse the Cavaliers 324.  Cannon County finished at 403.  The win improves the Raiders record to 39 and 2 on the season.

Coffee County was led by Samuel Prater who shot a 75.  Josh Perry was next as he fired a 76.  Austin Farris and Matthew Hale carded an 80 and 83 respectively.

The Raider golfers will host their annual invitational tournament on Wednesday as they welcome 16 teams from across the state to Willowbrook.  The 18 hole Golden Classic Tournament is set to tee off at 9 AM.

Coming off a painful district loss to Lincoln County on Thursday, the Lady Raider volleyball team welcomed non-district foe White County to the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym on Monday.  The Lady Raiders had hoped to get on the winning track to start a busy week, but White County prevailed in 4 sets.  The Lady Raiders fell by set scores of 17-25, 23-25, 25-22 and 25-27.

Lexi Bryan led Coffee County at the net as the sophomore had 12 kills and added 2 blocks.  Keri Munn finished with 4 blocks for the Lady Raiders.  Abigail Parker had the team lead in digs with 9 and Abigail Layne finished with a team high 5 aces.  Amanda Mukai led the team in assists with 14.

Coffee County returns to district play on Tuesday when they play host to Columbia.  That pivotal district tilt will take place at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym and first serve is set for 6:30 PM.

The young and inexperienced Lady Raider soccer team of Coffee County Middle School hosted Tullahoma on Monday afternoon.  A pair of 2^nd half goals powered Tullahoma to a 3 to 1 conference win.

In a match you heard here on Thunder Radio as part of the 1st National Bank Hometown Sports Series, a pretty even first half sent the two teams to intermission with Tullahoma up top 1 to 0.  The Cats scored in the 6^th minute but the teams were even in shots on goal at 4 at the half.  In the second half, Tullahoma began to wear down the Lady Raiders in the midfield as they outshot Coffee County 7 to 2.  The Cats added goals in the 34^th and 57^th minutes to take a 3 nil lead.  With under 2 minutes to play, 8th grader Katie Cotton dribbled from her defensive position in the defensive 3^rd all the way to the top of the box and scored an unassisted goal to stave off the shutout. Caleigh Pratt had 9 saves in goal for Coffee Middle.

The Lady Raiders return home on Thursday night as they play host to South Franklin.  The evening will also be 8^th Grade Night.  The match is set to get underway at 5 PM.

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The Coffee County Middle School volleyball team traveled to Sparta on Monday to tangle with conference foe White County.  The Lady Raiders showed improvement in their overall game before falling in straight sets.  White County got the win by set scores of 25-11 and 25-16.

Coffee Middle is back in action on Tuesday in Tullahoma as they take on the Lady Cats in a double header.  The first match will get underway at 4:30 PM at East Middle School.

The Nashville Sounds managed only four hits in a 2-0 loss to the Memphis Redbirds Monday night at AutoZone Park. With the win in the series finale, the Redbirds took three of four from the Sounds.

Dustin Fowler doubled in the first inning off Memphis starter Adam Wainwright, but that was the last extra-base hit of the night for Nashville. Jorge Mateo and Boog Powell collected singles in the third inning, and Franklin Barreto singled in the ninth.

Making a Major League rehab start, Wainwright allowed three hits in four shutout innings. He walked a pair and struck out four. After Mateo and Powell singled to put two runners on for Nashville in the third, Wainwright retired Fowler on a fly out to end the threat.

Memphis plated the only two runs of the game in the home half of the third. Nashville starter Raul Alcantara gave up a leadoff single to Randy Arozarena who promptly swiped second base. A base hit by Rangel Ravelo scored Arozarena for the first run of the game. Two batters later, Alex Mejia followed with a base hit to right-center to give the Redbirds a 2-0 lead.

Nashville’s offense never materialized against Wainwright or reliever Tyler Lyons who followed the starter with five scoreless innings in relief. The Sounds only had two at-bats with runners in scoring position, and none after the third inning.

Sounds relievers Chris Hatcher, Jeremy Bleich and J.B. Wendelken kept the game close with five scoreless innings. The trio allowed three hits while collecting three strikeouts.

Lyons earned the win and Alcantara was tagged with the loss, his sixth of the season.

The Sounds travel to New Orleans to begin a three-game series with the Baby Cakes set to begin Tuesday night. Left-hander Eric Jokisch (5-10, 4.25) starts for the Sounds against right-hander Tyler Cloyd (5-5, 5.57) for the Baby Cakes. First pitch is scheduled for 7:00 p.m.

Post-Game Notes

• With tonight’s 2-0 loss, the Sounds dropped to 69-64 on the season.
• Nashville was shut out for the 10^th time this season. The Sounds are 9-10 in shutout games in 2018.
• Relievers Chris Hatcher, Jeremy Bleich and J.B. Wendelken combined to throw five scoreless innings out of the bullpen (5.0 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K).

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.

Before a standing room only crowd at Tullahoma’s Wilkins Stadium, the Red Raider football team saw Tullahoma race out to a 27 to 0 lead in the first quarter against the stunned Coffee County squad.  The Wildcats held the Raiders to negative yardage in the first half as they won their 2nd straight Coffee Pot Game 48 to 8.

Coffee County  managed just 99 yards in the game with 57 yards of that coming on a pass completion from Connor Shemwell to Andrew Hite.  Andrew Mahaffey was the leading rusher as he finished with 28 yards on 14 carries and the Raiders 2 point conversion.  Collin Ward had Coffee County’s touchdown on a 1 yard run.  Hite was named the Crazy Daisies player of the game.

Coffee County will return home on Friday to take Blackman in their first region game of the year.   Thunder Radio will once again bring you more than complete coverage.  Mike Ray and Dustin Murray will bring you all the action from Carden-Jarrell Field beginning at 6:45 PM.  Thunder Radio’s live coverage begins at 6 PM with the Friday Night Thunder Pregame Show.

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