Manchester Youth Baseball League was able to complete its 2020 season with the city tournament championships Monday night. The league was delayed at the start of the season because of the COVID-19 virus. In the 12U division, Clower Automotive came from behind with a pair of runs in the bottom of the last inning to beat Powers Storagen 7-6 and claim the championship. It was the second win of the afternoon for Clower Automotive. They pummeled First Vision Bank 12-3 in the semi-final game that was played at 5 p.m. Meanwhile, Star Farm ran away with the 10U championship...

By Jim Wyatt, Titans Online As part of the agreement reached Friday between the NFL and the NFLPA, all preseason games in 2020 have officially been canceled. The Titans had been scheduled to play the Redskins, Giants, Buccaneers and Bears in this year’s preseason. Season ticket holders will either receive a refund for the two canceled home games or can use those credits toward tickets for 2021. Refunds or deferrals for the season can be requested here, now through August 7th: The Titans are scheduled to open the regular season on September 14 at Denver. The team’s home opener...

By Mark Bowman, MLB.com Mike Foltynewicz was the Braves’ Game 1 starter during the 2018 postseason and he was handed the ball with the season on the line during last year’s playoffs. But just one start into this year’s shortened season, his future is suddenly uncertain. After watching Foltynewicz once again work with significantly decreased velocity in a 14-5 loss to the Rays on Monday night at Tropicana Field, Braves manager Brian Snitker announced the All-Star pitcher had been designated for assignment. “After the last couple outings in [Summer Camp], we wanted to give it a go here, and it was...

In Manchester Youth Baseball Action from Friday, July 24 18U semi finals Expos 1, Yankees 5 Wyatt Nugent had a home run and the Yankees also picked up runs scored from Kane Davis, Brady Nugent (2) and Blake Hale. Mets 6, Braves 2 The Mets plated four runs in the first inning and held on to drop the Christiana Braves. 10U State Farm 12, Chico’s Bail Bonds 0 Every player in the State Farm lineup was able to score at least one run, including Hyatt Moss, who scored twice behind a single and a triple at the plate. Brady...

The parking lot of the Crethan Hansert Memorial Hitting Facility behind Coffee County Central High School has been sealed, restriped and has new aesthetics, with the paining of the Coffee County “cc” logo and the number 7, the retired baseball number of Hansert. Scott Hansert, father of Crethan, helped to spearhead the project around the facility. Work was performed at a reduced cost. Crethan Hansert was a Central High School senior baseball player when he was killed in a car accident Oct. 31, 2003. The facility was later erected for the CHS baseball and softball teams to use, and...

By Brooks Bratten, Nashville Predators Online At some point over the next few hours, members of the Nashville Predators will lay out an empty suitcase – or three – and determine what they’d like to have in their possession for a potentially two-month stay in Edmonton. With training camp and Phase 3 of the NHL’s Return To Play Plan coming to an end on Saturday, the Preds will turn their attention to Phase 4 and a trip to the Alberta capital that will start with a best-of-5 series against the Arizona Coyotes in the Stanley Cup Qualifier next Sunday....

By Mark Bowman, MLB.com Marcell Ozuna’s first big moment with his new team introduced Braves manager Brian Snitker to the thrill of experiencing MLB’s new extra-inning rule. “It’s one of those changes we might end up liking,” Snitker said. “It made it interesting.” But Ozuna was the one who truly made things interesting with his game-tying homer off Mets closer Edwin Díaz with two outs in the ninth that helped finally wake the Braves’ slumbering offense near the end of the 5-3, 10-inning win at Citi Field on Saturday afternoon. “Yesterday, [Díaz] struck me out on a fastball away,” Ozuna said. “I...