The City of Nashville and the Nashville Sounds have been named home of the best minor league baseball town in America, according to SmartAsset. “This is a tremendous honor for the City of Nashville and our fans,” said Sounds General Manager Adam Nuse. “We strive to represent the organization positively inside and outside of First Tennessee Park, and we believe this confirms that commitment.” Based in New York City, SmartAsset is a business that helps people make smart financial decisions. SmartAsset looks at nine metrics when formulating scores for each minor league city and team. The following metrics are...

The Coffee County volleyball team continued to build their momentum on Wednesday night as they closed out their district regular season at home against Shelbyville.  The Lady Raiders will enter next week’s district tournament on a 2 game district winning streak after sweeping the Eaglettes at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym.  Coffee County won by set scores of 25-9, 25-14 and 25-15. The Lady Raiders had an astounding 35 kills in the match to go with 13 aces as they completely dominated Shelbyville.  Lexi Bryan had a big night at the net as she led Coffee County in...

The Temple Baptist Christian School volleyball team traveled to Tunnel Hill, Georgia on Tuesday for a doubleheader.  The Lady Eagles squared off against the host Dogwood Christian and Philadelphia Christian Academy of Calhoun, Georgia.  The Lady Eagles came home with a pair of straight set wins on the night. Against Philadelphia Christian, Temple won by set scores of 25-22 and 25-17.  The Lady Eagles captured the last 2 points of the 1st set to prevail in the nip and tuck affair.  In the second set, Rachel Butler served for a 5 point rally to close out the mach and...

The Motlow State Community College women’s soccer team is on a roll, winning three consecutive road games and not suffering a loss in their previous six contests. Motlow will return to action Saturday with a trip to TCCAA rival Dyersburg State for a 2 p.m. kickoff. The Lady Bucks (2-0, 6-2-2) traveled to Meridian, Miss., last weekend, beating the host team Meridian Community College 2-1 Friday, then handing Hinds Community College a 3-0 loss in Meridian Saturday. Motlow followed that with a trip to Pulaski Tuesday, where they downed the Martin Methodist College JV team 4-2. This is the...

Nashville SC earned its first road win in almost four months, defeating Atlanta United 2 on Wednesday night at Coolray Field for the regular season sweep. SC’s 2-0 victory earned it three valuable points to catapult them into playoff position. Despite rainy conditions, Nashville’s offense found a way to continually test Atlanta’s back line, peppering 13 shots, putting four on frame while its defense earned the squad’s 14th clean sheet of the season. 90 in a Nutshell Nashville was the aggressor early, coming out with an urgency to earn points on the road with just a few games left...

The rains held off on Tuesday as the Red Raider golf team opened play in the TSSAA State Tournament at Willowbrook.  After starting on the always tough back 9, the Red Raiders charged up the leaderboard on the front nine to climb to a 3rd place finish after the first day of play.  Individually, Austin Farris fired an even par 72 to end the day in a 3rd place tie. As a team, the Raiders fired a 1st day score of 309.  The Raiders trail 1st place Science Hill who fired a 291.  Farragut is in second place, 5...

Hosting district foe Franklin County for Senior Night, the Coffee County volleyball needed a win to gain some momentum going into the final week of the regular season.  The Lady Raiders honored seniors Abigail Layne and Brianna Gawrys before the match as the 2 Lady Raider seniors.  Then Coffee County commenced to putting away Franklin County in straight sets, 25-22, 25-10 and 25-19. Keri Munn led the Lady Raiders in kills with 10 and Lexi Bryan added 8 kills.  Keelie Hillis led the Lady Raiders in aces with 5.  Munn and Amanda Mukai added 4 aces as Coffee County...