Jorge Mateo and Ramon Laureano each collected four hits and three RBIs on Tuesday night to lead the Nashville Sounds to an 11-4 victory over the Las Vegas 51s at Cashman Field in the opener of a seven-game road trip. Every Sounds hitter in the game reached base at least once, and the offense built an early 5-0 lead. Anthony Garcia smashed a long two-run homer in the first, his 19th of the year. BJ Boyd doubled home Franklin Barreto in the third, and Jorge Mateo’s RBI triple in the fourth made it a 4-0 game. Then Ramon Laureano...

The Coffee County CHS football team hit the practice field on Monday morning for their first day of practice in full pads.  “Things went well” said Red Raider coach Ryan Sulkowski when asked how the first day of practice went.   Coffee County has been conditioning since July 9th and practiced in helmets and shorts for a couple of times last week. 2018 is the 5th year at the helm of the Red Raider program for Sulkowski and will feature a young squad.  The replacement of several All-Region 4-6A players will continue to be the focus heading into the season...

The Motlow State Community College women’s soccer team will open the 2018 season when it travels to Senatobia, MS, to face Northwest Mississippi Community College on Friday, Aug. 24, with kickoff scheduled for 2 p.m. Official practice begins for NJCAA women’s soccer teams on Aug. 1. The contest opens a 16-game regular season for the Lady Bucks that concludes Oct. 29 with a home contest against the Martin Methodist College JV squad. Motlow does not have an on-campus soccer facility, so all home games will be played at area high schools. Last season the Lady Bucks played on high...

The Titans placed right tackle Jack Conklin and tight end Phillip Supernaw on the team’s “Physically Unable to Perform” (PUP) list on Sunday as they reported to training camp. Both players missed all of the team’s offseason workouts. Also, Titans receiver Michael Campanaro and linebacker Rashaan Evans were declared “Non-Football Illness” while defensive tackle Mike Ramsay was placed on “Non-Football Injury.” Additionally, OLB Kevin Dodd was placed on Reserve – Did Not Report. On Sunday, the Titans opened training camp for all quarterbacks and rookies — and players who finished the offseason program in June with injuries. All of...

The Coffee County Lady Raider volleyball team finished up play in the Eagleville Team Camp on Friday.  The Lady Raiders went 2 and 2 on the day in the double elimination tournament.  Coffee County finished the 3 day team camp with a record of 5 and 5. The Lady Raiders opened tournament play on Friday morning with a win over Columbia Academy.  The Lady Raiders won in 3 sets, 6-25, 26-24 and 15-9.  The Lady Raiders lost in the 2nd round in straight sets to Lawrence County.  Coffee County fell 9-25 and 13-25 to the Lady Cats.  In the...

The Nashville Sounds upended the Oklahoma City Dodgers 8-5 Sunday night in front of 10,697 fans at First Tennessee Park to salvage a series split. Sheldon Neuse drove in four runs on two extra-base hits in the victory. The Nashville Sounds handed Oklahoma City’s Manny Bañuelos his worst outing of the year as they tagged the All-Star for a season-high seven runs, all earned. The runs came in bunches as the Sounds scored multiple runs in three different innings against Bañuelos. Nashville’s James Naile logged his ninth quality start of the season as he went 6 1/3 innings and...

Nashville SC looked poised to bag all three points in Ottawa, but the final 10 minutes went all wrong as two stoppage time goals by Ottawa Fury FC sealed a deflating 2-0 loss for Nashville. 90’ in a Nutshell Two of the best defenses in the USL showed why through the first 80 minutes of the match, locking it down on both ends of the pitch. Both Nashville keeper Matt Pickens and Ottawa netminder Maxime Crepeau were outstanding the few times each was tested. In the 81’ minute, Nashville was awarded just its second penalty of the season, on...

The Nashville Sounds and Oklahoma City Dodgers split a doubleheader in front of a sellout crowd 11,130 fans at First Tennessee Park Saturday night. After falling 6-1 in game one, the Sounds returned the favor with a 4-0 win in game two. Liam Hendriks, Dean Kiekhefer, Ryan Dull and Josh Lucas combined to shut out the Dodgers on five hits. Hendriks started for the first time this year and tossed two innings before being relieved by Kiekhefer. The southpaw tossed three scoreless innings and picked up his sixth win of the season. Dull struck out the side in the...