The Coffee County Central High School Lady Raider basketball team opened play on Monday in the MTSU team camp.  The varsity and junior varsity Lady Raiders each played 2 games while the freshmen team had one game. The varsity team lost a pair of nail-biters to Maryville and Gatlinburg-Pittman.  Trailing by 10 at the half, Coffee County went on a 2nd half tear before falling 50 to 47 to Maryville.  Abby Morgan led the Lady Raiders in scoring with 17 points.  Jacey Vaughn added 11 points and Bella Vinson finished with 9.  Against Gatlinburg-Pittman, the Lady Raiders took an...

After combining for 45 runs on 58 hits in the first two games of the series, the Nashville Sounds and Albuquerque Isotopes came back to earth Monday night as the Isotopes edged the Sounds 3-2. The two ball clubs mustered just five runs on 15 hits. Nashville’s bullpen was asked to pitch 7 2/3 innings after the game began with a bit of controversy. Sounds starter Ben Bracewell was ejected after recording one out and throwing just three pitches. On his third pitch he threw the ball behind Albuquerque’s Raimel Tapia and was tossed, prompting the Sounds to go...

The Coffee County Red Raider 17U baseball team finished up play on Friday in the 14th annual Crethan Hansert Memorial Baseball Tournament.  The Red Raiders finished the day with a win and a loss.  Coffee County finished the tournament with a record of 2 and 2. Coffee County opened the day with a 9 to 5 loss to Marshall County.  Coffee County jumped out to a 1 to 0 lead in the first inning only to see the Tigers score 3 runs in the bottom of the first to take a lead they would not surrender.   Marshall County built...

The Coffee County Lady Raider volleyball team will be hosting the 3 day Lady Raider Volleyball Kid’s Camp beginning on Monday.  The camp is open to children in elementary and middle school interested in learning more about volleyball and improving their skills.  The camp will run from noon to 3 PM on Monday through Wednesday at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym. Cost is $30 per camper and those wishing to participate are asked to arrive early at CHS to register.  If you need more information, email Andrew Taylor at:...

The Nashville Sounds pitching staff scrounged together nine innings with a depleted bullpen and fell to the Albuquerque Isotopes 17-12 Sunday night. The offense gave the Sounds a chance by plating 12 runs, but the pitching staff matched a season-high by yielding 17 runs on the night. In a spot start Raul Alcantara allowed four runs in two innings, Jake Sanchez gave up one run in his lone inning of work, Danny Coulombe surrendered four runs, one earned, in his 1 2/3 innings, Dean Kiekhefer put together 2 1/3 innings and yielded three runs, and infielder Melvin Mercedes tossed...

Nashville SC forward Ropapa Mensah scored the most dramatic goal in club history with a goal in the 94’ minute, on the last kick of the game, to send more than 9,000 fans into a frenzy. The miraculous goal extends Nashville’s unbeaten streak to 11 games and keeps them perfect at home in USL play with a 4-0-0 record. Ropapa Mensah headed in a free kick in the 95th minute from Michael Reed that earned Nashville SC a final-touch 1-0 victory over North Carolina FC in front of 9,047 at First Tennessee Park. Mensah came on in the 68th...

Anthony Garcia smacked a pair of homers, and Jorge Mateo went 3-for-4 with an RBI, but the Nashville Sounds were outslugged 10-6 by the Albuquerque Isotopes on Saturday night at Isotopes Park. The clubs combined for 29 hits, and the Sounds fell to 2-2 so far on their seven-game road trip. The Sounds never enjoyed a lead but fought back several times. They were down 3-0 after an inning when Garcia crushed his first homer off Brett Oberholtzer in the second. The Isotopes scored twice in the fourth to make it 5-1, but Nick Martini delivered an RBI single...

Jorge Mateo launched an opposite-field two-run homer in the 10th inning to break a 6-6 tie and propel the Nashville Sounds to an 8-6 victory and a series win over the El Paso Chihuahuas Friday night at Southwest University Park. The Sounds had blown a 6-3 lead in the bottom of the ninth before Mateo’s heroics in the 10th helped the team regain control, and Jeremy Bleich got a save in the bottom half. The Sounds grabbed the game’s first run in the top of the second against former Sound Dillon Overton. Anthony Garcia led off with a single,...