Frankie Montas delivered a complete game, but the Nashville Sounds fell to the Memphis Redbirds, 2-1, Monday afternoon at AutoZone Park. Montas used only 93 pitches to breeze through eight innings. The right-hander yielded a pair of solo home runs to Redbirds’ right field Tyler O’Neill. The solo blasts were enough as Nashville squandered two golden opportunities in the middle innings. O’Neill hit a solo home run in the second, but Nashville’s Anthony Garcia answered with a solo blast in the top of the fourth to even the game at 1-1. The tie didn’t last long as O’Neill launched...

Four for Four!  Sarah Pearson punched her ticket to the TSSAA state track meet on Saturday for the 4th straight season.  The senior captured a 4th place finish in the 300M hurdles in Saturday’s TSSAA Sectional track meet at Blackman.  This is the 2nd year in a row that the senior has qualified in the 300M hurdle race as she ran a season best time of 50.22 seconds.  Pearson just missed qualifying for her 4th straight pentathlon earlier this month.  Making the feat more remarkable, Pearson is recovering from a torn ACL after having surgery on November 17th. Macy...

The Coffee County Middle School track team rolled into the CTC Track Championships on Friday.  The Lady Raiders and Red Raiders used 29 personal best performances to capture a 1st place finish for the Lady Raiders and a 3rd place finish for the Red Raiders. The Lady Raiders got a 2nd place finish in the 4×400, a 5th place finish in the 4×200 and a 6th place finish in the 4×100 for the team relays.  Coffee Middle got first place finishes from Madison Rooker in the 800M, Greenlee Woods in the 1600M, Alyssa McClanahan in the shot put, Jayda...

Former Coffee County Lady Raider softball coach Jeff Breeden continues to add titles to his own personal trophy case.  The Middle Tennessee softball team won its first C-USA Tournament Championship on Saturday afternoon. The Raiders came from behind for the second time in as many days to defeat Florida Atlantic, 7-6. The Blue Raiders advance to the NCAA Regional with the win for just the second time in program history. Middle is the lowest seed to advance to a C-USA title game since 2009 and the lowest seed to ever claim a league championship. The Raiders entered the weekend...

Eric Jokisch earned his first win of the season as the Nashville Sounds topped the Memphis Redbirds 8-4 Saturday night. Beau Taylor’s three-run double in the sixth inning gave the Sounds a lead they would not relinquish to ensure Jokisch his first victory. The night did not get off to a hot start for Jokisch. Memphis slugger Tyler O’Neill crushed his 10th home run of the season to put the Redbirds in front 2-0 in the opening inning. After yielding two runs on three hits in the first inning, Jokisch found his groove. The southpaw did not allow another...

It ended sooner than anyone would have wished. A 5-1 victory for the Winnipeg Jets in Game 7 on Thursday night in Nashville saw the visitors advance to the Western Conference Final, while the Predators’ franchise-best season came to an early conclusion. It never gets any easier to be on the wrong end of a handshake line, and the Predators were left feeling the disappointment of a game that simply didn’t go their way. “It’s difficult,” Predators Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “It was almost a fluky start more than anything else. Just the goals, the way they went...