The Round Rock Express came out victorious 7-6 over the Nashville Sounds in front of 11,144 fans at First Tennessee Park Saturday night. The crowd broke the ballpark’s single-season attendance record previously set in 2015. The Express scored a run in each of the final two innings of the back-and-forth contest to secure the victory and even up the all-time series between the two ball clubs at 104 games apiece. Nashville applied the pressure in the bottom of the ninth inning by sending the game-winning run to the plate but was unable to cash in. Trailing 7-5 with one...

The Braves used home runs from Matt Kemp and Kurt Suzuki in the first two innings off starting pitcher Chad Bettis to send the contending, but reeling Rockies to a 5-2 loss at SunTrust Park on Friday night. Kemp’s 15th homer this season was a two-run shot after Bettis had walked Freddie Freeman with two down in the first inning. Suzuki led off the Braves’ three-run second with his 15th homer. The Rockies are in the second National League Wild Card position, but have lost 12 of their last 17, and have scored fewer than four runs in 12...

Joey Wendle’s walk-off base hit in the bottom of the 11th inning gave the Nashville Sounds a 6-5 win over the Round Rock Express in front of a sellout crowd of 10,370 fans at First Tennessee Park Friday night. Wendle’s game-winner came just moments after Barreto started a rally with a two-out walk. The speedster swiped second and third base before trotting home on Wendle’s base hit off Round Rock reliever Tanner Scheppers. The-back-and-forth contest started early with both teams scoring within the first two innings. Barreto wasted little time getting Nashville a lead when he clobbered a two-run...

Starting off Coffee Pot weekend in the appropriate manner, the CHS golf team throttled Tullahoma on Thursday in a 9 hole match at Willowbrook.  All 4 Raider golfers beat the low score of Tullahoma as the Raiders won 154 to 192.  The win runs the Raiders’ record to 21 and 2 on the season. Austin Farris had the low round for Coffee County as he shot a 1 over par round of 37.  Matthew Hale fired a 38, Josh Perry carded a 39 and Reid Lawrence had a 40.  Samuel Prater added a score of 42 for the Raiders.  ...

Coach Andrew Taylor has been preaching “baby steps” when talking about his young CHS volleyball team this season.  With 3 sophomores playing crucial roles and only 2 returning starters from last year, consistency has been a challenge all season long.  On Thursday night, the Lady Raiders headed to Lincoln County for their first district road match and in the words on Coach Taylor, “(we are) growing up” as they captured the 4 set win. After splitting the first 2 sets, the Lady Raiders won sets 3 and 4 by two point margins to run their district record to 2...

Outshooting the visiting Shelbyville Eaglettes 21 to 13, the Coffee County Lady Raider CHS soccer captured a 4 to 0 win on Thursday night in their district opener.  The Lady Raiders got a pair of goals in each half and keeper Ashley Woods had 5 saves.  The win improves Coffee County to 2-0-1 on the year and 1 and 0 in district play. Allie Amado had a pair of goals each assisted by Reyna Flores.  Amado’s first goal came in the 15th minute with the second one coming in the 55th.  Jenna Garretson opened the Raider scoring with an...

The Coffee County Middle School football team scored on the game’s first drive and last drive, and added a touchdown on the last drive of the first half, but it was not enough to get a win over Rhea County on Thursday night.  In a game you heard here on Thunder Radio as part of the First National Bank Hometown Sports Series, the Raiders fell by a final score of 40 to 20. Kelby Walker was the star of the night for Coffee County as he scored all 3 of Coffee Middle’s touchdowns.  He punched in the first score...

After taking a lead into the half, the Westwood football team saw Liberty score 4 second half touchdowns to pull away for a 32 to 22 Duck River Valley Conference win.  Facing Liberty on their home field, Westwood got first half touchdown runs from Connor Smith and Blake Hale, along with a 2 point conversion by Hale, to take a 14 to 6 lead into the half. Liberty came out in the second half firing on all cylinders as they scored 2 touchdowns in the first 40 seconds of the 3rd quarter to take the lead 20 to 14. ...