The Nashville Sounds finished on the wrong side of a 4-2 contest Friday night against the Oklahoma City Dodgers at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. The loss drops the Sounds’ record to 36-37, below .500 for the first time since May 20 when they were 19-20 after a loss to Sacramento. Following Ryan Lavarnway’s sacrifice fly in the eighth, the Sounds loaded the bases with two outs; but the team’s final rally ended on a strikeout to outfielder Kenny Wilson. At the start, the Dodgers struck first in the home half of the first inning with a Willie Calhoun sacrifice-fly to...

Coffee County rising senior football player Alontae Taylor opens up play next week in the prestigious Nike+ Football The Opening Finals to be held at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.  Taylor, who is a verbal commitment to the University of Tennessee, is listed as the #1 athlete in Tennessee in the Class of 2018 in the Scout recruiting rankings. He is also listed as the #2 athlete in the South Region and the #11 athlete in the nation.  Taylor is projected to play at wide receiver in college and will compete as a wide receiver at the...

Coach Joe Pat Cope has announced that the Coffee County Lady Raider basketball team will host a scrimmage doubleheader Friday afternoon at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym.  The Lady Raiders will end their summer workout schedule with a 3 PM scrimmage against Cascade.  Additionally, the Coffee County Middle School Lady Raiders will take the floor at 2 PM in a scrimmage with the Cascade Middle School team.  The scrimmages are designed as a fund raiser for the Lady Raider program and are open to the public.  Admission price will be $4 at the gate and concessions will be...

The Motlow State Community College softball program is stretching its recruiting focus and adding some of the immediate area’s top talent in hopes of repositioning itself back into championship contention, according to Head Coach Janice Morey. Motlow has signed 14 incoming freshmen to National Letters of Intent, including 12 from Tennessee, one from Alabama and one from Georgia. The Lady Bucks will return five from the 2017 squad, with all five being from Motlow’s service area. Although the majority of student-athletes on the roster will be from Tennessee, Morey and her staff have worked hard at identifying talent from...

Courtesy of a few bloops and a couple blasts recorded at SunTrust Park on Thursday night, the Braves constructed an eight-run fifth inning that enabled them to overcome Jaime Garcia’s rough start and narrowly claim a 12-11 series-clinching win over the Giants. “You talk about a roller coaster of emotions,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said about the series finale, which started 86 minutes late due to a rain delay. “That’s baseball. It’s crazy. It just happens. You don’t know why. Teams aren’t going to lay down. We came roaring back and they came roaring back.” After sending 13 batters...

The Nashville Sounds saw their record drop to an even .500 at 36-36 with a pair of losses to the Oklahoma City Dodgers at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark Thursday night. The two teams gathered to play an unofficial doubleheader after a game in the previous series in Oklahoma City was suspended due to a power outage. Played resumed in the top of the eighth inning with the score deadlocked at 1-1. The Sounds had chances to take the lead in the eighth and ninth innings but couldn’t push across another run. With two outs and the bases loaded in the...

Two of Coffee County’s finest fisherman will push off this morning from Paris Landing State Park in an attempt to win a national championship.  The brother tandem of Colby and Braeden Thurmond will join 230 other youth angler teams from across the nation for this weekend’s Costa Bassmaster High School National Championship on Kentucky and Barkley Lakes.  The brother duo are members of the Coffee County Youth Bass Club. The Thurmonds qualified for the national championship by finishing the year in 21st place in the 2016-2017 TN Bass Nation Points Championship.  Braeden and Colby finished in 54th place in...