The Coffee County Red Raider and Lady Raider basketball teams will be back in camp action on Monday.  The Red Raiders will be at MTSU as the varsity, JV and freshmen teams will be in action on Monday through Thursday.  The Lady Raiders will travel to Lebanon on for a 2 day camp on Monday and Tuesday. The Red Raiders will play 9 games a day in their final team camp workouts of the summer.  On Monday, the varsity team will have games at 1 PM, 3 PM and 6 PM with all 3 games taking place at the...

Imagine the rowdiest party in town being held on your front lawn. Now imagine not receiving an invitation to that celebration, forced to enviously peer through the front curtains and wonder what it must be like. For the past two months, the Predators have been the NHL’s lovable gate-crashers, bucking the establishment with Southern-fried, car-smashing enthusiasm. But status quo prevailed Sunday. The Pittsburgh Penguins, a member of the NHL’s ruling class, hoisted their second consecutive Stanley Cup in a 2-0 Game 6 victory at Bridgestone Arena, becoming the league’s first back-to-back champions in nearly two decades. With 1:35 remaining,...

Michael Conforto provided the early spark and Seth Lugo showed no rust on the mound or at the plate as his successful season debut helped the Mets claim a four-game series victory with Sunday afternoon’s 2-1 win over the Braves at SunTrust Park. “I think that we needed these wins in our division so that it can put us up in the standings,” Mets catcher Rene Rivera said. “At the same time we have to continue playing and winning series.” Conforto’s leadoff double helped create a first-inning run for Lugo, who allowed one run and six hits over seven...

The Memphis Redbirds scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the 12th inning and outlasted the Nashville Sounds, 10-9, Sunday afternoon at AutoZone Park. Sunday’s win secured the series for Memphis, and gave them a five-game lead over Nashville in the American Southern Division standings. Breyvic Valera was the hero when his base hit up the middle scored Wilfredo Tovar with the winning run with just one out in the 12th inning. The knock came just moments after the Sounds (32-29) took a 9-8 lead on Matt Chapman’s 16th home run of the season – a solo...

Left-hander Steven Matz looked sharp in his first start of the season, allowing one run in seven innings to help the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 8-1 and sweep a day-night doubleheader on Saturday at SunTrust Park. Matz (1-0) allowed five hits with one walk and two strikeouts in his first appearance since Aug. 14. The oft-injured southpaw opened the season on the disabled list with left elbow inflammation. He improved to 4-0 with a 2.70 ERA in five career starts against the Braves. The New York offense was boosted by a pair of home runs, a...

The Nashville Sounds rallied behind a big two-run double from Renato Nuñez in the top of the eighth inning en route to a 6-3 win over the Memphis Redbirds at AutoZone Park Saturday night. After trailing multiple times throughout the night, Nuñez stepped to the plate with the bases loaded in the eighth and drilled a ball off the wall to plate a pair of runs to put the Sounds (32-28) ahead for good. The double was the second of the night for Nunez who is hitting .405 (17-for-42) over his last 12 games. Young left-hander Dalton Sawyer was...

Rio Ruiz’s one-out single off Josh Edgin in the ninth inning gave the Braves a 3-2 walk-off win over the Mets on Friday night at SunTrust Park. Dansby Swanson capped his multi-hit game with a sharp grounder to center field that resulted in a one-out, ninth-inning double when he hustled his way to second base. Swanson raced toward the plate when Ruiz directed the first pitch he saw through the shaded left side of the infield. Starting pitchers Julio Teheran and Matt Harvey were effective, but neither pitched beyond the sixth inning. Curtis Granderson’s third-inning leadoff homer accounted for...

Randall Grichuk’s walk-off single to deep center field gave the Memphis Redbirds a 2-1 win over the Nashville Sounds Friday night at AutoZone Park. Grichuk’s drive came with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning. Sounds (31-28) reliever Simon Castro found himself in a jam after issuing a leadoff walk to Patrick Wisdom with the score even at 1-1. A sacrifice bunt moved Wisdom to second, and a wild pitch put him 90 feet away. Castro came back to strike out Wilfredo Tovar, but then hit Todd Cunningham and intentionally walked Nick Martini...