A dominant performance from Jharel Cotton and a three RBI day from Matt Olson propelled the Nashville Sounds past the Sacramento River Cats 4-0 Sunday afternoon. Cotton was electric all game long as he matched his season-high with nine punch outs to lead the Sounds to their first Sunday victory in 2017. Cotton’s nine strikeouts and seven innings pitched were both season-highs for any Sounds pitcher in a game this season. The River Cats scattered just three hits in those seven innings against Cotton and drew just one walk against him. Offensively for the Sounds Olson did the heavy...

Rio Ruiz hit a memorable first career home run and Matt Kemp also took Max Scherzer deep before stellar bullpen work helped the Braves claim a 5-2 win over the Nationals on Saturday at SunTrust Park. The Braves took an early lead on the way to winning for the seventh time in their past nine games and extending the Nationals’ season-long skid to four games. Ruiz, who sneaked a two-out, two-run homer over the right-field wall in the second inning, and Kemp, who was 5-for-40 against Scherzer before leading off the fourth with a shot into the left-field seats,...

The Nashville Sounds brought the tying run to the plate twice in the final two innings but dropped Saturday night’s game 8-5 to the Sacramento River Cats. Nashville once again failed to get over the hump and get above .500 for the season. Despite reaching the .500 mark for the seventh time in 2017, the Sounds still have not been above .500 since April 8 when they were 2-1. For the sixth consecutive ball game the Sounds (19-20) drew first blood but unlike the previous five it wasn’t the long ball that broke the ice. With the bases loaded...

Needing to pick up some of the slack with Freddie Freeman sidelined for at least the next two months, Nick Markakis delivered a go-ahead single and Kurt Suzuki homered to further enrich the three-run eighth inning the Braves constructed during Friday night’s 7-4 win over the Nationals at SunTrust Park. Brandon Phillips drew a walk off Enny Romero and then notched his second stolen base of the game before scoring on Markakis’ RBI single. Suzuki extended Romero’s woes when he drilled a two-run homer into the left-field seats, his third home run of the season and second in as...

It was a new day but the same story for the Sounds on their trip through California. The Sounds powered their way to another victory, this time a 6-0 victory over the Sacramento River Cats on the back of a pair of home runs to continue their explosive month of May. In the month of May the Sounds (19-19) have cranked 35 home runs, which is more than any team in professional baseball. Through the first five games of their current eight-game road trip the Sounds have launched 13 long balls. Northern California native, Paul Blackburn (2-4, 3.89) posted...

Six Lady Raider track athletes traveled to Rhea County on Monday for the Sectional Track meet with the berths in the state track meet on the line.  Four members of the 4x800M relay team, along with Karson Young and Sarah Pearson competed in a total of 6 events. The 4x800M relay team of Emily St. John, Makenzie Webb, Chloe Haggard, and Emilee Roberson clocked a time of 11:14.57 for a 7th place finish.  That time was not good enough to advance to the state meet.  Coach Nathan Wanuch was complimentary of the team saying: “I’m really excited about the...

Al White Ford/Lincoln, in partnership with Thunder Radio and the Coffee Coaches Show, will be hosting a Community Meet and Greet for new CHS Lady Raider basketball coach Joe Pat Cope on Saturday, May 20. The event will take place in the Al White showroom beginning at 9:45 AM. Coach Cope will be a guest on Saturday’s Coffee Coaches Show to talk about his background and his vision for Coffee County basketball.  The event will conclude around 11:30. The Coffee Coaches Show is broadcast LIVE each Saturday morning from 10 to 11 from the showroom of Al White/Ford Lincoln....