A pair of Coffee County Lady Raider track athletes and the 4x800M relay team qualified for Tuesday’s sectional track meet at Rhea County.  The Coffee County Raider and Lady Raider track teams competed at Blackman in the sub-sectional meet on Tuesday and Wednesday with a chance to advance to the sectional meet.  The top 4 finishers in each sectional will advance to the state meet in Murfreesboro. Karson Young and Sarah Pearson each qualified in the 100M hurdles.  Young finished in a time of 16.41 seconds.  Pearson covered the distance in 17.14 seconds.  Pearson also qualified in the 300M...

The team of Garrett Fellers and Hunter Haley used a stringer of 10 fish with a total weight of 20.71 pounds to capture 9th place in the TN Bass Nation High School State Championship on Saturday held at Tims Ford Lake.  The team was the highest finisher for the Raider anglers who fielded 6 boats in the state championship against 123 other boats from across Tennessee. The boat of Issac Turner and Cam Rutledge finished in 28th place with a total catch of 10.87 pounds.  The team of Blake Mangrum and Jacob Garms finished in 41st place with a...

A three-goal second period helped the Anaheim Ducks to even the Western Conference Final at one game apiece with a 5-3 win over the Nashville Predators in Game Two on Sunday at Honda Center. The result marks just the third loss of the postseason for the Preds, and the first time they’ve given up at least four goals in these playoffs. Nashville jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the Ducks got a power-play goal before the opening frame was out, a moment Preds Head Coach Peter Laviolette said caused the momentum to shift in...

R.A. Dickey was ultimately undone by the latest pinch-hit home run Tyler Moore has hit off of him. But as the Braves’ knuckleballer exited Sunday’s 3-1 loss to the Marlins at Marlins Park, he could not help but wonder what might have been had he gotten the call he wanted on a 3-2 pitch to A.J. Ellis in the decisive seventh inning. “The walk to Ellis was big,” Dickey said. “I was going to pitch him carefully to get a forceout for the next guy up. I felt I had controlled the game up until that point.” Dickey allowed...

The Nashville Sounds settled for a four-game series split after a 6-0 loss to the Albuquerque Isotopes spoiled the day for 9,718 fans on Mother’s Day at First Tennessee Park. The near-capacity crowd didn’t have much to cheer about as the Sounds (15-18) were blanked for the second time in 2017. Albuquerque jumped on Nashville starter Paul Blackburn in the second inning. Noel Cuevas reached on an infield single and quickly moved to third when Jordan Patterson followed with a double. Both scored on run-scoring hits by Rafael Ynoa and Collin Ferguson. Ferguson’s big day was just getting started...

A pair of Opening Day starters who had mostly struggled this season stepped up on Saturday night in a closely pitched contest at Marlins Park. Atlanta’s Julio Teheran, backed by RBI singles from Nick Markakis and Dansby Swanson in the fourth inning, held on for a 3-1 victory over the Marlins. Teheran threw six shutout innings, scattering three hits and two walks while striking out four. Atlanta’s right-hander continues to have a split season. On the road, his ERA is 0.71 over 25 1/3 innings, compared to an 8.14 ERA in 21 home frames. “That might be as crisp...

The sound of three Nashville home runs lingered in the ears of 11,068 fans Saturday night at First Tennessee Park as the Sounds topped the Albuquerque Isotopes 7-3. The Sounds (15-17) recorded their 13th multi-home run game of the season and took a 2-1 series lead over the Isotopes (18-17). Pitching on a Major League rehab assignment as he recovers from offseason foot surgery, Daniel Mengden (0-1, 4.91) showed all the ingredients of a big league pitcher through three innings. The 24-year-old kept the Albuquerque hitters off balance the first time through the order but ran into trouble when...