The Coffee County Middle School softball team opened play in the CTC softball tournament of Friday night with a 16 to 0 win over South Franklin.  Katie Crosslin threw a no-hitter allowing just a single walk as she struck out 6 in a game shortened to 3 innings via the mercy rule. The Lady Raiders sent 15 batters to the plate in the 2nd inning as they scored 12 runs on 2 hits.  The Lady Raiders walked 7 times in the inning, and 11 times in the game.  Coffee County also got the benefit of 3 Lady Trojan errors. ...

Mike Foltynewicz struck out six of the first seven batters faced, carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning and positioned himself to complete at least seven innings in a third straight start. But instead of carrying a celebratory mood out of Miller Park on Sunday, the Braves hurler was bothered by how he concluded what had the makings to be a dominant performance. Dansby Swanson’s two-out error in the sixth inning gave Domingo Santana the chance to complete a two-homer game that gave the Brewers all they needed to prevent a three-game sweep with a 4-3 win. But Swanson’s...

Sunday afternoon’s game between the Nashville Sounds and New Orleans Baby Cakes was suspended due to rain at First Tennessee Park. Heavy rain began to fall with the scored tied 0-0 in the top of the fourth inning. The game will be finished on Sunday, June 18th when the Baby Cakes return to Nashville for the second time this season. The two teams will resume action at 5:05 p.m. and finish the nine inning game as originally scheduled. Then the two teams will play a seven inning contest 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one. Fans with a...

Matt Kemp hit three home runs in a game for the first time in his career, and the Braves continued to mash the ball, landing an 11-3 victory over Milwaukee on Saturday. Dansby Swanson also homered, and the Braves churned out 20 hits to win their fourth straight game. Atlanta has scored 36 runs in that stretch. Tyler Flowers notched four hits for the Braves, and each of Atlanta’s 3-4-5 hitters came away with three hits apiece. “Some guys have started off pretty slow, but guys are working their butts off trying to get everything going,” Kemp said. “One...

The offense exploded and the pitching was superb as the Nashville Sounds smashed the New Orleans Baby Cakes, 10-2, in front of a sellout crowd of 10,672 fans at First Tennessee Park Saturday night. The scoring was fast and furious for Nashville (9-11) as Renato Nuñez started the flurry with a solo homer to lead off the second inning. It was Nuñez’s fourth home run of the season. It continued in the third when Matt Olson roped a two-out, two-run single to right field to make it a 3-0 game. Olson had a huge night at the plate, finishing...

Vladimir Tarasenko scored twice and the St. Louis Blues defeated the Nashville Predators, 3-2, in Game Two to even their Second Round series at 1-1. It’s the first loss the Preds have suffered of the 2017 postseason, and a late goal by the Blues sealed the result. As was the case in Game One, St. Louis tallied twice in the third period, and a 5-0 count in power-play opportunities for the Blues didn’t help Nashville’s cause. “I thought they played a much tighter game,” defenseman Ryan Ellis said. “Kudos to them, they played a good game too. It’s disappointing...

Freddie Freeman’s two-run homer in the ninth gave the Braves a 10-8 victory over the Brewers after Atlanta overcame a pair of four-run deficits on Friday night at Miller Park. The Braves trailed 4-0 after two innings and 8-4 after the sixth, but battled back to tie the game on Kurt Suzuki’s pinch-hit single in the eighth inning before winning on Freeman’s eighth home run in the ninth. Freeman was 0-for-4 on the night before he connected with a Neftali Feliz fastball and lined it 106 mph off the bat, according to Statcast™, to center field. “I was just...