A huge first half lifted the Westwood football team to a 26 to 8 win over Middle Tennessee Christian School on Tuesday night at Dyer-Bouldin Field. The Rockets scored on all 4 first half possessions to build a 26 to 0 halftime lead and coasted home for the big conference win. Westwood got a 55 yard touchdown run from Renaldo Ramirez on the first play from scrimmage to set the tone on the night. After a Gavin Taylor interception, Skylar Brather rumbled in from 5 yards out to make the score 12 to 0. Henry Garcia broke free for...

Despite his recent success on the mound, Ervin Santana entered Tuesday’s series opener vs. the Braves still looking to win three straight starts for the first time this season. Against his former team, the right-hander finally accomplished that feat, tossing seven scoreless innings in a 4-2 win at Turner Field. “He’s efficient, he throws strikes, he changes speeds and he can bury his breaking ball when he wants to,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said about Santana. “He pitched eight innings [in Minneapolis on July 26], and we won 2-0 there. He’s just real efficient and knows what he’s doing....

The Nashville Sounds lowered their magic number to 11 with a 2-1 win over the Tacoma Rainiers in front of 5,005 fans Tuesday night at First Tennessee Park. All the scoring between the two teams who lead their respective divisions came early as two first-inning runs held up for the Sounds. Jesse Hahn started for Nashville and got the game off to a nice start with a pair of strikeouts in a 1-2-3 top of the first inning. In the home half, Arismendy Alcantara started the frame with a walk and promptly swiped second base. Jaycob Brugman singled to...

Fighting off a match point in the second set and struggling through service error problems in the 3rd set, the Lady Raiders overcame a tough Warren County team in a 3 set thriller on Monday in McMinnville. The Lady Raiders saw a first set lead slip away as they dropped the first set, only to roar back from a huge second set deficit to capture the set and the win in an exciting hard fought match. Earlier in the evening, Coffee County had swept Van Buren County to open the season with a record of 2 and 0. Against...

The one-two sister duo of Savannah Quick and Ashley Gilliam led the Coffee County Lady Raider golf team to the lead after 1 day of the Baylor Preview on Monday. Quick shot an opening round 73 which gave her the low round of the tournament. Gilliam was 1 stroke off the pace at 74 to give the Lady Raiders the team lead at 147. Sophie Vinson carded an 86 for Coffee County on the Sweetens Cove Golf Club course in South Pittsburg. Clarksville is in second place at 151. “I am very proud of how the girls played today”...

The Board of Control for the Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association(TSSAA) met on Monday at the Hermitage offices and passed a series of measures that will lead to sweeping reform as to how high school and middle school baseball pitchers will be used. Acting on guidance from the National Federation of High Schools(NFHS), the TSSAA was tasked to develop its own pitching restriction policy based on the number of pitches thrown during a game to afford pitchers a required rest period between pitching appearances. The new guidelines and rules take effect this spring. The Board voted to approve the...

The Reno Aces used a strong start by Shelby Miller to score a 3-2 win over the Nashville Sounds in front of 5,058 fans Monday night at First Tennessee Park. The two teams split the four-game series after the Sounds (70-53) won the first two games and the Aces (65-58) returned the favor in the final two. Miller scattered 10 hits and limited the Sounds to two runs in 7 1/3 innings. He didn’t walk anybody and racked up nine strikeouts in his fourth win with Reno. Sounds starter Jharel Cotton and Miller were in a pitcher’s duel early...

Nashville Sounds pitcher Jharel Cotton has been named the Pacific Coast League Pitcher of the Week for his performance from August 8-14, the league announced this afternoon. The right-hander made one start for the Sounds during the week and turned in a masterful performance. In an August 9 outing in Round Rock, Texas, Cotton narrowly missed a perfect game and settled for a one-hit, complete game shutout. Cotton retired the first 26 batters he faced before allowing a two-out triple in the bottom of the ninth inning. He struck out the next batter to finish of the 12-strikeout performance...