Joey Wendle finishes a double away from the cycle and the Sounds get three home runs including a grand slam by Wendle to defeat the Bees 12-6 at Smith’s Ballpark Saturday night. Wendle finished 3-for-5 with a single, triple and a grand slam home run and had two opportunities in the seventh and ninth inning to get the elusive double but was unsuccesuful. Salt Lake took the early 2-0 lead with a Erik Kratz’s two-run double in the bottom of the second inning plating Rey Navarro and Kyle Kubitza. The Bees added another run later in the inning on...

The Braves caught a few breaks and benefited from a successful challenge that set the stage for Nick Markakis to halt his recent woes and allow the Braves to extend their mastery of the Marlins with a 4-2 win on Friday night at Turner Field. After a replay review erased what would have been a double play to end the eighth inning with the game tied, Markakis laced a two-run single that bounced off Marlins third baseman Martin Prado’s glove and gave the Braves a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Atlanta remained perfect through four games against Miami and notched...

The Nashville Sounds got a clutch RBI double from Renato Nunez scoring Chad Pinder for the go ahead run in the top of the eighth. The Sounds took game one in the four-game series 3-2 at Smith’s Ballpark Friday night in Salt Lake. Jaycob Brugman led off the game with a double to right center field to put a runner in scoring position right from the start. Brugman then scored on a ground out by Max Muncy to put the Sounds up 1-0 after the first inning. The Sounds scored again in the top of the third inning on...

Setting personal bests in 2 events lifted Coffee County’s Karson Young to the medal stand twice on Thursday at the TSSAA Spring Fling State Track Meet at MTSU. Young beat her personal record 4 times in placing 5th in the long jump in the morning session. Young, who predicted a jump of 17’ 6” before the event, soared to a 17’6.5” jump in her second attempt of the preliminary round. That jump was good enough to advance her to the finals. Entering the day with a personal best of 16’ 10” in the long jump, Young had jumps of...

The Nashville Sounds piled on the hits racking up a season-high 19 hits in a 13-2 rout of the Las Vegas 51’s field Thursday night at Cashman Field. Two early solo home runs from Max Muncy and Ryon Healy sparked the bats for the Sounds in Sin City. Muncy, the second batter of the game, wasted no time putting the Sounds on the board early with a solo home run to right field and the Sounds lead 1-0. Healy then added another solo shot on a lead-off home run in the second inning to double the Sounds lead to...

Three attempts to tie her personal record were not enough on Wednesday as Diana Davis settled for a 6th place finish in the pole vault at the TSSAA Spring Fling State Track Meet at MTSU. Davis, who cleared 9’6” in her 2nd attempt at the height, matched her qualifying height from the sectional. Davis set a personal record of 10’ earlier this season. This is the 2nd straight state track meet in the pole vault for Davis as she competed in Arizona last season before her family moved to Tennessee. Davis also cleared 9’6” in Arizona to finish in...

After facing the Braves’ entire bullpen and the guy who had been scheduled to start on Saturday, the Brewers claimed a 3-2 victory courtesy of Jonathan Villar’s go-ahead single in the 13th inning on Wednesday night at Turner Field. Casey Kelly had been scheduled to start Saturday, but he ended up throwing the final four innings for the Braves, who have lost 19 of their first 21 home games. After the Brewers loaded the bases before the first out was recorded in the 13th inning, Villar delivered his game-winning single to left that scored Aaron Hill off Kelly, who...