Suburban Atlanta resident Adam Morgan extended his hometown team’s woes and helped the Phillies add to their surprising early season success as he completed seven strong innings in Tuesday night’s 3-2 win over the Braves at Turner Field. Morgan scattered three hits while matching the career-high seven-inning total he had also posted in one of his three previous career starts against the Braves. The Phillies notched their third straight win with some assistance from Maikel Franco, who highlighted his three-hit performance with an eighth-inning home run. Each of the Phillies’ last seven wins have been by one run. “You...

The Nashville Sounds used two big innings to score a series-opening 8-5 win over the Iowa Cubs at Principal Park Tuesday night. Trailing 3-0, Nashville exploded for five runs in the fourth inning, and then another three runs in the sixth. Max Muncy started the scoring for the Sounds with a bang when he launched a solo homer off Iowa starter Stephen Perakslis to start the fourth. The right-handed Parakslis turned around and retired the next two batters, but then allowed the next four Sounds to reach and ultimately score. Andrew Lambo and Matt McBride collected back-to-back singles to...

Facing Columbia for the 2nd time in 5 days, the Red Raider baseball team had no answers for Lion pitcher Chris Short as they fell 6 to 1 on Monday night in the District 8AAA tournament. A pair of errors in the 2nd inning by Coffee County helped Columbia build a 3 to 0 lead and that was enough offense to eliminate the Raiders in the quarterfinals of the District 8AAA tournament. Coffee County, which struck out 11 times on Thursday against Short, went down on strikes 9 times on Monday night in the loss. Cade Giles hit an...

Six Coffee County errors resulted in 4 unearned runs for Shelbyville as the Lady Raider softball team fell 7 to 4 to the Eaglettes on Monday night in the District 8AAA softball tournament. The loss drops Coffee County into the loser’s bracket where they will take on Franklin County on Tuesday night in an elimination game scheduled for 5 PM. Coffee County, who had not played since April 30th, showed some rust in the contest. “We played like we had been off for 8 days, but that is no excuse” said head coach Steve Wilder. “We need to play...

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Preds-Report-5-10-16.mp3   Game Seven is indeed necessary. Viktor Arvidsson scored at 2:03 of the first overtime to give the Nashville Predators a 4-3 victory in Game Six over the San Jose Sharks to even the series at 3-3. The result forces a Game Seven for the second time in as many rounds for the Preds, officially the furthest they’ve ever advanced in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Nashville has played their best hockey when it’s mattered most in these playoffs. Monday night was no exception. “We have really good leadership in the room – I’ve said...

The Memphis Redbirds shut out the Nashville Sounds 5-0 in front of 4,894 fans at First Tennessee Park Monday night. Nashville managed just six hits on the night as they were shut out for the second time this year. The scoring opportunities were never there as they went just 0-for-2 with runners in scoring position. Patrick Wisdom got the Redbirds on the board in a hurry when he belted a solo homer off Sounds starter Chris Smith in the second. He was back at it again in the fourth when he knocked in David Washington with a base hit...