Good situational hitting and a command performance from junior pitcher Davis Green lifted the Coffee County baseball team to a 5 to 3 win over Shelbyville on Saturday in an elimination game at the District 8AAA tournament in Columbia. Coffee County, who was held to just 3 hits on the game, showed patience at the plate in getting runners in scoring position in 5 of the 7 innings. “We have made an improvement in shortening up our swings and putting the ball in play” said coach David Martin. “That allowed us to cut down on our strikeouts and put...

After struggling with the Lawrence County defensive game plan in the 1st half, the Coffee County soccer team notched four 2nd half goals to open the District 8AAA soccer tournament with a 4 to 0 win. After implementing their halftime adjustments, the Raiders were able to counter the stingy Wildcat defense to advance to Wednesday’s semifinal which will be held at home at 7 PM against either Tullahoma or Columbia at the Raider Soccer Field. “(Lawrence County) had an obvious game plan to just keep the ball out of the net, with their back line never coming off the...

  Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Preds-Report-5-9-16.mp3 The San Jose Sharks are one win away from advancing to the Western Conference Final after a 5-1 win over the Nashville Predators in Game Five on Saturday night at SAP Center. The Sharks now lead the Round Two series 3-2, with an elimination Game Six coming Monday night in Nashville. The home team struck first, and although the Preds tied the game, San Jose continued to push, something Nashville wasn’t able to overcome. “We weren’t ready to go,” forward James Neal said. “They came out strong, good push, scored, but I thought...

Sounds left fielder Andrew Lambo hit a two-out single to right field to score Jake Smolinski with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth to give the Sounds a 3-2 walk-off win before 6,031 fans Sunday afternoon at First Tennessee Park. Smolinski sparked the two-out rally when Miguel Socolovich hit him with a pitch. With Lambo batting, he swiped second base for his third stolen base of the game. Lambo swatted a 3-2 offering from Socolovich into shallow right field and Smolinski scored just in front of the throw to the plate. The rally came just moments...

Chris Herrmann capped the first two-homer game of his career in timely fashion and allowed the D-backs to complete a three-game sweep with Sunday afternoon’s 5-3, 11-inning win over the Braves at Turner Field. Herrmann’s two-run homer off Jim Johnson sunk the Braves, who had tied the game with a three-run eighth inning. Atlanta has lost 15 of its first 16 home games. The D-backs entered this series having lost six straight games and eight of their past nine. D-backs starter Patrick Corbin scattered five hits over seven scoreless innings and exited with a 3-0 lead. But Jeff Francoeur...

Brandon Drury was essentially a throw-in portion of the package that brought Justin Upton from Arizona to Atlanta before the 2013 season. But the D-backs have certainly come to realize the tremendous potential possessed by Drury, who delivered a decisive sixth-inning double in Saturday’s 4-2 win over the Braves at Turner Field. Drury’s RBI double off Bud Norris enabled Shelby Miller to notch his first win since the D-backs acquired him via the blockbuster trade completed with the Braves in December. Miller halted his early-season woes while limiting his former team to two runs and four hits over six...

Zach Neal turned in eight dominant innings to lead the Sounds to a 2-1 win over the Memphis Redbirds in front of 9,316 fans Saturday night at First Tennessee Park. The right-hander limited Memphis to just one run on three hits in his eight frames. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out four in his fourth win of the season. The eight-inning effort is the longest start by a Sounds hurler this year. Neal cruised through the first two innings before Memphis scored the game’s first run in the third. Tommy Pham lined a two-out base hit up...

Zack Greinke tossed six quality innings as the D-backs snapped a six-game losing streak by beating the Braves, 7-2, on Friday night at Turner Field in the first game of a three-game series. The D-backs gave Greinke (3-2) some early run support thanks to an RBI single by Nick Ahmed in the second and they capitalized on an error by Braves third baseman Reid Brignac to score a pair of runs in the third. David Peralta had an RBI single in that third inning, and Brandon Drury added his sixth home run of the season in the sixth. “We...