Freshman Kenzie Jo Anderson drove in the winning run with walk-off singles in both games Friday as the Motlow Lady Bucks closed the softball regular season by splitting a four-game series with nationally-ranked Walters State at Lady Bucks Field. The Lady Bucks (26-22, 19-17) battled the visiting Lady Senators, who entered the series ranked No. 13 in the nation, down to the wire in all four games. Walters won Thursday’s opener 1-0 in nine innings and captured game two 2-1. Motlow won both games on Friday by 2-1 scores. Both teams now await seeding in the upcoming TCCAA/Region VII...

The Motlow Bucks will face Volunteer State on Sunday at noon in the first game of the 2016 TCCAA/Region VII Baseball Tournament at Columbia State Community College in Columbia. The Bucks (18-35, 5-22) completed their regular season with a 7-6 loss to Walters State Friday afternoon in the final game of a three-game series. Walters won Thursday’s opening game 16-4, then won the first game of Friday’s doubleheader 9-5. The Bucks are the No. 10 seed in the tournament, while Volunteer State is the No. 7 seed. The winner of Sunday’s game will face No. 2 Dyersburg State at...

Maddie Taylor punched her ticket to the Region individual tennis tournament on Friday as she advanced to the finals in singles. Taylor fell in the finals but by virtue of getting a win in the all important semifinals, Taylor will compete in the Region Tournament scheduled for next week in Columbia. Taylor was joined in the semifinals by Ali Shelton who fell in her bid to face off with Taylor in the finals. Coffee County also had semifinal appearances by a pair of doubles teams as the team of Trevor Ivy-Bodman and Shlip Patel made it to the semifinals...

The Coffee County Lady Raider softball team was 1 and 1 in elimination play on Saturday to finish in a 5th place tie in their own Coffee County Classic softball tournament this weekend. The rain and severe weather held off until late Saturday allowing the tournament to get down to the semifinal games before rain and lightning forced the cancellation of the remainder of the tournament. Gibbs, Baylor, Tullahoma and Siegel were the 4 teams remaining when play was suspended before being cancelled. The Lady Raiders opened play on Friday afternoon with 3 games at Terry Floyd Field. In...

The rains stayed away long enough on Saturday for the Coffee County track teams to travel to Tullahoma to compete in the Rudy Hensel Mid-State Championship.  The Lady Raiders came away with a 2nd place team finish while the Red Raiders came in 7th place overall. The Lady Raiders got 1st place finishes from Karson Young in the 100M hurdles and the Triple Jump; Sarah Pearson in the 300M hurdles and the High Jump and Diana Davis in the Pole Vault.  The Lady Raiders also got a 1-2-3 sweep in the 300M hurdles as following Pearson were Abbi Hancock...

The Westwood tennis teams traveled to Tullahoma on Friday for their final match of the season. The Lady Rockets got 3 wins in singles play but could not steal a match winner in doubles as they fell 4 to 3. Lauren Perry(4-0), Madison Cox(4-0) and Patricia Barrera(4-2) won their singles matches for Westwood. The Rockets fell to the Wildcats 6 to 2 as they got a pair of convincing wins in singles play in the match loss. Xander Jones(4-0) and Caleb Simmons(4-1) captured wins over their Tullahoma opponents to close out the season on a high...

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Preds-Report-5-1-16.mp3 Joe Pavelski scored the tie-breaking goal with 2:40 left in the third period, and the San Jose Sharks defeated the Nashville Predators 3-2 in Game 2 of their Western Conference Second Round series at SAP Center on Sunday. San Jose’s Martin Jones made 37 saves, and Logan Couture scored a power-play goal in the second period. Joe Thornton had an empty-net goal with 55.6 seconds remaining. Defenseman Mattias Ekholm scored with 7:04 remaining in the third period to tie the game 1-1, and Ryan Johansen scored with 3.6 seconds left and goaltender Pekka Rinne...

Nick Markakis hit a sacrifice fly with one out in the 10th inning Sunday to lift the Braves to a 4-3 victory over the Cubs, who had rallied to tie the game in the ninth. With the win, Atlanta snapped a seven-game losing streak against Chicago. Daniel Castro singled with one out in the Braves’ 10th against Hector Rondon, and reached third on Mallex Smith’s single. Castro then scored on Markakis’ fly ball to left. “It felt great to get that win, we needed it,” said Smith, who highlighted his three-hit performance with a hit-and-run single in the 10th...