The Nashville Sounds finished their four-game series against the Round Rock Express at Dell Diamond on Sunday afternoon with a 3-0 shutout win and took three out of four games to win their second series of the season. Sounds starter Zach Neal was brilliant in the series finale. The right-hander pitched four 1-2-3 innings and recorded 11 consecutive outs from the second inning through the sixth. The former Oklahoma Sooner picked up his third win of the season in 7 1/3 shutout innings surrendering just four hits. The Sounds broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning as Andrew...

A pitchers’ duel through five innings turned into a hitters sixth inning as both teams broke through for the games only runs at Dell Diamond Saturday night and the Express took game three of the four-game series from the Sounds 3-2. The Sounds broke through first in the top of the sixth inning as Max Muncy singled to right to score Joey Wendle to break the scoreless tie. Renato Nunez then hit a sacrifice fly to right to score Chad Pinder and the Sounds led 2-0. Round Rock answered back in the bottom of the frame scoring three runs...

Five goals in the third period led the San Jose Sharks to a 5-2 victory over the Nashville Predators in Game One of their Western Conference Round Two series on Friday night at SAP Center. The win gives San Jose a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven series. “I thought we had good jump right from the beginning and had a couple chances early,” defenseman Roman Josi said. “I thought we played well in the first two periods, and in the third, we have to make sure we’re better in the next game.” A scoreless first period was kept that...

Anthony Rizzo smacked a tiebreaking RBI single with one out in the eighth inning and Matt Szczur followed with his first career grand slam to lift the Cubs to a 6-1 victory over the Braves on Friday at Wrigley Field. With the win, the Cubs are now 17-5 and off to their best start since the 1907 team was 18-4 in its first 22 games. With the game tied at 1 in the Chicago eighth, pinch-hitter Tommy La Stella doubled to left off Jim Johnson before getting forced out at third on Dexter Fowler’s fielder’s choice. Jason Heyward walked...

Renato Nunez broke a scoreless tie with a solo shot to left field in the top of the fourth inning to spark a three run inning and the Sounds hung on for a 3-2 win against the Round Rock Express at Dell Diamond on Friday night. Nunez’s home run in the fourth triggered a two out rally as Matt Olson’s laced a two-run double to right to score Andrew Lambo and Jake Smolinski to put the Sounds up 3-0. Sounds starter Eric Surkamp was dealing after being optioned earlier in the week by Oakland. The southpaw went seven innings...

A dramatic 2 out walk off single from Davis Green lifted the Red Raider baseball team to a 5 to 4 defeat of Central Magnet on Thursday night at Powers Field. Green’s single capped the second comeback of the game for Coffee County as they scratched out the non-district win on Senior Night. Trailing by 1 run entering the 6th inning, Noah Anderson smacked his first home run of the year to tie the game entering the 7th. In the 7th, Nathaniel Tate reached base on a fielder’s choice and moved to 3rd on Jacob Langham’s single before being driven in by...

Oakland scored runs in 4 of their 5 at-bats as they dropped the Coffee County Lady Raider softball team 16 to 5 on Thursday night. The visiting Lady Patriots got off the bus hitting as they belted a pair of home runs as part of their 13 hit assault against the Lady Raiders. Coffee County was held to a first inning single from Raven Rogers until the 4th inning as Oakland built a 14 to 0 lead. The Lady Raiders rallied in the 4th to plate 2 runs as they opened the inning with a walk and an Oakland...

The Westwood Rockets baseball season came to a close on Thursday night as they dropped a 6 to 2 decision to the Vikings of Community in the opening round of the Duck River Valley Conference tournament. The game, held at Unionville, brought to a close the season for first year head coach Josh Morris who inherited a winless team from last season. The Rockets had trouble generating offense on the night as they scattered 8 hits on the night but were forced to settle for single runs in the 1st and 6th innings. In the first, Jacob Garms reached...