The Nashville Predators are headed to their first Game 7 in franchise history after holding off the Anaheim Ducks 2-1 on Monday night to force the maximum in this first-round series. The teams will next play Wednesday night in Anaheim. The Predators went up 2-0 in the second period on goals from Mattias Ekholm and James Neal, taking a lead they would not relinquish. Predators head coach Peter Laviolette loaded up his top line by adding Filip Fosberg to the unit of Ryan Johansen and Neal. The top-heavy trio had an impact and found the scoresheet on a pretty...

Jackie Bradley Jr.’s solo homer blemished Julio Teheran’s best start of the season and provided Rick Porcello all the support he needed while helping the Red Sox claim a 1-0 win over the Braves on Monday night at Turner Field. Bradley’s one-out homer in the seventh sunk Teheran, who notched a season-high eight strikeouts and scattered six hits over seven innings. Mookie Betts’ two-out double in the third inning accounted for one of the three hits recorded through the first six innings by the Red Sox, who didn’t arrive at their Atlanta hotel until 5:30 a.m. ET following Sunday’s...

Destin Hood launched a solo homer in the 10th inning to give the New Orleans Zephyrs a 4-3 win over the Nashville Sounds Monday night in front of a sellout crowd of 10,338 at First Tennessee Park. The home run was the second of the series for Hood who has driven in six runs in the first three games of the four-game set. Nashville had a great opportunity to even the game in the home half of the inning when Chad Pinder and Max Muncy singled to put runners at the corners with one out. New Orleans lefty Eric...

For the 2nd year in a row, the Westwood Rockets soccer team earned the title of the Central Tennessee Soccer Conference champions with a 4 to 0 win on Saturday over Webb at Dyer-Bouldin Field. Felix Salinas scored a pair of first half goals and added his 3rd in the second half to secure his 2nd straight hat trick in the tournament. Salinas finished the season with 35 goals as he averaged more than 2 goals per game for the Rockets. Elliot Sain added a goal in the 59th minute to add the final notch on the Rockets’ championship...

After falling on Friday night to Warren County in the winner’s bracket finals of the CTC Softball Tournament, the Lady Raiders of Coffee County Middle School needed 3 wins on Saturday to claim their 2nd straight conference title. In a scene reminiscent of last season, the Lady Raiders fought and clawed their way back to the championship game before falling to Warren County 10 to 2 on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday morning, the Lady Raiders opened up with a rematch against Tullahoma as these 2 teams squared off for the 4th time in 11 days. The Lady Raiders jumped...

Playing in their 10th game in 11 days, the Red Raider baseball team saw a 6 to 1 lead evaporate in the 5th inning as they dropped a 10 inning contest to Independence in Thompson’s Station on Saturday by a final score of 7 to 6. With one out in the top of the 3rd, the Raiders plated 6 runs when they strung together 5 hits, a walk, a hit batter and a fielder’s choice to take a 6 to 1 lead. Zach Wise had a double while Jacob Langham, Noah Anderson and Alan Rob each had 1 of...

The Lady Raider softball team finished up play on Saturday in the Lincoln County Border Battle in Fayetteville missing several upper classman due to Saturday’s prom. Coach Steve Wilder used the opportunity to get some playing time for his younger players as some of them saw their first varsity action of the spring. In the final game of pool play, the Lady Raiders were blanked by traditionally strong Buckhorn team out of Alabama 4 to 0 on Saturday morning. The Lady Raiders were held to 1 hit as Kasarah Scheller had a 1 out single in the 2nd inning....

Karson Young got a pair of wins and a 2nd place finish as the Coffee County Central High School track teams competed at the Tomahawk Chop Team Championship at Riverdale on Saturday.  With Saturday being the CHS Prom, Coach Stan Jarrell suffered from a shortage of depth in both boys and girls events. Young got wins in the 100M hurdles and the triple jump with a 2nd place finish in the long jump for 28 points which accounted for more than half of the Lady Raiders 53 team points.   Coffee County finished in a 4th place tie with Siegel. ...