After a short night of rest after a long trip on Friday to Lawrence County, the Red Raider soccer team failed to generate much offense in their final district match of the year on Saturday morning against Lincoln County. After being tied at the end of regulation and extra time, the visiting Falcons hit all 5 of their penalty kicks to capture the 2 to 1 win. Lincoln County opened the scoring in the 20th minute when they converted on a penalty kick to take an early 1 nil lead. Coffee County tied the match in the 24th minute...

The Coffee County Central High School tennis teams got a pair of 7 to 0 sweeps on Friday night as they dominated Cannon County on Senior Night. The Lions of Woodbury only dressed out 1 male player as Coffee County got the benefit of 6 forfeit wins. Trevor Ivey-Bodman scored an 8 to 1 win in the lone contested boys match. The Lady Raiders got wins in all 5 of their singles matches as Tori Taylor, Ali Shelton, Makayla Morgan, Kayla Wright and Anna Harrell all won. The Lady Raiders swept their doubles matches to improve to 8 and...

Jacob deGrom displayed no signs of rust and the Mets tarnished Aaron Blair’s Major League debut with Sunday afternoon’s 3-2 win over the Braves to complete a three-game series sweep at Turner Field. deGrom gained a one-run lead before throwing his first pitch and then quickly settled in as he limited the Braves to one run and eight hits over 5 2/3 innings. This was just the second start of the season for the right-hander, who spent most of the past two weeks tending to a strained lat muscle and complications that followed his son’s birth. Blair settled down...

The Nashville Sounds dropped another one-run game Sunday afternoon, this time a 4-3 decision to the New Orleans Zephyrs in front of 7,593 fans at First Tennessee Park. Along with the Sky Sox, the Sounds have played the most one-run games in the Pacific Coast League and are 2-5 in such games. Pitching on only three days’ rest, Sounds starter Jesse Hahn labored through a 34-pitch first inning. After a 4-RBI night in the series opener last night, Destin Hood’s run-scoring single gave the Zephyrs a 1-0 lead just four batters into the game. Three batters later, catcher Adrien...

  The Anaheim Ducks scored twice in the second and three times in the third to take Game Five by a 5-2 final over the Nashville Predators on Sunday night at the Honda Center. Anaheim won their third consecutive game to take a 3-2 series lead, leaving the Preds on the brink of elimination. “We have a good leadership group in there, and I think that’s the starting point; when we look back on this game, there’s a lot of good things that we did,” Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “And I hate the score.” “There’s only a couple...

David Wright provided two doubles and Steven Matz produced his second straight strong start as the Mets extended their recent success with an 8-2 win over the Braves on Saturday night at Turner Field. Matz might not have been as dominant as he was in a scoreless outing against the Indians last weekend, but he managed to allow just two runs despite surrendering nine hits over 6 1/3 innings. The Mets tallied a two-run first inning against Jhoulys Chacin, and Wright added to that advantage when he delivered a two-out, two-run double in the fourth. Chacin allowed four runs...

Four goals in the first 5 minutes was the kind of start that Coach Jonathan Graf wanted from his Westwood Rockets soccer team on Friday night as they breezed to a 12 to 0 win over Cascade in the semifinals of the Central Tennessee Soccer Conference being held at Dyer-Bouldin Field. Felix Salinas ended the night with 4 goals, including 3 goals in the first 5 minutes for the Rockets as they advanced to their 3rd straight conference title game. Leo Suarez, Angel Gonzales and Eric Randolph all added 2 goals each. Leo Basurto and Keiton Sherrill each had...

The Coffee County Middle School Lady Raider softball team could only manage 2 walks and 2 hits as they fell to top-seeded Warren County on Friday night in the winners’ bracket finals of the CTC Softball Tournament. Ashley Evans and Amanda Mukai had the hits for Coffee County as Mukai led off the 4th inning with a single. Mukai scored on a throwing error after going from 1st to 3rd on Jayden Scheller’s bunt. Mukai also reached base when she was hit by a pitch and Kiya Ferrell had a walk for Coffee County. Lady Raider pitcher Hannah Richardson...