Another late rally by the Nashville Sounds came up short in a 3-1 loss to the Oklahoma City Dodgers Sunday afternoon in front of 4,877 fans at First Tennessee Park. Oklahoma City (3-1) started the scoring when a pair of infield singles turned into a run in the third inning. Drew Maggi led off the inning with a slow-rolling single past the mound and quickly moved to second on a stolen base. A bunt single by Elian Herrera moved Maggi to third, and Yasmani Grandal plated the first run of the game with a sacrifice fly. Nashville (1-3) starter...

The Cardinals sent Julio Teheran to an early exit and took advantage of multiple defensive miscues while providing Carlos Martinez with ample support in Saturday night’s 12-2 win over the Braves at Turner Field. Kolten Wong’s three-hit performance paced the Cardinals, who tallied a pair of runs in three of the first five innings to back Martinez’s determined six-inning effort. The St. Louis right-hander surrendered three straight hits to begin Atlanta’s two-run third inning and then allowed just one more hit over the remainder of his 99-pitch outing. “We understand the type of team we have and know that...

  The Predators concluded the regular season Saturday in a 3-2 loss to the Stars. Now they turn their attention to the upcoming playoffs. “I was really happy with our effort,” said Predators defenseman Ryan Ellis, who scored Nashville’s first goal 19 seconds into the first period. “We were obviously missing some guys, but a lot of guys stepped up, played really well. That’s a team that just won our conference and we had them right down to the wire, so I’m really proud of the guys.” Playing without five regulars — captain Shea Weber, defenseman Roman Josi, goaltender...

The Nashville Sounds put together a small rally in the bottom of the ninth inning only to see it fall short in a 2-1 loss to the Oklahoma City Dodgers in front of 5,122 fans at First Tennessee Park Saturday night. Trailing 2-0 and without a hit, Sounds (1-2) third baseman Renato Nunez started the home half of the ninth with a double down the right field line. Catcher Bruce Maxwell followed with a sharp single up the middle to score Nunez and trim the lead to 2-1. A sacrifice bunt by Tyler Ladendorf moved pinch-runner Matt McBride to...

Aledmys Diaz notched one of an MLB-record three pinch-hit home runs the Cardinals produced en route to Friday’s night’s 7-4 win over the Braves, who remain winless despite holding a lead in the seventh inning or later in each of their first three games. “Obviously, we needed a spark,” said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny, after watching Jeremy Hazelbaker, Diaz and Greg Garcia each hit solo homers off the bench. “We talked kind of going through the winter about our bench and how there was a little more thump. I don’t think those were the three guys we were talking...

Renato Nunez hit a line drive into the right-center gap to score Max Muncy all the way from first to give the Nashville Sounds a 2-1 walk-off win over the Oklahoma City Dodgers Friday night in front of 5,441 fans at First Tennessee Park. Muncy started the bottom of the 11th with a sharp single to right to set up Nunez who hit the second pitch he saw from Oklahoma City reliever Grant Dayton. The Sounds (1-1) held a 1-0 lead for the majority of the game. That was until Dodgers (1-1) catcher Yasmani Grandal belted a solo homer...

The much anticipated rematch of the 2015 District 8 AAA soccer title game between Columbia and Coffee County did not disappoint on Thursday night as Coffee County got a 1 nil win in extra time in Manchester. Ethan Abplanalp scored on a great pass from Paco Barrera in the 99th minute to notch the lone goal of the contest. The goal, which came 19 minutes into the extra period came 1 minute before the 2 teams would have gone to penalty kicks to decide a winner. Coach Robert Harper praised the sophomore saying: “(That was a) great spot for...

Building a huge lead in the field events, and dominating the scoring in the hurdle races, the Lady Raider track team won the King of the Mountain Track Meet on Tuesday held in Crossville.  The Lady Raiders outdistanced the host Panthers of Stone Memorial 151 to 128 as they finished in first place out of 9 teams.  The highlight of the meet was the 1-2-3 finish in the high jump by Karson Young, Sarah Pearson and Diana Davis respectively.  Young and Pearson also went 1-2 in the long jump.  The Red Raiders got a 3rd place finish in the...