Brianna Jones put an exclamation point on her sparkling high school career on Wednesday. Brianna had another dominant pitching performance leading the Tennessee high school all star softball team to a series win over the Kentucky all stars in the 10th Annual Tennessee/Kentucky All Star Classic in Bowling Green. Jones got the start in the opening game of the best of 3 series and led the Tennessee All Star squad to a 2 to 1 victory over Kentucky. Jones finished the night with 9 strikeouts to get the win. Jones was called on to pitch the 6th and 7th...

With a couple of mediocre starts in a row for Shelby Miller, he had the opportunity to recapture his rhythm against a team he’s had enormous success against from his time with the Cardinals. He didn’t disappoint at all. Miller was back to his regular self with another efficient outing. He faced the minimum through six innings with only one hit allowed in the fourth, but that was negated by a Yunel Escobar double play. The Nationals finally got to Miller in the seventh inning with a little bit of luck. Denard Span drew a leadoff walk in which...

Both Nashville and Memphis came out slugging in Wednesday afternoon’s game at AutoZone Park, but the Redbirds eventually evened the series with a 9-4 win. A run was scored by one or both of the teams through each of the first six innings. Those six frames included a combination of 13 runs and 25 hits, as Memphis eventually outhit Nashville, 14-12. The combination of Craig Gentry and Joey Wendle at the top of the lineup set the tone all game for the Sounds. The duo went a combined 7-for-10 with four runs scored, three doubles and two RBIs. They...

Right-hander Stephen Strasburg pitched five scoreless innings in his return as the Nationals defeated the Braves, 3-1, in Tuesday night’s series opener at Nationals Park.  In his first game since May 29, Strasburg waited out a two-hour, 12-minute weather delay, then held Atlanta to four hits and one walk while striking out six to pick up his fourth victory. “It’s good to get back out there. Obviously, I’ve been working real hard to get things in the right direction. I was able to keep the lead,” Strasburg said. “I want to go out there and execute pitches, pitch my...

Behind timely hitting from Ryan Roberts and Jake Smolinski, the Nashville Sounds defeated the Memphis Redbirds 6-4 at AutoZone Park on Tuesday night. The game remained scoreless until the top of the fourth inning. Joey Wendle singled and went to third on Roberts’ double. The Sounds second baseman then scored on a wild pitch and Barry Zito went back to the mound with a lead. The Sounds added insurance in the fifth. In his first game since being claimed off waivers from Texas, Smolinski singled and scored on a throwing error by Memphis’ pitcher Tim Cooney. Two more runs...

During the past eight years the Motlow College men’s basketball program has enjoyed a tremendous run of success by the team, its head coaches, and individual players. Five of those eight years the team won 20 or more games, and there have been four all-Americans at Motlow since 2009. Winning the state championship in 2013, having multiple head coaches leave to become assistants at Division I universities, and featuring highly-recruited players like Tyree Evans and Dequon Miller has helped the national spotlight to occasionally shine towards Copperweld Arena. If the current recruitment of rising four-star sophomore Jaylen Barford continues...

Motlow Lady Bucks head basketball coach Dominic Tharpe and members of the Bucks and Lady Bucks teams will host a pair of separate basketball skills clinics in late June and early July inside Nisbett Center on Motlow’s Moore County campus. Each of the two clinics will follow the same format and both are open to boys and girls. The cost of each clinic is $25 per child or $40 for siblings. Clinic 1 is scheduled for June 29-30. Grades K-6 will register at 8:30 a.m. on June 29 and participate from 9 a.m.-noon both June 29 and 30. Grades...

The Manchester Youth Baseball League held their post season awards presentation on Monday night before a standing room only crowd at Fred Deadman Park.  The top teams in each age division were recognized and the members of the All League Teams were named for the 8U, 10U and 12U divisions.  By league decision, the All League  teams will NOT compete in the TYBA state tournament coming up in July in Murfreesboro. In the 6U division, the regular season champion was Hullett’s Service, the 2nd place team was 1st Vision Bank and the 3rd place team was Dr. Jay’s.  In...