Recent Coffee County graduates Tyler Cavender and Kyle Douglas have been named to the All-Region 4-AAA baseball team. Douglas had a 6-2 record and a 0.75 ERA as a senior while striking out 70 in 56.1 innings of work. Cavender was named the District 8-AAA Co-Offensive player of the year in the district. He led the Raiders in batting average, home runs and slugging percent. The two outstanding players both signed to play college baseball. Cavender will play at Tennessee Temple and Douglas will compete for Freed-Hardeman...

Motlow College head men’s basketball coach Matt Sligh recently announced that North Charleston, S.C., power forward Seth McKelvey will be part of the Bucks’ program when the team begins preparation for the upcoming season this fall. McKelvey is a 6’7”, 240-pound inside presence who comes to Lynchburg from Orangeburg-Calhoun Prep School in Orangeburg, S.C., following an outstanding prep career at RB Stall High School in North Charleston. While at RB Stall, McKelvey garnered a number of honors, including being rated the #11 prospect in the state by Scout.com. He averaged 12.2 points, 12 rebounds and 4.3 blocked shots per...

The Nashville Predators will open the 2014-15 season October 9 with a home game against the Ottawa Senators. This represents only the second time in the past seven years that the Predators will open the season at Bridgestone Arena. They’re hosting an Eastern Conference team in the opener for the first time since facing the Florida Panthers in the franchise’s inaugural game on Oct. 10, 1998. After hosting Ottawa in their season opener, the Predators have two more home games Oct. 11 and Oct. 14 before their first road...

The post season championship game of Minor League division of the Manchester Youth Baseball League is set as Coffee Financial will take on Mark Lemons Construction on Monday night at 6. Coffee Financial and Mark Lemons each won their semifinal games on Thursday night at Fred Deadman Park. In the early game, Coffee Financial plated 3 runs in their last at-bat to drop First National Bank by a 7 to 4 score.  In the nightcap, the bats and defense of Mark Lemons Construction stunned regular season league champion John Roberts Toyota 10 to 1. The Coach Pitch Division played their final...

The Red Raider summer baseball team went 2 and 2 on the weekend in their final summer ball tournament of the year in Murfreesboro. The Raiders dropped a 9 to 2 decision to Blackman on Thursday night before bouncing back with a 7 to 0 in over Marshall County on Friday. In that contest, Dylan Sandoval pitched the complete game 1 hit shutout to get the win. Saturday morning, the Raiders opened play against a tough travel team from the Knoxville area, Diamond Simcox. The Knoxville squad got 5 runs in the first inning en route to a 9...

McCallie School in Chattanooga hosted the Tennessee-Georgia 13th annual all-star baseball game Wednesday. Recent Coffee County graduate Peyton Meeker competed for Tennessee. Meeker was 1 for 2 with an RBI as his team defeated Georgia 4-0. Tennessee now leads the series 12-1. Meeker has signed to play college baseball for Freed-Hardeman...

Motlow men’s basketball coach Matt Sligh recently held a basketball elite skills camp inside Nisbett Center on the Moore County campus. Sligh, along with volunteer assistant coaches Robert Hayes, Matt Joines, Cass Barnes and Motlow basketball players Dequon Miller and Clint Nwosuh, worked with campers on a variety of individual and team skills including shooting technique, passing and ball-handling, rebounding, defensive concepts and sportsmanship. Thirty-three campers attended two different sessions during the two-day...

The Major League division of the Manchester Youth Baseball League got underway in the postseason tournament on Tuesday night at Fred Deadman Park. Six of the seven division teams were in action leaving regular season league champion Coffee County Bank to await the semifinal winners. In the lone early game on the American League Field, Al White broke a 3 to 3 tie in their last at-bat to stop Bush Insurance 4 to 3. In the late games, Jiffy Burger got a couple of late runs to power past Powers Storage 9 to 6 in a rain shortened game. Shelter Insurance played nearly...