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CCMS Soccer Battles in a Rare Doubleheader on Monday Night

In a rare doubleheader, the Coffee County Middle School soccer team traveled to Winchester on Monday night for a pair of games with North Franklin and South Franklin respectively. In the first game of the night the Red Raiders could not find the back of the net in a 3 to 0 loss to North Franklin. In the nightcap, the Raiders got a goal from Isaiah Escamilla as they battled to a 1 to 1 draw with the Trojans from South. The Raiders will now await the tournament draw to see who their first round conference tournament opponent will be. The preliminary schedule will have Coffee County in action on Wednesday but Thunder Radio will keep you updated.

CCMS Tennis Falls to Tullahoma

Joseph Sadler

The Coffee County Middle School tennis teams dropped a pair of matches at Tullahoma on Monday. The Lady Raiders got singles wins from Macy Brown and Sydney Bell along with a doubles win from Lexie Bryan and Mary Anne Walker before falling by a team score of 6 to 3. The boys got singles wins from Joseph Sadler and Ben Davis in a 5 to 2 decision. The Coffee Middle tennis teams will return to their home courts on Tuesday when they welcome Westwood to the Coffee County Raider Academy. That match is set to get underway at 4 PM.

Big First Inning Pushes Dodgers Past Sounds

A three-run first inning was enough for the Oklahoma City Dodgers in a 6-2 win over the Nashville Sounds Monday night at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.

The win allowed the Dodgers to salvage one game from the Sounds in the rain-shortened three-game series. The series win is the first for Nashville who lost their opening series of the season, and split the second.

The first four batters for Oklahoma City reached against Sounds’ starter Chris Smith in the first. Rob Segedin plated the first run when he sent a bases loaded base hit into center field to make it 1-0.

James Ramsey got Oklahoma City its second run on a fielder’s choice, narrowly beating the throw to first from Joey Wendle on what could have been an inning-ending double play.

With runners at the corners and two outs, Ramsey broke early from first. As soon as Sounds catcher Bruce Maxwell fired to second, Austin Barnes broke from third and stole home to make it 3-0.

Oklahoma City tacked on a run in the second before Nashville got on the board in the top of the third. A single by Chad Pinder sparked a two-out rally for Jake Smolinski who lined a double to the gap in right-center to score Pinder all the way from first.

An infield single and an error by Renato Nunez came back to bite Nashville in the home half of the third. The Dodgers plated a pair to push their lead back up to five at 6-1.

Matt Olson’s sacrifice fly cut the deficit to 6-2 in the sixth, but that’s as close as they would get.

It wasn’t for lack of opportunities as the Sounds pounded out 12 hits in the loss. However, they went just 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position compared to Oklahoma City’s 4-for-17.

Pinder led the charge with his first three-hit game of the season while Smolinski, Maxwell and Max Muncy had two hits apiece.

Zach Lee got the win for Oklahoma City and improved his record to a league-best 3-0. Smith was charged with the loss and dropped to 0-2 on the season.

The Sounds head to Colorado Springs for a four-game series set to begin Tuesday night. Right-hander Jesse Hahn (0-0, 0.00) starts for Nashville against right-hander Junior Guerra (0-1, 2.08) for Colorado Springs. First pitch is scheduled for 7:35 p.m.

The 2016 season is the Sounds’ 19th year in the Pacific Coast League and their second as the Oakland Athletics’ top affiliate. Season ticket memberships are available now by calling (615) 690-4487 or by visiting www.nashvillesounds.com.

4/18/16

Birthdays:
Brady Cooley, 10 — Pizza Winner!

Tina Stem, 49

Andrew Bowen, 28

Daniel Prince, 28

Bud Ruddle, 69

Oliva Fults, 4

Hannah Avery, 28

Patty Cox, 56

Daniel Smith

Mary Baker

Mary Beatty, 65

Danny Jones

Kenny Jones

Tiffany Jones

Perry Hoge, 72

4/17/16

No birthdays to report

4/16/16

Birthdays:
Angie Schmidt, 29 — Pizza Winner!

Linda Keele

Stolen items from Wal-Mart leads to Meth Charges for Florida Woman

Katrina Lyn Russell… Photo provided by the CCSD

On Saturday a female was allegedly observed by personnel and on video taking approximately $190.60 worth of merchandise from Wal-Mart in Manchester and exiting the store without paying for the items. Manchester Officer Daniel Ray located the woman a short time later in a vehicle in the parking lot of Logan’s Restaurant. The arrest warrant says Katrina Lyn Russell age 32 of Brandy Lane, New Port Richey, FL was attempting to cook methamphetamine. The warrant goes onto say Russell was observed with a green plastic bottle of a liquid substance and remnants of pills. The officer says that tubing, lithium batteries, ammonia nitrate, Drano cleaner, coffee filters, lighter fluid, funnel, a glass cup with residue and a pipe cutter were found, all items known to be associated with the manufacturing of methamphetamine.
Russell was charged with intent to manufacture methamphetamine, unlawful drug paraphernalia uses and activities, schedule IV drug violation, theft of property and driving on revoked/suspended license. Her bond was set at $58,000 and she’ll be in court on May 24, 2016 to face the charges.

Tullahoma Man arrested in Manchester on Meth Charges

Roman Cortez Cooper… Photo provided by the CCSD

On Sunday Manchester Police responded to a call at the Scottish Inn in reference to a welfare check of children in the parking lot past midnight. Roman Cortez Cooper age 20 East Grundy St Tullahoma who was in a vehicle in the parking lot and is the boyfriend of the mother of the children, allegedly took off behind a dumpster with a backpack as officers were investigating their complaint. After officers stopped Cooper they say inside the backpack was a cloth bag allegedly containing approximately 7.18 grams of a white substance that tested positive for methamphetamine. Also in the police report officers say they found in the backpack numerous small plastic bags, a set of digital scales, a grinder with residue and a set of brass knuckles.
Manchester Officer Kenny Sullivan charged Cooper with manufacturing/possession/selling/delivering of methamphetamine. Cooper’s bond was set at $50,000 and he has a court date of May 3, 2016.

Unemployment Lowest since 2007

Tennessee’s unemployment rate for March was 4.5 percent, a decrease from the February rate of 4.9 percent. That’s according to Tennessee Labor Commissioner Burns Phillips.
The U.S. unemployment rate for March was 5.0 percent, a slight increase of one tenth of a percentage point over the previous month.
Over the past year, Tennessee unemployment rate decreased from 6.0 percent to 4.5 percent, while the national rate declined from 5.5 percent to 5.0 percent. The 4.5% rate in Tennessee is the lowest rate since 2007. County rates will be released later this week.

Lottery sets Record

The Tennessee Lottery says it returned a record $119 million for education funding during the first quarter of the year, a 27 percent increase over the previous quarterly record.
Lottery-funded programs include 12 different scholarships and grants, multiple after-school programs, an energy-efficient schools program and Tennessee Promise, which offers eligible high school seniors the chance to go to community or technical college without paying tuition.
Lottery President and CEO Rebecca Hargrove said the record adds to what was already becoming an all-time high fiscal year. The previous record of $93.6 million was set during the third quarter of 2015.
The quarter also broke records for instant ticket sales with $355 million, draw-style sales at $125 million and the three top selling months for total sales since inception.

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