2019 Coffee County CHS Football schedule

Coffee County Red Raider football coach Ryan Sulkowski announced the 2019 Red Raider football schedule on Wednesday.  The schedule, announced during Wednesday’s Ryan Sulkowski Show, once again features 6 region games in the brutal Region 3-6A which encompasses the large Murfreesboro schools.  The non-region slate sees the return of local rivals Franklin County and Tullahoma with the return of a couple of teams who have been off the Coffee County schedule for a few years in Walker Valley and Spring Hill.

Wednesday’s Ryan Sulkowski Show features a recap of Friday’s win over White County, a recap of the season and plans the future.  If you missed the broadcast of the show on Wednesday night, you can download a podcast of the show at: http://www.thunder1320.com/downloads/

Pekka Rinne

Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced Wednesday that the club has activated goaltender Pekka Rinne from Injured Reserve. Additionally, the team has reassigned goaltender Troy Grosenick to Milwaukee (AHL).

The Predators will take on Tampa Bay on Thursday before returning home to host Boston on Saturday for Hockey Fights Cancer Night at Bridgestone Arena.  Thursday’s game will begin at 6:30 PM CDT and Thunder Radio will join the Fifth Third Bank Nashville Predators Radio Network broadcast immediately following the 1^st National Bank Hometown Sports Series broadcast of Westwood basketball.  Nashville Predators hockey is brought to you locally by the law offices of Burch and Lockhart.

Sophie McIntruff of CCMS basketball

The Coffee County Middle School 6^th grade basketball teams welcomed Cascade to the CCMS Gym on Tuesday night.  In the final home game of the year for the 6^th graders, the Raiders and Lady Raiders came up with a pair of wins.  The Lady Raiders rolled to a 36 to 7 victory

while the Red Raiders prevailed 38 to 15.

The Lady Raiders jumped out to a 15 to 2 lead after 1 period as they coasted to the win.  The Lady Raider defense held Cascade to only 2 field goals on the night.  Olivia Vinson was the leading scorer for Coffee County as she had 15 points.  Sophie McIntruff added 7 points and Addi Sartain chipped in 6.

Brady Wright of CCMS basketball

The Red Raiders outscored the Champions 19 to 4 in the second half to pull away for the comfortable win.  Courtland Farrar led the Raiders in scoring with 11 points.  Brady Wright was right behind him with 10 points.

The 6^th grade cagers are back on the court on Thursday when they travel to McMinnville to take on Warren County.  That doubleheader will be the final game of the season for the 6^th grade teams.  Tip off for the girls game is set for 6 PM.

Ryan Hartman of Nashville Predators[Photo courtesy of NHL.com]

As of late, the Predators have been calling for more secondary scoring from their bottom three lines. A pair from Hartman, and another from Calle Jarnkrok in the third, went a long way toward solving that problem, and it led to another win in the process.

“It feels like the last few games, everyone’s kind of been gripping the stick a little bit because we knew we had to contribute,” Hartman said. “Tonight, we talked about it – just get that off your mind, just play hard, move your feet, take the body, and opportunities are going to come out of that.”

Reilly Smith gave Vegas the first lead when he beat Juuse Saros on the power play for a 1-0 advantage after 20 minutes, but the second period belonged to Hartman.

Halfway through the stanza, the Preds winger scored one of the prettier goals of the season, when he dangled around a Vegas defender and then beat Malcolm Subban on the backhand for his second of the campaign. Just 57 seconds later, Kevin Fiala found Hartman again, and his one-time shot found twine once more to give the Preds a 2-1 lead heading into the third period.

“He had great moves tonight,” Fiala said of Hartman. “I just put it on his tape the first time and he made a great move.”

In the final frame, Kyle Turris found Jarnkrok to finish off a 2-on-1, and Viktor Arvidsson was awarded an empty-net goal late in regulation to seal the win, Nashville’s fourth at home to close out the season’s first month.

“We’ve been talking about our starts at home and our overall games at home,” Hartman said. “We weren’t really happy with ourselves after one [period], that was pretty obvious in the locker room afterward. After the first few shifts, we started picking things up and getting chances and moving our feet a little more. We did a good job in the second period and that carried into the third period.”

As of 10 p.m. CT on Tuesday, the Preds found themselves not only first in their division, but also atop the League standings as their October slate came to a close. And while they’re just 12 games in with another five-plus months to go, it’s a  good start for a team that believes they can do great things.

“We’re a more experienced group,” Turris said. “I know we’re young, but I feel like we’re experienced after the last couple of years we’ve had. We just can’t lose two in a row in this League.”

You Have to Have Hart:

For a moment, it seemed plausible that Filip Forsberg had dressed as Ryan Hartman for Halloween.

However, it was indeed No. 38 himself who brought the house down on Tuesday with a goal worthy of League-wide praise, before he got another less than a minute later.

“Unbelievable,” forward Colton Sissons said of his teammate’s first marker. “I need to take a page out of his book and watch some video on it because it was a spectacular goal.”

Hartman’s teammates were as impressed as anyone with his first two-goal game in Nashville, but more importantly, his head coach saw a player who has the ability to put the puck in the net with regularity show signs of doing just that.

“It was really good to see him get going,” Preds Head Coach Peter Laviolette said of Hartman. “It’s been a little bit of a difficult summer for him. He got a little banged up in training camp and had to take a little more time off. There’s been a few games where he had an impact in earlier in the season and then has gone quiet for a little bit, but he had a really good game, especially on the rush.”

Notes:

Hartman scored twice in 57 seconds, but the Preds record for fastest two goals by the same player belongs to Scott Hartnell who had two in 23 seconds back in February of 2007.

With a goal in the third period, Viktor Arvidsson (5g-2a) is now on a five-game point streak.

Kevin Fiala now has four career points (1g-3a) against Vegas.

Defenseman Matt Irwin appeared in his first game of the season for Nashville, logging three hits in 11:16 of ice time.

The Predators will now jet off to Tampa Bay for a meeting with the Lightning on Thursday before returning home to host Boston on Saturday for Hockey Fights Cancer Night at Bridgestone Arena.

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report

For the 2018 Football Playoffs, TSSAA will begin offering digital tickets for all playoff games through GoFan, the official digital ticketing partner of the TSSAA.

“Today’s spectators have come to expect conveniences like online and mobile ticketing and the ability to pay with a credit or debit card,” said Bernard Childress, Executive Director of TSSAA.  “Our use of GoFan for digital ticketing the past few years at state championship events has been well received.”

Digital tickets sold through the GoFan platform will be “mobile-only” tickets, which means the digital ticket must be shown at the gate on the purchaser’s smartphone.  Gatekeepers will simply tap the patron’s phone screen to validate the tickets.

Digital tickets may be purchased by visiting TSSAAsports.com or GoFan.co.

Credit card processing and service fees are paid by the purchaser, which means schools receive 100% of the ticket price and pay nothing to use the service.  GoFan is a service of Huddle Tickets, which has provided no-cost ticket stock to TSSAA and it’s member schools for the past seven years.

Digital tickets will be available for sale online soon after each round of the playoffs is set.  Participating schools can share the online ticket links through social media platforms, as well as email and text message campaigns.