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Westwood Middle Football Falls to MTCS
Konnor Heaton of Westwood football
Celebrating Homecoming on Tuesday, the Westwood football team welcomed Middle Tennessee Christian to Dyer-Bouldin Field. In a game you heard right here on Thunder Radio, a pair of 4th quarter touchdowns by the Cougars dropped the Rockets on homecoming. Westwood lost by a final score of 22 to 8.
MTCS scored first late in the 2nd quarter to take a 6 to 0 lead into halftime. After a scoreless 3rd quarter, the Cougars added a 2nd touchdown a minute into the 4th quarter. Westwood answered with 3:25 left in the game when Konnor Heaton scored from 29 yards out. Jayden Carter hit Heaton with a pass for the 2 point conversion. The Cougars ended the rally with a touchdown with 3:12 left in the game.
Heaton led the Rockets in rushing with 84 yards on 11 carries. Connor Smith added 64 yards on 13 carries while Ian Weldon added 17 yards on 9 carries. Carter competed 2 passes and also rushed 3 times for 14 yards.
At halftime, Abby Clark and David Chew were named the homecoming queen and king. Westwood will wrap up their season next Thursday, September 27th at Liberty. That season finale will kick off at 6:30 PM.
Download the broadcast at http://www.thunder1320.com/downloads/
Coffee County Volleyball Falls to Lincoln County
Maddie Husted of CHS volleyball
Kicking off a brutal week of games, the Coffee County Central High volleyball team traveled to Fayetteville on Tuesday looking for revenge with Lincoln County. Ten service errors and 15 hitting errors spelled doom as the Lady Raiders were dropped in straight sets. Lincoln County won by set scores of 11-25, 19-25 and 9-25.
Kiya Ferrell led Coffee County in kills with 5 and had the Lady Raiders lone block of the match. Maddie Husted had 6 digs to lead the team while Abigail Layne led in aces with 2. Keelie Hillis led the Lady Raiders in assists with 5.
The Lady Raiders travel to Eagleville on Wednesday for an in-school game. The Lady Raiders will take on the Lady Eagles beginning at 1:30.
Coffee County Soccer Falls to Lincoln County
Kyleigh Harner of CHS soccer
Hosting district leading Lincoln County on Tuesday, the Coffee County CHS soccer team welcomed the Lady Falcons to the Raider Soccer Field. After fighting to a draw down in Fayetteville earlier in the season, Coffee County dropped their first district match of the year at home 3 to 1.
Lincoln County scored in the 22nd minute and made that 1 nil lead hold up until halftime. In the second half, Lincoln County scored on a penalty kick in the 45th minute before Kyleigh Harner scored an unassisted goal in the 46th minute. Lincoln County closed out the scoring in the 62nd minute with the final goal of the night. Coffee County was outshot 11 to 7 in the match. Lady Raider keeper Lucy Riddle finished with 5 saves for Coffee County.
The Lady Raider JV will take part in a tournament on Saturday at Franklin County. The varsity Lady Raiders are back at home on Monday when they host Central Magnet for Senior Night. Thunder Radio will be on hand to bring you the broadcast as part of the 1st National Bank Hometown Sports Series. Kickoff is set for 6:00 PM, our live coverage begins at 5:45 PM.
Westwood Middle Volleyball Falls to South Lincoln
Maddie Sullivan of Westwood volleyball
Hosting their final home game of the year, the Westwood volleyball team welcomed South Lincoln to the Joel Vinson Gym on Tuesday. The Lady Rockets fell to the talented South Lincoln team in straight sets. Westwood lost by set scores of 6-25 and 12-25.
Maddie Sullivan led Westwood in assists with 3. The Lady Rockets got 8 digs from Abby Clark, and 4 digs each from Sullivan and Zowee Dillard.
The JV Lady Rockets fell in straight sets 6-25 and 13-25. Cassie Douglas led the team with 3 digs. Katie Lawrence and Hanna Brimhall each added 2 digs.
The Lady Rockets will close out their first full season on Saturday when they travel to Warren County for a tournament. Fielding 2 teams, Westwood will begin tournament play at 9 AM at the Warren County Middle School.
CCMS Volleyball Falls to Warren County
Hitting the road on Tuesday for their final road match of the year, the Coffee County Middle School volleyball team traveled to Warren County. The young Lady Raiders could not match up with the experienced Lady Pioneers. Coffee County fell in straight sets, 10-25 and 16-25.
The Lady Raiders will play their final regular season match of the year on Monday. Coffee Middle will play host to North Franklin at 5 PM at the CCMS gym.
9/20/18 — Ruth Ann Ridling
The family will receive friends on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, from five o’clock in the afternoon until eight o’clock in the evening at Tullahoma Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, September 20, 2018 at ten o’clock in the morning at Trinity Lutheran Church in Tullahoma, TN with Pastor Alex Hoffner officiating.
9/18/18 — Birthdays
Birthdays:
Rylee Clark, 12 — Pizza Winner!
Former Grundy Co. Student Sues School System and Sheriff’s Office
Trevor Sanders who graduated from Grundy County High School has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office and county school system, claiming his right to free speech was violated.
Sanders says he was arrested and put in jail for asking questions about Grundy High School’s Valedictorian policy.
Trevor asked questions when it was announced a student who was graduating after only three years – not 4 – would be Valedictorian.
When Sanders began to ask why, he was told he needed to meet with school administrators to talk about him speaking out.
In that meeting he asked to record the conversation. Soon after, he posted it on his public Facebook page.
The young man says he made no remarks about the female that was chosen as a person in the recording.
School administrators can be heard telling Trevor that he’s harassing the newly-chosen valedictorian.
Sanders was released after spending over 12 hours in jail.
The school later decided to have 11 Valedictorians for 2018, and the harassment charge against Sanders was also later dismissed.
In December 2017, the school board voted that students graduating early could not be Valedictorian, but afterwards the board reversed that decision. The lawsuit says Trevor and the graduating class weren’t told this when it happened.
Now, Sanders is suing the Grundy County sheriff’s office and school system for violating his right to free speech and right to search and seizure without reason.
The suit says Sanders wants $1 million dollars.
Tennessee has Fifth Highest Rate of Women Murdered by Men
Tennessee has the fifth highest rate of women murdered by men in the country with a rate of 1.91 per 100,000, according to a new study.
The Violence Policy Center released their study, When Men Murder Women: An Analysis of 2016 Homicide Data, Tuesday. The VPC used data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report to determine where each state would rank.
The study looks into homicides involving one female victim and one male suspect.
Across the United States, the study found that more than 1,800 women were murdered by men in 2016. 93 percent of those women were killed by a man they knew, and a gun was the most common weapon used.
This is the ninth year in a row that Tennessee has ranked in the top 10. The only states with higher rates are Alaska, Louisiana, Nevada and Arkansas, according to the study.
Haslam wraps up Listening Tour
Gov. Bill Haslam
WKRN-TV reports that this comes as the governor wrapped his final stop Tuesday on the statewide listening tour for the assessment test called TNReady.
There was plenty wrong with TNReady student testing this past April.
Those issues prompted Haslam to go on his statewide listening tour. The governor says he has been impressed with practical solutions being offered about the tests that are a key part of student, teacher and school evaluations, but says there could be tradeoffs with potential changes.
The governor says there will be a full report on what he learned about the student tests as early as next week.