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5/6/17 — Birthdays
Birthdays:
Thomas Baker, 5 — Pizza Winner!
Emily Warren, 24
Doug Thomas
Teresa Utz
Anniversaries:
Vernon & Barbara Jones, 50
Coffee County Youth Bass Club Crowns Season Champs
Coffee County Youth Bass Club tournament participants in Saturday’s club tournament.
The Coffee County Youth Bass Club completed their club tournament spring season on Saturday with a tournament on Tims Ford. The tournament also brought to an end the 2017 season as club champions and runner-ups were crowned.
For the tournament, the team of Hunter Sanders and Brayden Majors captured first place as they landed a stringer weighing in at 13.44 pounds. Majors also won the big fish honors as he landed a 3.52 pound largemouth. Standings for the tournament were as follows:
1st: Hunter Sanders/Brayden Majors 13.44lbs
2nd: Blake Mangrum 8.07lbs
3rd: Hunter Haley/Garrett Fellers 5.20lbs
4th: Issac Turner/Cam Rutledge 2.84lbs
5th: Shannah Frame 1.92lbs
6th: Hogan Scott/Jacob Garms
Big Fish: Brayden Majors 3.52lbs
The tournament win helped the team of Sanders & Majors win the season championship for the club. The team of Hunter Haley and Garrett Fellers finished a close second. Both teams will have their entry fee paid to the state tournament coming up this weekend. Each will receive $50 for gas for their boat. Additionally, the team of Sanders and Majors will receive $2000 in scholarship money while the team of Haley & Fellers will receive $1000 in scholarship money. Those scholarship monies will go towards any school expense they have outside tuition when they advance to their next level of education.
The final 2017 standings for the Coffee County Youth Bass Club are:
1st: Hunter Sanders/Brayden Majors – 38.97pts
2nd: Hunter Haley/Garrett Fellers – 35.29pts
3rd: Shannah Frame – 27.76pts
4th: Blake Mangrum/Taylor Fletcher – 22.07pts
5th: Braeden and Colby Thurmond – 17.28pts
6th: Madison Harryman/Blythe Petty – 13.76pts
7th: Issac Turner/Cam Rutledge – 13.04pts
8th: Hogan Scott/Jacob Garms – 8.43pts
9th: Megan Hartung – 7.60 pts
Next up for the anglers will be this week’s TN BASS Trail state tournament at Tims Ford Lake. The tournament will be held on Friday and Saturday. If you want more information about the Coffee County Youth Bass Club, and to see pictures from this weekend’s tournament, check out the club’s Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/Coffee-County-Youth-Bass-Club-1227052340639230/
CCMS Golf Falls to Tullahoma on Monday
Logan Hale of CCMS golf
The Coffee County Middle School golf team welcomed Tullahoma to Willowbrook on Monday. The match was the final regular season match of season. The Raider team was only able to capture 1 ½ flags out of a possible 12 to fall to the talented Tullahoma squad. The Raider team of Logan Hale and Chase Hancock got all the points for Coffee County.
Coffee Middle and Westwood will be back in action on Wednesday when they travel to Tullahoma for the CTC conference tournament. Tee time is set for 9 AM.
Chihuahuas Nip Sounds at First Tennessee Park
Another late comeback attempt fell short for the Nashville Sounds in a 5-4 loss to the El Paso Chihuahuas in front of 5,943 fans at First Tennessee Park Monday night.
Renato Nuñez belted a three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to pull the Sounds within a run, but that’s where the game ended up.
Nashville put three runners on after the home run but failed to score. Matt Chapman singled but was caught stealing moments later. After two more reached safely, Ryan LaMarre struck out to end the threat.
Franklin Barreto started the ninth with a single but was caught stealing second two batters later. Reliever Phil Maton retired Joey Wendle and Mark Canha to earn his sixth save of the season.
Daniel Mengden started for the Sounds (13-15) on a Major League rehab assignment and allowed a pair of runs in 3 2/3 innings. The right-hander yielded four hits, walked two, and struck out three in his season debut.
Mengden and El Paso starter Zach Lee matched zeros until the Chihuahuas plated two in the third. Carlos Asuaje plated the first run of the night with a double off the left field wall. Moments later, Nick Buss lifted a sacrifice fly to left field to score Asuaje and make it a 2-0 game.
The Sounds got a run back in the fourth thanks in part to some shaky El Paso defense. Walks issued to Matt Olson and Matt Chapman put runners at first and second for Nashville. On a base hit to left field by Jaycob Brugman, Olson and Chapman both ended up near third base. As Chapman ran back to second base and got in a rundown, Olson broke for home and scored. El Paso’s throw back to second got into center field and Chapman was safe at second.
It stayed 2-1 until the top of the eighth as pitchers locked in on both sides. Lee allowed just one run over six innings of work and earned his first win of the season.
Nashville’s Paul Blackburn worked four innings of relief but ran into trouble in the eighth inning – his final frame. Rafael Ortega drilled a two-run homer, and Rocky Gale knocked in a run as part of a 4-for-4 night.
The series finale is scheduled for Tuesday night at First Tennessee Park. Left-hander Sean Manaea starts for the Sounds on a Major League rehab assignment against right-hander Walker Lockett (3-1, 5.34) for the Chihuahuas. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.
The 2017 season is the Sounds’ 40th in franchise history and their third as the Oakland Athletics’ top affiliate. Season ticket memberships are available now by calling (615) 690-4487 or by visiting www.nashvillesounds.com.
Coffee County School System News
File photo: Dr LaDonna McFall Director of Coffee County Schools
Dr. LaDonna McFall Director of Coffee County Schools has received a distinguished honor. McFall has been named by the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents’ South Central Superintendent of the Year.
The South Central region is made up of 16 school districts.
Regional winners across Tennessee will now be voted on at the state level to receive the Tennessee Organization of School Superintendents’ Tennessee Superintendent of the Year award.
In other school system news; Due to large cuts in federal funding for the next school year Coffee County Schools has eliminated the position of Director of Health Services for the 2017-18 school year along with some other positions. The Director of Health Services job was held by long-time employee Janet Thornton.
Total funds were cut by over $200,000.
One county schools math coach and two intervention teaching positions were also cut.
One Person Injured in Friday Crash
Crash scene photo by Barry West
Foster was transported to Unity Medical Center for unknown injuries.
Apparently according to the troopers report, the van suffered disabling damage.
Man with Outstanding Warrants Arrested in Manchester
Jermaine Thomas Reynolds… Photo provided by the CCSD.
Officers were finally able to establish the subject’s ID as being Jermaine Thomas Reynolds age 33 of Cedar Lane Tullahoma from a female who had showed up on the scene and officers found an active warrant for Reynolds in Coffee County and other warrant in Franklin County with no bond.
Officers searched the man and allegedly located a steak knife hidden in Reynolds’ right front pocket. He allegedly stated that he had planned to stab the officer if he had rushed him.
Manchester Police Officer Jon Holland arrested Reynolds and charged him with public intoxication, aggravated assault and failure to obey an officer. His bond was set at $86,000 and he’ll appear in Coffee Court on June 27, 2017.
School Bus Seatbelt Bill Withdrawn
A bill that would require school buses to have seatbelts in Tennessee has been withdrawn for the year.
The Times Free Press reports that Democratic Rep. JoAnne Favors of Chattanooga late last week pulled her bill, which was inspired by a deadly school bus crash in her city in November.
The legislation would have mandated seat belts in new school buses bought after July 2019.
Fiscal estimates say the proposal would add $12.9 million in annual costs to school districts and $2.2 million in yearly state costs. The bill was changed to make the state pay the whole cost, but the money isn’t currently in the state budget.
Favors believed the cost would be much cheaper.
The Chattanooga bus crash in November killed six elementary school children.
Independence Day Celebration set for July 3 in Tullahoma
The City of Tullahoma is celebrating America’s 241th birthday this year with a free family festival. The City is pleased to announce that they are now accepting applications for vendors and sponsorship opportunities. Gates open at Noon on Monday, July 3rd at Frazier-McEwen Park and Grider Stadium will be filled with free music, games, food trucks, kids zone, and of course, fireworks that evening.
The Independence Day fireworks are a long-standing tradition in Tullahoma. In 1968, the Tullahoma Kiwanis Club started the celebration and this year’s event will build on their great tradition. Leading up to the fireworks show, the music features three Nashville bands: Vinyl Radio, seventies and eighties music; Make Me Smile, a Chicago tribute-band; 12 Against Nature, a Steely Dan tribute band; and after the fireworks, Wildflowers, a Tom Petty Tribute band.
The fireworks will be presented by a national pyrotechnics company that has presented shows around the world, including Nashville, the Washington Mall and New York City.
Vendor space is available for businesses for $100, food vendors for $70 and arts/crafts for $35. All proceeds will benefit children’s charities supported by the Tullahoma Kiwanis Club. This is a Regional Independence day event. Tullahoma wants to invite the region to experience a great day of fun and an evening of amazing fireworks. For more details, contact Winston Brooks at 931-247-1574 or complete the form at http://www.tullahomatn.gov/fireworks and mail it to Tullahoma Fireworks, PO Box 807, Tullahoma, TN 37388.
If an organization would like to have a presence at the celebration and be a sponsor, please contact Mayor Lane Curlee at 581-0360 or mayor@tullahomatn.gov. There are sponsorship levels ranging from $250 to $5,000.
Coffee County Softball Blanks Shelbyville on Sunday
Kaylee Skipper of CHS Softball(file photo)
Playing perhaps their most complete game of the season, the Coffee County Lady Raiders opened District 8AAA tournament play with an 8 to 0 win over Shelbyville on Sunday. Coffee County, who struggled with Shelbyville in their last meeting on Wednesday, played error free softball while Kaylee Skipper pitched a 3 hit shutout to get the win.
The Lady Raiders got off to a hot start in the tournament game played at Lawrence County. Skipper retired the Eaglettes in order in the top of the first before Coffee County plated 4 runs in the bottom of the inning; all coming with 2 outs. The big hit in the frame was a 2 RBI triple from Kaylee Skipper. Her battery mate Lauren Tomberlin added a 2 RBI single. After going scoreless in the 2 thru 4th innings, Coffee County sent 10 batters to the plate in the 5th inning getting 5 hits and scoring their final 3 runs. Skipper picked up another RBI on the fielder’s choice and Ashlynn Morton had an RBI bunt single. Skipper finished the game with 6 strikeouts and no walks to go with her 3 RBI to earn the Crazy Daisies player of the game honor. Raven Rogers finished with a pair of singles for the Lady Raiders.
Coffee County will now take on Lawrence County in the winner’s bracket final on Tuesday at Lawrence County High School. That game will begin at 7 PM and Thunder Radio will be on hand to bring you the broadcast. A win there would guarantee the Lady Raiders a berth in Thursday’s championship game AND a berth in next week’s Region 4AAA tournament.
Download the broadcast at: http://www.thunder1320.com/downloads/