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BASEBALL: Raiders advance in District tournament with 9-6 win over Shelbyville
While baseball certainly wasn’t on the front of everyone’s mind Sunday, there was still a game to be played.
And Coffee County played it well.
Tied 3-3 entering the 5th inning, the CHS Red Raiders plated 6 runs over two innings to beat Shelbyville 9-6 and advance deeper into the District 8-AAA baseball tournament. The loss ends the season for Shelbyville.
Sunday’s game was a continuation of what began on Saturday. With both teams tied at 3-3 at the end of four innings on Saturday, home plate umpire Gerald Tidwell collapsed on the field and passed away. He was 54-years old.
“Our boys were pretty shaken by all of that,” said Coffee County head coach David Martin. “I’ve been shaken by all of that. I’ve known Gerald for a long time and the kids have been around him a lot. It was just really hard on them seeing all of that.”
Sunday afternoon, Shelbyville scored quickly in the top of the 5th to take a 4-3 lead thanks to a Raider error. But CHS answered quickly. In the bottom of the 5th, Lane Spry and Nolan Jernigan each singled to setup Jacob Holder, who blasted his 4th home run of the season over the left-field fence to put the Raiders up 6-4. They would never relinquish the lead.
CHS added three more in the sixth. Nolan Jernigan worked a bases loaded walk and Holder was hit with the bases loaded. Griffin Meeker scored on a wild pitch.
The Eagles cut the lead to 9-6 and had the bases loaded in the top of the 7th, but Carter McKenzie came out of the bullpen and slammed the door. McKenzie got Aiden Edwards to flyout to center and Raine Sims popped up on the infield to end the game.
The loss ends the season for Shelbyville. The Raiders had to win to continue their season after a 7-5 loss to Lawrence County on Thursday. The tournament is double-elimination.
Brady Nugent earned the win on the mound for the Raiders – allowing 2 earned runs over 2 innings. McKenzie is credited with the save.
Holder was named Mid Tenn Turf Player of the Game by Thunder Radio after his 5 RBI performance.
The win moves CHS to 20-10 on the season and marks the Raiders first 20-win season since 2010, the last time the Raider baseball team made a state tournament appearance.
The Raiders still have work to do, though. They are scheduled to play the winner of Tullahoma and Columbia at 6:30 p.m. Monday (in Shelbyville). A win in that game would put the Raiders one win away from reaching the District championship game and getting a Region 4-AAA tournament spot. Monday’s game will be broadcast live on Thunder Radio, weather permitting.
Predators reach playoffs for 17th straight season
They’re in.
Luke Kunin scored twice, and Juuse Saros made 21 saves to lead the Nashville Predators to a 3-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes to clinch their spot in the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena. Nashville’s victory is their first in seven tries against their first-round postseason opponent – the Hurricanes – on the campaign, and the triumph couldn’t have come at a better time.
After being 10 points out of a playoff spot two months ago, the Predators have clinched a postseason berth for the seventh consecutive season – tied for the second-longest active run in the NHL – and on this night, there’s no better feeling than being playoff bound.
You can listen to the Nashville Predators on Thunder Radio – presented by Charlie Gonzales with Weichert Realtors, Joe Orr & Associates. We are your exclusive home for the Predators in Coffee County.
Munn tosses perfect game as Lady Raiders open District tournament with win
Keri Munn was perfect Friday. And the Coffee County offense was nearly perfect, too.
Munn tossed a perfect game and the Lady Raiders ripped 15 hits and plated 10 runs to blowout Shelbyville 10-0 in six innings Friday night in Manchester.
The win advances Coffee County to the winner’s bracket finals of the District 8-AAA tournament – which will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday night against Lawrence County. That game will be played at Lincoln County, this year’s tournament host site. A win in that game would put CHS in the district championship game.
THIS GAME WAS BROADCAST LIVE ON THUNDER RADIO. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE REPLAY.
Friday night in Manchester, Munn was literally unhittable in the circle for CHS. She struck out 12 batters in six innings. She only progressed to a 3-ball count three times.
Meanwhile, the Lady Raiders punished Shelbyville at the plate.
Haidyn Campbell had 2 doubles, Emily Schuster doubled and Kiya Ferrell also had a double. Ferrell finished with 3 RBIs. Madison Pruitt added 3 hits – all singles – and a pair of RBIs. Chesnie Cox added 2 hits and an RBI, Justus Turner had an RBI on a bunt, Schuster knocked in one and Campbell sent one across the plate on her first double of the game.
CHS improves to 26-4-1 on the season with the win.
Birthdays- May 7
Birthdays:
Joe Hinch- 85
Rachel Wells
Channah Gannon- 14- Pizza Winner!
Lois Cummings- 90
Weekly Winners:
Cake- Samantha Gatlin
James Throneberry
James Throneberry of Tullahoma passed this life on May 7, 2021. No services
are scheduled.
He worked for Rock Tin for over 30 years. He is survived by his niece;
Sheila luttrell.
Online condolences may be made at www.davesculbertsonfuneralhome.com.
Daves-Culbertson Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
BASEBALL: Raiders open District tournament with shutout win
It appears that the Coffee County Central Red Raider baseball team is playing its best baseball when it matters the most.
Coffee County’s baseball team began its quest for the program’s first district championship in 10 years with a 3-0 shutout win over Columbia Thursday afternoon in Manchester – a game you heard live on Thunder Radio. It was the Raiders’ sixth win in their past seven games.
Coffee County rode the right arm of senior Griffin Meeker to the win. Meeker was brilliant, going the distance and picking up the shutout. He scattered six hits, walked one and struck out 8 Lion batters. The biggest trouble came in the first when Columbia picked up three of its six hits and loaded the bases, but Meeker picked up a strikeout to kill the threat.
Coffee County pushed all of its runs across in the third. Meeker started the rally with a single and scored on a double by Lane Spry. Jacob Holder later doubled home Mays Snipes (running for Spry) to push the lead to 2-0. Holder scored when Columbia catcher Gage Bolton had to throw a dropped third strike to first base.
The win improves the Raiders to 19-9 overall and now they will play Lawrence County in Lawrenceburg at 6 p.m. Friday. With a win the Raiders would advance to the winner’s bracket finals on Monday in Shelbyville.
Coffee County last won a district championship in 2011 – the third in the span of three years at the time. If Coffee County can at least advance to the district championship game, they will be guaranteed a spot in the Region 4-AAA semi-finals.
GOLF: Coffee Middle eliminated from postseason
Coffee Middle School’s golf team was eliminated from the postseason tournament with a loss to Tullahoma Thursday at Lakewood Country Club.
CMS lost 9.5 to 2.5 flags (middle school scoring is kept by winning a flag. A flag is awarded by the team that does the best on each 3-hole segment).
The CMS pairing of Tallan Crosslin and Cade Williams was able to pick up 2.5 flags for CMS. But that was all the Raiders could muster as a team. Crosslin and Williams won their pairing 2.5 to 0.5.
Birthdays- May 6
Thomas Baker- 9 -Pizza Winner!
Troy Rogers
Billy Bain- 47
Ethan Andrews
Shane Lowery
A private graveside service was held for Shane Lowery, age 43 of
Manchester, on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 in the Summitville Cemetery, with
Bro. Charles Williams officiating. Shane passed away suddenly on Sunday,
April 25 at St. Thomas Rutherford Hospital in Murfreesboro.
Shane was born on July 20, 1977, to the late Ronnie Lowery and Judy Guess
Lowery, in Manchester. He was a carpenter by trade, and he enjoyed fishing
and hunting. Shane was said to be an exceptional man, husband, father, son,
and “Pop-Pop”, and he loved spending time with his family, especially his
grandson, Elijah.
In addition to his father, Shane is preceded in death by his infant
daughter, Alexis Danielle Lowery, grandparents, Margurite and Oscar Jr.
Guess and Eulis and Elouise Floyd Lowery, and mother-in-law, Sharon Kay
Lowery. Along with his mother, Judy, Shane is survived by his loving wife
and best friend, Kay Lowery; daughters, Jessica Grimes and her husband,
Alex, and Candace Duncan and her husband, Raphael; grandson, Elijah Espy,
and grandbaby Trull (which is on the way); sister, Rhonda Prater and her
husband, Jr.; nieces, Kierstyn, Amelia, and Paisley Prater; aunts, uncles,
cousins, and a host of friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family request donations be made to the
American Lung Cancer Society.
Coffee County Funeral Chapel is honored to serve the Lowery family.
Pursuit reaches 177 mph; suspect stopped in Pelham
On Tuesday, May 4, the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) Chattanooga District responded to a BOLO from the Georgia State Patrol (GSP) that their troopers were in pursuit of a stolen Rolls-Royce out of Georgia. THP Sergeant David McVey observed the stolen vehicle speeding at 177 mph on I-24 WB in Marion County, Tennessee. The stolen vehicle then passed a Porsche 944 and caused the driver of the Porsche to crash into the rear of the Rolls-Royce. Both vehicles pulled to the shoulder of I-24 at the 127 mm just outside of Coffee County, where two males exited the Rolls-Royce and attempted to physically remove or carjack the driver of the Porsche. During the altercation, a semi-automatic pistol was presented by one of the suspects.
THP Sergeant McVey pulled in behind the vehicles, where he observed one male with his clothing partially torn yelling for help. The sergeant quickly brought the man to safety behind his patrol vehicle. Sergeant McVey then apprehended the two male suspects. Sergeant McVey then recovered a loaded Glock 9 millimeter semi-automatic pistol which had been dropped in the Porsche during the altercation.
“We are so thankful for the high level of partnership that the THP has with the Georgia Department of Public Safety and all of our federal, state, and local partners,” said Colonel Matt Perry.
The driver, Tyler O. Long, age 20 from Jackson, TN, and a juvenile, age 17 from Jackson, TN, were taken into custody without incident and transported to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office. Booking photos and a list of charges can be obtained by contacting the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office booking section.
“If not for the swift action of Sergeant McVey, the outcome of this incident could’ve been tragically different,” said Captain Timothy Spicer.