The football Rockets at Westwood Middle
School are looking to cap of a perfect season Thursday night.
Westwood (7-0) will host Fayetteville in
the Duck River Valley Championship game at Dyer-Bouldin Field. The Rockets beat
Fayetteville 26-14 earlier in the season
– back on Aug. 20.
Kickoff is set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday and
you can hear the call on Thunder Radio as part of the First National Bank
Hometown Sports Series. Listen on 107.9 FM, 106.7 FM, 1320 AM, stream on the
Manchester Go app or thunder1320.com.
Ian Anderson helped subdue the concerns about the Braves’ rotation when he debuted in August, now he stands as a key reason why this October is shaping up to be a memorable one for Atlanta.
Anderson delivered yet another impressive scoreless effort, and Dansby Swanson hit the first of the two home runs that propelled the Braves to a 2-0 win over the Marlins in Game 2 of the National League Division Series on Wednesday afternoon at Minute Maid Park in a game you heard live on Thunder Radio.
Swanson and
Travis d’Arnaud both homered for the second straight day to back Anderson and
put the Braves a win away from sweeping this best-of-five series. They are
bidding to advance to the NL Championship Series for the first time since 2001.
Anderson allowed three hits over 5 2/3 innings on Wednesday with 8 K’s and has now recorded 17 strikeouts while not allowing a run over the 11 2/3 innings he completed in his first two career playoff starts. The 22-year-old right-hander joins former Brave Steve Avery as the only pitchers in big league history to put up five-plus scoreless innings with at least eight strikeouts in each of his first two career postseason appearances.
Game 3 will be at 1:08 p.m. Thursday and you can hear it live on Thunder Radio – your official Braves affiliate in Coffee County.
The Tennessee Titans were unable to
return to the team facility as hoped on Wednesday after two more positive COVID-19
tests.
Also, the NFL is investigating whether or
not the Titans violated league protocols after a group of players held an
informal workout last week at Montgomery Bell Academy. As of now, the Titans
are still scheduled to play the Buffalo Bills Sunday in a game you can hear on
Thunder Radio.
For the second day in a row, the Tennessee
Titans reported no new positive COVID-19 tests from Monday.
Head coach Mike Vrabel now hopes his team will
be back inside the facility by Wednesday, pending league approval.
In total, 18 members of the Titans team tested
positive between Tuesday and Sunday last week – 9 players and 9 team personnel.
Sunday’s game against the Steelers was
rescheduled for Oct. 25. This upcoming week’s game appears to be on schedule.
You can hear Tennessee Titans football all season on Thunder Radio.
Wednesday night is The Coach Doug Greene Show
live from Praters BBQ.
Tune in from 7-8 p.m. on Thunder Radio as host Dustin Murray covers the previous week’s win over Rockvale, and previews this week’s home game against Maplewood with CHS head coach Doug Greene.
Everyone is welcome to join the festivities
from Praters.
Coffee County is set to host Maplewood at 7
p.m. Friday. You can hear that game live on Thunder Radio.
Travis d’Arnaud’s three-run homer in the seventh inning provided
the Braves a lead they would not squander on the way to claiming a 9-5 win over
the Marlins in Game 1 of the National League Division Series on Tuesday
afternoon at Minute Maid Park.
After
Marcell Ozuna delivered a game-tying RBI single off reliever Yimi García,
d’Arnaud followed by depositing his game-winning homer over the center-field
wall. The three-run blast highlighted a three-hit game for the veteran catcher,
who also doubled home a run in Atlanta’s two-run third against Marlins starter
Sandy Alcantara.
Game 2 of the series can be heard Wednesday on Thunder Radio.
After spending the past few months battling to win the National
League East, the Braves and Marlins will square off in the NL Division Series,
which will begin on Tuesday at Houston’s Minute Maid Park.
Having won
their third straight division title, the Braves will be the home team in Games
1, 2 and 5 (if necessary) of this best-of-five series. The Marlins extended one
of this year’s best storylines when they clinched a spot in the NLDS by sweeping
the Cubs in the Wild Card Series.
The Braves are returning
to the NLDS for a third straight year after throwing 22 scoreless innings in
their sweep of the Reds in their WC Series.
Postseason experiences have been much different for these two
organizations. The Marlins have won each of the seven playoff series they have
been involved in, including the 1997 NL Championship Series against the Braves.
That stands as the only previous time these two teams have met in the
postseason.
By sweeping
the Reds, the Braves avoided becoming the first team in MLB history to lose 11
consecutive postseason series. Their last playoff series win had occurred in
2001, when they swept the Astros in the NLDS. The first two games of that
series were also played at Minute Maid Park.
“They have
kicked our butts a few times,” Marlins closer Brandon Kintzler said.
“They’ve beaten us six out of 10, but they’ve [mostly been] competitive
games. Obviously, their lineup is great. But we’ve got pitching. They’ve got
pitching.”
Sandy Alcantara,
who went 6 2/3 innings in an NL Wild Card Series win over the Cubs on
Wednesday, will start Game 1 against the Braves.
“If Sandy
gets everything going, he’s really a lot to handle,” Marlins manager Don
Mattingly said.
After an impressive 17-4 regular season, the Coffee County Lady
Raider volleyball team not knows its path in the postseason.
Shelbyville and Franklin County will meet in a district tournament
play-in game. The Lady Raiders will take on the winner at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct.
8 in Columbia, which is host site of the tournament.
Coffee County is looking to capitalize off an exceptional
regular season for a deep postseason run.
After days of bad news, the Tennessee Titans reported no new
positive COVID-19 from Sunday’s round of testing.
The Titans need two consecutive days of no positive tests to
reopen the building.
The Titans had to shut down operations last week after an
outbreak on the team, and the Steelers game that was supposed to be Sunday,
Oct. 4 was rescheduled for Oct. 25.
You can hear all Tennessee Titans games on Thunder Radio –
your home for the Titans in Coffee County.
Friday night was big play or bust for the Central High
School Red Raider football team. In the end – the Raiders scraped together
enough big plays to beat Rockvale 20-14.
Unofficially, Coffee County only managed 222 yards of
offense on the night. But defense, special teams and a pair of big plays proved
to be the difference.
Sophomore tailback Konor Heaton, who was filling in for an injured Marshall Haney, put the game away with 2:32 to play when he broke loose on a fourth-and-1 run and rumbled 37 yards for a touchdown score to put the Raiders up 20-7. Ian Welden’s extra point was blocked.
Listen to Konor Heaton score the late-game touchdown for the Raiders on fourth-and-one.
Heaton’s run was the first score for the Raiders since the
first quarter.
The Raiders jumped on top 7-0 with 3:40 to play in the first
quarter when Raider quarterback Connor Shemwell connected with Travis Martin in
the seam. Martin raced 79-yards for a score. Then just four plays later, Henry Garcia
blocked a Rockvale punt, then scooped the ball and rumbled into the end zone to
put the Raiders up 14-0 late in the first.
Garcia later added an interception as part of a Raider defense that bent, but didn’t break for most of the night. In the first half Rockvale got inside the red zone three times (twice inside the 10 yard line) – but the Raiders forced a missed field goal, then a turnover on downs, and linebacker Tristan Galy forced a fumble that was recovered by Zack Galy.
Rockvale finished with 301 yards of total offense.
The win is the first road win on the season or Coffee County,
and moves the Raiders back to .500 at 3-3 and 2-2 in Region 3-6A, which keeps
the Raiders alive in the postseason picture.
The Raiders return home next Friday, Oct. 9, to host Maplewood in a non-region tilt. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. and the game will be broadcast live on Thunder Radio.
Garcia was named Mid Tenn Turf player of the Game on the Thunder Radio broadcast.
