Category: Sports

The 6th grade basketball teams of Coffee County Middle School opened the season on the road in Tullahoma on Monday night.  The Raiders and Lady Raiders took on the Panthers of East in a pair of hard fought games.  Coffee County was able to capture a pair of wins as the Lady Raiders won 23 to 15.  The Red Raiders battled to a 33 to 27 win.

In the girls’ game, Coffee County led from wire to wire as they were able to shut down the Lady Panthers on the defensive end of the floor for the first 3 quarters.  A handful of missed shots and turnovers kept East in the game in the 4th quarter.  Coffee County was led in scoring by Remi Benjamin who had 12 points.  Samantha Kirby added 6 points and Marissa Medina finished with 4.

The Red Raiders roared out to a 15 to 3 first quarter lead behind a trip of 3 pointers from Ethan Hargrove.  After building the lead to 25 to 10 at the half, Coffee County saw East capitalize on some 2nd half turnovers to make the game interesting in the fourth quarter.  Hargrove finished as the high scorer for the Red Raiders as he finished with 14 points.  Cooper Reed added 10 points and Donovan Morgan finished with 4.

Coffee County travels to Sparta on Tuesday for a pair of games with White County.  The girls’ game gets underway at 6 PM at White County Middle School.

The Temple Baptist Christian School Lady Eagles varsity and JV volleyball teams traveled to Springfield on Monday for a pair of games with South Haven Christian.  Playing in their final match of the regular season, the JV (grades 6 thru 9) team swept South Haven in straight sets 25 to 17 and 25 to 11.  The varsity team (grades 9 thru 12) was pushed to a full 5 sets before taking the win.  The Lady Eagles won by set scores of 25-14, 25-23, 22-25, 22-25 and 15-13.

For the JV team, the win caps off a perfect season as they finish with a record of 11 and 0.  The JV Lady Eagles finished the match with 14 aces as Grace Butler and Lexie Stewart each served 5.  Stewart also led the team in assists with 11.  Brooke Clark led the team in digs with 6 and kills with 12.

After capturing the first 2 sets, the varsity team had to rally to win the tiebreaker set to capture their 25th win on the year.  Rachel Butler, the lone underclassman for the Lady Eagles, led Temple in most statistical categories.  Butler had the team lead digs with 32, aces with 3, and kills with 23.  Lauren Davis had 32 assists to lead the team in that category.  Bri Baker led the team in blocks with 4.

The Temple varsity team will wrap up their season on Friday and Saturday when they travel to Louisville, Kentucky to take part in the Landmark Christian Tournament.

The Lady Raider soccer team of CHS will open district tournament play on Tuesday night at the Raider Soccer Field. Coffee County will play host to Columbia beginning at 6:30 PM. Columbia defeated Franklin County on Saturday night to advance to Tuesday’s semifinal match-up with the Lady Raiders.

Coffee County had a win and a tie with Columbia during the regular season. The Lady Raiders clawed their way to a 4 to 4 draw in a physical match at home on September 16th.  Coffee County blanked the Lady Lions 3 nil in Columbia on September 18th. A win by Coffee County would advance them to Thursday night’s district championship.

If Coffee County wins they would host Thursday’s final match at the Raider Academy. Tuesday’s semifinal with Columbia gets underway at 6:30 PM. Thunder Radio will bring you live coverage as part of the First National Bank Hometown Sports Series. Tune in at 107.9 FM, AM1320, online at WMSRradio.com or on the Thunder App for your tablet or smart phone. Live coverage begins with the pregame show at 6:20 PM..

On Tuesday night Coffee County Volleyball team travels to Murfreesboro for the Region 4AAA volleyball tournament. As champions of District 8AAA, the Lady Raiders will square off against Blackman in a semifinal match-up beginning at 6 PM. The host Siegel Lady Stars will take on Lincoln County in the other semifinal match-up at 4:30 PM. A win by Coffee County would advance them to Tuesday night’s finals against the winner of Siegel and Lincoln County. It would also guarantee them a berth in the TSSAA sectional later this week. The region final is set to begin around 7:30 PM. All 3 matches will be played at Siegel High School .

The Coffee County football team opened up a 3 week stretch of home games on Friday night as they played host to Lebanon in a non-region contest.  The Red Raiders got a huge touchdown on the last play of the first half and a huge stop in the final drive of the game to capture the 19 to 14 win over Lebanon.

Tied at 7 with seconds remaining in the first half, Alontae Taylor scored on a 1 yard keeper to make the score 13 to 7 going in to intermission.  After a scoreless 1^st quarter, Lebanon got on the scoreboard with 9:24 left in the half.  Coffee County tied the game on a 16 yard touchdown pass from Alontae Taylor to Zach Vaughn with 3:07 left in the half. The Raiders extended the lead to 19 to 7 in the 3^rd quarter only to see Lebanon cut the lead to 5 early in the 4^th quarter.

At that point, the Red Raider defense took over shutting down the Blue Devils including a pair of big plays to seal the victory.  With Lebanon driving in the closing minutes, Deaaron Rozier got a sack on 3^rd down.  On the ensuing play, Taylor intercepted a Blue Devil pass in the end zone to seal the win.

For their heroics, Taylor and Rozier were named the Crazy Daisies Co-Players of the Game.  Taylor finished with 27 rushes for 179 yards and 2 rushing touchdowns.  He was also 5 of 7 through the air for 85 yards.

Coffee County is back at home on Friday night when they host Riverdale.  Friday night will be the “Pink-Out Night” as Coffee County will don pink jerseys to raise money and awareness for breast cancer prevention.  Kick-off will be at 7 PM, Thunder Radio begins live coverage with the Friday Night Thunder pregame show at 7.

Download the broadcast of the game by visiting: http://www.thunder1320.com/downloads/

Facing the narrow head waters of Old Hickory Lake on Saturday, Hunter Sanders and Blake Mangrum of the Coffee County Youth Bass Club captured a 4^th place finish in the 2nd region fishing tournament of the season.  Sanders and Mangrum were one of 5 Coffee County teams to land fish in the South Central Tennessee Region BASS Nation High School as they competed in a field of 68 boats.  Sanders and Mangrum landed 4 fish weighing in at 5.86 pounds.

Coffee County ended up with 3 teams in the top 15 as the team of Joe White and Christopher Wise caught 2 fish weighing 3.07 pounds to finish in 13^th place.  They edged out the Coffee County team of Branson Wells and Dawson Wells by a fin.  The Wells due caught 2 fish weighing 2.92 pounds for 14^th place.   The team of Issac Turner and Cameron Rutledge were 26^th with a catch of 1.35 pounds and the team of Garrett Davis and Isiah Owens were 33^rd with a catch of 1.23 pounds.

The Coffee County anglers are next in action on Saturday when they travel to Jefferson City to compete in the Tennessee Bass Nation Trail tournament on Cherokee Lake.  This is the 2^nd state qualifying meet on the state BASS trail and will feature anglers from across the state.  The boats will begin launching at first light.

For more information about the Coffee County Youth Bass Club, visit their Face book page at: https://www.facebook.com/coffeecountyfishing/

The Temple Baptist Christian School Lady Eagles volleyball team captured a 2^nd place finish on Saturday in the Madison Baptist Academy volleyball tournament in Madison, Alabama.  Playing 7 matches in 2 days, the Lady Eagles compiled a 6 and 2 record with both losses coming to eventual tournament champion Clay’s Mill Christian from Kentucky.   Temple got wins over Madison Baptist, AL, Victory of Shelbyville and Walker Springs Baptist of Kentucky in pool play.

The Lady Eagles completed pool play on Friday with a record of 3 and 1.  That performance was good enough to earn them a #2 seed in the tournament’s double elimination finals bracket on Saturday.  Temple faced off against Victory Baptist in the opening round of the tournament and beat the Patriots in a rematch from their final pool play game.

This advanced Temple to the semifinals where they once again faced Victory for the 4^th time in 4 days.  This time, Temple needed 3 sets to get the 2 to 1 win over their rivals from Shelbyville.

In the finals, Clay’s Mill dropped Temple in straight sets as the Lady Eagles came home with a 2^nd place finish.  Temple’s record now stands at 24 and 4 on the year.

On Monday, Temple travels to Springfield, Tennessee to take on South Haven Christian.  This will be a varsity/JV doubleheader beginning with the JV match at 4.  Monday will be the final JV game of the season as the Lady Eagles will attempt to run their season record to 11 and 0.

This Saturday, October 7, the Manchester Red Raiders traveled to Fayetteville to face the Tigers.

The Peewee team started up first and was defeated 32-13. Kaleb Morris led the team with a 50 yard touchdown with help of Braxon Wilder with a 30 yard touchdown.

In Division 1, at the start of the first half Jacoba Fells got a 40 yard touchdown. The extra point was made by Zachary McCormick. At the end of the half Raiders led 7-6. At the beginning of the fourth quarter Jacoba makes a 8 yard touchdown. There was no extra point. In the end the Raiders fell 24-13.

In Division 2, Tyler Martin had 31 yards rushing. Close behind him was Gabriel Hambly with 13 yards rushing. On the defense Augustus Slone, Zander Gomez, and Carlos Martinez led the defense. In the end the Red Raiders lost 18-0

In the Division 3 game, the offense struggled to move the ball against the Tigers. However, on the defensive side of the ball Johnathan Akers, Jacob Barlow and Xander McCormick led the defense with a combined 23 tackles. The Raiders lost 45-0.

Next week Raider have a bye week, but on October 21 they will be back in action with the Div 1 playing in Moore County and Peewee playing in Manchester. Come out and support our Red Raiders.

The Titans couldn’t get in sync on offense on Sunday, and they paid for it.

The Titans lost 16-10 to the Miami Dolphins here at Hard Rock Stadium. The loss dropped the Titans to 2-3 on the season.

Matt Cassel started at quarterback for the Titans, in place of Marcus Mariota.

Mariota, who suffered a hamstring injury against the Texans, was among the team’s inactives. He watched from the sideline in a baseball cap and t-shirt.

Cassel completed 21-of-32 passes for 141 yards in the game. He was sacked six times.

The Titans struggled to get going on offense most of the contest, and the defense couldn’t get some key stops late.

The Dolphins took a 3-0 lead on a 41-yard field goal by kicker Cody Parkey.

A bad sequence for the Titans changed the game early.

Late in the first quarter, a 59-yard touchdown pass from Cassel to tight end Delanie Walker was called back because of an offensive pass interference penalty on tight end Jonnu Smith.

Two plays later, Cassel was hit as he threw the ball, and it initially looked like it would be ruled an incomplete pass. But officials instead ruled Cassel fumbled the ball forward, and the Dolphins were awarded a touchdown – a 38-yard fumble recovery by safety Reshad Jones to make it 10-0.

Safety Kevin Byardrecovered a fumble forced by cornerback Adoree Jackson early in the third quarter, and the Titans cashed it in for three points – a 45-yard field goal by kicker Ryan Succop – to make it 10-3.

Succop’s made field goal was his 46th in a row from inside 50 yards, and it tied an NFL record.

The Titans tied the game at 10-10 on an 11-yard touchdown catch by tight end Phillip Supernaw. Cassel completed three passes to Eric Decker on the drive, and also found receiver Rishard Matthews open for a 17-yard completion.

But the Dolphins reclaimed the lead on a six-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Jay Cutler to receiver Jarvis Landry. The Dolphins missed the extra point, which made it was 16-10 with 10:33 left in the fourth quarter.

The Titans face the Colts next Monday at Nissan Stadium.