The cross country teams of Coffee County CHS and Coffee County Middle School closed out the regular season on Tuesday in Sewanee. In spite of missing several runners due to the school system being on fall break, the Raiders and Lady Raiders still got some good performances from the runners that remained.
For the Red Raiders, Andrew Godwin led the way as he finished in 2nd place. Larson Meltzer captured a 9th place finish, Neil Slone was 21st, Eric Randolph was 34th and Joe Melton was on his heels in 35th.

For the Lady Raiders, co-captains Sarah Pearson and Byanka Woods were the only 2 runners competing for Coffee County. Pearson won the girls race with a time of 24:32 more than 3 and a half minutes ahead of the 2nd place runner. Woods finished in 5th place.
For the Coffee County Middle School, Ethan Welch captured a 2nd place finish while Jacob Rutledge was 3rd for the Red Raiders. Jasie Willis was the lone competitor for the Lady Raiders as she finished in 4th place. This was the final race for the middle school cross country teams this season.
The high school’s next race is the Mid State Cross Country Association Championship on October. 15th. That race will be held at Buckner Park in Dickson.

1st National Bank and Thunder Radio will once again combine forces this fall and winter to continue to highlight more and more local athletes. The highly acclaimed 1st National Bank Hometown Sports Series will bring you a series of 12 Westwood Middle School and Coffee County Middle School basketball games beginning on October 18th and continuing into January. Thunder Radio’s Lucky Knott will bring his 34 years of experience to these broadcasts that you can hear exclusively here on Manchester’s only hometown radio station. Lucky, a veteran of sports broadcasting who has experience in broadcasting sports from preps to professionals, will provide unparalleled coverage for middle school basketball.  The tentative schedule is as follows:

2016-2017 1st National Bank Hometown Sports Series Middle School Basketball Schedule (Tentative)
Day	Date	Time	School	Sport	Opponent	Location
Tuesday	10/18/16	6:00 PM	WMS	Basketball	MTCS	Home
Monday	10/24/16	6:00 PM	CCMS	Basketball	West Tullahoma	Away
Tuesday	10/25/16	6:00 PM	WMS	Basketball	Eagleville	Home
Thursday	11/3/16	6:00 PM	WMS	Basketball	Liberty	Home
Monday	11/7/16	6:00 PM	WMS	Basketball	Huntland	Home
Thursday	11/10/16	6:00 PM	CCMS	Basketball	South Franklin	Home
Thursday	11/17/16	6:00 PM	WMS	Basketball	Forrest	Home
Thursday	12/1/16	6:00 PM	CCMS	Basketball	West Tullahoma	Home
Monday	12/5/16	6:00 PM	WMS	Basketball	Fayetteville	Home
Monday	12/12/16	6:00 PM	CCMS	Basketball	White Co	Home
Thursday	1/5/17	6:00 PM	CCMS	Basketball	Warren County	Home
Thursday	1/12/17	6:00 PM	CCMS	Basketball	East Tullahoma	Home

(Schedule subject to revision)

Making quick work of Franklin County, the Coffee County Central High School volleyball team advanced to Thursday’s District 8AAA semifinals with a straight set win over the Rebelettes. Coffee County won by set scores of 25-9, 25-13 and 25-16 to set up a matchup with Lincoln County on Thursday night in Lawrenceburg. The Lady Raiders used a strong net game as they stunned Franklin County with 47 kills on the match.
Coffee County was led at the service line by Bailey Morgan who served up 4 aces. Kaylee Skipper had 3 aces while Aerial Williams and Rachel Henley each added 2. Alliyah Williams led the team in kills with 14 while Aerial Williams added 8. Bailey Morgan led Coffee County in assists with 26 and Tyana Fenton led the Lady Raiders in digs with 6.
The win is the 20th match win of the year for Coffee County as they improved to 20 and 14 on the season. The Lady Raiders will advance to the district semifinals on Thursday as they have a 6:30 PM match with Lincoln County. A win in that matchup would advance Coffee County to Thursday night’s finals. Both the finals and semifinals will be held at Lawrence County High School. Should the Lady Raiders make it to the finals, they would advance to next week’s region tournament.

You can download the broadcast at: http://www.thunder1320.com/audio/HOMETOWN100416.mp3

 

Coffee County Central High School sophomore Ashley Gilliam used a bogey free back 9 on Sunday to win the Toyota Music City Junior, a 36-hole stroke-play event conducted by the American Junior Golf Association at Richland Country Club. Gilliam rose from an 8th place tie after Saturday’s round to the top of the leader board on Sunday after carding a 3-under-par 69 in the final round. Gilliam, a Mississippi State verbal commit, went bogey-free in her back nine finishing with a tournament total of 3-over-par 147. Gilliam drained 5 birdies in Sunday’s final round to end up on top of a field of 24 golfers that hailed from 8 different states and 3 nationalities.

The Coffee County Middle School volleyball team ended their season on Saturday with a 4th place finish in the Lady Pioneer Invitational in McMinnville. The Lady Raiders finished the day with a 3 and 3 record as they won 2 pool games and the first game of the single elimination tournament.
In pool play, Coffee County got wins over Warren County and Algood while losing to White County and Prescott. The Lady Raiders opened tournament play with a win over Upperman before losing to Prescott again to be eliminated. The Lady Raiders finished the regular season with a record of 8 and 4 and in 2nd place in the Central Tennessee Conference.

One team of the Coffee County Youth Bass Club participated in the Tennessee Bass Nation Trail Series on Saturday when they were in action at Cherokee Lake in East Tennessee. The team of Braeden Thurmond and Colby Thurmond were able to land one fish weighing 1.3 pounds to finish 31st out of 59 boats.
The Coffee County Youth Bass Club’s next event is scheduled for October 15th at Tims Ford. For more information about the Coffee County Youth Bass Club, you can check out their Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/Coffee-County-Youth-Bass-Club-1227052340639230/?fref=ts

Despite 3 touchdowns from University of Tennessee commitment Alontae Taylor, the Coffee County Red Raider football team dropped a 42 to 21 decision to Cookeville on Friday night in the annual Homecoming Game. The Red Raiders got on the board first thanks to a 6 yard touchdown run from Taylor with 7:23 left in the first quarter. Cookeville responded with 35 unanswered points to build a 35 to 7 lead with 11:23 left in the 3rd quarter. Taylor added a pair of 2nd half touchdowns and Zach Vaughn added a 2 point conversion.
Taylor led Coffee County in rushing with 27 carries for 173 yards. Taylor also added 22 yards receiving on 4 catches to be named the Thunder Radio/Crazy Daisies Player of the Game. Colton Prater was 8 of 11 passing for 51 yards and Dearron Rozier rushed 17 times for 17 yards for the Red Raiders.
Nikki Hernandez and Sammi Mai were named the homecoming queen and king respectively during the halftime festivities. Coffee County will have an open week next week before traveling to McMinnville on October 14th to take on Warren County.

The Coffee County Middle School Lady Raider soccer team battled from behind in Saturday’s CTC Tournament final, but could not get the winning goal in regulation or extra time against Warren County. That forced a round of penalty kicks that saw the Lady Pioneers out shoot Coffee County in PK’s to claim the CTC tournament title. The runner-up finish means that Coffee County will finish the season with a record of 9 wins, 2 losses and a draw.
Coffee Middle advanced to the final with a 3 to 0 win over Harris in Saturday morning’s semifinal. The Lady Raiders jumped on the Eaglettes early when Reagan Ellison scored off a feed from Maddy Jones in the 3rd minute. Jones made it 2 to 0 in the 28th minute with an unassisted goal. In the second half, Jones was ridden down in the 18 yard box in the 48th minute. Katie Cotton converted on the penalty kick to advance the Lady Raiders to the final.
Against Warren County, the Lady Pioneers got a goal in the 10th minute and carried that 1 to 0 lead into the half. Marley Perry banged home a deflection in the 42nd minute to send the game into the extra period. After the scoreless extra period, Warren County converted their penalty kicks to claim the title. After the match, Coach Travis O’Kelley had this to say about his team and their season: “It was a hard way to end a fantastic season. I’m proud of the effort put forth by our girls all season; going undefeated in conference play is no small achievement.”

The Lady Rockets soccer team of Westwood saw their season come to a close on Friday as they fell to St. Andrew’s-Sewanee in the semifinal round of the CTSC conference tournament. Westwood was eliminated last season in the tournament semifinals as they end the season with a record of 5 wins, 4 losses and a draw.
Against St. Andrews, neither team could get a goal in regulation or the extra period. Westwood keeper Alanna Coker finished the game with 10 saves during regulation and extra time, but the Lady Lions out shot Westwood 3 to 0 in penalty kicks to claim the 1 to 0 win and advance to the finals.