Category: Sports

Brianna Jones powered the Coffee County Lady Raiders at the plate and in the circle Monday, helping the Lady Raiders to a 2-1 victory over Lincoln County. Jones racked up two RBIs on a double in the first inning and she struckout 7 Lady Falcon batters.
Jones was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center player of the game.
Rhianna Roberson was the only Lady Raider with multiple hits as she finished with 2 singles.
Lincoln County scored one run in the fifth before heavy rain caused a nearly one hour rain delay.
Coffee County improved to 16-3-1 and 9-0 in district and will play Columbia at home Tuesday night beginning at 6pm with Senior Night activities starting at 5pm. Thunder Radio will have the broadcast at 5:50pm.

Missed scoring opportunities are usually bad things in high school soccer.  On Saturday, Siegel missed 4 good scoring opportunities were a good thing and kept Coffee County in the game until the final whistle.  The Raiders had their final shot stopped at just under 4 minutes remaining as they fell to the visiting Stars 2 to 1 on Saturday at the Raider Soccer Field.  Lafredo Ramirez was strong in goal for the Raiders with 2 great saves in the 27^th and 29^th minute before a long Siegel volley found the back of the net in the 36^th minute.  The Raiders got a good chance to tie it on a free kick at the 37^th minute, but the feed to the back post was just wide.  Siegel’s first missed opportunity came in the 39^th minute as Siegel got a shot past Ramirez only to have Benjamin Reid make a spectacular save on a ball off the cross bar.  That sent the match into the half at 1 to 0.

After 10 minutes of good defensive play in the midfield by both teams, Siegel converted a corner kick with a header in front of the net at the 56 minute mark to make the score 2 to 0.  The Raiders battled back as Breyer Taylor, who was taken down inside the 18 yard box, volleyed his penalty shot through the Stars keeper to make the score 2 to 1.  The next 15 minutes saw the Stars offensive attack pepper the Raider defense with shot after shot.  Ramirez stopped the shots on frame that got to him, but the Raiders defense provided good support.  Siegel did get off good shots at the 66 minute mark that hit the frame and a shot at the open net at 70 that clanged off the upright.  Every Coffee County rally in the final 5 minutes was stopped dropping the Raiders in the non-district contest.  Coffee County returns to the home pitch on Thursday night for a pivotal district match with Shelbyville.  The match will kick off at 7:00 PM.

With the winning run at 3^rd base and 1 out in the bottom of the 7^th inning, it appeared that a fly ball to center field would lift Christiana to a win on Saturday over the Coffee County Middle baseball team.  Trace Bryant had other ideas as he snagged the fly ball and threw a seed to the plate to nail the runner trying to score sending the game into extra innings.  The Raiders added a pair of runs in the top of the 8^th inning and escaped a no outs, bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the extra frame to capture the road win.  The Raiders also needed 2 runs in the top of the 7^th inning as they trailed the Cougars 10 to 8.  Bryant and Cody Esslinger got big hits in the 7^th to tie the game and set up the dramatic finish.  Speaking of the finish, pitcher Harley Hinshaw loaded the bases with no one out but his defense stepped up again as Tyler Surber, who was playing 3^rd base for the first time this year, made 2 solid plays to help give Hinshaw the relief win.  Bryant was 4 for 4 at the plate for the Raiders while Colton Kerber was 3 for 4.  The win is the 7^th in a row for Coffee County as the Raiders return to conference play this week with a 5 and 1 conference record.  The Raiders will take on Tullahoma this week on Monday and Tuesday in a pivotal series.  Both games will begin a t 5:00 PM with Monday’s game at Coffee County Middle and Tuesday’s game at Waggoner Park in Tullahoma.

Haley Richardson gave up a leadoff single to White County on the first pitch of the game, then held them hitless the rest of the day en route to a 15 to 0 win on Saturday at Coffee County Middle School.  Richardson was also productive at the plate with an RBI double in a 4 run first inning for Coffee County and an RBI single in an 11 run 3^rd inning for the Lady Raiders.  Also hitting doubles for Coffee County were Sierra Mahar and Erin Ferrell with both coming in the penultimate 3^rd inning as Coffee County sent 14 batters to the plate to end the game early via the mercy rule.  Grace Pippenger was 2 for 4 on the day with 3 RBI’s.  The win raises the Lady Raiders conference record to 7 and 1 as they begin a tough week of games on Monday when Tullahoma visits for a 5:00 PM game.  Coffee County travels to Tullahoma on Tuesday, before hosting North Franklin on Wednesday and Lincoln County on Thursday.

The Coffee County Lady Raiders are competing in the Gibbs softball tournament in Knoxville Friday and Saturday at Caswell Park.
Going into the bottom of the 7th (in the international tie-breaker) down 1-0 in a time-limit game against Farragut the Lady Raiders managed to score one run and end the game in a tie.
Freshman Shelby Scrivnor got the game tying hit for Coffee County. She and Taylor Barnes had two hits each.
Brianna Jones gave up four hits and had 15 strikeouts. Jones is now 30 strikeouts away from 1,000 for her career.

Facing the host Eagles in game #2 of Friday evening, the Lady Raiders saw Gibbs get a first inning home run from Olivia Wheeler which was all Gibbs needed to drop the Lady Raiders 3 to 0. Kaylee Skipper got the start giving up only 1 earned run on 2 Lady Raider errors and was saddled with the loss. The Lady Raiders scattered 4 hits and mounted a threat in the 2nd inning but could not crack the scoreboard.

Raven Rogers helped the Coffee County Lady Raiders to a 14-0 victory over Lenoir City on Saturday in Knoxville at the Gibbs High School tournament. She had a strong game at the plate and on the rubber.
Rogers was perfect at the dish, going 2-2, scoring twice and she had an RBI.
Rogers pitched lights out for the Lady Raiders. Lenoir City managed just one hit off of Rogers, who allowed no earned runs, walked none and struck out three during her five innings of work.
Taylor Barnes, Shelby Giles and Brianna Jones knocked in 3 runs each. Jones had a 2-run homer.
Rhianna Roberson, Shelby Scrivnor, Meagan Phillips, Shelby Giles and Rogers all had 2 hits each.

Despite only getting one hit and giving up 10 the Coffee County Central Lady Raiders defeated Grace Christian 3-2 on Saturday.
Claire Spellings scored the winning run for Coffee County as she was running for Brianna Jones who had the only hit for the Lady Raiders.
Pitcher Kaylee Skipper went the distance as Coffee County picked up their 15th win of the season.

In Coffee County’s final game of tournament in Knoxville they were no-hit by Maryville in a 7-1 loss.
Brittany Williams scored the only run for the Lady Raiders. Raven Rogers suffered the loss.
Coffee County heads into Monday’s match-up at home against district foe Lincoln County with an overall record of 15-3-1 and a District 8-AAA mark of 8-0.

With 6 outs to go and a 5 to 3 lead, the Red Raider baseball team was poised to get a doubleheader sweep at Rossview on Friday night.  The home standing Hawks exploded for 7 runs to drop Coffee County by a final score of 10 to 5 in Coffee County’s 2^nd game of the day.  Zach Holmes, Noah Anderson and Gavin Husted each had a pair of hits to lead the Coffee County attack.

The Red Raiders rode the pitching arm of J.P. Duncan to a 4 to 1 win in the first game of the   day over Northwest.  Duncan got the complete game win for Coffee County as he pitched 7 strong innings.  The Raiders got a pair of hits from Anderson and Wyatt Day to lead them offensively. 

On Saturday morning in Clarksville the Raiders baseball team took on Hopkins County, Kentucky. After the 1st inning the game was tied at one. The boys from north of the border got their bats going after that and grabbed a 5-1 lead. The Raiders closed the gap to 5-4 after four innings. Hopkins County got rolling again as they pushed across 7 more runs to up their advantage to 12-4. Coffee County battled back again but dropped the game 13-8.

In game two on Saturday the Raiders took on Clarksville. The Wildcats jumped to an early 4-0 lead after the 2nd inning before Coffee County got on the board. A Noah Anderson double scored DeAndre Wakefield took cut the advantage to 4-1 in the third. Clarksville extended the lead to 6-1 after 5 innings. The Raiders got an RBI single from JP Duncan and a passed ball in the 6th. The Wildcats scored twice in the 6th and took an 8-3 lead into the 7th. Coffee scored twice in the 7th; Gavin Husted tripled home Brandon Haston and Noah Anderson hit a sacrifice fly to score Husted. Final score Clarksville 8, Raiders 5.
Coffee County will host district foe Lawrence County on Tuesday night at 6pm.

The Coffee County Middle School soccer team split a pair of makeup conference games in McMinnville on Friday.   In the opening game, the Raiders got a hat trick from Drake Medina to drop the White County 5 to 1.  Medina got goals in the 8^th and 27^th minutes while Chay Chumley added a goal in the 12^th minute to stake the Red & Black to a 3 to 0 halftime lead.  Briggs Haithcock added a goal in the 34^th minute before Median added his 3^rd goal at the 38 minute mark.   Haithcock and Anakin Dillaha were credited with assists for Coffee County.

In the nightcap, Coffee County faced off against Warren County.  The Pioneers got 3 goals quickly and took a 3 to 0 lead in at the half.  Dillaha got the lone Raider goal 3 minutes into the second half, but the conference leading Pioneers posted an 8 to 1 win.  With the split, Coffee County’s record stands at 4 and 3 on the season and 2 and 3 in conference play.  The Raiders will host South Franklin on Monday for a 5:00 PM match

The Westwood and Coffee County Middle School golf teams opened the 2015 season on Thursday at Bear Trace taking on North & South Franklin’s teams. The CCMS boys shined as their 4 returning starters carded 4 of the lowest 5 nine hole scores on the day. Austin Farris and Samuel Prater led the way as each of them shot a 42. Josh Perry had a 50 and Matthew Hale got around in 53. The Red Raiders 187 was 38 strokes better than Franklin Co. Westwood’s Christopher Robinson was the lone Rocket to compete shooting a 54. In girls play, Franklin County won the girls match as Coffee County’s Olivia Lewis finished with a 78. The linksters will be back in action on Monday as they host Fayetteville at Willowbrook for their first home match of the season. The shotgun start will take place at 4:00 PM.

Injuries and illness left a young Westwood team in a tough predicament against a solid Moore County team on Thursday afternoon at Lady Rocket Field. Already down 2 starters, Lady Rocket pitcher Avery Whitsett was hit by a line drive in the 2nd inning and was removed from the game. Whitsett avoided serious injury as she partially deflected the line drive. The Rockets however could not string together hits. Haley Miller had a double for Westwood and Carlee Sullivan added a single for the only Rocket hits. Haley Miller scored the lone Westwood run as Westwood dropped the 17 to 1 decision. Westwood will host Cascade on Friday at Lady Rocket Field, weather permitting. First pitch is set for 4:30 PM

Westwood baseball left 4 runners in scoring postion stranded as they dropped a 20 to 0 decision to Huntland on Thursday afternoon in Huntland. The Rockets managed 2 singles, which coupled with 4 walks, gave Westwood a few wasted opportunities to score some runs. Ethan Rivera and Jacob Garms had singles for Westwood. The Rockets are set to travel to Cascade on Saturday morning for an 11:00 AM conference matchup

Leo Botello continued his magical scoring season on Thursday night in Fayetteville as he led the Westwood soccer team to a 5 to 0 victory over Riverside Christian in an important conference match. Botello scored 2 first half goals to give the Rockets a 2 to 0 halftime lead. Felix Jimenez added a goal at 38 minutes off an assist from Botello and Leo Basurto added a goal at 41 to put Westwood comfortably ahead. Elliot Said added a late goal off of an assist from Andres Cavalie and keeper Cailan McLean was perfect in net to give Westwood the 5 to 0 lead and sole possession of first place in the Central Tennessee Soccer Conference standings. With the win, Westwood improves to 8 and 2 on the season and 4 and 0 in conference play. The Rockets return to Fayetteville on Monday for a 5:00 PM conference match with Fayetteville Middle School.

Scoring 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th inning, the Red Raider baseball team of Coffee County Middle School picked up their 6th win in a row on Thursday night as they dropped the Trojans of South Franklin by a score of 3 to 2. Trailing 3 to 1 in the 4th, Coach Rodney Meeker brought in Harley Hinshaw to pitch and the 8th grader shut down the Trojan bats. Coffee County got big hits in the comeback from Colton Serber and Trace Bryant to escape with the come from behind win. The win upped the Red and Black season record to 7-1-1 and improved their conference record to 5 and 1. Coffee Middle travels to Rutherford County on Saturday to take on Christians Middle. First pitch will be at 3:00 PM at Christiana Middle School.

After a tough weekend in Murfreesboro, the Lady Raider softball team of Coffee County Middle School bounced back with a doubleheader sweep of South Franklin on Thursday night. The Lady Raiders got victories of 18 to 0 and 15 to 0 on the night. In game #1, The Lady Raiders banged out 18 hits as Shannon Frame was 3 for 3 with a double and Gracie Pippenger whalloped a home run. Haley Richardson got credit for the 3 inning win. In game #2, Erin Ferrell and Keelie Hillis each were 2 for 2 in the game as Coffee County had 9 hits. Ferrel earned the victory in the circle for the Lady Raiders. With the wins, the Lady Raiders improved to 6 and 4 overall and 6 and 1 in conference play. Coffee County welcomes White County to CCMS for a noon showdown on Saturday.

The Coffee County Middle School soccer team began a brutal 2 day, 3 game stretch on Thursday evening in Winchester as they grabbed a 2 to 1 win over North Franklin in a conference match. The Raiders got on the board in a hurry as Drake Medina found the back of the net in the 4th minute and Clinton Ferrell hit the game winner in the 9th minute off an assist from Chay Chumley. North got on the scoreboard in the second half as they pushed across their lone goal in the 45th minute. The win ups the Raiders to a 3 and 2 record overall and 2 and 2 in conference play. The Raiders return to the pitch on Friday as they travel to McMinnville to take on White County at 4:00 PM and Warren County at 7:00 PM at Warren County High School in makeup games.

The Red Raider soccer team got 2 goals from Samuel Brown as they defeated Lincoln County in high school soccer on Thursday night by a final score of 5 to 1. Ernesto Gomez started the scoring in the 9th minute off of a feed from Paco Barrera. Scott Randolph added a goal in the 25th minute as he drilled a pass from Abilene Barrera past the Falcon keeper. Brown notched his 1st goal at 38 as he knocked home the rebound of Breyer Morgan’s free kick to give the Raiders a 3 to 0 half time lead. Lincoln County scored early in the second half but Coffee County answered back in the 55th minute as Taylor scored off of a beautiful feed from Benjamin Reid. Brown added his second goal unassisted to close out the scoring in the 63rd minute and give Coffee County the big win. The win improved the Red Raiders district record to 2 and 1 on the season. Coffee County will host their first home match of the year on Saturday night as Siegel visits the Raider Field for a non-district match. That varsity match begins at 7:00 PM at Coffee County’s home field behind the Raider Academy.

The Raider tennis teams swept Franklin County on Thursday night in Winchester. Each team went 7 and 0 on the evening. In picking up their first district win of the year; the boys team got match wins in singles from Walker Seagraves , Trevor Ivey-Bodman, Easton Mai, Shilp Patel and Jay Patel. The doubles team of Ivey-Bodman/Mai won an exciting match 9-8 in a tiebreaker, while Jay and Shilp Patel won 8-5 in their doubles match. The boys are now 2-5 on the season and 1-3 in district play.
In girl’s action, the Lady Raiders remained unbeaten in district play. Karlee Reed, Alec Crossland, Maddie Taylor, Savannah Hodge and Kayla Wright all got singles wins. IN doubles, the teams of Reed/ Taylor and Crossland/Wright each scored 8 to 1 wins over the Rebels. The win ups the Lady Raider record to 4 and 0 in district play and 5 and 2 overall. The Raider netters will host Shelbyville on Monday afternoon at the Fred Deadman Park. The girl’s match will see the top teams squaring off with the possibility of a regular season district title on the line. First serve will be at 4:00 PM

Brianna Jones struck out 15 batters to lift the Coffee County Lady Raiders to a 3-2 win over Shelbyville.
Jones racked up two RBIs with her 4^th homer of the year in the first inning.
Shelbyville tied the game in the 6^th at two runs each. In the bottom of the 7^th Shelby Scrivnor singled and Taylor Barnes ripped a triple to right field to give the Lady Raiders the win. Barnes was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center player of the game.
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Coffee County is now 8-0 in District 8-AAA play and 13-1 overall. They travel to Knoxville on Friday for tournament action. The first game is set for 7pm against Farragut and the Lady Raider play again at 8:30pm versus the host school Gibbs. On Saturday at 9:30am Coffee County plays Lenoir City and at 12:30pm they take on Grace.

In Prep tennis action on Wednesday, continual improvement was the word of the day. In high school tennis, the Lady Raiders and Red Raiders traveled to Tullahoma to take on their cross-county rival Wildcasts. In girl’s play the Coffee Co girls swept the Lady Wildcats of Tullahoma by a score of 7-0. Winning scores were Karlee Reed( 8-5). Alex Crossland( 8-6), Maddie Taylor( 8-1), Savannah Hodge(8-4)
and Kayla Wright(8-3) in singles play. In doubles action, the teams of Reed/Taylor and Crossland/Hodge each won their matchups. The Lady Raiders are 4-2 on the season and 3-0 in the district.
In boys action, the Red Raiders lost 6-1 but continue to show improvement as they gain valuable experience. Jay Patel picked his 1st win of the year by a score of 8-6 to earn the boy’s lone match win. The boys are 0-5 on the season and 0-3 in the district. The CHS tennis teams travel to Franklin County on Thursday with matches beginning at 4:00 PM

In middle school tennis, the Westwood Rockets tied Shelbyville on Wednesday for their first positive outcome of their inaugural season. Xander Jones, Khristian Manns, Matthew Miller, Braeden Massicotte all won in singles. While Jones and Manns combined for a doubles win over Shelbyville.
The Lady Rockets dropped a 9 to 3 decision as Natalie Elzeer, Kara Roper, and Rosalyn Massey won in singles play over the Lady Eagles The Rockets and Lady Rockets travel to the mountain for their next match to take on St. Andrew’s Sewanee. That match is scheduled for Thursday, April 16th and will begin at 4:00 PM.