Category: Sports

Thursday was another solid day for Coffee County pitcher Brianna Jones as she threw a no-hitter in the Lady Raiders 8-0 victory over Zion-Benton, Illinois in tournament action in Murfreesboro.
No Zee-Bee batter was able to locate Jones’ pitches during the game. Jones threw a no-hitter, striking out 10 batters and walking none while recording her 2nd no-hitter of the year.
Seven runs in the 2nd inning helped the Coffee County Lady Raiders blow out Zion-Benton.
Tori Bell had two singles and double and she had an RBI.
Bell and Jones were named Co-Gateway Tire and Service Center players of the game.
The 6-0 Lady Raiders were set to play Columbia Academy Thursday night but that game was called off due to weather. Coffee County is scheduled to play Friday and Saturday and noon and 4pm both days at McKnight fields in Murfreesboro.

After a sluggish start to the baseball season, the Motlow Bucks have begun turning their campaign around following a sweep of the Roane State Raiders over the weekend at the Driver Baseball Complex on the Moore County campus.
The Bucks (8-17, 5-7) travel to Gallatin this weekend for a three-game series with Volunteer State. Friday’s single game is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. with Saturday’s doubleheader scheduled for a noon start. Motlow will return home on Monday to host non-conference Wallace State at 1 p.m.

Banging out 10 hits for the game and scoring 2 runs in the top of the first inning is usually a recipe for success for the CHS Red Raider baseball team. Unfortunately, an 8 run inning for Lincoln County saw Coffee County drop Wednesday’s district contest by a final score of 10 to 2. Stanton Keele and Deandre Wakefield pushed runs across in the first inning with no one out, but Lincoln County got out of the bases loaded jam and tied the score in the bottom of the first to send the tie game into the 4th. 5 hits, 4 walks and an error in the 4th inning dropped Coffee County to 0 and 4 in district play on the season. Zach Wise had 2 doubles for Coffee County while Trace Freidlein, Stanton Keele and Peyton Booth all rapped out a pair of singles. Stanton Keele was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center Player of the game.

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The JV Raiders saw Bradley King pitch a 1 hitter and Noah Anderson drive home Case Giles for the only run of the game as Coffee County dumped Lincoln County 1 to 0 in JV action.
The Raiders will return home this weekend for JV/varsity doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday. On Friday night, Warren County comes to town. The JV game begins at 4:30 with varsity set to start at 6:30. On Saturday, Independence visits Powers Field for an afternoon doubleheader. The JV game will begin at noon, with the varsity starting at 2:30 PM.

The Motlow Lady Bucks got a pair of shutout pitching performances from freshman Cameron Pearson and won three out of four games from TCCAA rival Roane State last weekend. The series win came on the heels of a doubleheader sweep of non-conference opponent Martin Methodist JV on Wednesday. The Lady Bucks (14-4-2, 9-3) will travel to Gallatin this weekend for a four-game series against conference rival Volunteer State. Friday’s doubleheader is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m., with Saturday’s action starting at noon.

An awesome effort by Brianna Jones carried the Coffee County Central Lady Raiders to a 7-1 win over Lincoln County on Tuesday.
Jones got the win for the Lady Raiders thanks to 13 strikeouts. Jones allowed one earned run, four hits and one walk over seven innings. She was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center player of the game.
Jones racked up two RBIs on one hit for the Coffee County. She hit her 2^nd homer of the year in the first inning.
Kaylee Skipper and Shelby Scrivnor had 1 RBI each.
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The Lady Raiders will play in a tournament in Murfreesboro Thursday-Saturday. Thursday’s games will be at Riverdale High School with Coffee County taking on Zion Benton, Illinois at noon and Wilson Central at 4pm.

The Coffee County Red Raider baseball team grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 2nd inning over Lincoln County on Tuesday in Manchester. That advantage held up until the Falcons scored one run in the 5th and two more in the 6th for a 3-1 lead. In the 7th Lincoln County scored twice and Raiders pushed across one for a final of 5-2.
Trace Friedlein took the tough luck loss on the mound for Coffee County. DeAndre Wakefield and Noah Anderson scored the runs for the home team.
Wednesday in Fayetteville the Raiders (1-4/0-3) will battle Lincoln County again. Gametime is 6pm. Thunder Radio will broadcast the game beginning at 5:50pm.

Heading into his collegiate career, Dequon Miller found himself with no offers to play basketball anywhere.
That changed when Matt Sligh, who had just been hired as Motlow’s coach, called during the summer of 2013.
Fast forward two years and the letters kept piling up for the Bucks point guard, as he made a name for himself on the court. After his freshman season in 2014, Miller was named an All-American, only the 10th in school history, and was touted as one of the premier junior college point guards in the nation.
After electing to stay at Motlow for his sophomore season, the question then became where would Miller sign once the Bucks’ season concluded. After teasing his decision on social media for some time Miller cleared things up when he verbally committed to Missouri State University. He will officially sign on April 15.
His decision comes after several mid-major and major colleges had been looking at the 5-foot-10 point guard. Included in those schools were West Virginia, Marquette, Missouri and Tennessee.
Because Miller had been receiving attention from several programs, Missouri State did not start its recruiting process until earlier this month.
“Missouri State came in late and Paul Lusk, the head coach, was recruiting me,” Miller said. “They came to me after the Columbia State game, it was Coach [Jermaine] Henderson. He said that they had just lost their 20-point man and they wanted me to be that guy. So the head coach started recruiting me immediately.”
This past season, Missouri State racked up an overall record of 11-20, but lost its play-in game to get into the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.
The sophomore can lay claim to being Motlow’s all-time leader in 3-pointers made, knocking down 157 3-balls in his two-year career. The previous mark of 152 was set by John Gales in 1993-95.
Miller also finishes second all-time on the school’s assists per game, averaging eight per contest. He is third in all-time assists totaling 440 for his career.
Miller’s 19.9 points per contest is fifth all-time in the Motlow history books, but he finishes sixth in total points, 1,097. Tim Fant is the school’s scoring leader with 1,551 points, done in 1988-90, and he averaged 26.7 points a game.
Miller also got it done on the defensive end, with 2.2 steals per contest, good enough for sixth all-time at the school.

A pair of Moore County pitchers hurled a no-hitter to drop Westwood softball in Lynchburg in middle school softball action on Sunday. The home standing Raiders scored 8 runs in the 1st inning on their way to a 15 to 0 win over the Lady Rockets in a steady rain. Alexcia Barnes and Alex Hershman were the only base runners for Westwood as they each reached on errors. Westwood will be off this week for spring break before they host their first home game of the year on Monday, March 30th against Liberty. First pitch will be at 4:30 PM at Lady Rocket Field.