Category: Sports

10 individuals and 2 relay teams from Coffee County Central High School track team have been invited to compete in the prestigious Chattanooga Little Caesars Individual Championships being held at Red Bank High School on Friday. The event is open to the top 10 individual performances for each event this track season of Tennessee high schools in the Chattanooga area.
From the Lady Raider team, the following folks have qualified:
Karson Young & Heather Fox – Triple Jump
Lexee Miller & Cameron Davis – Discus Throw
Haley Banks & Lexee Miller – Shot Put
Haley Banks & Taylor Deberry – 100M Hurdles
Heather Fox – 400M Dash
Also, the girls 4×400 relay team of; Heather Fox, Aerial Williams, Haley Banks and Karson Young were selected.
For the Red Raiders, qualifiers were:Kani Johnson – 110M Hurdles
David Keith & Anthony Jackson – High Jump
Anthony Jackson – 800M
And the boys 4×800 team of Anthony Jackson, Lucas Chrismond, Andy Rosson & Ben Myers.

Men’s Head Coach Matt Sligh

Motlow Bucks Head Coach Matt Sligh will host a basketball skills clinic on Saturday, May 3, at Copperweld Arena inside Nisbett Center on the Motlow Moore County campus.
The clinic will feature two separate sessions. The first is for kindergarten through sixth-grade students and will begin at 8 a.m. and end at noon. The second session is for seventh through 12th graders and will begin at 1 p.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. Both sessions are open to both boys and girls.
The cost of the clinic is $30 per child or $45 for two children from the same family. Attendees are encouraged to reserve their spot at the clinic by visiting the Motlow athletics web site and downloading the registration form. Please fill out the form and return it to the address on it along with payment.

The District 8-AAA baseball tournament begins Thursday night at 6pm for the Coffee County Red Raiders. Big Red will host the winner of the game between Franklin County and Shelbyville. That game is tonight.
In district softball action the regular season champs, Coffee County Lady Raiders will play the winner of the Friday game between Tullahoma and Lawrence County. The Lady Raiders will hit the field at noon on Saturday in Shelbyville.
Thunder Radio will broadcast both games.
** Coffee County baseball will play at Riverdale Wednesday at 5pm. This is a make-up game.

Hayden Pewitt drove in the winning run with a two-out, ninth-inning single and the Motlow Bucks advanced in the TCCAA/Region VII Tournament with a 7-6 win over Cleveland State at the Driver Baseball Complex on Saturday. The Bucks were down 6-3 going into the bottom of 9th and managed to score 4 times for the win. The win came on the heels of Motlow’s 8-4 win over the Cougars on Friday and completed a sweep of their tournament-opening series. Motlow now advances to the final five-team tournament in Gallatin this weekend. The Bucks are seeded fourth and will play fifth-seed Volunteer State at 10 a.m. Friday. The Bucks swept a three-game series over Volunteer State in late February at the Driver Complex. If Motlow can get past the Pioneers they will be matched with top-seed Columbia State at 4 p.m. on Friday. If Volunteer wins Friday’s first game then the Bucks will fall into the elimination bracket and will play again at 7 p.m. Friday. Columbia is the top seed in the tournament, with Walters State second and Jackson State third.

The Motlow Lady Bucks saw their 2014 softball season come to a disappointing end when they dropped a 9-1, 12-11 doubleheader to Columbia State last weekend in the opening round of the TCCAA/Region VII Tournament in Columbia.
The Lady Bucks will lose 10 sophomores from this year’s squad and will return five players in 2015 that made significant contributions as freshmen.

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Back row: Cale Ridner, Mason Land, Austin Dockrey, Audrey Barton, Lindsey Landrum, Angela Ridner
Front: Taylor Anthony, Makayla Thorneberry, Clay Ridner, Sedona Mills, Bailey Kitts, Cenyan Rawn, Brendan Mills, Kadee Perry

Some of the student’s from Coffee County’s Hickerson Elementary School participated in the Country Music Kids Rock Marathon Sunday in Nashville.
They have been training for weeks with their school nurse Angela Ridner for the event.  The student running club organized by Nurse Ridner is known as the Hickerson Health Hawks. They ran each week after school and clocked their miles. Sunday they traveled to Nashville and completed the last mile of the marathon.

Karson Young competes in the High Jump.. Photo by Dennis Weaver

The 48th Mid-State Rotary/Rudy Hensel Invitational Track Meet was held on Saturday in Tullahoma and Coffee County competed along with 7 other area schools. In girls competition, Coffee County did well in the field events and finished 2nd overall. In boys action, a skeleton crew from the Coffee County roster competed strong finishing in 5th place.
Point winners for the Lady Raiders were:
Haley Banks – 1st place, 100M Hurdles; 1st place, shot put
Lexee Miller – 2nd place, discus throw; 4th place, shot put; 7th place, high jump
Karson Young – 2nd place, triple jump; 4th place, high jump
Taylor Deberry – 2nd place, 100M Hurdles; 5th place, 300M Hurdles
McKenzie Anderson – 3rd place, 300M Hurdles
Heather Fox – 4th place, 400M; 8th place, triple jump
Cameron Davis – 4th place, discus throw; 8th place, shot put
Sarah Hollis – 5th Place, 800M
Cursten Vaughn – 7th place, 200M; 8th place, long jump
Aerial Williams – 6th place, discus throw
In team relays:
4×400 – 1st place (Haley Banks, Heather Fox, Aerial Williams, Karson Young)
4×100 – 3rd place (Anna Miller, Caitlyn Moore, Cursten Vaughn & McKenzie Anderson)
4×200 – 3rd place (Anna Miller, Caitlyn Moore, Cursten Vaughn & Aerial Williams)

Point winners for the Raiders were:

Kani Johnson strides over the hurdles. Photo by Dennis Weaver

Kani Johnson – 3rd place, 110M hurdles; 4th place, 200M
Andrew Rosson – 4th place, 1600M
David Keith – 6th place, high jump; 6th place, long jump;
Parker Smith – 6th place, shot put; 6th place, discus throw;

The Lady Raiders will compete in the sub sectional on Tuesday, May 6th and the Raiders sub sectional is scheduled for Thursday, May 8th. Both meets begin at 5:00 PM and both meets are held at Riverdale.

Brianna Jones whips a pitch during her no-hitter on Friday

Coffee County Classic

Friday was a big day for Coffee County Lady Raider Pitcher Brianna Jones. Brianna threw her 5th no-hitter of the season in the Coffee County 2-0 victory over Daniel Boone in the Coffee County Classic. She also struck out 10 batters.
Brianna boosted her batting average thanks to a perfect 2-2 day at the plate to pace the Lady Raiders. She singled in the first inning and homered in the third inning. Jones was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center Player of the game.

In Coffee County’s second game of the tournament they took on Chattanooga Central. The Coffee County Lady Raiders pulled out the win thanks to a strong sixth inning. Two errors on the same play scored Grace and Anna Spellings and gave the Lady Raiders the lead for good. Coffee County trailed 2-1 going into the 6th but scored 3 times for a 4-2 win.
The Lady Raiders were led by Brianna Jones’s hitting again. Brianna went 2-3, drove in one and scored one run. She hit a long homer in the fourth inning and singled in the sixth inning.
Coffee County Central relied on Bethany Baker to eat up innings en route to the win. Bethany pitched six innings and allowed one earned run, five hits and 1 walk while striking out four.
Brittany Williams was named the player of the game.

Brianna Jones struck out 11 batters, but it wasn’t enough to carry the Coffee County Lady Raiders to a win on Saturday, as the Lady Raiders fell to Hendersonville 1-0 in six innings.
Hendersonville managed to score one run in the fifth inning on an RBI single by Matti Byrd.
Jones was the player of the game.

In the single elimination part of the tournament Coffee County could not overcome errors and mental mistakes falling to Seymour 9-1. Down 2-1 in the final inning the Lady Eagles got the bases loaded with 2 outs. A mental mistake on a ground ball in the infield allowed Seymour to go up 3-1. The flood gates would open up and 6 more runs would score.
Brittany Williams who had 2 hits was the player of the game.

Baylor School from Chattanooga defeated Seymour for the championship.

Coffee County baseball seniors lineup on Senior Night of Friday.. Photo by Dennis Weaver

Coffee County baseball played host to LaVergne on Friday for Senior Night. The Wolverines got 2 unearned runs in the top of the 1st inning and that was enough to spoil the party as LaVergne went on to win 5 to 1. The Raiders got their lone run in the bottom of the 1st inning as Zack Holder doubled home Wyatt Day who came on as the courtesy runner for Tyler Cavendar who also had a double earlier in the inning. The Raiders were held to 5 hits as Hudson Rollman was 1 for 2 with a double and a walk. Kyle Douglas and Tyler Bradshaw added singles to round out the hitting for Coffee County. Coffee County will travel to Riverdale on Monday for a non-district matchup. The Raiders open the District 8AAA Tournament at home on Thursday at 6 PM as they will play host to the winner of Shelbyville and Franklin County.

Nine different Red Raiders found the back of the net as the CHS Soccer team blasted Lawrence County on Saturday by a final score of 9 to 1. Scoring for Coffee County were: Mateo Senegas, Michael Garcia, Breyer Taylor, David Morgan, Cole Hawkins, John Paringer, Chris Freimuth and Ethan Hickman. With the win, Coffee County finished the regular season in a tie for 3rd place in the district standings. Due to the tiebreaker system, Coffee County will unfortunately have to travel on Saturday to Shelbyville for a 1st round District 8 Tournament game. The Raiders will first close out the regular season with a trip to Murfreesboro on Thursday night to take on Siegel in a 7 PM non-district match.