Category: Sports

Coffee County hosted Cumberland County on Friday night at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial gymnasium in their first district home game of the year. In girl’s play, Coffee County built a 9 point lead going to the 4th quarter and needed all of those points as they fended off a fierce 4th quarter Jet rally to hang on for a 37 to 36 win. With the win, Coffee County improved to 9 and 10 on the year and 2 and 0 in District 6AAA. Coffee County was led in scoring by Katie Reid who had 11 points while Missy Jones added 10. Missy Jones was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center player of the game.

In the boy’s game, Coffee County waged a 32 minute battle with Cumberland County before falling to the Jets 60 to 58. Coffee County led by 1 as they entered the 4th quarter but Cumberland County opened the final frame on a 10 to 2 run and held off a late Raider rally at the end. Coffee County was led in scoring by Lance Crismond who netted 20 points while Lucas Crismond added 15 points and Addison Carter scored 14 as Addison was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center player of the game. The loss dropped Coffee to 7 and 11 on the year and their District 6AAA record to 0 and 2.

The Raiders will be back in action on Tuesday as Cookeville will visit “The Patch.” Game time is scheduled for 6 PM with the pregame show beginning at 5:50 here on Thunder Radio.

The Motlow bucks jumped to a 19-0 lead on Saturday at home against Mid Continent University. The lead would continue to grow to a 43 at half, 65-22. All 15 Bucks would score on the day with 6 hitting double figures in the 91 point win, 134-43. Sean Gardner led the way with 20; Perrin Buford added 18, 11 for Chris Hawkins and 10 each for JC Bonny, Kerrell Davis and Charles Waters.
The 134 points by Motlow is the 2nd most points ever scored by the Bucks.
Motlow at 11-2 on the season travels to Southwest Tn. and Dyersburg on Saturday.

Coffee County High School (CCHS) 36.0 Riverdale (RIVE) 35.0
285: Lawrence Holcomb, RIVE, pinned Brent Loren, CCHS, 0:47. 106: Victoria Stottlemyer, CCHS, pinned Alex Post, RIVE, 0:10. 113: Patrick Bess, RIVE, forf. . 120: David Tate, CCHS, dec. Amari Thaxter, RIVE, 9-4. 126: Caleb Gentry, RIVE, forf. . 132: Craig McDonough, CCHS, dec. Jame Prisayan, RIVE, 7-5. 138: Zach Lusk, CCHS, dec. Garrett Lawson, RIVE, 3-1. 145: Jonathan Kimbro, CCHS, dec. Jacob Earhart, RIVE, 12-11. 152: Phillip Brown, CCHS, pinned Nate Lane, RIVE, 1:25. 160: Kiley Curtis, CCHS, pinned Antonio Alexander, RIVE, 2:32. 170: Sean Kennedy, RIVE, tech. fall Brian Oliver, CCHS, 0:00 17-0. 182: Pedro Steele, CCHS, forf. . 195: Philip Martin, RIVE, pinned Alexander Escobar, CCHS, 1:12. 220: Scott Boykin, RIVE, pinned Jordan Wilson, CCHS, 2:47.

Coffee County High School (CCHS) 53.0 Lavergne (LAVE) 30.0
106: Victoria Stottlemyer, CCHS, forf. . 113: Stephanie Trussie, CCHS, forf. . 120: David Tate, CCHS, pinned Thomas Miller, LAVE, 1:01. 126: Cris Alcarado, LAVE, forf. . 132: Craig McDonough, CCHS, forf. . 138: Zach Lusk, CCHS, tech. fall Lemuel Arcibal, LAVE, 0:00 15-0. 145: Jonathan Kimbro, CCHS, forf. . 152: Phillip Brown, CCHS, pinned Cody Simonds, LAVE, 1:28. 160: Trevor Fredrickson, LAVE, inj. def. Kiley Curtis, CCHS, . 170: Jake Meguiar, LAVE, pinned Brian Oliver, CCHS, 5:36. 182: Pedro Steele, CCHS, pinned Mikal Taylor, LAVE, 2:28. 195: Brian Sarpong-Asiedu, LAVE, pinned Alexander Escobar, CCHS, 2:28. 220: Jordan Wilson, CCHS, pinned Christopher Hailey, LAVE, 0:59. 285: Evan Walker, LAVE, pinned Brent Loren, CCHS, 2:22.

Marshawn Powell scored 17 points and BJ Young added 14 as Arkansas pulled away for a 56-33 win over Vanderbilt.
Sheldon Jeter had 8 points to lead the Commodores (6-8, 0-2), who matched their season low for points.
Vanderbilt will host Ole Miss Tuesday night at 8pm.

The Nashville Predators will open the season Jan. 19 hosting the Columbus Blue Jackets followed by a second straight home game against St. Louis before hitting the road for two weeks under a 48-game schedule released Saturday night by the NHL.
The Predators play Columbus and Chicago five times but only four against Detroit and St. Louis. How much that helps the Predators, the West’s No. 4 seed last season, reach the playoffs for the eighth time in nine seasons remains to be seen. But Nashville is 31-5-3 against Columbus since the 2006-07 season.
Nashville will play all other Western Conference teams three times each, hosting Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Phoenix and Dallas twice. That puts the Predators traveling to Minnesota, Colorado, Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Jose twice.
Hear Predators hockey on Thunder Radio presented by Gateway Tire and Service.

To the Kentucky Wildcats, there’s no doubt that Nerlens Noel’s jumper left his hand before the shot clock buzzer sounded, and they couldn’t be happier.
Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings disagrees.
That bucket allowed Kentucky to escape with a 60-58 win over Vanderbilt on Thursday night in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams after blowing a 16-point lead.
But officials didn’t review the play.
Kedren Johnson finished with a game-high 18 points, and Rod Odom added 12.

Steps were taken Thursday that will allow a high school football playoff bracket to be redrawn if a mistake is discovered.
The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association’s Board of Control voted 8-1 on a five-hour window after brackets are announced for errors to be reported to the state office.
Because of the misapplication of a tiebreaker, Cleveland was selected last fall as one of the 32 teams in the Class 5A bracket. Hours later it was found that Sullivan South should have been in the field instead.
To impact the fewest teams, Sullivan South — located in Kingsport in upper East Tennessee — was placed in Cleveland’s bracket position and sent to Columbia for an opening-round game.
The board also voted to expand football officiating crews from five to seven for the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. The extra officials will be compensated from the TSSAA’s playoff shares, and schools will not be responsible for any increase in pay.

In college basketball on Wednesday night Motlow played host to Snead St from Boaz, Alabama. In the women’s contest the Lady Bucks shot poorly from the field falling 67-49. Motlow was led in scoring by Chelsey Wiseman with 17 and Presley Owen added 15 and Lashundra Rice chipped in with 11. The Lady Bucks are at home Saturday against the Nashville All-Stars starting at 2pm.

In the men’s game the 28^th nationally ranked Motlow Bucks fell behind by as much as 15 points in the 2^nd half before making a comeback. Chris Hawkins who has not played much because of injuries came off the bench to score a team high 17 as Motlow beat the Parsons 67-65. With the win the Bucks moved to 10-2 on the season. Sean Gardner added 12 and J.C. Bonny off the bench had 10 points.

The Motlow men will play at home Saturday against Mid Continent College.

Coffee County High Shcool (CCHS) 78.0 Livingston Academy (LIAC) 6.0
145: Jonathan Kimbro, CCHS, pinned Conyr Richardson, LIAC, 2:33. 152: Phillip Brown, CCHS, forf. . 160: Kiley Curtis, CCHS, forf. . 170: Brian Oliver, CCHS, pinned Nicholas Sherman, LIAC, 3:17. 182: Pedro Steele, CCHS, forf. . 195: Alexander Escobar, CCHS, forf. . 220: Jordan Wilson, CCHS, inj. def. Jordan McCoy, LIAC, . 285: Brent Loren, CCHS, pinned Eric Phillips, LIAC, 5:15. 106: Victoria Stottlemyer, CCHS, pinned Dylan Burkart, LIAC, 1:59. 113: Emilee McDonough, CCHS, forf. . 120: David Tate, CCHS, pinned Tyler Sherman, LIAC, 0:32. 126: Michael Richardson, LIAC, forf. . 132: Craig McDonough, CCHS, pinned Joesph Jones, LIAC, 4:42. 138: Zach Lusk, CCHS, pinned Dustin Pryor, LIAC, 3:08.

Coffee County (CCHS) 66.0 St. Andrews-Sewanee (SASS) 18.0160: Kiley Curtis, CCHS, pinned Lucas Lu, SASS, 0:50. 170: Brian Oliver, CCHS, pinned Seth Horton, SASS, 0:30. 182: Pedro Steele, CCHS, pinned Jason Shao, SASS, 1:48. 195: Robert Post, SASS, pinned Alexander Escobar, CCHS, 0:41. 220: Jordan Wilson, CCHS, forf. . 285: Brent Loren, CCHS, forf. . 106: Emilee McDonough, CCHS, forf. . 113: Victoria Stottlemyer, CCHS, pinned Tommy Oliver, SASS, 2:24. 120: David Tate, CCHS, pinned Alex William, SASS, 0:20. 126: Christian Taylor, SASS, forf. . 132: Myles Kincaid, SASS, pinned Craig McDonough, CCHS, 2:34. 138: Zach Lusk, CCHS, pinned Michael Schaerer, SASS, 2:34. 145: Jonathan Kimbro, CCHS, pinned Raban Vonspiegel, SASS, 0:22. 152: Phillip Brown, CCHS, pinned Jake Wiley, SASS, 0:43.