Category: Sports

Coffee County finished 3-3 in the weekend tournament in the McMinnville tournament. The Lady Raiders made it to the semi-finals but were tripped up by the host.
Coffee County will be at home Moday and Tuesday as Cookeville and White County come to Manchester. Thunder Radio will broadcast the Monday game live starting at 6pm.

 

The Tennessee Titans fall to 1-3 after losing to the Houston Texans 38-14. Titans quarterback Jake Locker left the game in the first quarter, after injuring his left shoulder. Back-up Matt Hasselbeck was 17-25, for 193 yards and threw two touchdowns. He also threw two interceptions that were returned for scores by the Texans’ defense. Chris Johnson broke the century mark for the first time this season, rushing for 141 yards on 25 carries. Tennessee will play at Minnesota next week.

Coffee County defeated Tullahoma in 5 sets on Thursday night in an exciting non district volleyball match. Coffee County won the 1st 2 sets 25-18 and 25-18. Tullahoma rallied to even the match winning games 3 and 4 22-25 and 11-25. This set up an exciting 5th and deciding set that Coffee County won 15-8 to claim the victory. Coffee County was led in kills by Haley Banks who had 11 kills while Beth Kinser added 8 kills and Sydney Holmes had 7. Brooke Carter led the Raiders in aces with 5 while Katelyn Husted added 4 and Beth Kinser added 4, including 2 in the pivotal Game #5. Hollie Moore finished the night with 26 assists while Haley Banks led the team in blocks with 3. The Gateway Tire and Service Center Player of the Game was Beth Kinser.
Coffee will take part in the Warren County Tournament this weekend. Pool play begins at 10 AM as Coffee County takes on the host Pioneers. Coffee County’s next home game is Monday at 6 PM as they will take on Cookeville. 1st serve is at PM and you can hear the action hear on Thunder Radio.

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The Westwood Middle School Lady Rocket Soccer team played an outstanding home game this week against St. Andrews in the first round of their conference tournament. They defeated St. Andrews 6-1 and will face Community in the Semi-Finals Friday night.

Ending the season as runner-up in your conference tournament is a noteworthy accomplishment.

Doing it two years in a row is frustrating.

Head coach Jerry Nichols and his Motlow Bucks have been there, done that – twice. With a solid group of sophomores returning and an influx of new talent, plus a revamped national tournament that offers Tennessee teams two opportunities to make it to Kansas, Nichols feels this is the year that Motlow brings home the gold ball.

In past years the NJCAA tournament consisted of only the 16 tournament champions from its 16 regions across the country. Motlow plays in Region VII and has finished as tournament runner-up the past two seasons. In 2010-11 the Bucks won the regular season title, only to fall in the championship game to Chattanooga State. Last year Motlow lost a heartbreaking 56-53 decision to tournament champion Columbia State.
“The NJCAA has expanded its tournament to 24 teams now,” continued Nichols. “Four regular season region champions will be added as well as four wild card selections. Region VII is among the four regions that will send its regular season champion as well as its tournament champion to the national tournament this season. Those regions will rotate every season, but we were fortunate to be chosen in a random drawing to be one of the first four regions in this new format.”

Motlow will open the 2012-13 season on the road at Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn. The first home game is a rematch of last year’s Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA) Region VII Tournament championship game when Columbia State visits Copperweld Arena on Friday, Nov. 9.

Nichols returns eight sophomores from last year, including four who started a significant number of games. He has added a group of talented freshmen and a pair of experienced sophomore transfers to go along with three players who redshirted for the Bucks last season.

Returning sophomores include Sean Gardner, JC Bonny, Michael Tomlin, Raul Tutton, Jr., Darryl Bond, Jeff Graham and Bryan Thomas. Chris Hawkins also returns after sitting out a redshirt season to recover from injury.

Gardner is the top returning player statistically, averaging 10.7 points, four rebounds, two assists and 1.5 steals per game. Nichols traditionally plays every player on the team in almost every game, which makes statistical comparisons difficult in defining the contributions made by players. Each of the sophomores had shining moments last season and each played important roles.

The three redshirts who will see their first action for Motlow are Kevonta Black from Nashville, Charles Waters from Memphis, and Andre Brown from Clarksville.

Transfers include Kerrell Davis from Northwest Florida and Sterling Smoak from Northeast Community College in Nebraska. Former Coffee County star Tyler Clayborne also joins the Bucks after one season at Volunteer State.

The freshman class includes DeVante’ Jones from Chicago, Perrin Buford from Decatur, Ala., Jerron Washington and Jalen Blackwell from Memphis, and DeAndre McKinnie from Bolivar.

Each of the incoming freshmen and transfers bring impressive resumes to the program. How they perform as a unit is yet to be determined, but early workouts indicate that game days at Copperweld Arena will be must-see for area basketball fans.

Sophomore Coffee County golfer Hollee Sadler is competing in TSSAA Golf Championship at Willowbrook in Manchester. Sadler started her round yesterday (Sept. 25, 2012) on hole 10, playing the back nine first. She shot 45 for her first 9 holes and then took her round to front nine (first nine holes) and played better by scoring a 42 including a birdie on the 7th hole for an 87 total. Sadler stands in 26th place after day one.
Senior Samantha Gotcher of Clarksville High School leads the tournament after round one of two with 1-under 71.
Clarksville leads the girl’s competition with a 2-over 146.
Siegel is out in front in boys play with a 293. Tullahoma’s Darrick Fisher shot a 3-over 75 which puts him in 20th place going into today’s final round. Siegel’s Arjuna Anday is in 1st overall in boys with a 4-under 68.
Admission is $8 for spectators and no golf carts are allowed per TSSAA rules.

 

Coffee County Middle School hosted White County on Tuesday night in its final game of the year. The Raiders held a lead at halftime and held on for the win, 18-6. Tyrese MsGee, Reese Pratt and Garrett Eldridge scored touchdowns for Coffee County.

Coffee County volleyball dropped a 4 set match to Cookeville on Tuesday night in District 6-AAA action 3 sets to 1. Set scores were 11-25, 25-19, 19-25 and 26-28. Coffee County was led in kills by Haley Banks with 8. Hollie Moore led the team in assists with 27, while Brooke Carter, Katelyn Husted and Hollie Moore led the team in aces with 3. Coffee County will be at home on Thursday night as they host Tullahoma. 1st serve will be at 6:00 PM and you can hear all the action here on Thunder Radio.

Class 6A

Record Pts Prv
1. Maryville (18) 6-0 195 1
2. Siegel 6-0 166 2
3. Whitehaven (1) 6-0 149 4
(tie) Kingsport Dobyns Bennett (1) 5-0 149 3
5. Science Hill 5-0 113 5
6. Bearden 5-0 89 8
7. Brentwood 6-0 84 9
8. Mt. Juliet 4-1 48 10
9. Oak Ridge 4-1 39 7
10. Riverdale 4-2 22 6

Class 5A

Record Pts Prv
1. Beech (18) 6-0 198 1
2. Jackson Northside 6-0 154 3
3. Knoxville West (1) 4-1 147 2
4. Henry County 5-1 136 4
5. Lenoir City 4-1 114 5
6. Powell 5-1 82 7
7. South Doyle (1) 5-0 60 10
8. Ridgeway 3-2 58 8
9. Daniel Boone 4-1 49 9
10. Clarksville NE 4-1 22 NR

Division 4A

Record Pts Prv
1. Giles County (16) 5-0 194 1
2. Covington (3) 5-0 175 2
3. Knoxville Fulton (1) 4-1 151 3
4. East Hamilton 4-1 132 4
5. Livingston Academy 5-0 116 5
6. DeKalb County 6-0 100 7
7. Lexington 4-1 82 8
8. Maplewood 4-2 56 9
9. Greeneville 2-3 27 6
10. Dyersburg 4-1 14 NR
(tie) Gibbs 4-2 14 10
(tie) Mitchell 5-1 14 NR

Class 3A

Record Pts Prv
1. CAK (11) 6-0 190 1
2. Alcoa (9) 6-1 184 2
3. CPA 5-0 155 3
4. Cheatham County 6-0 130 4
5. Milan 5-1 112 5
6. South Gibson 5-0 90 6
7. Tyner Academy 4-1 67 7
8. Sullivan North 5-1 61 8
9. Elizabethton 4-2 49 10
10. Polk County 5-1 20 NR

Class 2A

Record Pts Prv
1. Boyd Buchanan (14) 6-0 190 1
2. Dresden (3) 6-0 169 2
3. Grace Christian (2) 4-1 152 3
4. Friendship Christian (1) 5-1 133 4
5. Houston County 5-0 109 5
6. Oneida 4-1 89 6
7. Adamsville 5-1 88 7
8. Cascade 5-1 58 8
9. Hampton 4-1 47 10
10. Trousdale County 3-2 45 9

Class 1A

Record Pts Prv
1. Greenback (14) 6-0 189 2
2. South Pittsburg (3) 4-1 163 1
3. Gordonsville (3) 4-1 151 4
4. Moore County 6-0 147 5
5. Huntingdon 5-1 114 6
6. Coalfield 5-0 103 7
7. Clarksville Academy 5-1 79 3
8. West Carroll 5-1 72 9
9. Union City 4-2 31 8
10. Copper Basin 5-1 26 NR
Division II

Record Pts Prv
1. Ensworth (18) 6-0 180 1
2. CBHS 5-0 146 2
3. Brentwood Academy 4-1 133 3
4. Knoxville Webb 4-1 112 4
5. St. George’s 6-0 91 5
6. MUS 4-2 90 6
7. Baylor 4-2 67 8
8. University-Jackson 6-0 66 7
9. Briarcrest 6-0 50 10
10. MBA 4-2 48 9