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Lady Raiders Play In Region Tournament Tonight (May14)

Tonight (Monday) on Thunder Radio the Coffee County Lady Raiders will be in action. The ladies will host Walker Valley starting at 7pm in the Region 3-AAA semi-finals. The winner will play for the Region Championship on Wednesday with the losers season coming to a close. Tonight’s broadcast starts at 6:50pm. If you’re coming to the game wear your...

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Tullahoma Hires Former Coffee County Coach

Former head wrestling coach at Coffee County High School has been named the new head coach at Tullahoma. The Cats announced this week that Head Coach Cody Cleveland has taken a job at McCallie School in Chattanooga. Al Morris who once coached at Coffee County in football and wrestling will take over the job. Morris who had been coaching at Walker Valley High School in Bradley County came back to the area last year and was helping out the high school and middle school...

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Lady Raiders Win District Championship

For the 5th year in a row the Coffee County Lady Raiders are district champs. After a 6-3 come from behind win last night (Wednesday) over White County the ladies are District 6-AAA champions for the 3rd year in a row. Coffee County has never been beaten in the district after 33 games. The Lady Raiders fell behind 3-0 after the first half inning but came back to tie it at the end of one. Niki Campbell hit a solo homerun in the 5th to give Coffee County the lead. Campbell had 2 hits, 2 RBI’s and scored a...

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Season Ends For Raider Baseball

The season came to an end last night for the Coffee Co. baseball team falling at home 12-5 to Warren Co. This was the final game in a best 2 out of 3 series with the Pioneers moving onto the District 6-AAA championship game against Cookeville. Senior Sean Davis was named the Gateway Tire and Service Player of the Game. He had 2 hits an RBI and scored a...

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Coffee County Soccer Will Play For Championship

Story by: Coach Andy Escue Coffee Co defeated Cumberland Co last night 4-3 at home in District 6 Semi-Final. Cumberland Co was awarded a penalty kick in the 17th minute. Goalkeeper David Morgan was able to get a hand on the shot, but the kick put Cumberland Co ahead 1-0. A few minutes later, Coffee Co was awarded a free kick of their own, and Will Duke calmly slid the ball past the Cumberland Co keeper (21st minute). Coffee Co scored their second goal after a Ricardo Mello corner kick into the area wasn’t cleared, and Ricky Ramirez and...

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Motlow Softball and Baseball Update

The Motlow Lady Bucks lost 8-0 to Volunteer State and 4-3 to Southwest Tennessee and were eliminated from the TCCAA tournament this week in Chattanooga. Motlow finishes its season 20-28. The Motlow Bucks (33-25) dropped a 6-5 decision to Walters State in the TCCAA/Region VII Tournament Monday in Chattanooga. The Bucks beat Chattanooga State 8-5 to stay alive in the TCCAA baseball tournament...

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Season Ends For Preds

Mike Smith stopped 32 shots and the Phoenix Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators 2-1 on Monday night to earn their first trip to the Western Conference finals. The Coyotes will face the Los Angeles Kings, the first No. 8 seed to knock off Nos. 1 and 2 in the same playoffs. Coyotes Beat Predators to move on in Stanley Cup...

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