On Senior Night Coffee Co. hosted rival Tullahoma in baseball action. Sean Davis the Raiders only senior had a strong night pitching with 4 shutout innings plus he had 2 hits and an RBI in the 5-3 win. Davis was named the Gateway Tire and Service Player of the Game. Zach Holder had 2 hits and 2 RBI’s. Kyle Douglas was the winning pitcher and Peyton Meeker got the save. The Raiders will take on Warren Co. Saturday night at 6:30pm in first game of District 6-AAA tournament. The game will be live on Thunder...

Baylor School out of Chattanooga came to Manchester Tuesday for a softball match up. The Lady Raiders grabbed and early lead after a Taylor Gullett solo homer. Baylor powered back to defeat Coffee Co. 12-2. The Lady Raiders will host Riverdale Wednesday night, it’s Alumni Night come on out for the 7pm first pitch. Thunder Radio will have the broadcast starting at...

The Nashville Predators announced Tuesday that forwards Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn have been suspended for Game 3 in the Western Conference Semifinals series against the Phoenix Coyotes. General Manager David Poile said the pair violated team rules, but did not expand on what exactly they did. The Preds will host the Coyotes Wednesday at...

An inside the park 2-run homer by Juli Layne helped propel the Coffee County Lady Raiders past the Davidson Academy Lady Bears 4-0 on Monday night in Manchester. Layne the Gateway Tire and Service Player of the Game had 2 hits, 2 RBI’s on the homer and scored one. Niki Campbell and Chelsea Howell knocked in one run each. Brianna Jones had 10 K’s boosting the Lady Raiders to their 25th win of the season. Coffee Co. will host Baylor...

Former Coffee County Lady Raider now Motlow Freshman second baseman Veronica Blackburn slammed a three-run home run in the bottom of the third inning on Friday. Classmate Roxanne Hillman pitched seven innings of three-hit softball as the Motlow Lady Bucks ended their regular season with a 4-1 victory over Roane State. The win propels the Lady Bucks (19-26, 5-13) into seventh place in the final Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA) standings. The TCCAA/Region VII Tournament begins Sunday at Chattanooga State. The Lady Bucks will face 10th-seed Dyersburg State in one of two ‘play-in’ games on Sunday, with the...

The ING Kids’ Rock Marathon took place at LP Field this past Friday night. Westwood Elementary in Manchester took 47 students, grades 1 through 6. They had been training since February and the kids ran 25 miles total while training at school. On Friday night, they ran the last 1.2 miles to finish. There was a total of 7100 Kindergarten through 7th graders participating this year. This was Westwood Elementary’s 5th year to...

The Phoenix Coyotes didn’t need any overtime theatrics or miracle saves from Mike Smith. With five players scoring in a balanced, dominant performance Sunday night, the Coyotes beat the Nashville Predators 5-3 to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinal series. The best-of-seven series shifts to Nashville for Game 3 on Wednesday...

2012 Tennessee Titans Draft Picks Round 1, Pick 20: WR Kendall Wright (Baylor) Round 2, Pick 52: LB Zach Brown (North Carolina) Round 3, Pick 82: DL Mike Martin (Michigan) Round 4, Pick 115: CB Coty Sensabaugh (Clemson) Round 5, Pick 145: TE Taylor Thompson (SMU) played DE in college Round 6, Pick 190: S Markelle Martin (Oklahoma State) Round 7, Pick 211: DL Scott Solomon...