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TENNIS: Raiders, Lady Raiders sweep Franklin County Saturday morning
Lauren Perry returns the ball over the net for the CHS Lady Raiders. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson Both CHS Red Raider and Lady Raider tennis teams took care of business Saturday morning – sweeping Franklin County 7-0 and 7-0. Boys Jaden Talley W 8-3 Jonathan Nelson W 8-3 Johnathan Welch W Landen Booth W Krish Patel W Talley/Nelson W 8-4 Welch / Patel W Girls Lauren Perry W 8-0 Rylea McNamara W 8-0 Wren Lawson W 8-6 Macie Lawrence W 8-0 Katie Lawrence W Perry/McNamara W 8-0 Lawson / Lawrence W 8-4 Jaden Talley celebrates a...

BASEBALL: Rockets put up 21 in Saturday win
Westwood brought their big bats to round 2 of the Rockets’ conference tournament. WMS piled up 21 runs and easily blew past Fayetteville 21-8 in an early Saturday morning game. Rocket Vaughn Parker had 3 hits, including a double, and 3 RBIs to help lead the way for the Rockets on offense. Meanwhile, Brayden Trail had 5 RBIs and Trevor Jesse and Kaysen Lowery each knocked in a pair of runs. Trevor Jesse, Kaysen Lowery and Cayden Trail combined to pitch 4 innings. Trail worked a solid inning – recording three outs without giving up a hit and only...

CMS thumps South for the second night in a row
Coffee Middle School got 3 RBIs each from Kaitlyn Anderson and Channah Gannon to go along with two RBIs from Samantha Cothran in a 12-1 win over South Thursday afternoon. Cothran and Gannon each had a pair of hits. Anderson struck out 7 batters for the Lady Raiders, who improve to 13-1 on the...

Kiya Ferrell triple in extra innings powers Lady Raiders to Thursday win
Kiya Ferrell It took 8 innings for Coffee County to break through with runners in scoring position Thursday night in Fayetteville. Then Kiya Ferrell ended all the tension. Tied with second place Lincoln County 2-2 in the top of the 8th, Ferrell bombed a triple to centerfield over the head of centerfielder Carlee Mills. Ferrell’s big two-out hit scored Brianna Shelton and Olivia Evans. The throw to third went into the dugout, sending Ferrell across the plate and giving the Lady Raiders a 5-2 lead and a win. Up until Ferrell’s break through hit, the Lady Raiders had squandered...

Lady Rocket softball puts up 14 runs; Rockets fall in tournament opener
Lady Rockets win big Westwood’s softball team took Fayetteville City to task Thursday night, getting at least one run scored from every player in the starting lineup in a 14-4 win. Paisley Campbell led the way or the Lady Rockets – She was hit by a pitch three times and walked once to score our runs for Westwood. Maggie Brei added a double and two singles to go along with a pair of runs scored. Rockets fall behind early, can’t catch up Westwood fell behind 8-0 in the opening round of the Rockets conference tournament and just never could...

Lady Raiders fall 7-0 in non-district contest Wednesday
Coffee County’s Lady Raider softball team couldn’t muster any hits and dropped a 7-0 decision Wednesday night in a non-district home game against the Nashville Lady Knights. – a game you heard live on Thunder Radio. With four games in a row this week, including a big District 8-AAA game Thursday at Lincoln County, Lady Raider head coach Brandon McWhorter took the opportunity Wednesday to rest most of his regular starters. This game was broadcast LIVE on Thunder Radio! You can listen to the replay by clicking here. It was a tall task for the Lady Raiders who were...

CMS softball thumps South 16-0
Thunder Radio photos by Holly Peterson Coffee County’s Lady Raiders put a beating on South Wednesday, a game that was called with the Lady Raiders up 16-0 and rain and cold weather settling in. Ella Arnold had a pair of doubles and three runs scored for CHS to lead the way. Every player in the CMS lineup scored a run except for Ava McIntosh, who had two RBIs on a single. CMS improves to 12-4 on the...

BASEBALL: Raiders fall in tight series finale in Lawrenceburg
Coffee County put the tying run on third base and the go ahead run on second in the top of the seventh and final inning Wednesday afternoon in Lawrence County. But the Lawrence County Wildcats picked up a strikeout to end the game and split the two-game District 8-AAA series with the CHS Red Raiders. Trailing 3-1 in the top of the seventh in Lawrenceburg, Raider sophomore Jacob Holder singled up the middle to send Carter McKenzie across the plate and cut the score to 3-2. Holder’s single advanced Hayden Hullett to third and Holder moved to second on...