The Westwood Lady Rocket softball team went wild Wednesday night, piling up 18 runs in an 18-9 win over Community in Manchester. The Lady Rockets got two doubles and two singles from Liza Freeze , who also came across the plate to score four times. Paisley Campbell also scored four times, including a home run to centerfield in the first inning. Lily Norman scored 3 times for Westwood, walking and hitting a triple in the first inning. She tripled and was stranded in the second and walked and scored in the...

Lawrence County visited Manchester Tuesday having not lost a District game in nearly a month – a one-run loss to Lincoln County back on March 16. Now the Wildcats have two of those district losses. Raider senior Griffin Meeker was locked in on the mound, not giving up a single earned run and striking out six over a seven-inning complete game that took him just 79 pitches to finish as the Central High School Red Raider baseball team dropped Lawrence County 6-2 in the first game of a two-game series. This game was broadcast LIVE on Thunder Radio. Click...

Kaitlyn Davis had three hits and picked up the win in the circle for the CHS Lady Raiders Tuesday night. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson The Lady Raider offense was definitely not clicking on all cylinders Tuesday night against visiting Shelbyville. But Coffee County got runs when they needed them most. The Lady Raiders scored one run in the bottom of the sixth to send the game to extra innings and then again in the bottom of the 8th to avoid defeat. Then in the bottom of the ninth, Kaitlyn Davis doubled and her pinch-runner Kurry Neel...

After beating Tullahoma on Monday, the Coffee Middle Lady Raiders could not complete the sweep, falling 6-4 to the Lady Cats Tuesday on the road. Tullahoma scored five runs in the first inning to take control, powered by 3 hits and a pair of walks. The Lady Cats would only score one run for the rest of the game. Coffee County just couldn’t put together enough runs to come from behind. Channah Gannon doubled and scored in the first and the Lady Raiders got a pair of runs from the bottom of the order in the second when Samantha...

Red Raider Jaden Talley. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson Central High School’s boys and girls tennis teams easily took care of business Tuesday afternoon against visiting Columbia. Lauren Perry won 8-1, Rylea McNamara 8-0, Wren Lawson 8-1, Emma Fulks 8-0, Macie Lawrence 8-2, Katie Lawrence 8-1 and Raelin Tucker 6-0. In doubles play, CHS pairs of Perry/McNamara and Lawson/Lawrence both won easily – 8-1 and 8-2, respectively. The Raider boys also made easy work – with every singles player winning 8-0: Jaden Talley, Jonathan Nelson, Johnathan Welch, Landen Booth and Krish Patel. Doubles group of Talley/Nelson and...

A handful of defensive miscues in the final innings cost the Westwood Lady Rockets a 6-3 lead, as WMS fell to Community 7-6 Tuesday night. Paisley Campbell singled and Maggie Brei drew a walk and both came around to score in the first inning to get Westwood in front. Liza Freeze singled and scored on a double by Campbell in the third and the Lady Rockets added two more runs in the fourth when Lily Norman and Addie ??? each walked and moved around the bases to score. But Community scored two in the fourth, one in the fifth...

Coffee County Central’s track team sent four athletes to compete in the Decathlon and Pentathlon at Stewarts Creek High School this week, with all four earning top-10 finishes. In the Decathlon, Kelvin Verge took 4th place, Ethan Welch 5th and John Dobson 10th. Meanwhile, Madison Rooker finished 6th in the Pentathlon. The track team is scheduled to be at a meet in Tullahoma on April 14 and hosting on April...

Coffee County Central’s Aleayia Barnes slides safely into home (while blowing a bubble) Monday night, April 12, 2021, in a 7-0 win for CHS over Warren County. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson Keri Munn was unhittable Monday night. Again. The senior right-hander tossed a no-hitter against visiting Warren County and the Central High School Lady Raiders ripped off 15 hits on their way to a 7-0 shutout win in Manchester. In a game you heard live on Thunder Radio, Coffee County bust the game open with a 5-run fifth inning. Justus Turner and Brianna Shelton each had...