The Coffee County Middle School volleyball team is now 9-3 on the season after a clean 2-0 sweep of visiting South Franklin Tuesday night. The varsity Lady Raiders dominated the Lady Trojans, 25-13 an 25-10. The junior varsity also notched a 2-1 win: 26-24, 25-27 and 15-10. CMS will be on the road at North on...

The Coffee County Freshman football team was stout defensively against visiting Riverdale Monday night, but struggled to get the offense going in a 12-7 loss at Carden-Jarrell Field. Riverdale intercepted a screen pass and returned it for a touchdown in the first quarter to take a 6-0 lead. Coffee County blocked both Riverdale extra point attempts on the night. Coffee County finally got on the board late in the first half when quarterback Jackson Shemwell connected with Jaden Foster, who turned a screen into a 30-yard score. The second half was about dominating defense for both teams. The Raiders...

Lady Raider Dani Hillis prepares to return a serve during a match earlier this season against Westwood. Thunder Radio photo by Josh Peterson In a match you heard on Thunder Radio as part of the First National Bank sports series, the Coffee County Middle School volleyball team picked up a 2-0 sweep of visiting Warren County Tuesday. CMS won 25-18 and 25-18 in two sets. The win improves the Lady Raiders to 8-3 on the season. CMS returns to action Tuesday, hosting South Franklin. The junior varsity will start at 5 p.m. with the varsity to follow at about...

By Jim Wyatt, Titans Online Titans kicker Stephen Gostkowski has kicked in Super Bowls, and he has three rings to show for it. Over the last decade, in fact, he’s been one of the NFL’s very best kickers. But on Monday night (in a game you heard on Thunder Radio), he had a game he’d like to forget … until the very end. That’s when Gostkowski stepped up and kicked the game-winner in the team’s 16-14 win over the Broncos. “It’s definitely an opportunity I didn’t deserve, but grateful I got it for the team,” Gostkowski said. “The guys...

With Westwood football’s win on Thursday, Sept. 10 over Eagleville (a game you heard live on Thunder Radio) and Cascade’s loss last week, the Westwood Rockets have clinched the 2020 Duck River Valley regular season conference championship. It marks the first time since 2013 for the Rockets to win the regular season title. Westwood (5-0 overall) travels to Woodbury to take on Cannon County this Thursday, Sept. 17. That game kicks off at 6:30 p.m. and you can hear it live on Thunder Radio as part of the First National Bank Hometown Sports Series. With the regular season championship...

The Lady Raider volleyball team at Coffee County Central High school cruised to another win on Saturday afternoon in Manchester – this time making a little history in the process. Coffee County ran away from visiting Columbia, winning 3-0 by scores of 25-16, 25-14 and 25-12. With the sixth point in the second game, Keri Munn became the all-time blocks leader. Munn now has 127.5 career blocks for the Lady Raiders, surpassing the previous record of 126. In the win over Columbia Munn also led the way at the service line, picking up seven aces. She also had six...

Pictured, the CHS boys cross country team took first place Saturday. The Coffee Middle School and Central High School cross country teams each had standout performances in Warren County Saturday, including the CHS Red Raider boys who took first place overall. For the Raiders, Jacob Rutledge took second, Landon Kenney fifth, Jacob Slabaugh eighth, Holden Shew ninth, Bodey Todd 10th and Ethan Welch 16th. For the CMS runners, Sophie McInturff took first place overall in the meet, while Ava McIntosh took fourth, Jaydee Nogodula sixth and Chloe Hensiek 14th. In the boys division, Emanuel Rodriguez ran well enough for...

It was eighth grade night at Westwood Middle School Thursday. Fittingly, it was eighth graders that propelled the Rockets to a blowout 40-14 win over Eagleville at Dyer-Bouldin Field. Jayden Carter rumbled 201 yards on 21 carries and found the end zone three times to make the Rocket offense go. Carter scored on running plays of 15, 10 and 8. Caiden Warren also scored for the Rockets on a jet sweep from 36 yards out. Westwood went on top early when a bad Eagleville snap led to a safety for the Rockets with 2:58 to play in the first...