Westwood Middle School baseball team has announced tryouts for next year’s team. Tryouts will be held June 9 from 5-8 p.m. at the Babe Ruth Field at Fred Deadman Park. Tryouts are open to upcoming 5th through 8th graders enrolled in Manchester City Schools for the 2022-23 school year. Upcoming 7th and 8th graders will tryout from 5-6:30 p.m. and incoming 5th and 6th graders will tryout from 6:30-8 p.m. Anyone with questions should contact head coach Reed Wolfe at...

Coffee County Central Junior Aiden Robertson frustrated opposing district teams all season long at the plate. Opposing coaches took notice. The right-handed hurler was named District 6-4A co-Pitcher of the Year Monday night. Robertson went 5-0 in district play, striking out a remarkable 69 batters over 39 innings of work. He led the pitching staff with a 1.26 ERA. The Raider baseball team had four other players named 6-4A All-District: Brady Nugent, Caleb Moran, Jacob Holder and Cole Pippenger. The Raiders will host Franklin County in the winner’s bracket finals of the district tournament at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Cole...

Multiple area teams will be in action Tuesday, May 10 for postseason play. The CHS Lady Raider softball team will look to stave off elimination in the District 6-4A tournament at home at 6 p.m. Meanwhile, the Raider baseball team will play either Shelbyville or Franklin County in the winner’s bracket finals at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Manchester. Also on Tuesday, CHS track & field will be going to Cookeville for the state sectional / state qualifier. And the CHS Red Raider soccer team will play an elimination game in the first round of the district tournament against Franklin...

MTSU Blue Raider softball season came to a premature close over the weekend. Of note is the large workload that freshman Keri Munn – a former CHS Lady Raider – got for the Blue Raiders this season. Munn had 14 appearances on the year. She finished with a 3-5 record and a 3.25 ERA. She tossed three complete games for the Lady Raiders. Overall, MTSU went 19-34 on the...

Former Coffee County Central Lady Raider Haley Hinshaw delivered big time for her college softball team in the Appalachian Athletic Conference Softball Tournament. With the game tied 1-1 in the bottom of the seventh, Hinshaw (a senior) ripped an RBI single up the middle for a walk-off win in the conference tournament. The win gave TN Wesleyan a birth to the next round of the playoffs. It was Hinshaw’s only walkoff of her softball career. TN Wesleyan is a top 20 NAIA team in the country. Haley Hinshaw (Photo by John StClair – JohnStClairPhoto.com) Hinshaw, bottom left, with her...

Coming off the program’s first winning season in well over a decade, a third place finish in the D.R.V.C tournament last year, and an unusually shortened season the previous year, the Westwood Rockets Baseball team continued to add firsts to their program resume. After going 12-7 in the 2021 season, the Rockets followed up this year with an overall record of 11-7 and a 5th place tournament finish. The 2022 season was marked with the first double digit regular season win total, at 10. Although, the Rockets placed 5th in the D.R.V.C. tournament, for the first time in school...

Nashville and Colorado combined for six power-play goals in Game 3, but it was the Predators who fell to the Avalanche by a 7-3 final on Saturday afternoon at Bridgestone Arena. The result sees the Preds now on the brink of elimination as they trail 3-0 in the Round One series. Matt Duchene, Eeli Tolvanen and Roman Josi all tallied for Nashville in Game 3, but four of Colorado’s seven goals came with the man advantage as the series shifted back to Tennessee. The Predators say their 5-on-5 play was the best they’ve seen in the series, but the Avalanche took advantage of...

Coffee County took the lead in the first inning and never looked back Saturday. Behind a strong outing on the mound from Aidan Robertson and a two-run home run from Caleb Moran, the Raiders dropped Warren County 5-3 in the first round of the District 6 -4A tournament at Powers Field in Manchester. The Pioneers mounded a two-out rally in the top of the seventh inning to make things interesting. Warren County loaded the bases and got a bases-clearing double from Easton Denning to cut the Raider lead to 5-3. But Brady Nugent entered and put out the fire,...