The Coffee County CHS Raider wrestling team opens up competition in the TSSAA State Wrestling Tournament on Thursday.  Four Raider grapplers will represent Coffee County Central High School in the 3 day state championship.  Gavin Prater and Cardin Stump will compete for the Red Raiders while Lady Raider wrestlers Alanna Coker and Mary Wolfrum also qualified for the state girls’ championship.  Prater will wrestle at 145 pounds, while Stump qualified in the heavyweight division.  For the Lady Raider wrestlers, Coker will compete at 115 while Wolfram has qualified in the 125 weight class. The state tournament will begin on...

The Westwood soccer team’s Tuesday scrimmage at home against South Franklin was postponed due to wet field conditions at Dyer-Bouldin Field.  The match will be made up on Wednesday in Winchester beginning at 4:30 PM.  The match is set to be played behind the football field at the site of the former Franklin County High School off Dinah Shore Boulevard.  The Rockets open the regular season on Thursday, February 27th when Westwood plays host to North Franklin.   That match will get underway at 5 PM and it is the opening broadcast in the Thunder Radio Spring Sports coverage calendar. ...

Nashville center Ryan Johansen Ryan Johansen scored Nashville’s lone goal on Tuesday night, as the Predators fell to the Carolina Hurricanes by a 4-1 final at Bridgestone Arena. The result sees Nashville’s three-game winning streak come to an end, as the season series between the two clubs finishes with one victory apiece. The loss was disappointing for the Preds after a stellar weekend that saw them sweep a home-and-home set with the St. Louis Blues. Those results provided another boost of confidence into the locker room, and even though the group stated the importance of moving on from that...

Caleb Cargile of Westwood soccer[file photo] The Westwood Rocket soccer team got their first scrimmage action of the spring on Monday as they welcomed Warren County to Dyer-Bouldin Field. A Caleb Cargile hat trick and a clean slate defensively lifted the Rockets to an impressive 5 nil scrimmage win. The JV Rockets battled to a 1 all draw with the Pioneers. The Rockets got on the board in the 14th minute when Torin Van Zandbergen converted off a feed from Izick Sierra to make the score 1 nil. Cargile potted his 1st goal just before intermission on a feed...

The District 8AAA basketball tournament moved to Lincoln County High School on Monday with the boys’ quarterfinal round. In Monday’s quarterfinals, Lincoln County defeated Shelbyville in overtime and Columbia upset Franklin County in a pair of boys’ games. The girls’ quarterfinals will take place on Tuesday night. The Red Raiders and Lady Raiders will finish the year with the District 8AAA regular season district titles and will enter next week’s district tournament as the #1 seeded teams.  Both Coffee County teams will receive 1st round byes and advance to the tournament’s semifinal rounds.  The Red Raiders will open up...

Alontae Taylor[Photo by Tennessee Athletics] Alontae Taylor, a rising junior on the Tennessee football team, was recently selected as Vice Chair of the Southeastern Conference Football Leadership Council. Taylor was selected by a vote of his peers at a meeting of the council held recently at the SEC offices in Birmingham. The Manchester, Tennessee, native will attend a portion of the SEC Spring Meetings in May to meet with conference leadership and provide feedback on SEC legislative proposals. The Football Leadership Council is one of three components of the SEC Student-Athlete Leadership Council. The other two components are the...

Daniel Rios of Nashville SC[Photo courtesy of nashvillesc.com] Nashville SC picked up win No. 3 of the preseason, defeating FC Cincinnati, 3-1, in a closed-door scrimmage Sunday in Bradenton, Florida. Jack Maher, who was selected No. 2 overall in the 2020 MLS SuperDraft, scored his first professional goal in the first half off a Hany Mukhtar’s deflected free kick in the 20th minute. FC Cincinnati leveled in the 61st minute on a first-time strike by Frankie Amaya. But Nashville quickly regained the lead through Daniel Rios three minutes later and tacked on a penalty kick goal by Derrick Jones...

Coffee County wrestlers Cardin Stump(left) and Gavin Prater(right) with their medals on Saturday after qualifying for the TSSAA state meet. The Coffee County CHS Red Raider wrestling team traveled to Murfreesboro on Friday and Saturday to compete in the Region 5AAA Individual Wrestling Tournament.  Competing at Oakland High School for spots in next week’s TSSAA State Wrestling Tournament, the Raider grapplers managed to advance a pair of wrestlers to the state meet in Franklin.  Gavin Prater and Cardin Stump will join Lady Raider wrestlers Alanna Coker and Mary Wolfrum to compete at the Williamson County Expo Center beginning on...