A Daniel Ríos brace split amongst the two halves, coupled with a long-range Kharlton Belmar goal, powered Nashville Soccer Club to a huge three points with a 3-1 victory at Charlotte Independence on Saturday night. The points moved Nashville SC just two behind first place in the USL Championship’s Eastern Conference. Nashville opened the scoring early in the 7’ minute with Ríos bagging his first of the night off a corner kick seemingly straight off the training ground. After numerous back and forth passes resulting from a Lebo Moloto corner, Taylor Washington threaded a pass through the defense to...

The Coffee County Middle School soccer team will host their 15th annual “Kickin Cancer Playday” on Saturday at CCMS.   Six varsity and 6 JV teams will be in action in the all-day event.  The first game is scheduled for 9 AM with the final game set to kick off at 3:30.  The tournament features 30 minute varsity and 20 minute JV games. The CCMS varsity will play at 9 AM, and 2:50 PM.  The JV Lady Raiders will compete at 9:40 AM and 3:30 PM.  All games will be held at the CCMS soccer field behind the Coffee County...

The Manchester Youth Football League will get their Southern Middle Tennessee Youth Football Association(SMTYFA) season underway on Saturday at Carden-Jarrell Field.  Saturday’s action features a triple-header of games as Manchester plays host to Franklin County.  Due to expected high heat index readings in the afternoon, league officials have moved the starting times up on Saturday.  The Division 1 Raiders will take on Franklin County at 9 AM.  The Division 2 Raiders will kick off at 10:30 and the Division 3 team is set to get underway at...

The Coffee County Middle School volleyball team visited Tullahoma on Thursday for a good old-fashioned rivalry game.  In a match you heard here on Thunder Radio, the Lady Raiders rallied to capture a 3 set win.  Coffee Middle won by set scores of 12-25, 25-20 and 15-6 to improve to 2 and 0 on the season. Coffee County got off to a rocky start as Tullahoma rolled off 9 straight points to break open a close first set.  The Lady Raiders went from trailing 9 to 7 to falling behind 18 to 7 giving Tullahoma a stranglehold on the...

The Coffee County CHS football team closed out the scrimmage portion of their preseason on Thursday night in Cleveland.   The Raiders visited Walker Valley for a “dress rehearsal” scrimmage featuring total game-like conditions including special teams.  Thanks to a huge 4th quarter by the freshmen Red Raiders, Coffee County claimed a 37 to 26 win. The starters played the entire first half and 1 series of the 2nd half before coming out trailing 20-16.  Coffee County moved the ball well with the first team but a pair of penalties deep in scoring position robbed the Raiders of a pair...

The Coffee County CHS golf team welcomed Warren County and Grundy County to Willowbrook on Thursday for their home opener.  With neither opponent fielding a women’s team, the Red Raiders were the only Coffee County squad in action.  The Coffee County men defended their home course with a pair of wins in the 9 hole affair.  Coffee County outscored Warren County 173 to 178.  Grundy County was a distant 3rd at 223. Logan Hale and Chris Robinson carried the mantle for the Red Raiders as each shot matching 41’s for the low rounds of the day.  Chase Hancock carded...

The Coffee County CHS volleyball team closed out the scrimmage portion of their preseason on Thursday night welcoming Enrichment Fellowship of Tullahoma to the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym.  Coffee County dominated in the 3 set win by set scores of 25-6, 25-11 and 25-13. “We played really well” said Red Raider head coach Andrew Taylor.  “Offensively, our ball control was outstanding.”  Coffee County attacked with a stunning 38.8% success rate on the night as they had 47 kills to only 7 hitting errors.  The Lady Raiders also captured 42 assists on those 47 kills signaling to the effectiveness...