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The first ever Thundie Sports Awards to be held May 21
The Dream for Weave Foundation and Thunder Radio will be hosting the first ever “Thundie Sports Awards” for the Coffee County community on Saturday, May 21. The inaugural sports awards will honor the best athletes, coaches and teams of Coffee County Central High School, Westwood Middle School and Coffee Middle School. Doors for the red carpet event will open at 5:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church Gymnasium (1006 Hillsboro Blvd). Middle Tennessee State University head softball coach and the pioneer of the CHS Lady Raider softball program, Jeff Breeden, will deliver the keynote address. Dinner will begin at 6...
STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Historic Raider season comes to an end
Coffee County’s fanbase, pictured here during a free throw by Dobyns-Bennett’s Brady Stump, painted Murphy Center in a sea of red Wednesday, March 16, 2022. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson MURFREESBORO — The run had to come to an end sometime. A magical, Cinderella run to the state tournament that will forever cement the 2021-22 Coffee County Central Red Raider Basketball team in the history books came to a close Wednesday in a 66-52 loss to Dobyns-Bennett High School in the quarter-finals of the TSSAA State Basketball Championships. The score got slightly lopsided in the end, but...
STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Raiders take on Dobyns-Bennett Wednesday in Murfreesboro
The community is invited and encouraged to send off the CHS Red Raider basketball team on its way to the state tournament Wednesday morning (March 16, 2022). The Raiders will be leaving Coffee County High School from the bus loading zone and get a police escort down McMinnville Highway (State Hwy. 55), past Raider Academy to Interstate-24 Westbound. The team will leave the high school at 11 a.m. “Businesses and the public are encouraged to line the side of Highway 55 from the high school to Raider Academy in support of these young men,” said the Coffee County Sheriff’s...
PREP SCOREBOARD: March 15, 2022
AREA SCORES FROM TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022 WMS Baseball 8, Moore County 3 Westwood picked up a sweep of Moore County with an 8-3 win in Manchester Tuesday night. The Rockets got 3 hits and 3 RBIs from Davis McKenzie in the win. The Rockets also got 3 hits from Carter Bell. Kaysen Lowery earned the win on the mound for the Rockets. Lowery allowed just 1 unearned run on 3 hits over 4 1/3 innings while striking out 5. David McKenzie — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson CMS SOFTBALL 9, Franklin County Middle 7 Coffee County bounced...
HS SOFTBALL: Timely big hits lead Lady Raiders to 4-3 win over Rockvale in season opener
Emily Schuster (no. 3) hit a fourth-inning home run Tuesday, March 15, 2022 that tied the game for the Lady Raiders at 2-2. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson Senior Olivia Evans kept hitting the ball hard, but couldn’t get any good luck. Until the bottom of the sixth inning. The senior center fielder dropped a double in the left-centerfield gap to push Chesnie Cox across the plate with two outs in the bottom of the sixth and the Coffee County Lady Raider softball team went on to open the season with a 4-3 win over Rockvale Tuesday...
PREP SCOREBOARD: March 14, 2022
AREA SCORES FROM MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2022 WMS Softball 5, Moore County 1 Westwood pitcher Lily Norman tossed a no-hitter to help lead the Lady Rockets to a 5-1 win over Moore County in Manchester – a game you heard live on Thunder Radio. Norman struck out 13 Raiderette batters in the win. She also went 2-for-4 at the plate. CMS BASEBALL 12, North Middle 2 The Coffee Middle Red Raiders added another notch to their unbeaten CTC record with a 12-2 runaway win over North Monday in Manchester. AJ Schuster had a big night at the plate for...
HS BASEBALL: Raiders open season with 3-2 road win over Riverdale
A solid effort on the mound from Jacob Holder and a big fly from Jacob Sherrill were enough to power the Coffee County Central Red Raider baseball team past Riverdale in the season opener Monday in Murfreesboro. The Raiders (1-0 overall / 0-0 District 6-4A) took a lead in the first and never looked back behind a strong effort on the mound from junior right-hander Jacob Holder. Holder worked 6 2/3 innings, allowing a pair of runs on four hits. He struck out 7 and walked one. He made an attempt at the complete game but exited in the...
STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Community encouraged to line highway for Raider escort March 16
The community is invited and encouraged to send off the CHS Red Raider basketball team on its way to the state tournament Wednesday morning (March 16, 2022). The Raiders will be leaving Coffee County High School from the bus loading zone and get a police escort down McMinnville Highway (State Hwy. 55), past Raider Academy to Interstate-24 Westbound. The team will leave the high school at 11 a.m. “Businesses and the public are encouraged to line the side of Highway 55 from the high school to Raider Academy in support of these young men,” said the Coffee County Sheriff’s...
