Your Local Sports
STATE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT: Raiders open play March 16, tickets on sale now
Coffee County Central’s magical basketball season continues in the TSSAA State Basketball Tournament next week. Coffee County (24-9 overall) will open the tournament at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 16 against the Indians of Dobyns-Bennett High School (30-6) out of Kingsport. The game will be played at MTSU’s Murphy Center. Tickets will be available at the gate but can also be purchased in advance through gofan.co. Reserved seating is available for $25 and general admission is available for $12 per seat. Click here to purchase tickets for Wednesday, March 16. The tournament is single elimination. If the Raiders beat Dobyns-Bennett,...
RED RAIDERS ARE STATE BOUND!
Red Raider head coach Andrew Taylor celebrate as the final horn sounds in a win over Stewarts Creek Tuesday, March 7, 2022. The Raiders won 57-50 to advance to the TSSAA State Basketball Tournament. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson Hollywood scrips are rarely written better. The last time Coffee County Central basketball went to the TSSAA state basketball tournament was in 1965 – Allan Taylor played on that team. Now Taylor’s son – Red Raider head coach Andrew Taylor – has led the Raiders back to another one. Coffee County jumped in front of Stewarts Creek 6-0...
BASKETBALL: Tickets on sale now for Monday night State Sectional game in Manchester
If you want your tickets to the state sectional basketball game Monday – you may want to go ahead and purchase them now to make sure you have a seat. Coffee County’s Red Raider boys will host Stewarts Creek High School at 7 p.m. Monday, March 7 at Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gymnasium. The Raiders are looking to go to the state basketball tournament for the first time since the 1960s. The winner on Monday will move on to the state tournament. The loser’s season comes to an end. Tickets will be available at the gate on a first...
SPRING SCOREBOARD: Results from Thursday, March 3
BASEBALL Coffee County Middle 19, Grundy County 0 Coffee County Middle Baseball improved to 3-0 on the season with a 19-0 thrashing of visiting Grundy County Thursday night. Tatsuki Aso, Jase Cashion and Landan Abellana all had two RBIs apiece and Caleb Crouch picked up 4 RBIs and a run scored for the Raiders. SOFTBALL Westwood 11, Huntland 1 The Lady Rockets of Westwood Middle School opened the spring season with a bang – run-ruling Huntland 11-1 in five innints. Eighth grader Lily Norman had a great night at the plate and in the circle. Norman ripped three hits...
REGION CHAMPIONS!!!!!
Brady Nugent, right, and Phineas Rollman celebrate at the final horn as the Coffee County Red Raiders beat Walker Valley 51-46 in double overtime Thursday, March 3, 2022 to claim the Region 3-4A Championship. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson MANCHESTER — There are instant classics. Then there is what happened at The Patch Thursday night. The Coffee County Central Red Raiders erased a 10-point fourth quarter deficit and came out on top of Walker Valley 51-46 in double overtime of the Region 3-4A Championship game. The first region title for the program since the 1970s. The Mustangs...
SPRING SCOREBOARD: Results from Wednesday, March 2
BASEBALL Coffee County Middle 10, Warren County 3 Coffee County completed the series sweep of Warren County with a 10-3 win in the Raiders’ home opener Wednesday afternoon. Six different Red Raiders scored runs on the night and the Raiders got two multi-hit performances – from AJ Schuster and Jase Cashion. Austin Gipson picked up the win on the mound – striking out 9 and walking 4 over four and one-third innings of work. He allowed one earned run. CMS is set to host Grundy County Thursday. SOFTBALL Coffee County Middle 6, Warren County 5 The Lady Raiders flipped...
Pete Rose returning to Manchester March 16
Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader is making a return visit to Manchester. Pete Rose will be at Al White Ford Lincoln from 2-4 p.m. Wednesday, March 16. Everyone is welcome to stop by and visit with Rose – there is no charge. There will be hotdogs, chips and drinks available. Thunder Radio will be on site, as well. There will be no autographs signed during this time. Al White Ford Lincoln is located at 2002 Hillsboro Blvd. in Manchester. Rose came to Manchester back in the fall for a fundraiser dinner for the CHS baseball...
First two series of MLB season cancelled with no CBA in place
Tuesday’s deadline for a new collective bargaining agreement passed without a deal between Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association, as the players voted to reject the league’s final proposal before 5 p.m. ET. With no deal in place, MLB announced that each team’s first two series of the regular season will not be played, meaning that the regular season will begin no earlier than April 7, while Spring Training games will begin no earlier than March 12. Thunder Radio is your official radio home of the Atlanta Braves as a long-time member of the Braves Radio Network....
