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Coffee Middle School Softball Wins at Lincoln County
The Coffee County Middle School softball team traveled to Lincoln County on Friday for a non-conference game with the Lady Falcons. The Lady Raiders put 15 runners on base in the 5 inning contest to grab the convincing win. The Lady Raiders won by a final score of 9 to 2. The Lady Raiders plated 5 runs in the 2nd inning and never trailed in the game. The Lady Raiders had 9 hits on the day led by Kaitlyn Davis who had 3 singles. Davis also got the win in the circle as she scattered 5 hits while striking...
Westwood Softball Falls in Friday Showdown with Moore County
The Westwood Middle School softball team welcomed Moore County to Lady Rocket Field on Friday for a makeup contest from Monday. The Lady Rockets made a valiant comeback effort before falling in the conference matchup. Westwood lost by a final score of 7 to 6. With Moore County leading 3 to 1 entering the 6th inning, the visiting Lynchburg ladies erupted for 4 runs to stun the Lady Rockets. Westwood responded with 5 runs of their own in the bottom of the 6th inning to cut the deficit to 1 run. In the 7th, the Rockets could not get...
CHS Track Rolls at Thursday Home Meet
The Coffee County CHS track team hosted Bradley Central, Warren County, Franklin County and Tullahoma in a 5 team meet at Carden-Jarrell Field. Out of a field of more than 200 athletes, the Red Raiders captured an east team win over second place Bradley Central 206.5 to 141.5. The Lady Raiders were edged by district rival Franklin County 177 to 164. In the team relay races, the Red Raiders captured a pair of 2nd place finishes in the 4×100 relay and the 4×800 relay. The Red Raiders got 1st place individual finishes from Jacob Rutledge in the 1600M, Dillon...
CCMS Track Wins Thursday Meet at Warren County
The Coffee County Middle School track team visited McMinnville on Thursday for a dual meet with Warren County. The Red Raiders easily outdistanced their Pioneer rivals 77 to 19. The Lady Raiders got a clean sweep in the throwing events to edge the lady Pioneers 49 to 47. For the Lady Raiders, Abby Mahaffey, Kaitlyn Davis and Nikki Graham finished 1, 2, 3 respectively in the shot put and reversed that order in the discus with Graham getting the win. That sweep in the throwing events gave the Lady Raiders an 18 to 0 win. Katie Cotton won the...
Smith Scores OT Winner, Preds Beat Stars to Even Series
The Predators needed a hero – and Craig Smith wasn’t about to let his club down. The veteran Nashville winger deposited his first-career postseason overtime goal exactly five minutes into the extra session to give the Preds a 2-1 victory over the Dallas Stars in Game 2 and even the best-of-seven series at one game apiece. After dropping Game 1 on Wednesday, the last thing the Predators wanted to do was head to Dallas down by two games. A complete, consistent effort three nights later set them up for success, and Smith put the exclamation point on the outing....
Long Ball Leads to Loss for Sounds
The San Antonio Missions got two timely home runs from left fielder Tyler Saladino to lead to a 5-3 win over the Nashville Sounds Saturday night in San Antonio. The home runs from Saladino came in the second inning to give San Antonio a 2-1 lead, and again in the seventh inning to give them some breathing room at 3-1. Nashville got on the board first when Andy Ibanez belted a solo homer to left-center field in the top of the second inning. It was the first home run of the season for Ibanez who extended his hitting streak...
Nashville SC Blanks Memphis in Saturday Night Match at First Tennessee Park
Nearly an hour and twenty minutes after its scheduled kickoff time, the highly anticipated rivalry match between Nashville SC and Memphis 901 FC at First Tennessee Park on Saturday night ended in a 2-0 shutout victory for the home side, marking Nashville’s third clean sheet of the year. Matt LaGrassa and Ropapa Mensah provided the lightning late with each of their first goals of the season. Daniel Ríos almost found the first goal of the night in the 15’ minute after he and Darnell King seamlessly connected in the final third. King’s well-placed pass helped set Rios up to...
Thursday Prep Results and Friday Prep Schedule
Thursday Prep Results CHS Tennis swept Franklin Co – Girls won 7 to 0, Boys won 7 to 0 – See the Story HERE WMS Tennis spilt with St. Andrews-Sewanee – Girls won 5 to 1, Boys lost 7 to 0 – See the Story HERE WMS Boys’ Soccer shut out St. Andrews-Sewanee – 2 to 0 – See the Story HERE CCMS Boys’ Soccer dumped North Franklin – 7 to 1 – See the Story HERE CCMS Baseball blanked Harris – 17 to 0 – See the Story HERE WMS Softball tamed Fayetteville – 14 to 2 –...
