Filip Forsberg tied it late, and Ryan Johansen took his time to win it. Juuse Saros stopped three of the four shots he saw in the shootout, before Johansen ended it and the Nashville Predators defeated the Minnesota Wild, 3-2, on Sunday night at Xcel Energy Center. The result snaps a two-game skid for the Preds and gives the visitors the victory in the first half of the home-and-home set. Minnesota, a team on the second half of a back-to-back, had a 2-1 lead over the Preds entering the third period, but Nashville outshot the home club by a...

Mikael Granlund recorded an assist in his Nashville debut and P.K. Subban scored on the power play, but the Winnipeg Jets completed the comeback to defeat the Predators by a 5-3 final on Friday night at Bell MTS Place. It’s Nashville’s second-straight loss overall and their second defeat to the Jets on the season. The Predators had a 2-0 lead in the second period, but the Jets tied the game before the third, and then took the lead in a battle between the top two teams in the Central Division. “They were better in the small areas,” Preds defenseman...

On a cold and drizzy Thursday night at Dyer-Bouldin Field, the Westwood Rocket soccer team had no trouble getting warmed up for their season opener.  In a match you heard here on Thunder Radio, the Rockets got 5 first half goals to roll to a 7 to 1 win over Lincoln County. Westwood got on the board in the 3rd minute as Izick Sierra drilled home a pass from Ian Weldon to put Westwood on top 1 to 0.  The Rockets then got 3 goals in a 3 minute period as Weldon scored in the 8th minute, Nico Sanfilippo...

Three members of the Coffee County basketball teams were named to the Region 4AAA All-Tournament teams on Wednesday and Thursday night.  Senior Abby Morgan and sophomore Bella Vinson were selected for the girls’ team by the coaches in the region tournament.   Senior Darius Rozier was selected for the boys’ all-region tournament team. Morgan was the leading scorer for the Lady Raiders as she scored 33 points in the 2 games, including 25 in the overtime win over Stewarts Creek in the quarterfinal round.  Vinson scored 28 points in the 2 Lady Raider games as she led Coffee County in...

Both in and out of the swimming pool, Jack Beachboard continues to claim awards.  The Coffee County Central High School senior was recognized on Tuesday as an All-Region swimmer for Middle Tennessee and as an Academic All-American. Beachboard, the most decorated swimmer in Coffee County swim team history, competed in his 4th straight state meet earlier this month.  Beachboard also qualified for the Academic Honors due to his overall GPA.  To qualify for the Academic All-American award, you must:  Have a minimum GPA of 3.750 on a 4 point scale, or 93.7500% of the grade scale your school uses...

Story provided by Tera Williams This past weekend, February 22-24, the Manchester Makos swim team had 10 members that qualified to swim in the Southeastern Short Course Championships. The championship meet hosts teams from many states including Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida. In order to swim at this level, swimmers must have qualifying times in the event. The Makos, led by their coaches Shawn Daniels, Rebekah Buchanan, Becky Behrendorff, and Cindy Weber, placed 19th out of 50 teams. The Makos had a strong showing of 5 swimmers in the senior age division. Swimmers raced in the morning for preliminaries, and...

The Coffee County Middle School baseball team traveled to Sparta on Wednesday evening for the 2nd game of their season opening conference series.  In a rematch from Tuesday night, it was another strong pitching performance by the Red Raider pitching staff that made the difference in the game.  Coffee Middle held White County to 3 hits in a 3 to 1 win. Aiden Robertson pitched 6 innings allowing only 1 unearned run while striking out 6 to get the win.  Jack Anderson came on in relief and struck out 2 to get the save.  England Bryan had a pair...