Hosting region wrestling rival Warren County on Tuesday night, the Raider wrestling team returned to their home mat at the Coffee County Raider Academy.   In a year that has seen the Raiders show an incredible improvement in the duals performances, Coffee County hosted a Pioneer squad that is having their best season in recent memory.  In a hotly contested match, Warren County edged Coffee County 45 to 33. Coffee County got pinfall wins from Devin Judge(at 152 pounds), Cardin Stump(285), Hunter Massey(113) and Brett Francis(120).  Jesse Smith(145) captured 5 points via a technical fall(17 to 2) victory.  Hunter Waring(132)...

The Coffee County Middle School basketball team welcomed Cannon County to the CCMS gym on Monday in their final non-conference game of the year.   The Lady Raiders got fast starts in each half to claim a 32 to 29 win.   The Red Raiders also got off to a fast start in the 1st quarter but needed a last second shot by Hayden Garr to capture a 45 to 43 win. The Lady Raiders opened the game on a 7 to 0 run and scored 4 points in the first 20 seconds of the second half to stake themselves to...

The Coffee County CHS freshman Red Raiders traveled to Warren County on Monday night for their first action of 2019.  Coffee County fought hard but ended up dropping an overtime decision to the Pioneers.  The Red Raiders fell by a final score of 46 to 44. The Red Raiders were led in scoring by Brady Nugent and Rueben Alvarez who each netted 11 points.  Connor Shemwell added 8 points and Aiden Abellana and John Dobson each finished with 5 points. The freshmen cagers will be back in action on Saturday, January 19th when they travel to Shelbyville for a...

Pekka Rinne made 18 saves for the Nashville Predators in a 4-0 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Scotiabank Arena on Monday. Mattias Ekholm, Colton Sissons and Kevin Fiala each had a goal and an assist, and P.K. Subban scored for Nashville (26-15-3), which is 4-0-1 in its past five games after going 0-5-1 in the previous six. Michael Hutchinson made 28 saves for Toronto, (27-13-2), which has lost three of its past four games. The Predators went up 1-0 at 4:08 of the second period when Ekholm scored on a power play from the point. The Maple...

Returning to district play on Friday night, the Coffee County CHS basketball teams traveled to Fayetteville to take on Lincoln County.  A pair of strong 2nd halves by Coffee County led the Raiders and Lady Raiders to their second straight sweep.  The Lady Raiders outscored Lincoln County 31 to 13 in the second half to win 47 to 29.  The Red Raiders rallied from a 4 point deficit to beat the Falcons 54 to 51. The Red Raiders led by 5 entering the final minute only to see Lincoln County rally to tie the game at 51 with 17...

The Coffee County wrestling team visited Smyrna on Saturday for the Red Hawk Rampage Individual Tournament at Stewarts Creek High School.  Taking a contingent of 11 wrestlers, Coffee County came home with a pair of medals in the event which attracted 18 teams from middle and west Tennessee and southern Kentucky.  In team points, the Red Raiders finished in 11th place ahead of region rivals Shelbyville, Cookeville, Franklin County and Siegel. Christopher Speagle(wrestling at 220 pounds) was the top medalist for the Raiders as he compiled a record of 5 and 1 and finished in 3rd place.  In the...

All Peter Laviolette wanted was a response. On Saturday night in Montreal, he got one. Roughly 24 hours after the Predators produced what their head coach called an “awful” effort in a 4-3 overtime loss to Detroit, Nashville went into the Bell Centre on the second half of a back-to-back and defeated the Canadiens by a 4-1 final. The victory gives the Preds points in four consecutive games – and three out of possible four in the last two nights. But it’s Saturday’s victory that makes the past 48 hours look a lot better. Right from the opening moments...