The Manchester Grunt 13U football team closed out their trip to the Battle in Rocky Top on Sunday with a shutout win over a team from Blackman.  After taking a pair of losses on Saturday, the Grunt blew away Blackman 40 to 0.  The Grunt finished the tournament with a record of 1 and 2. The Coffee County team was comprised of players from both Coffee County Middle and Westwood Middle.  The team was made up of mostly 8th grades who plan to be a part of next year’s Coffee County CHS freshman team.  Additionally, the team includes a...

Members of the Coffee County Bass Club competed on Saturday at Tims Ford in 2018 Captain’s Open Team Tournament.  The tournament served as a fundraising tournament benefitting the Tennessee Junior Division State Championship Tournament to be held in May of 2019 and to fund scholarships for the Tennessee High School Region championship.  Six boats wearing the uniforms for the Coffee County Bass Club entered the tournament. The top Raider team was captained by Brent Sain with prep anglers Kaden Freeze and Briley Sain.  Team Sain finished in 5th place with a 3 fish total catch weighing 6.55 pounds.  Coming...

Nashville’s Major League Soccer (MLS) team announced the signing of forward Daniel Ríos, from Club Deportivo Guadalajara of Liga MX in Mexico as its first MLS player. “Signing Daniel as our first MLS player shows our commitment to put a talented, diverse and exciting team on the field from day one of this franchise,” said Nashville MLS CEO Ian Ayre. “We look forward to welcoming him to the club and to seeing him play his part in our Major League Soccer ambitions.” A native of Mexico, Rios, 23, had been with CD Guadalajara, more commonly known as “Chivas,” since...

The Coffee County Middle School basketball teams played their last games before the Thanksgiving break on Monday at East Tullahoma.  Taking on the rival Panthers in a pre-Thanksgiving doubleheader, the Raiders and Lady Raiders claimed a pair of conference wins.  The Lady Raiders won 33 to 27 while the Red Raiders captured a 53 to 24 victory. Leading by 2 points entering the 4th quarter, the Lady Raiders hit 9 of 19 free throws in the final frame to capture the win.  Alivia Reel had 5 of those made free throws in the final period to finish with a...

The Eagles of Temple Baptist Christian School welcomed Faith Christian of Jamestown to the E.C. Bailey Gym on Monday night.  The Eagles rallied from a halftime deficit to claim a 59 to 49 win. Trailing by 2 at the half, the Eagles stormed out of intermission to outscore Faith by 10 in the 3rd quarter.  An 8 point 4th quarter from Trace Woodard helped Temple hold off Faith for the win.  Cody Swayze led Temple in scoring with 33 points.  Woodard finished with 10 points and Mich Gloden chipped in 8. Temple returns to the court on Tuesday, November...

In arguably their toughest test through 20 games this season, the Preds placed in their top percentile. Ryan Johansen posted a goal and an assist, as the Nashville Predators defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning by a 3-2 final on Monday night at Bridgestone Arena. The result is Nashville’s second consecutive victory overall, and it gives them a season sweep over the team with the second-best record in the League. It was also career victory No. 319 for Preds goaltender Pekka Rinne, a mark that tied him with Miikka Kiprusoff for the most wins by a Finnish-born goaltender in NHL...

Four of a kind was in the cards for the Coffee County CHS basketball teams on Saturday.  With both the boys and girls playing doubleheaders, each team rolled to a 2 and 0 record with wins in the Hall of Champions contests.   The Lady Raiders dumped Marshall County 71 to 37 and Huntland 78 to 51.  The Red Raiders beat Huntland 78 to 43 and Moore County 67 to 58. Thanks to 6 three point baskets in the 1st half against Marshall County, the Lady Raiders took a 34 to 25 lead into intermission.  In the second half, Coffee...

On Sunday, Samuel Prater became the 17th golfer in the last 11 years to sign a collegiate golf scholarship from Coffee County Central High School.  Before family, friends, coaches and teammates, Prater signed to play golf for Milligan College at Boskey’s Restaurant.  Milligan College is located in Elizabethton, Tennessee and competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Appalachian Athletic Conference.  The Buffalos are coached by Tony Wallingford who is in his 27th season at the helm of Milligan Golf. Wallingford’s men’s teams have captured seven Appalachian Athletic Conference Championships, two NAIA Regional titles,...