The Westwood basketball teams welcomed Forrest to the Joel Vinson Gym on Monday night.  In a pair of games that you heard here on our Thunder Radio app, the Rocket teams fought to a split on the night.  The Lady Rockets won 32 to 27 in overtime while the Rockets lost 44 to 24. In the girls’ game, Maddie Sullivan hit 2 free throws with no time on the clock to send the game to overtime.  Anna Johnson finished the game with 18 points, including 9 in the 4th quarter and overtime.  Allie Sullivan added 5 points while Leonor...

The Coffee County Middle School basketball teams hit the road to Sparta on Monday night.  Taking on the always tough conference foe White County, the Raider teams rallied for a split in the doubleheader.  The Lady Raiders fell 33 to 15 while the Red Raiders won 48 to 43. In the girls’ game, Coffee County trailed at the half 11 to 10.  Unfortunately, White County outscored the Lady Raiders 15 to 0 in the 3rd quarter to race to the conference win.  Coffee Middle was led in scoring by Chloe Gannon who had 6 points.  Olivia Vinson added 4...

The Titans showed up on the Monday Night Football stage, and turned in a performance worthy of a bow. After a shaky start, the Titans took over Monday night’s game against the Dallas Cowboys. When it was over, the Titans left with a 28-14 victory, which ended a three-game losing streak and started to build some momentum heading into the second half of the season. It came before 90,466 fans at AT&T Stadium. “This game was of the utmost importance,” Titans cornerback Logan Ryan said. “It was a ‘got to have it,’ it was ‘desperation,’ it was everything. We...

The Coffee County and Westwood swim teams opened their season at home on Friday night at the Manchester Recreation Department.  The high school swim teams represented CHS, and a pair of Enrichment Fellowship Homeschool teams from Tullahoma and Warren County.   The Westwood and Coffee County Middle School squads competed against Rockvale and Enrichment Fellowship middle school swimmers. The Red Raider high school swimmers got wins in both team matches over Enrichment Fellowship of Tullahoma 452 to 110 and Enrichment Fellowship of Warren County 461 to 127.  The Red Raiders outscored Enrichment Fellowship of Tullahoma 231 to 34 and Enrichment...

The Lady Raider basketball team of Coffee County CHS traveled to Rhea County on Saturday for a tripleheader of scrimmage games.  In their first action of the preseason, the Lady Raiders got 3 wins on the day.  When asked for his opinion on the day, Coach Joe Pat Cope said “we gotta rebound better but it was a great start.” The Lady Raiders opened up the day with a 57 to 24 win over Midway.  Abby Morgan led Coffee County in scoring as she had 17 points.  Jacey Vaughn finished with 9 points, Kiya Ferrell chipped in 8 points...

Happy birthday, Peks. Pekka Rinne stopped all 26 shots he faced, and the Nashville Predators shut out the Boston Bruins by a 1-0 final on Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena. The victory is the 11th of the season for the Preds, good enough to maintain their lead atop the NHL standings. From the signing of a new two-year deal that morning, complete with a song and “cake action” from his teammates, until the final horn sounded shortly before 10 p.m., it was a classic Rinne performance that has played out 52 times previously in his career. And while the...

The Westwood basketball teams welcomed Liberty to the Joel Vinson Gym on Thursday night. In a pair of games you heard here on Thunder Radio, the Westwood cagers captured a conference sweep.  The Lady Rockets pulled away in the 2nd half to claim a 47 to 19 win and the Rockets used a strong 4th quarter to capture a 24 to 18 win. In the girls’ game, Westwood built an 11 to 4 lead in the first quarter thanks to a 5 point scoring explosion in the final 30 seconds of the period.  Liberty tied the game at 14 headed...