The Coffee County Middle School football team’s 8th Grade Night game with White County was cancelled last night as lightning and storms had pushed the start back past 8 PM.  Before the game, and the first lightning delay, 30 Raider 8th grade players and cheerleaders were recognized.  The Red Raiders finished the year winning 3 of their last 4...

The Coffee County Middle School volleyball team closed out the regular season on Monday night as they played host to North Franklin.  After a hard fought first set, North rallied to win the match in 2 sets.  Coffee County fell by set scores of 20-25 and 8-25. The Lady Raiders will open the CTC Tournament on Thursday night when they take on Warren County at 7 PM at Harris Middle School.  The CTC Tournament will conclude on Saturday at...

The Westwood Middle School soccer team traveled to Wartrace on Monday to open up play in the CTSC postseason tournament.  The Lady Rockets took on the Cascade Lady Champions with a berth in Friday’s quarterfinals on the line.  Four second half goals by Cascade ended the Lady Rockets season as they fell 5 to 0. Six first half stops by keeper Holland Willoughby gave Westwood life going into intermission as the Lady Rockets trailed 1 nil.  Cascade turned up the pressure in the 2nd half and added 4 goals to get the final margin of 5 nil.  Willoughby added...

The Coffee County Central High School golf team will begin play in the 2018 TSSAA Large Division State Tournament on Tuesday. For the 2nd straight year, the Red Raiders won the region tournament and punched their ticket to the tournament which is held annually at Willowbrook. The Raiders enter the state tournament with a season record of 75 and 5 which is a new school record. 2018 is the 6th straight year for a Red Raider state qualifier for the state tournament. The state tournament is a 36 hole event which will tee off at 8 AM on Tuesday,...

The Coffee County Youth Bass Club opened their fall season on Saturday when they competed in the Tennessee Bass Nation High School and Youth Division Tournament on Nickajack Lake.  In the biggest tournament in the history of the Tennessee Bass Nation, six Coffee County high school boats competed in the field of 188 boats.  Two middle school boats from Coffee County competed in a field of 36 teams in the Junior Division. In the junior division, the team of Kylan Mantooth and Lance Marcom finished in 3rd place with a 4 fish catch weighing in at 7.42 pounds.  The...

When rain forced the cancellation of Monday night’s CHS soccer game with Central Magnet, the Lady Raiders moved their Senior Night to the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym.  Honoring seniors Allie Amado, Morgan Henley, Meagan Jones, Jessica Barrera and Makenzie Webb.  The Lady Raiders next game will be on Thursday night when they travel to Ooltewah.  That match will kick off at 7 PM Eastern...

Returning to Carden-Jarrell Field on Friday night, the Coffee County football team welcomed Cookeville for a region contest.  The Red Raiders were stymied on offense and gave up too many big plays on defense as they fell to the Cavaliers 54 to 7. Coffee County got their only points of the game on the last play of the first half as Matthew Pittman raced 93 yards on a kickoff return for a touchdown.  Briggs Haithcock added the extra point as the Raiders trailed 40 to 7 at the half.  Andrew Mahaffey led the Raiders in yardage as he had...

The Coffee County Middle School cross country team traveled to Murfreesboro on Saturday to compete in the TMSAA sectional at Riverdale.  Competing for berths in the TMSAA state meet coming up in October, nine Raider runners took part in the 2 mile run.  Greenlee Woods ran the race in 13:40.61 to earn her 2nd straight state meet berth. Woods, who started out fast, ended the race in 5th place.  Woods led the 3 member Lady Raider squad.  Eleanor Rollman finished the course in 16:23 to finish in 64th place out of 127 runners.  Elizabeth Young finished the course in...