The Coffee County CHS golf team welcomed their biggest rival of 2018 to Willowbrook on Monday.  Entering the match with a record of 37 and 2 on the season, the Red Raiders squared off in an 18 hole match against a Cookeville team that has given them their only 2 losses of the year.   Cannon County joined to make it a 3 way match. The Red Raiders avenged their only losses of the year as they outshot Cookeville by 10 strokes.  Coffee County shot a score of 314 to eclipse the Cavaliers 324.  Cannon County finished at 403.  The...

Coming off a painful district loss to Lincoln County on Thursday, the Lady Raider volleyball team welcomed non-district foe White County to the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym on Monday.  The Lady Raiders had hoped to get on the winning track to start a busy week, but White County prevailed in 4 sets.  The Lady Raiders fell by set scores of 17-25, 23-25, 25-22 and 25-27. Lexi Bryan led Coffee County at the net as the sophomore had 12 kills and added 2 blocks.  Keri Munn finished with 4 blocks for the Lady Raiders.  Abigail Parker had the team...

The young and inexperienced Lady Raider soccer team of Coffee County Middle School hosted Tullahoma on Monday afternoon.  A pair of 2nd half goals powered Tullahoma to a 3 to 1 conference win. In a match you heard here on Thunder Radio as part of the 1st National Bank Hometown Sports Series, a pretty even first half sent the two teams to intermission with Tullahoma up top 1 to 0.  The Cats scored in the 6th minute but the teams were even in shots on goal at 4 at the half.  In the second half, Tullahoma began to wear...

The Coffee County Middle School volleyball team traveled to Sparta on Monday to tangle with conference foe White County.  The Lady Raiders showed improvement in their overall game before falling in straight sets.  White County got the win by set scores of 25-11 and 25-16. Coffee Middle is back in action on Tuesday in Tullahoma as they take on the Lady Cats in a double header.  The first match will get underway at 4:30 PM at East Middle...

The Nashville Sounds managed only four hits in a 2-0 loss to the Memphis Redbirds Monday night at AutoZone Park. With the win in the series finale, the Redbirds took three of four from the Sounds. Dustin Fowler doubled in the first inning off Memphis starter Adam Wainwright, but that was the last extra-base hit of the night for Nashville. Jorge Mateo and Boog Powell collected singles in the third inning, and Franklin Barreto singled in the ninth. Making a Major League rehab start, Wainwright allowed three hits in four shutout innings. He walked a pair and struck out...

Before a standing room only crowd at Tullahoma’s Wilkins Stadium, the Red Raider football team saw Tullahoma race out to a 27 to 0 lead in the first quarter against the stunned Coffee County squad.  The Wildcats held the Raiders to negative yardage in the first half as they won their 2nd straight Coffee Pot Game 48 to 8. Coffee County  managed just 99 yards in the game with 57 yards of that coming on a pass completion from Connor Shemwell to Andrew Hite.  Andrew Mahaffey was the leading rusher as he finished with 28 yards on 14 carries...

The Coffee County CHS cross country team traveled to the historic Hermitage Mansion for the Voyles Classic on Saturday.  Running against runners from 81 different middle Tennessee schools, the Raiders and Lady Raider runners represented the Red and Black with distinction. Jacob Rutledge was the top finisher for the Coffee County runners as he completed the 5K course in 19:00.13 which was good enough for 70th place.  Jacob Melton came in 121st place with a time of 20:39.31.  Other Raider runners, with their times, were: Bodey Todd(21:01.44), Ethan Welch(21:37.86), Christian Alvarez(22:19.83) and Ethan Beaty(26:25.31).  For the JV runners, Landon...

The Manchester Youth Football League traveled to Lynchburg on Saturday in a league tripleheader.  The Raiders squared off against the three Moore County teams on a beautiful late summer afternoon.  The Raiders came home with a pair of wins in the 3 contests. The Division 1 Raiders shut out Moore County on their way to a 38 to 0 win.  The Division 2 Raiders had a hard fought battle before pulling out the 13 to 6 win.  The Division 3 Raiders came up 2 points short to Moore County as they fell 42 to 38. The Raiders will take...