JANUARY 10 6 p.m. — Coffee Middle Basketball HOSTS Warren County. (8th grade night) (Thunder Radio broadcast. 107.9 FM, 1320 AM, Manchester Go app, thunder1320.com) JANUARY 11 4:30 p.m. – WMS boys basketball vs. Liberty AT Cascade. DRVC Tournament 6 p.m. — CHS Basketball HOSTS Franklin County. (Thunder Radio broadcast. 107.9 FM, 1320 AM, Manchester Go app, thunder1320.com) JANUARY 12 6 p.m. – Coffee County Basketball coaches show, live from Praters BBQ on Thunder Radio (Thunder Radio broadcast. 107.9 FM, 1320 AM, Manchester Go app, thunder1320.com) 6 p.m. — Westwood Girls basketball vs. TBD AT Cascade. DRVC Tournament (Thunder...

New Union Rebelettes New Union RebelsThe New Union Basketball teams made a clean sweep of the Elementary League Tournament Saturday night, Jan. 8, 2022. NEW UNION REBELETTES 32, COLLEGE STREET COUGARS 8 Jenslee Nogodula led the way with 12 points, followed by Brylyn McAdams with 8 as the New Union Rebelettes took care of business in the Elementary Basketball Championships Saturday night at Coffee County High School. Kinsley Pruitt added 7 points, including a 3 pointer in the first quarter to get New Union off to a hot start. New Union Rebels 36, North Coffee Chargers 13 New Union’s...

Winter weather has wreaked havoc on winter sports schedules over this week. Below is an up to date list (as of January 6) of area teams and their plans moving forward. Coffee Middle School Warren County vs. Coffee Middle Basketball. POSTPONED. Makeup date Monday, January 10. 8th grade night. Coffee Middle at Harris Middle (from December cancellation). Makeup date Thursday, Jan. 13. CTC Tournament pushed back one week. Begins January 17 at South Franklin. Bracket not yet available. Westwood Middle School Liberty vs. Westwood Basketball. CANCELLED. No plans for makeup. DRVC Conference Tournament – begins January 10 January 7...

Coffee County’s Gavin Prater, left over beat Mauricio Jimenez by pinfall Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. — Thunder Radio photo by Holly Peterson Coffee County wrestling got a clean sweep over visiting La Vergne and Stewarts Creek on Tuesday, Jan. 4, with both boys and girls teams dropping both schools. Results below. Coffee County (COFF) 48.0 Lavergne (LAVE) 24.0 195: Ian Walker (COFF) over   (LAVE) (For.) 220: Kolby McCormick (COFF) over   (LAVE) (For.) 285: Blayne Myers (COFF) over   (LAVE) (For.) 106: Double Forfeit 113: Ty Young (LAVE) over   (COFF) (For.) 120: Senoor Najeeb (LAVE) over   (COFF) (For.) 126: Jeremiah Wardell...

It took a few minutes to shake the rust from the long holiday layoff, but the Westwood Lady Rockets eventually go rolling and took care of Forrest 35-13 Wednesday night in Chapel Hill. Jules Ferrell scored 8 of her team-leading 10 points in the fourth quarter to help Westwood pull away. The Lady Rockets led 21-12 entering the final period before outscoring Forrest 14-1 in the final 6 minutes. Westwood’s Audri Patton pitched in 8 points on the night for WMS. The Lady Rockets improve to 18-1 overall with the win and remain a perfect 12-0 in Duck River...

There was very little rust apparent for the Coffee Middle School basketball teams in their return from the long holiday break – as both teams took care of business in a home conference sweep over West Wednesday night in Manchester. Lady Raiders 59, West Tullahoma 18 The Lady Raiders completed the season sweep of the Lady Bobcats behind explosive offensive performances from eighth graders Ella Arnold and Natalie Barnes. Arnold lit up Tullahoma for 26 points, followed closely by Barnes with 21 in a 59-18 win. The win improves CMS to 15-2 overall and 9-1 in conference play. Red...

On Wednesday, January 5, 2022, Olivia Evans signed a scholarship to play college softball at Tennessee Tech. — Thunder Radio photo by Josh Peterson Throughout her softball career, Coffee County’s Olivia Evans has known two things: she wanted to play college softball and she wanted to play it at Tennessee Tech. Mission accomplished. In front of friends, family, coaches and teammates on Wednesday (January 5, 2022), the CHS Lady Raider senior signed on the dotted line to play college softball in Cookeville for Tennessee Tech. “I’ve been going to camps up there with my sister because she was a...

Coffee County Central Red Raider quarterback Connor Shemwell picked up another postseason honor earlier this week – the senior signal caller was named to the Tennessee Football Coaches Association 6A All-State Team. As a four-year starter, Shemwell returned from ACL surgery in March to lead the Raiders to a 5-5 regular season record and a spot in the TSSAA Playoffs. Shemwell’s play down the stretch helped to lead the Raiders to a 4-1 finish over their last 5 regular season games. He was 145-of-246 for the season (59%) for 1,775 yards, 15 touchdowns and 9 interceptions. He carred the...