Konor Heaton scored a 9 yard TD run on the final play from scrimmage to lift the Westwood Rockets to a 14 to 12 scrimmage win over Eagleville on Friday.  The Rockets used their patented ball control offense for a pair of 70 yard drives in the game to capture the win in the Cascade Jamboree in Wartrace.  Westwood played nearly error-free football as they did not have a turnover or negative yardage play and were only penalized 1 time for 5 yards. The Rockets controlled the time of possession as they held the ball for 23 minutes of...

The Coffee County CHS soccer team played host to the Lady Raider Soccer Play Day on Saturday at the Raider Academy.  The varsity and JV teams were in action alongside 10 other teams.  The varsity squad was 2 and 1 in their 3 matches.  The JV team got a win and a pair of draws. The highlight of the day for the JV was a 4 to 0 win over the Tullahoma JV.  The Lady Raiders also got a pair of 1 all draws.  Coffee County fought to even match decisions against Community and Mt. Juliet. The varsity team...

The Westwood Lady Rocket and Coffee County Middle School Lady Raider volleyball teams ended their preseason on Saturday as they each took part on the CHS Middle School Play Day.  Originally scheduled for the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym, a plumbing problem at CHS forced the relocation of games.  Westwood played their games at Westwood Elementary while Coffee Middle hosted their games at CCMS. The Lady Raiders of Coffee Middle were originally going to field a varsity and JV team in the scrimmage play day.  With the revised schedule, Coffee County was only able to use one team for...

A pair of boats from the Coffee County Youth Bass Club hit the waters of Kentucky Lake on Thursday.  The team of Isaiah Owens and Garrett Davis, along with the team of Colby and Braeden Thurmond, competed in the Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster High School Series National Championship on Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley.  This is the 2nd consecutive year at the Nationals for the Thurmond brothers and the first year for Coffee County to field 2 boats. The 3 day event featured 337 teams from across the nation fishing out of Paris Landing State Park.  The top 12...

The Nashville Sounds extended their season-best win streak to seven games as they held off the Sacramento River Cats 6-4 Sunday night at First Tennessee Park. As Sounds starter Daniel Mengden routinely sent Sacramento hitters back to the first base dugout shaking their heads in frustration, the Sounds offense collected hit after hit. Mengden set a new season-high by collecting seven punch outs in his 6 2/3 innings of work. The offense tallied six runs on 17 hits in the game, one shy of the season-high. Sheldon Neuse matched a career-high by tallying three hits while J.P. Sportman’s three...

The Nashville Sounds continued their winning ways Saturday night as they upended the Sacramento River Cats 3-1 in front of 10,811 fans at First Tennessee Park. The Sounds have now won six games in a row to set a new season-long winning streak. Chris Bassitt put in a sterling effort on the mound for the Sounds as the right-hander matched a career-high by spinning eight innings of one-run baseball. He yielded just three hits and fanned six in his eight innings of work. Sacramento took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a Ryder Jones solo shot but...

A late goal by the bane of all FC Cincinnati fans, Tucker Hume, sealed a road result for Nashville SC against top of the table FC Cincinnati. The goal in the 86’ minute, assisted by Ropapa Mensah, leveled the game at 1-1 and gave Nashville a much-deserved point at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati on Saturday night. FIRST COME FROM BEHIND RESULT Tonight’s draw was the first time Nashville SC had earned a result after falling behind at any point in a match. Previously, Nashville was 0-6-0 when falling behind. DOMINATING THE STAT SHEET Nashville outplayed Cincinnati for much of...

The Nashville Sounds led from start to finish in a 6-2 win over the Fresno Grizzlies in front of a sellout crowd of 11,227 at First Tennessee Park Friday night. The victory extended Nashville’s winning streak to five games. The win completed a three-game sweep of the Grizzlies – the first three-game series sweep for the Sounds since the 2007 season. Starters Frankie Montas of Nashville and Brady Rodgers of Fresno started the game locked in a pitchers’ duel. Both right-handers put up zeroes in the first three innings. Nashville struck first in the fourth when Steve Lombardozzi and...