Rising Coffee County Central High School junior softball player Sarah West was named to the 1st team National Fastpitch Coaches Association South Region team on Monday.  West, who led the Lady Raiders this past season in several offensive categories, was one of only 2 Tennessee players named to the 8 state All-Region squad.   West joins Sophie Dunavant of Jackson Christian High School as a 1st team selection. West led Coffee County in batting average(.495), RBI(38), slugging percentage(.871) and was tied for the team lead in home runs(4) and walks(10).  West was selected as a utility player to the all-region...

The Iowa Cubs spoiled the evening for 11,691 fans at First Tennessee Park by topping the Nashville Sounds, 6-2, Wednesday night. Three costly errors burned the Sounds as the third-largest crowd in ballpark history took in the game. Nashville scored first as Ramon Laureano provided early fireworks with a two-run home run down the right-field line in the bottom of the first inning. Laureano’s seventh of the season came moments after Nick Martini extended his on-base streak to 64 games with a leadoff single. The sloppy defense started shortly after Nashville took their 2-0 lead. Trey Martin started the...

Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota gathered with some of his top targets in Nashville over the weekend for a throwing session. The players – receivers and tight ends – worked together on Saturday and Sunday at an area football field. Back in March, roughly a half-dozen players all joined Mariota in Los Angeles for workouts during a break. Many of the same players were involved in this weekend’s throwing session in Nashville as well. Receivers Corey Davis, Rishard Matthews, Taywan Taylor, Tajae Sharpe and tight Jonnu Smith were all part of the throwing session in California in March, and the...

Coffee County Central High School athletic director Rebecca Koger announced the hiring of Michael Sullivan as an assistant wrestling coach for the upcoming school year.  Sullivan comes to Coffee County after coaching and teaching at Cane Ridge High School in Antioch.  Sullivan will also teach math at CHS. “(Sullivan) possesses a strong knowledge of fundamentals and techniques that will be of great value to our student-athletes” said Koger.  Sullivan is originally from Tullahoma where he was a wrestler.   Sullivan, who lives in Estill Springs, completed his 1st year of teaching last year at Cane Ridge where he helped coach...

Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced Tuesday that the club has signed forward Zach Magwood to a three-year, entry-level contract. Magwood, 20 (4/22/98), participated in the team’s 2018 Development Camp in Nashville, notching a hat trick in Friday’s Future Stars Game at Bridgestone Arena. He was fourth on the Ontario Hockey League’s Barrie Colts in points last season with 59 (27g-32a), his third campaign with the team. He set career highs in games played (65), goals (27), assists (32), points (59) and plus-minus (+27) at the OHL level and helped Barrie claim the Central Division...

The Nashville Sounds smashed three home runs and got 5 2/3 solid innings from Brett Anderson to beat the Omaha Storm Chasers 9-2 on Tuesday night at Werner Park. The Sounds ended their nine-game road trip with a 6-3 mark. The Sounds broke open the game with a five-run third inning against Glenn Sparkman. Nick Martini drilled an opposite-field two-run homer to left to make it 2-0 and move his consecutive games on-base streak to 63. Then Jake Smolinski doubled home Steve Lombardozzi, and Melvin Mercedes smashed a two-run single to make it 5-0. Martini’s home run moved his...

Coffee County Youth Wrestling will be sponsoring the 2018 Red Raider Wrestling Camp coming up on July 9th through the 13th.  The camp will run from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM each day at the Coffee County Raider Academy Gym.  The camp is open to boys and girls in grades K thru 8th grade for the upcoming school year.  Cost for the camp is $45 per wrestler and there is a sibling discount when signing up multiple family members.  Each camper will receive a free camp t-shirt. The camp will be led by wrestling coaches, CHS wrestlers and former...