The Coffee County CHS Lady Raider basketball team will be hosting tryouts on Friday and Saturday for those female student athletes wanting to play basketball in the coming school year. Tryouts on Friday will be from 11 AM to 1 PM and tryouts on Saturday will be from 9 AM to 11 AM. Both tryouts will be held at CHS’ Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym. Those ladies wishing to tryout must have signed and completed Physical and Parental Consent forms with them when they arrive. That form can be downloaded at: http://tssaa.org/wp-content/uploads/Forms/med01.pdf The Lady Raiders will also be hosting...

The Nashville Soccer Club will host the Mississippi Brilla of the Premier Development League on Wednesday at the Vanderbilt Soccer Complex. The 7:30 PM game is a 3rd round matchup in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Tournament. The Nashville Soccer Club, of the United Soccer League, advanced to the 3rd round with a 2 nil win last Wednesday over Inter Nashville of the National Premier Soccer League. The U.S. Open Cup features a total of 94 participating teams from all levels of American soccer. The tournament uses a tiered bracket and eight rounds of single-elimination play until a...

The Nashville Sounds edged the Colorado Springs Sky Sox 4-2 Tuesday night after an hour and ten minute rain delay to start the game. Chris Bassitt had arguably his strongest outing of the season on the mound for the Sounds. He fanned two batters in each of his first three innings and finished his night with a season-high seven punch outs. In five innings of work allowed just one run on six hits. The Sounds took advantage of Sky Sox starter Corbin Burnes’ inability to find the strike zone in the fourth inning. Burnes walked BJ Boyd and Franklin...

Former Coffee County CHS golfer Megan Kriz tees off today in the NAIA National Championship tournament.  Kriz, a senior at Lindsey Wilson College, leads her Blue Raider golfers into the 2018 NAIA National Championship Tournament on Tuesday afternoon in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. The tournament is being held at PGA National’s par-72, 5,854-yard Champion Course. Lindsey Wilson is scheduled to tee off in the afternoon session on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. CT, followed by a 7:45 a.m. CT tee time on Wednesday for the second round. LWC is paired with Victoria (B.C.) and Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) for the first...

The Grundy County baseball team is headed to the TSSAA State Baseball Tournament this week.  The Yellow Jackets are coached by former Coffee County baseball coach Chase Jones.  Jones, who took over the Grundy County program in 2013, defeated Signal Mountain 4 to 2 on Friday in the Class AA Sectional to advance to the state tournament.  This will be the 4th appearance for Grundy County in the state tournament. This is the first appearance for Grundy County in the state tournament since 2004 when they finished in 4th place in Memphis.   Grundy County will open up tournament play...

Ramon Laureano put together a perfect night at the plate to lead the Nashville Sounds to a 5-4 win over the Colorado Springs Sky Sox in front of 6,321 fans at First Tennessee Park Monday night. The right fielder began the season on the disabled list after suffering an injury in spring training. Laureano hit a sacrifice fly in the second inning, singled and scored a run in the fourth, and belted a solo homer in the sixth. Laureano’s sacrifice fly opened the scoring and was quickly followed by Sheldon Neuse’s run-scoring double to give Nashville a 2-0 lead....

The Cinderella run for the Lady Raider softball team came to an end on Friday night in the sectional round of the TSSAA playoffs.  Coffee County was denied a 2nd straight state tournament appearance at the hands of Walker Valley before an overflow crowd at Terry Floyd Field.  A huge 7th inning rally by Walker Valley saw Coffee County fall by a final score of 8 to 5. In a game that was delayed 84 minutes due to a rain, each team got off to a solid start.  Walker Valley got on the board first with 2 runs in...

Five members of the Coffee County Middle School track team competed on Saturday in the TMSAA  state meet in Clarksville.  4 of the 5 brought home medals in the third year of the event. Ethan Welch led the Raider harriers as he medaled in the high jump and the discus.  Welch cleared a personal record of 5’6” in the high jump in finish in a tie for 1st place.  Welch also captured a 5th place medal in the discus as he had a throw of 116’ 04”. Marley Perry grabbed an 8th place medal in the shot put with...