Hosting their annual Coffee County Classic softball tournament on Friday and Saturday, the Coffee County Lady Raider softball team suffered through some inconsistencies going 1 and 2 on the tournament.  Playing 3 games on Saturday, Coffee County suffered losses to state tournament favorites Baylor and Forrest before defeating Culleoka in the final game of the day. Opening up against defending state champion Baylor, the Lady Raiders fell behind 6 to nothing after 3 innings.  Katie Rutledge took the 11 to 4 loss in the circle but led Coffee County in hitting with a double and 2 singles while driving...

A pair of losses on Friday and Saturday in the Duck River Valley Conference tournament ended the season for the Westwood softball team on Saturday.  With their best record in recent memory, the Lady Rockets claimed a regular season division title while compiling a record of 11-4-1. In Friday’s 2nd round matchup with Fayetteville, an 9 to 5 lead after 3 innings was not enough as the Tigers roared back with 5 unanswered runs to claim the 10 to 9 win.  Six Westwood errors led to 7 unearned runs for Fayetteville.  Brookelyn Blake, Paisley Campbell, Abby Clark and Brayden...

Five boats from the Coffee County Youth Bass Club traveled to Dayton, TN on Saturday to take part in the Battle of Chickamauga.  The Battle of Chickamauga is a state trail tournament event fishing out of Dayton on Chickamauga Lake. The brother tandem of Colby Thurmond & Braeden Thurmond were the top finishers for Coffee County as they caught 4 fish weighing 10.14 pounds to finish in 30th place.  Brothers Brandon and Dawson Wells finished in 47th place with 4 fish totaling 7.55 pounds.  Hunter Sanders and Blake Mangrum were 49th with 3 fish totaling 7.56 pounds and a...

The Coffee County Claybusters traveled to East Tennessee on Saturday for their biggest shoot of the year thus far.  Battling against more than 200 shooters in White Pine, TN, the Claybusters once again were the class of the field as they captured 5 of the 6 high overall shooters and a team title in the varsity team competition. The Varsity team of Hayden Jacobs, Tucker Carlton, Colter Smith, Zack Bonee and Austin Schaller won the varsity competition as they shot 477 of a possible 500 targets.  As individuals, Coffee County won both the high overall shooter for both male...

Opening play in the Duck River Valley Conference baseball tournament on Friday, the Westwood Rockets traveled to Murfreesboro to take on Middle Tennessee Christian.  Tied at 3 entering the bottom of the 7th, the home standing Cougars pushed across the winning run to drop the Rockets 4 to 3. Westwood jumped out to an early lead as they scored twice in the first inning.  Hits by Brady Nugent and Blake Hale got them on base as they came around to score to make it 2 to 0.  The Rockets added a run in the 7th to on an RBI...

The 100th Stanley Cup Playoff game in Predators’ history has a reason to be remembered. Kevin Fiala scored the winner in double overtime and the Nashville Predators defeated the Winnipeg Jets by a 5-4 final in Game 2 on Sunday night to even the series at one game apiece. It’s Nashville’s seventh postseason overtime win in club history, their third in multiple overtimes. A goal just 27 seconds into the contest was the perfect start for the Preds, and Fiala’s tally at 5:37 of double OT ensured this series will need at least five games as things shift to...

The Coffee County Central High School varsity tennis season came to a close on Friday in the district tournament at Sewanee.  Playing the district singles and doubles matches at the University of the South, a host of Friday morning wins were not enough to get any Raiders into Saturday’s semifinals and finals.  In the boys’ JV bracket, Tyler Rigney captured a pair of wins as he will represent the Raiders on Saturday in the JV singles tournament. In varsity action, both Lady Raider doubles teams advanced to Friday afternoon’s quarterfinals.  The teams of Jessica Barrera and Odalis Garcia fell...

Sometimes, a favorable effort doesn’t reflect in the final score. Game 1 was one of those nights. The Predators outshot the Jets by a 48-19 margin in the opening contest of their Round Two series, but it was Winnipeg netminder Connor Hellebuyck who made 47 saves to lead his team to a 4-1 win over Nashville on Friday night. It’s just the second time in their last six postseason series the Preds have dropped the opening game, a rare postseason loss on home ice. Nashville led in just about every category on the night, except where it mattered most....