Fighting frigidly cold temperatures, the Coffee County CHS tennis team ran into a red hot Lincoln County squad in Fayetteville.  The Raiders and Lady Raiders each fell behind 4 to 1 in singles play nullifying the need to contest the doubles matches. The Lady Raiders got their lone win from Wren Lawson who fought to a 9 to 7 win in the tiebreaker.  The Lady Raiders are now 3 and 4 in district play and 5 and 4 overall. The Red Raiders captured their lone win from Jonah Rollman as he won his match 8 to 2.  The Red...

Nathan MacKinnon scored twice to lead the Colorado Avalanche to a 5-3 win over the Nashville Predators in Game 3 of their Round One series on Monday night at the Pepsi Center. The result cuts Nashville’s series lead to a 2-1 margin and sees their 12-game overall win streak against the Avalanche come to an end. Skating in their first playoff game at home in four seasons, the Avs jumped on the Preds early and rode the energy to a three-goal first period. Nashville’s effort eventually got better, and they put three past Jonathan Bernier before the end of...

The Nashville Sounds walked off on the Omaha Storm Chasers with a 5-4 win when BJ Boyd scored from third on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth on Monday. The win gave the Sounds a 5-2 homestand at First Tennessee Park. Boyd played a huge role in the comeback win Monday afternoon. With the Sounds trailing 4-1 in the bottom of the seventh inning, the left fielder cleared the bases with a three-run double to draw even at 4-4. Boyd finished 2-for-5 and drove in seven runs in the four-game series against Omaha. The ninth began...

For the 2nd time in a week, teams from Coffee County Middle School and Westwood Middle met in an athletic contest. This battle took place at Fred Deadman Park as the Rocket and Raider tennis teams squared off on Friday. In a battle best described as a tie, each team won a match. The Lady Raiders edged the Lady Rockets 4 to 3 while the Rockets raced past the Red Raiders 7 to 0. The Lady Raiders captured a 4 to 3 win thanks to a win in doubles play. The Raider doubles team of Paige Meadows and Mallie...

The Lady Raider softball team traveled to Bowling Green, Kentucky on Friday night for a tripleheader in the Greenwood Tournament. The Lady Raiders opened up strong as they squared off against the tournament host Greenwood. The Lady Raiders used a 5 run 1st inning to capture a 6 to 3 win over the Lady Gators.  Keri Munn led Lady Raiders to victory in the circle as she allowed six hits and three runs over five innings, walking one.  She also had an RBI triple in the first inning.  Kasarah Scheller had a pair of singles and an RBI. In...

A 3 run home run in the first inning sealed the fate of the Coffee County CHS baseball team last night as they fell to Marshall County 4 to 2.  The contest, played at South Pittsburg, was the opening game for the Red Raiders in the Grundy County tournament. The 3 run first inning, plus a single run in the 3rd inning, put the Raiders in a 4 to 0 hole.  Coffee County scored single runs in the 5th and 6th innings but could not catch the Tigers. Nathanial Tate led the Raiders in hitting with 2 singles and...

The Nashville Sounds collected a pair of wins Sunday as they defeated the Omaha Storm Chasers 14-7 in the resumption of Saturday’s suspended game and 1-0 in the regularly scheduled game. With the bases loaded and no outs in the bottom of the seventh inning in a scoreless game, Dustin Garneau hit a laser to left field to walk-off in game two. Game two was a pitcher’s duel between James Naile for the Sounds and former A’s farmhand Heath Fillmyer for the Storm Chasers. Fillmyer hurled 5 1/3 scoreless innings while allowing just three singles. Naile was locked in...