The Coffee County Middle School softball welcomed North Franklin to the CCMS diamond on Thursday.  The Lady Raiders hosted the Lady Gators in a conference game originally scheduled for March 20th.  The Lady Raiders saw the visiting Lady Gators score 4 runs in the 6th inning to capture the 10 to 7 extra inning win over Coffee Middle. The Lady Raiders needed 3 runs in the bottom of the 5th inning to force extra innings.  North struck for 2 runs in the top of the first inning and added 2 more in the 4th and 2 more in the...

The Westwood baseball team traveled to Chapel Hill on Thursday night for a conference match with Forrest.  Facing off against the traditionally strong Forrest squad, Westwood hoped to break their 3 game losing streak.  Despite an early 4 to 1 lead, Westwood fell to the Chapel Hill Rockets 14 to 4. A pair of runs in the 1st inning staked Westwood to an early 2 to nothing lead.  Brady Nugent and Luke Beachboard earned walks and came around to score Westwood’s 1st inning runs.  In the 2nd inning, leadoff walks to Trey Brewer and Jonathan Nelson turned into the...

The Coffee County Central High School soccer team will be hosting their annual Red Raider Invitational Middle School Tournament on Saturday at the Raider Academy.  The tournament will feature 11 teams from 7 different middle Tennessee counties.  The tournament will guarantee each team 3 games with champions being crowned in 3 divisions. The action will get underway at 8 AM on Saturday morning and the Coffee County Middle School soccer team will face Prescott Middle School from Cookeville in the opening round game.  That match will take place on the football field at Carden-Jarrell Field.  Westwood will hit the...

In a span of 15 minutes, the Nashville Predators set a flurry of franchise firsts, each more impressive than the last. The Preds’ 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals on Thursday night gave Nashville their first Central Division title in franchise history. The two points also bestowed a regular-season Western Conference crown on the Predators. The final horn at Capital One Arena didn’t sound the end of the tension, however, as the team then ran to the locker room to view the closing moments of the Boston Bruins and Florida Panthers game on their phones. A Jared McCann goal...

The Nashville Sounds got 16 hits from the offense and five shutout innings from starter James Naile in an 11-0 rout over the New Orleans Baby Cakes on Opening Day. Every member of the starting lineup had at least one hit for Nashville. Dustin Fowler went 3-for-5 to lead six different Sounds players with a multi-hit game. Mark Canha got the offense rolling when he launched a solo home run to lead off the second inning. It was one of two homers Nashville would hit on the night. Second baseman Franklin Barreto gave the Sounds a 3-0 lead in...

For the second night in a row, the Red Raider bats were held in check as Coffee County fell to hated rival Tullahoma on Wednesday night at Powers Field.  The Red Raiders were held to a pair of hits and committed 3 critical errors as they fell to the Wildcats 6 to 2.  The loss drops the Red Raiders record to 9 and 5 overall and 5 and 3 in district play. Neither team could score in the first 4 innings, but Tullahoma was able to get runners on in 3 of the first 4 frames.  The Wildcats broke...

Coffee County Central High School senior basketball player Alliyah Williams signed a letter of intent to continue her basketball career at the college level.  Williams accepted a scholarship offer from Martin Methodist in a ceremony at CHS last month.  Williams, a 4 year starter for the Lady Raider basketball team, will join her sister Aerial at the Pulaski university who is attending as a volleyball scholar-athlete. Coach Joe Pat Cope mentioned the versatility of Williams as the strength of her game. “Alliyah will be a great asset to Martin Methodist.  She can play inside or outside and is very...