Playing their 1st home game since January 9th, the Raider and Lady Raider basketball teams welcomed Franklin County to The Patch on Tuesday night for a district doubleheader.  The Lady Raiders won their 6th straight game 61 to 45.  The Red Raiders broke their 4 game district losing streak with a 64 to 44 victory. In a physical girls’ game, Coffee County was able to limit the turnovers in the 2nd half to build a 7 point halftime lead into 20 points in the 4th quarter.   The Lady Raiders guaranteed a berth in the region tournament with the win...

The Coffee County Claybusters were back in action on Saturday for an AIM shooting event at Big Springs in Christiana.  In the Junior Division, Class A&B; the Claybusters #1 team won their classification over Riverdale.  In the Sub-Junior Division, the Claybusters got a clean sweep as the Claybusters #2 team beat out the Claybusters #3 team for the title. In the Junior Division, Austin Schaller of Coffee County won the individual title shattering 96 clay targets out of 100.    Alexus Stacey won the Lady Shooter title as she hit 96 targets out of 100.  In the sub-juniors, Tucker...

One year after welcoming Bartolo Colon and R.A. Dickey to Spring Training, the Braves open their camp to a multitude of highly touted prospects, many of whom were not yet born when the aforementioned former Cy Young Award winners began their respective careers. Youth will certainly garner much of the focus, as the Braves will welcome eight of their Top 10 prospects, including each of their top four, to their big league Spring Training this year. Seven of those players rank among MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 prospects and the other — Cristian Pache — just missed being placed on...

Ryan Johansen tied it, Roman Josi ended it. Johansen scored with 42 second to play in regulation before Josi won it in overtime, as the Nashville Predators came back to defeat the New York Islanders by a 5-4 final on Monday night at Barclays Center. It’s Nashville’s third consecutive victory, and the first time they’ve come back to win a game this season when trailing after two periods of play. The Predators entered the third period down 4-3, but several monstrous saves from Pekka Rinne kept Nashville in it, and then sustained pressure with the goaltender pulled in the...

The NHL Department of Player Safety announced Predators winger Filip Forsberg will be suspended three games for his hit on Rangers forward Jimmy Vesey. The Department said Forsberg delivered a “late, high hit causing an injury” to Vesey during Saturday’s game. Watch the full video explaining the reasoning behind the suspension by visiting the link...

Playing their 7th straight road game, the Raider and Lady Raider basketball teams traveled to Tullahoma on Friday night for a district doubleheader.  Both teams held 6 game winning streaks in the rivalry with the Wildcats.  The Lady Raiders improved that streak to 7 games with a 53 to 44 win.  The Red Raiders saw their streak come to an end in a 35 to 31 defeat. The Lady Raiders jumped out to a 9 to 0 lead on Tullahoma in the first quarter to set the tone for the game.  Coffee County was able to build a 13...

Kevin Fiala scored twice and the Nashville Predators defeated the New York Rangers by a 5-2 final on Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena. It’s Nashville’s second consecutive victory, giving them points in 10 of their last 11 outings and putting them just two points out of the Central Division lead with three games in hand. Much like Thursday’s blasting of the Los Angeles Kings, the Preds put up five goals again and fed off the energy of the sold-out Bridgestone Arena crowd – with a record-setting 17,543 fans in attendance. And almost all of them went out into the...

Head Coach Janice Morey enters her third season at the helm of the Motlow Lady Bucks with five returning sophomores, one transfer sophomore, and 12 freshmen on her 2018 softball roster. The Lady Bucks will open the season Tuesday, Feb. 6, with a 1 p.m. doubleheader against Northeast Mississippi in Booneville, Miss. Following a trip to Meridian, Miss., and a conference-opening road trip to defending champion Chattanooga State, Motlow will play its first home game on Tuesday, Mar. 6, against visiting non-conference opponent Calhoun from Decatur, Ala. Morey will lean on her returning sophomores heavily to provide leadership and...