The Coffee County Raider and Lady Raider basketball teams welcomed Warren County to the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym on Tuesday night as they opened the 2018 portion of their season.  Both teams were looking to avenge losses from December 5th in McMinnville to Warren County.  The Lady Raiders avenged their only loss of the season in a 49 to 31 win while the Red Raiders came up short in a 62 to 53 loss. After falling behind early in the first matchup, Coffee County raced out to a 17 to 4 first quarter lead as they throttled the...

As 2017 has drawn to a close, Thunder Radio Sports looks back at some of the highlights of the calendar year for each of the 40 prep teams we follow and report on.  Today we look back at the year for the Coffee County Central High School Lady Raider basketball team.  The highlight of the year 2017 came in February as the Red Raiders captured their 20th win of last season over Grundy County.  This was the first Red Raider basketball team to notch 20 wins since 1977. Thunder Radio reported on the milestone win in a story we...

As 2017 has drawn to a close, Thunder Radio Sports looks back at some of the highlights of the calendar year for each of the 40 prep teams we follow and report on.  Today we look back at the year for the Coffee County Central High School Lady Raider basketball team.  The highlight of the year 2017 may well have been their performance at the Whitwell Christmas Tournament last week as the Lady Raiders went 3 and 0 and captured the tournament title. Thunder Radio reported on their championship win over Red Bank in a story we published on...

Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves and the Nashville Predators fell to the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 on Tuesday night at T-Mobile Arena. The result in Nashville’s first game of 2018 sees it remain at the 51-point mark, five behind the Golden Knights for tops in the Western Conference. Vegas used their speed throughout the night and showed why they’re at the top of the West standings, capitalizing twice in the second period and holding the Preds off the scoresheet. “I think at times in the game we played really well, and other times not so much,” Preds defenseman Ryan...

As 2017 has drawn to a close, Thunder Radio Sports looks back at some of the highlights of the calendar year for each of the 40 prep teams we follow and report on.  Today we look back at the year for the Coffee County Middle School Lady Raider basketball team.  While the Lady Raiders are currently in the middle of the season, the highlight for the calendar year came last January.  The Lady Raiders completed a 3 game stretch in 3 days culminating in a 5 overtime loss to Blackman in the TMSAA Sub-Sectional game at CCMS. Thunder Radio...

As 2017 has drawn to a close, Thunder Radio Sports looks back at some of the highlights of the calendar year for each of the 40 prep teams we follow and report on.  Today we look back at the year for the Coffee County Central High School wrestling team.  While the Raider grapplers are currently in the middle of the season, the highlight for the calendar year came last January when 3 Coffee County wrestlers medaled at the Goodpasture Invitational Tournament, including a pair of gold medals by Rein Bozich and Owen Teague. Thunder Radio reported on their tournament...

As 2017 has drawn to a close, Thunder Radio Sports looks back at some of the highlights of the calendar year for each of the 40 prep teams we follow and report on.  Today we look back at the year for the Coffee County Middle School Lady Raider basketball team.  While the Red Raiders are currently in the middle of the season, the highlight for the calendar year came last January as the Red Raiders closed out the regular season with a 4 game winning streak ending with a solid win over Harris in Shelbyville. Thunder Radio reported on...