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Alontae Taylor Selected for East-West All-Star Game
Coffee County senior football player Alontae Taylor has been selected to participate in the 2017 Toyota East-West All-Star game. The game features the best high school seniors from across Tennessee competing against one another. The game will take place in Clarksville at Austin Peay State University’s Fortera Stadium on Saturday, December 8, 2017. Taylor was selected to the East squad as a wide receiver. Matt Williams of Smyrna will serve as head coach for the East squad. In advance of the game, athletes will arrive in Clarksville on Tuesday, December 5 for daily practices. These are free and open...
Lady Bucks Win Home Opener in Near-Record Fashion
The Motlow Lady Bucks scored the second most points in program history, and won by the second largest margin ever, when they hosted and beat the Martin Methodist College JV 111-49 at Copperweld Arena Wednesday night. Motlow then dropped a heartbreaking 77-76 decision to TCCAA rival Volunteer State on Saturday in Gallatin. The Lady Bucks (1-3, 0-3) will now prepare to travel during the holiday weekend. The first destination is Florida, where Motlow will play Florida State College of Jacksonville at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. After the Thanksgiving holiday, the Lady Bucks will head to Americus, Georgia, where they...
CHS Basketball Sweeps Grundy County in Home Opener
The CHS basketball teams hosted old rival Grundy County on Monday night in their first home game of the season. Once again using a strong defensive performance, each Raider team got victories in front of a pre-holiday crowd at the Joe Frank Patch Gym. The Lady Raiders came away with a 53 to 46 victory while the Red Raiders prevailed 73 to 50. The Lady Raiders had their hands full with a hot shooting, scrappy Lady Jackets team. Trailing by 7 points with 4:26 left in the 2nd quarter, the Lady Raiders turned up the defensive pressure to close...
CCMS Basketball Sweeps East Tullahoma on Monday Night
The Coffee County Middle School basketball team welcomed conference rival East Tullahoma to the CCMS Gym on Monday night. In their final game before Thanksgiving, the Lady Raiders and Red Raiders swept the visiting Panthers. The Lady Raiders got a 50 to 17 win while the Red Raiders clawed their way to a 41 to 39 decision. The Lady Raiders led from wire to wire in the blowout win. Coffee County held East to 6 first half points as they took a 29 to 6 lead into intermission. Marley Perry led the Lady Raiders in scoring with 16 points,...
Ekholm Scores in Fourth Straight, Preds Top Jets
Mattias Ekholm set a franchise record, and the Nashville Predators defeated the Winnipeg Jets by a 5-3 final on Monday night at Bridgestone Arena. The win is Nashville’s second consecutive victory and their fifth win in their last seven tries over Winnipeg. After a first period that saw the score even at 1-1, the Preds exploded for three goals in the middle frame and added another in the third to score at least four times for the fifth consecutive game. Against a Winnipeg team that now only sits one point ahead of Nashville for second place in the Central...
Raider Basketball Teams Sweep Cascade on Friday Night
A pair of dominating defensive efforts lifted the Lady Raider and Red Raider basketball teams to a pair of wins over Cascade on Friday night. Playing in the Hall of Champions tournament at Franklin County High School, Coffee County’s basketball teams improved to 2 and 0 on the season. The Lady Raiders won by a score of 71 to 31 and the Red Raiders captured a 77 to 44 win. The Lady Raiders got 13 steals in the first half as they jumped on Cascade for a 47 to 16 halftime lead on their way to the win. While...
Temple Basketball Competes in Cleveland Tournament
A young Temple Baptist Christian School basketball team traveled to Cleveland over the weekend to take part in the Shenandoah Baptist Academy tournament. The Eagles were winless in 4 contests as they took on their toughest competition of the season. The temple varsity squad played 2 games on Friday night and 2 games on Saturday morning. Temple opened play on Friday as they dropped a 42 to 22 decision to the host school Shenandoah. Junior Cody Swayze led the Eagles in scoring with 18 points. Alex Gloden added 3. After a short break, Temple took on Christ’s Legacy. Tied...
Coffee County Youth Basketball League Update – 18Nov2017
The Coffee County elementary basketball league was in action on Saturday with a slate of 12 games. The league had their last games before the Thanksgiving break as they will take off this coming Saturday. Six schools were in action as College Street had the week off. Girls’ Results East Coffee edged Hillsboro – 14 to 13 New Union bested Deerfield – 35 to 16 North Coffee topped Westwood – 32 to 14 Boys’ Results Hillsboro beat East Coffee – 27 to 8 Deerfield got past New Union – 23 to 14 Westwood rolled up North Coffee – 28...
