Westwood split a home basketball double header with Harris Tuesday night – games you heard live on Thunder Radio as part of the Capstar Bank Hometown Sports Series. The Lady Rockets got double-digit performances from Audri Patton (18), and Reece Finch (15) in a dominating 54-9 win over the Eaglettes. Jules Ferrell added 8 points. The win improves the Lady Rockets to a perfect 5-0 on the year. Meanwhile, the Rockets stayed close with the powerful Eagles for a half but fell off the pace and lost 58-40 to fall to 0-3 on the year. Matthew White turned in...

They’ll play it in perpetuity, whenever Atlantans assemble to remember the good times. They’ll play it in the reel with David Justice’s game-winner and Sid Bream’s slide. They’ll play it with the peace of knowing that, unlike so many moments of hope in their city’s tortured sports history, it did not come undone in the aftermath. What they’ll see is Jorge Soler, dropping his bat, turning to his teammates and smacking his chest as the ball he’d just belted sailed over the railroad tracks that line Minute Maid Park’s outermost edge. They’ll watch that indelible image from World Series Game...

Coffee County Central High School soccer season has been completed for a couple of weeks now, but a few postseason honors have trickled in. Senior goalkeeper Lucy Riddle was named First Team All-Region. Meanwhile, junior forward Katie Cotten was named Second Team All-Region. Both Riddle and Cotten were also All-District Selections. Lucy RiddleKatie...

Justin Kanjanabout, right, celebrates a Coffee Middle School touchdown during the 2021 season. Kanjanabout has been named the new Westwood football coach. Westwood now has a new head football coach for the first time in 18 years. Justin Kanjanabout has been named the new coach of the Westwood Rockets – replacing Chad Dyer, who retired from coaching football after 18 seasons at the helm. The name Kanjanabout should sound familiar to area football fans. He was a standout running back at Coffee County Central High School and most recently has served as offensive coordinator for Coffee Middle School –...

North made a couple of runs at the lead but Coffee County Middle’s Lady Raiders kept their distance, eventually pulling away for a 47-34 win Monday night in Manchester – a game you heard live on Thunder Radio as part of the Capstar Bank Hometown Sports Series. (click here to listen to the broadcast replay) The Lady Raiders led 24-15 at the half and 38-21 after three quarters. North closed the gap in the fourth quarter but the Lady Raiders maintained control behind Ella Arnold and her 17 points, along with Natalie Barnes’ 16 points. Jaydee Nogodula pitched in...

Titans running back Derrick Henry will undergo foot surgery on Tuesday and there is no timetable for his return, Titans coach Mike Vrabel said on Monday. Henry suffered the injury in Sunday’s 34-31 overtime win over the Indianapolis Colts. “Derrick is going to have surgery in the morning,” Vrabel told reporters today at Saint Thomas Sports Park. “We are not going to put a timeline on when he may return. I know that he’ll do everything that he can to work himself back, to be able to help this football team. And whenever that is, that’s when it will...

YOU CAN HEAR THE BRAVES ON THUNDER RADIO. YOUR EXCLUSIVE HOME FOR ATLANTA BRAVES BASEBALL IN COFFEE COUNTY. Clinching the World Series with a second straight bullpen game wasn’t going to be easy. The approach had worked in Game 4 to inch the Braves one win away from a championship, but they ran into a heavy-hitting Astros lineup in Sunday night’s Game 5. “That’s just a lot of innings to cover against a club like this that swings a bat so well,” Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said following the 9-5 loss at Truist Park. “The good news is, we’ll take a...

All eyes are on the Central High School football team this week as the Red Raiders return to the playoffs for the first time since 2017. But in the background – winter sports are lurking and preparing. The Coffee County Central Red Raider and Lady Raider basketball teams will have their first official team practices on Monday, Nov. 1 in preparation for the Nov. 19 opener against Moore County. The Lady Raiders are coming off a 28-2 season – returning all but one starter. Meanwhile, the Raiders made the deepest postseason run in program history last winter. Everyone is...