The Westwood football team hosted the first home game of the season on Thursday night at Dyer-Bouldin Field.  In a game you heard on Thunder Radio, a strong 2nd half by Cascade nullified a fast start by Westwood as the Champions claimed a 32 to 20 win in the conference tilt. Westwood got off to an explosive start as Trenton Thompson scored on a 66 yard touchdown run on the first play of scrimmage and added the 2 point conversion to make it 8 to 0 with only 10 seconds elapsed in the game.  Cascade scored a pair of...

The Coffee County CHS volleyball team traveled to McMinnville on Thursday night for their first road test of the season.  Coming off an inconsistent performance against Shelbyville on Tuesday night, the young Lady Raider squad had no answers for the talented Lady Pioneers getting swept in 3 sets.  Coffee County lost by set scores of 12-25, 10-25 and 6-25. Coffee County was held to 6 kills and 3 aces as they could not get their offense going.  Keelie Hillis led Coffee County in blocks with 3 and kills with 2.  Alliyah Williams and Amanda Mukai tied for the team...

The Coffee County Middle School soccer team opened their season on Thursday night in McMinnville as they took on the Lady Pioneers of Warren County Middle School.  Warren County scored a goal in each half to drop the Lady Raiders by a final score of 2 to 1. Warren County scored first in the 15th minute and took that 1 to 0 lead into the half.  Coffee County’s Katie Cotten knotted the game at 1 in the 36th minute.  With 2 and a half minutes left, Warren County tallied the game winner. The Lady Raiders will return home on...

The Coffee County Middle School football team traveled to Cleveland on Thursday night for a non-conference game with Lake Forest Middle School.   Despite a pair of big plays by the Red Raiders, Coffee County could not overcome a scoring blitz by the Cleveland squad in the 2nd quarter as they built a 32 to 6 lead.  The Raiders fell by a final score of 53 to 14. After spotting Lake Forest an 8 to 0 lead early in the 2nd quarter, Ethan Baker returned the ensuing kickoff 65 yards but was denied the 2 point conversion to make the...

Ender Inciarte homered twice and the Braves launched four solo shots off Rockies rookie starter Jeff Hoffman in a 10-4 victory on Thursday at Coors Field. The result pushed the Rockies into a tie with the D-backs for the top National League Wild Card spot. Inciarte has hits in 19 of his last 20 games but hadn’t homered since July 19 before going deep to lead off the third and fifth innings. He improved his homer total to 10 — one more than his combined total of the previous two years — and helped the Braves earn a split...

Four-hit games from Franklin Barreto and Mark Canha helped the Nashville Sounds out-slug the Memphis Redbirds in an 11-8 win at AutoZone Park Thursday night. The pair combined to drive in seven runs and score five. Barreto finished a double shy of the cycle while Canha had a pair of doubles among his four knocks. Nashville never trailed as they jumped out to an early lead and built on it throughout the night. Barreto’s big game started in the third when he singled to right-center. He came around to score the game’s first run on Josh Phegley’s sacrifice fly....

The 2017 Red Raider football season opens on Friday night in Winchester as Coffee County travels to take on Franklin County.  Franklin County, under new head coach Mac McCurry, enters the season after a tie against Gallatin last week in a jamboree.  Emotions and optimism are sky high in Winchester and a big crowd is expected at the game. When asked what his team needed to do to get the win on Friday night, Coach Ryan Sulkowski had this to say during Wednesday night’s Ryan Sulkowski Show heard here on Thunder: http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Sulkowski-8-16-17.mp3 The Ryan Sulkowski Show is broadcast each...

The Westwood Middle School baseball team will be holding tryouts this Saturday at Fred Deadman Park’s Babe Ruth Field.  Interested student athletes who will be in grades 6 through 8 at Westwood this school year will need to try out.  Tryouts will begin at 10 AM and prospective players need to bring their own equipment.  If you need more information contact Coach Dustin Hereford at: dhereford@k12mcs.net...