The Coffee County CHS soccer team held their annual awards banquet to celebrate a successful 2017 season.  Coffee County is coming off a regular season district championship.  The highlights of the season included a perfect district record, a Coffee Cup victory and a 10 game unbeaten streak. Breyer Taylor also broke the career goal scoring record as he broke the previous record held by Rickey Ramirez.  Taylor was named the team Most Valuable Player.  Other award winners were: Moises Ramirez – Raider Award; Briggs Haithcock – Midfielder of the Year; Felix Salinas –  Freshman of the Year;  Ben Reid...

The Coffee County tennis teams hosted their annual awards banquet on Monday.  The banquet recognized the Red Raider and Lady Raider tennis programs who celebrated a successful 2017 season.  The season was highlighted by a boys’ team which advanced to the district finals in team competition.  The team of Reid Lawrence and Grey Riddle won the district doubles title and advanced to the region doubles tournament.  Freshman Joseph Sadler was runner-up in the district singles tournament and also advanced to the region singles tournament.   At the banquet, senior Kayla Wright was awarded the 2017 Coaches Award....

A little less than 24 hours after blowing a ninth-inning lead, the Pirates staged a ninth-inning rally against a thin Braves bullpen, then added seven more runs in the 10th inning to cruise to a 12-5 win on Wednesday night at SunTrust Park. After Gift Ngoepe’s go-ahead RBI double and Josh Harrison’s two-run single, David Freese, Jose Osuna and Jordy Mercer hit back-to-back-to-back homers off right-hander Josh Collmenter. “Just considering where we’ve been at so far to this point of the season, it’s nice to know that guys are still going up there battling,” Harrison said. “We’re not quitting...

The cool weather cooled off the Sounds bats but they found other ways to score on a soggy night at First Tennesse Park. Patience at the plate, savvy base running, and dominant pitching were part of the Sounds’ recipe for success in their 4-0 shutout of the Omaha Storm Chasers. The shutout for the Sounds was their second straight and third in the past six games. Nashville is 4-2 in shutout games this season. Paul Blackburn became the fourth straight Sounds starter to record a scoreless outing, extending the rotation’s stretch to 29.0 consecutive scoreless frames. Blackburn lasted a...

Coffee County senior baseball player Cade Giles accepted a college scholarship on Tuesday to play college baseball at Chattanooga State. Giles will attend the Chattanooga community college in the fall. Giles, who was named the District 8AAA Most Valuable Player this season, is expected to compete for the starting job at 3rd base for the Tigers. When asked what attracted him Chattanooga State, Giles was quick to point out that there is “a level of competition in all their practices and workouts.” Giles also loved the campus and the facilities. Furthermore, the relative close distance from home was a...

There is a recent trend of winning sweeping through Music City and Tuesday night was no different. Daniel Mengden was superb and the offense put on another show as the Sounds trounced the Omaha Storm Chasers 10-0. It was the third shutout in five games for the Sounds. Mengden’s dominant performance followed suit with what Jharel Cotton and Daniel Gossett had done the previous two nights. The 24-year-old hurled seven shutout innings to extend the Sounds’ season long streak of 22 consecutive scoreless innings from the starting pitchers. The previous high was 20 1/3 innings. Mengden surrendered just three...

After hitting a hurdle in her first pentathlon event, then scratching on her first 2 long jumps, Sarah Pearson saw herself in next to last place at Monday’s TSSAA state pentathlon.  But the junior, in her 3rd trip to the state pentathlon, was able to handle the pressure and rally in the final 3 events to capture a Top 10 finish.  Pearson ended up setting season best marks in the high jump, shot put and 800M to finish in 10th place. Coach Nathan Wanuch was proud of Pearson commending her for “fighting valiantly through injuries.”  He went on to say,...