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CHS Soccer Season Comes to a Heartbreaking End
For the 2nd consecutive year, the Tullahoma soccer team ended the Red Raiders season in the semifinals of the district tournament on the Raiders’ home pitch. Tullahoma used a goal in the 60th minute to break a 2 to 2 halftime tie and advance to Friday’s District 8AAA finals with the 3 to 2 win over Coffee County. Coffee County got off to a great start as they controlled the play in the middle of the field in the opening minutes. John Parigger put Coffee County on top 1 to 0 in the 19th minute off an assist from...
CCMS Track Sees Title Streak Come to an End
Streaks are made to be broken. Unfortunately, that is not a friendly adage to the Coffee County Middle School track teams as the Raiders and Lady Raiders each failed to finish in the top 2 teams at the CTC Conference Track Meet on Wednesday at Carden-Jarrell Field. The Lady Raiders saw their string of 4 straight conference titles broken as they finished in 7th place. The Raiders saw their string of 6 straight Top 2 finishes come to an end as they finished in 5th place. North captured the girls’ title with South winning the boys’ crown. Traditionally, Coach...
Middle School Golf Season Comes to a Close
The middle school golf season came to a close on Wednesday in the conference postseason tournament at Tullahoma’s Lakewood Country Club. Using the Junior PGA team scramble format for scoring, the Westwood Rockets finished the tournament in a tie with Tullahoma for 3rd place with 7 ½ flags. The Coffee County Middle School finished in 6th place with 3 flags. Liberty won the tournament with 10...
Freeman, Adonis Homer, but Braves Fall
Carlos Correa’s two-run double, the first of his two extra-base hits on the day, keyed a three-run fifth inning and lifted the Astros to a 4-2 win over the Braves on Wednesday. By winning both games of the two-game set at Minute Maid Park, the Astros (23-11) are off to their best 34-game start since the franchise began in 1962. “We have what, 34, almost 35 games now?” Correa said. “I don’t think we need any more tests. We’re very confident and playing really good baseball. I think we have a great team, and we’re going to be able...
CHS Baseball Season Comes to a Close
The clock finally struck midnight on the Cinderella season for the Coffee County CHS baseball team at Franklin County on Tuesday. The Red Raiders came up one rally short as they fell 6 to 4 to Franklin County in the losers’ bracket of District 8AAA tournament. After rallying from deficits of 3 to 0 and 4 to 3, a 9th inning rally by Franklin County ended the Raiders’ season. Tied at 4 in the bottom of the 6th inning, Coffee County left the bases loaded in their best opportunity to avoid extra innings. The Red Raiders also got runners...
Lady Raider Softball Falls in District Tournament; Set to Play Wednesday
In spite of a good start, the Coffee County Lady Raider softball team fell in the winners’ bracket finals to Lawrence County on Tuesday night in the District 8AAA softball tournament. A 2 run first inning lead was not enough to hold off the Lady Cats on their home field as Coffee County fell by a final score of 8 to 4. Coffee County struck first in the bottom of the first inning after Haley Hinshaw was hit by a pitch and scored on a triple by Raven Rogers. Rogers scored on a sacrifice fly by Katie Rutledge. Lawrence...
Two CCMS Track Athletes Qualify for State Meet
The Coffee County Middle School track teams qualified 2 athletes for the state meet at the TMSAA Sub-Sectional track meet which concluded on Monday at Riverdale. Lexie Hosea and Macy Tabor qualified for the TMSAA State Meet which will be held on Saturday, May 20th at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville. Tabor will compete in the high jump while Hosea will compete in the discus. Both Lady Raiders qualified on Wednesday of last week in the first day of the Sub-Sectional meet. Wednesday was reserved for field events. Thursday’s running events were pushed back to Monday due to...
Westwood Tennis Concludes Season at St. Andrews
The Westwood tennis team traveled to Sewanee on Tuesday for a rematch with St. Andrews. The match was the final match of the year for Westwood. The Rockets and Lady Rockets captured a pair of wins on May 1st at home. On Tuesday, with several players missing, the Rockets and Lady Rockets fell in their matches with the Mountain Lions. The Lady Rockets fell 3 to 2 in their match. Westwood got a win in singles from Lauren Perry. The doubles team of Perry and Callie Roper won their doubles’ match. The Rockets lost 4 to 1. Braeden Massicotte...
