The Coffee County Middle School baseball team held their annual awards banquet on Monday night at the Manchester/Coffee County Conference Center. Ten varsity awards and five JV awards were presented on the evening. Red Raider coaches Brock Freeze and Reid Wolfe presided over the night’s activities. Varsity Award winners are: Offensive MVP Award: Kyle Farless Defensive MVP Award: Braxton White Team MVP Award: Trey Rogers King of the Hill Award: Griffin Meeker and Braden Brown Red Raider Award: Nic Watkins Silver Slugger Award: Hayden Hullett Compete, Battle, and Win Award (OBP): Lane Spry Play of the Year Award: Tanner...

Carlos Correa and Carlos Beltran slugged back-to-back homers to cap a five-run first inning against Bartolo Colon, and Josh Reddick took him deep in the fifth to send the Astros to their seventh win in nine games, 8-3, over the Braves on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park. The Astros improved to 22-11, which ties the 1973 team for best start in club history. Colon (1-4) fell behind 5-0 before recording an out, but he came back to send down 13 of the next 14 batters faced. Reddick hit a home run — the 100th of his career —...

The El Paso Chihuahuas scored a pair of runs in the ninth inning to grab an 8-6 win over the Nashville Sounds, spoiling Bark in the Park Night in front of 8,691 humans and 500+ dogs at First Tennessee Park Tuesday night. Nashville (13-16) scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the eighth to even the game at 6-6 only to see El Paso do the exact same in the ninth to steal a series-clinching win. Reliever Ross Detwiler started the top of the ninth for the Sounds and got two quick outs before yielding a walk...

Facing elimination on Monday night, the Red Raiders faced off against Lawrence County in the loser’s bracket of the District 8AAA baseball tournament.  After the Red Raiders saw a bad 4th and 5th inning put them in a 5 to 1 hole, it appeared that the season was over with 9 outs remaining.  But Coffee County rallied to get a walk off win on a single from AJ Rollman to capture a 6 to 5 victory. Trailing by 4 entering the bottom of the 5th inning, Coffee County chipped away at the Wildcats lead getting a single run in...

The Coffee County Youth Bass Club completed their club tournament spring season on Saturday with a tournament on Tims Ford. The tournament also brought to an end the 2017 season as club champions and runner-ups were crowned. For the tournament, the team of Hunter Sanders and Brayden Majors captured first place as they landed a stringer weighing in at 13.44 pounds. Majors also won the big fish honors as he landed a 3.52 pound largemouth. Standings for the tournament were as follows: 1st: Hunter Sanders/Brayden Majors 13.44lbs 2nd: Blake Mangrum 8.07lbs 3rd: Hunter Haley/Garrett Fellers 5.20lbs 4th: Issac Turner/Cam...

The Coffee County Middle School golf team welcomed Tullahoma to Willowbrook on Monday. The match was the final regular season match of season. The Raider team was only able to capture 1 ½ flags out of a possible 12 to fall to the talented Tullahoma squad. The Raider team of Logan Hale and Chase Hancock got all the points for Coffee County. Coffee Middle and Westwood will be back in action on Wednesday when they travel to Tullahoma for the CTC conference tournament. Tee time is set for 9...

Another late comeback attempt fell short for the Nashville Sounds in a 5-4 loss to the El Paso Chihuahuas in front of 5,943 fans at First Tennessee Park Monday night. Renato Nuñez belted a three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to pull the Sounds within a run, but that’s where the game ended up. Nashville put three runners on after the home run but failed to score. Matt Chapman singled but was caught stealing moments later. After two more reached safely, Ryan LaMarre struck out to end the threat. Franklin Barreto started the ninth with a...

Playing perhaps their most complete game of the season, the Coffee County Lady Raiders opened District 8AAA tournament play with an 8 to 0 win over Shelbyville on Sunday. Coffee County, who struggled with Shelbyville in their last meeting on Wednesday, played error free softball while Kaylee Skipper pitched a 3 hit shutout to get the win. The Lady Raiders got off to a hot start in the tournament game played at Lawrence County. Skipper retired the Eaglettes in order in the top of the first before Coffee County plated 4 runs in the bottom of the inning; all...