For the third consecutive season, the Westwood soccer team claimed the Central Tennessee Soccer Conference regular season title and postseason title on Saturday.  The Rockets, unbeaten in conference play this year, faced their toughest challenge of the year on Saturday against St. Andrews.  Westwood got a late goal to capture the 1 to 0 win. Calling this a “rebuilding year”, Coach Jonathan Graf went into the season lacking a potential prolific scorer, inexperience at key positions and a brand new goal keeper; it appeared that Westwood’s run of conference titles was in serious jeopardy.  But do not tell that...

The Coffee County Middle softball won a pair of games on Saturday to once again advance to the CTC tournament finals on Tuesday.  The Lady Raiders opened the day with a 5 to 2 win over Warren County in the quarterfinals to advance to the winners’ bracket finals.  In that semifinal matchup, Coffee County edged North Franklin 2 to 1 to advance to Tuesday’s finals. Coming off Friday’s opening round win over South, Coffee County drew Warren County early Saturday afternoon.  After giving up a run in the top of the 1st inning, the Lady Raiders tied the game...

After a pair of heartbreaking losses on Friday, the Coffee County Lady Raider softball team bounced back on Saturday to grab a tie and a win in the final day of the Coffee County Classic.  In a pair of games you heard here on Thunder Radio, the Lady Raiders opened up on Saturday morning taking on Waverly.  Waverly hit a solo home run in the 7th inning to force one extra inning of play under the tournament format.  Neither team could score in the 8th ending the game in a 2 to 2 tie.  In the final game of...

The Coffee County CHS baseball team took out the frustrations of a 2 game losing streak on White County on Friday afternoon with a 12 to 1 defeat of the Warriors in Sparta.  The Red Raiders hammered out 12 hits, including a home run from Cade Giles, while holding White County to a single. Jacob Duncan was masterful on the hill for Coffee County with the 5 inning one-hitter.  After surrendering a first inning run on a walk and a single, Duncan went the distance striking out 4.  Giles finished the game with a single to go with his...

The Coffee County soccer team battled to a 3 to 3 draw with Smyrna on Friday in a non-district friendly at the Raider soccer field.  After jumping out to a 2 to 0 lead, Coffee County saw the Bulldogs rally to tie the match in the final 3 minutes of the 1st half.  Chase Harper got the first goal for the Raiders in the 7th minute on beautiful crossing pass from Paco Barrera.  Breyer Taylor made the score 2 to 0 in the 14th minute off a free kick from 20 yards out.  The goal ties Taylor with Ricky...

The blue line did it again. Ryan Ellis opened the scoring and Roman Josi finished it off as the Nashville Predators defeated the St. Louis Blues in Game Three by a 3-1 final on Sunday afternoon to take a 2-1 series lead. The win gives Nashville seven consecutive playoff victories at Bridgestone Arena, and after the Predators said they had more to give in Game Three, they kept their word. “I’ll be honest, it was good to get back home in front of our fans and in the building,” Nashville Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “It was awesome today....

Hosting your own softball tournament in the closing days of the high school regular season presents lots of challenges for Coffee County’s Steve Wilder.  Not to diminish the logistics of making sure fields are ready, teams are scheduled, workers are present; Wilder has the task of balancing the chore of winning versus making sure is team is healthy and rested for the final 3 regular season district games coming up this next week.  With that in mind on Friday, Coffee County fans saw varied lineups in the Lady Raiders 2 losses on Friday night.  Coffee opened the day with...

The Westwood soccer team advanced to their 4th straight CTSC conference tournament final on Friday night with a 3 to 0 win over Fayetteville.  The Rockets got a pair of goals in the first half to seize control of the matchup and Brody Todd was clean in goal to advance the Rockets to Saturday’s finals against St. Andrews. John Martinez opened the scoring with a goal in the 23rd minute on an assist from Angel Gonzalez.  Elliot Sain made it a 2 to 0 game at the half as he notched an unassisted goal in the 25th minute.  Sain...