The Nashville Sounds used a familiar mix of dominant pitching and the long ball in a 4-1 win over the New Orleans Baby Cakes in front of 7,853 fans at First Tennessee Park Friday night. The Nashville Sounds used a familiar mix of dominant pitching and the long ball in a 4-1 win over the New Orleans Baby Cakes in front of 7,853 fans at First Tennessee Park Friday night. Sounds (8-11) starter Paul Blackburn cruised through five shutout innings and was backed by home runs from Mark Canha and Matt Olson in his first win of the season....

The Red Raider soccer team welcomed old rival Tullahoma to the Raider Soccer Field on Thursday night.  Coffee County entered the game having locked up the regular season district title, but wanted to finish the season with a perfect district record.  The Raiders were also looking to retain the Coffee Cup trophy for the 3rd consecutive year.  Coffee County used a pair of goals early in the 2nd half to pull away for the 4 to 1 win. Coffee County jumped out to a 1 goal lead in the John Parigger netted an unassisted goal in the 37th minute...

The Coffee County CHS softball team opened play in the Coffee County Classic on Thursday evening with a split against Cascade and Gibbs at Terry Floyd Field.  The Lady Raiders also celebrated Senior Night as they honored seniors Tori Bell, Haley Hinshaw, Kaylee Skipper and Ashlynn Morton prior to the Cascade game.  In a pair of games decided in the final half inning, Coffee County beat Cascade 3 to 2 before losing to Gibbs 8 to 6. In the opener, the Lady Raiders bounced back from a one hit, shut out loss a week ago to the Lady Champions...

Attempting to exercise the demons of an extra inning loss at the hands of Tullahoma on Wednesday, the Central High School baseball traveled to Lewisburg to take on Marshall County.   The Red Raiders were held to 2 hits on the game as they fell 7 to 1 to the Tigers in the non-district game. Marshall County jumped on Coffee County in the first inning using a walk, an error and 2 hits to score the game’s first 2 runs.  Coffee County rallied in the 3rd to score a run as Jacob Duncan led off the inning by reaching n...

The Coffee County Middle School tennis traveled to Sewanee on Thursday to tangle with St. Andrew’s. Both teams were looking to keep their unbeaten records in tact as they crossed rackets with the Mountain Lions. Both Raider teams not only got wins in the match, but both came home with sweeps. The Lady Raiders won their match 7 to 0 winning 6 singles matches and a doubles match. In singles play Coffee County got wins from Sydney Bell(6-2), Jayda Wright(6-3), Marley Perry(6-0), Anna Amado(6-0), Lucy Riddle(6-0) and Wren Lawson(6-1). Coffee County also won the lone doubles match as Bell...

The Westwood baseball team’s season came to a close on Thursday with an 11 to 1 loss to Fayetteville in the elimination bracket of the Duck River Valley Conference tournament.   Fayetteville erupted for 7 runs in the 3rd inning to capture the win. Westwood was held to 5 hits in the loss.  Brett Jones scored the lone Westwood run as he got on base in the 5th inning and was driven in on an groundout by Brady Nugent.  Trent Thompson finished the game with 2 hits. The Rockets will end the season with a final record of 7 and...

Looking for their 2nd straight wins, the Westwood Middle and Coffee County Middle School golf team traveled to Bear Trace on Thursday to take on North and South respectively.  The Coffee County team was able to scratch out a 6 ½ to 2 ½ win over South.  The Westwood linksters fell to North by a score of 5 to 4. Coffee County got a sweep from the team of Chance Hancock, Bennett Williams and Olivia Lewis which is good for 3 points.  The team of Caleb Jarrell, Keegan Grubbs & Natalie Shawl earned 2 ½ points.  The team of...

Landing at LaGuardia Airport this week with a six-game losing streak in tow, the Braves needed something to jolt them out of their recent malaise — and quickly. The Mets gave it to them in the form of their own miserable week, which included a pair of defeats and the losses of their two biggest stars. Starting in place of injured pitcher Noah Syndergaard, Matt Harvey gave up a season-high six runs — including a game-breaking three-run homer to Kurt Suzuki — in Atlanta’s 7-5 win over the Mets. Superstar Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes also departed in the fourth...