The Westwood softball team played host to Liberty on Thursday afternoon at Lady Rocket Field.  The Lady Rockets were attempting to end a 3 game losing streak in their final home game of the year.  Westwood banged out 9 hits in the game but could only produce one run as they fell 7 to 1 to the Lady Patriots. Haidyn Campbell led the hit parade with 3 hits including a triple.  Kaitlyn Davis finished with a single and a double and scored the lone Westwood run.  Westwood will return to the diamond next week in the conference tournament in Shelbyville...

The Westwood baseball played the final regular season game of the season when they traveled to Wartrace to take on Cascade.  The Rockets battled back and forth with the Champions before falling by a final score of 7 to 6. After taking a 2 to 0 lead in the first inning, Westwood saw Cascade tie the game in the bottom of the inning.  Each team scored once in the 2nd before Cascade pushed 3 runs across in the 4th inning.  Westwood was able to tie the game in the 5th inning, but Cascade got the game winner in the...

Pekka Rinne made 29 saves, Viktor Arvidsson scored in the first period and the Nashville Predators beat the Chicago Blackhawks 1-0 on Thursday night in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series. Rinne’s second career postseason shutout sent Nashville to just its second playoff win in Chicago in seven tries. The Predators did not have a 1-0 victory during the regular season. Game 2 is Saturday night at the United Center. Corey Crawford had 19 saves for Chicago, which got center Artem Anisimov back from a leg injury that sidelined him for the last part of the season, but...

The Nashville Sounds’ bats remained silent for the second consecutive night as they were defeated 8-1 by the Oklahoma City Dodgers. The Sounds lit up the scoreboard in the eighth inning to snap a streak of 16 consecutive innings without scoring a run. Justin Masterson (1-0, 2.25) was masterful on the mound for the Dodgers (4-4). The Sounds (3-5) had no answer for the 32-year-old who gave up just two hits in five innings of work and fanned five batters on just 69 pitches. The Dodgers opened the scoring in the second inning off Zach Neal (0-1, 4.15) when...

Trailing 4 to 0 after 2 ½ innings of play, Coffee County head baseball coach David Martin met his team coming off the field.  It is safe to say that whatever he said in the huddle was the perfect antidote for the Raiders’ early game woes.  The Red Raiders scored 3 runs in the 3rd to close the gap to 1, tied the game in the 4th and drove in the winning run in the 6th to prevail over Columbia 5 to 4 on Wednesday night at Powers Field. In a game you heard here on Thunder, Coffee County...

The team of Braeden and Colby Thurmond captured an 11th place finish on Saturday at the Tennessee B.A.S.S High School Trail event in Camden, Tennessee on Kentucky Lake.  The Thurmond’s were the lone team from the Coffee County Youth Bass Club competing on Saturday in the field of 92 boats.  For their Top 12 finish, they came home with a scholarship prize of $78.  The brother team landed a stringer of 5 fish weighing in at 10.01 pounds with a big fish weighing in at 2.9 pounds. Their finish also keeps them in the Top 20 in the Bass...