As 2016 draws to a close, Thunder Radio Sports looks back at some of the highlights of the calendar year for each of the 12 prep sports.  Today we look back at a highlight from the prep cross country teams.  The Westwood Middle School cross country teams had another phenomenal year in their 3rd year of existence as both boys and girls teams swept most of the local meets in which they competed.  One such sweep occurred on September 20th in the season ending meet at Fayetteville where both Rockets teams were dominant. Thunder Radio reported on their success...

The Los Angeles Kings scored three times in the third period on their way to a 4-0 win over the Nashville Predators on Thursday night at Bridgestone Arena. The result moves Nashville’s overall record to 15-13-5, including a 0-2-1 mark in their last three at home. Nashville generated plenty of chances through the first 40 minutes, registering 21 shots and finding themselves down 1-0 on a first-period goal from the Kings. Two goals in nine seconds from Los Angeles in the third was all the Kings needed to pull away and collect their second victory over the Preds this...

The ability to slow down the East Hamilton Hurricanes high tempo attack and a huge second half comeback lifted Coffee County to the tournament title of the Red Raider Invitational on Wednesday night.  Trailing by 7 points entering the 4th quarter, the Red Raiders played nearly flawless basketball in the 4th quarter to rally for the 66 to 59 win before an electric crowd at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym. Coffee County was a perfect 9 for 9 at the free throw line in the 4th quarter as they outscored the favored Hurricanes 26 to 12 in the...

The Coffee County Swim team gained another state qualifier on Thursday night as they closed out the team competition portion of their season at LaVergne. Kaylee Williams posted a state qualifying time in the 500M freestyle. In the team competitions, both the Red Raiders and Lady Raiders finished in 3rd place for the meet behind LaVergne and Stewarts Creek. The Raiders and Lady Raiders finish the team portion of the season with identical 4 and 7 records and the combined team finished at 4 and 7 as well. In the girls’ team relays, the 200M Medley relay team of...

As 2016 draws to a close, Thunder Radio Sports looks back at some of the highlights of the calendar year for each of the 12 prep sports. Today we look back at a highlight from the Coffee County swim teams. One of the biggest meets of the year for the Raider swimmers took place on January 29th and 30th as the high school and middle school swimmers competed in region meets at Nashville. Thunder Radio reported on their success with the following story we published on Monday, February 1st. The Coffee County Middle School and High School swim teams...

A late run midway through the 2nd half lifted the Red Raider basketball team to a 53 to 40 win over Red Bank on Tuesday night in Day #2 of the Red Raider Invitational.  Coffee County outscored the Lions 22 to 2 during an 8 and a half minute span to turn a 3 point deficit into a 17 point lead.  The win advances Coffee County to Wednesday night’s championship game against East Hamilton. In other games on Tuesday, Beech defeated Franklin County 67 to 59.  Community held off Grundy County 56 to 51 and East Hamilton raced past...

A pair of Westwood Middle School basketball players were named to the Duck River Valley All Conference team last week.  The all-conference teams for 2016 were announced at the conclusion of the DRVC Tournament on Saturday at Cascade.    Eighth graders Cruz Pitsinos for the Rockets and Valarie Barger for the Lady Rockets were selected for their season’s performance for Westwood. Pitsinos, who transferred in to Westwood this past summer, was a guard and forward for the Rockets this season.  Cruz averaged 8 points a game for the Rockets this season while dishing out an average of 4 assists per...