Facing their 3rd straight tough matchup, the Coffee County CHS volleyball team welcomed the Columbia Lady Lions to the Joe Frank Patch on Tuesday night for a pivotal district matchup. In a match heard here on Thunder Radio, the Lady Raiders battled back from an early deficit to claim a 5 set win over Columbia. The Lady Raiders won by set scores of 26-24, 17-25, 21-25, 25-23 and 15-12. Coffee County had to rally from a 5 point deficit in the first set to take that initial set and that seemed to wake up the Lady Lions. Columbia kept...

The Coffee County Lady Raider soccer team traveled to McMinnville to take on Warren County on Tuesday and came home with a 4 to 0 win. The Lady Raiders outshot the Lady Pioneers 19 to 5 on the match as they controlled play for the majority of the game. Caitlyn Moore opened the scoring for Coffee County as she scored in the 15th minute on an assist from Allie Amado. Jenna Garretson rattled home a rebound in front of the net in the 38th minute to give the Lady Raiders a 2 to 0 halftime lead. Moore added an...

The Coffee County Middle School soccer teams stepped out of conference action on Tuesday as they played host to Algood at the CCMS pitch. A Reagan Ellison hat trick lifted the Lady Raiders to a 5 to 2 win. Ellison got the scoring started for Coffee County as she notched an unassisted goal in the 5th minute. Algood leveled the score in the 10th minute before Kyleigh Harner put the Lady Raiders back on top 2 minutes later with her own unassisted goal. The Lady Raiders took that 2 to 1 advantage into the intermission. Ellison added goals in the...

The Coffee County Middle School volleyball hosted South Lincoln on Tuesday night in a non-conference volleyball match at the Coffee County Middle School gym. In a hard fought battle, the Lady Raiders showed their grit and determination to claw out a straight set win. After winning the first set 25 to 20, Coffee County had to battle South Lincoln point for point before winning the second set 32 to 30. Maci Head led the Lady Raiders in kills with 4 and aces with 3. The Lady Raiders travel to Decherd on Thursday to take on North Franklin in a...

Despite a 4 touchdown performance from Marshall Haney, the Coffee County Middle School Red Raider football team fell on Tuesday night in Shelbyville 50 to 28 to the Harris Eagles. The Raiders grabbed an early lead but three scores by Harris in the second quarter and another touchdown at the start of the second half put the Raiders in a deficit from which they could not recover. Coffee County took the opening drive of the game down the field as Haney carried the ball over for the touchdown. The missed extra point left the score 6 to 0. Harris...

The Westwood soccer team stepped out of conference on Tuesday for a match in Winchester with South Franklin. South Franklin used a goal late in the first half to power them to a 3 to 0 win over the Lady Rockets. Westwood keeper Alana Coker stopped 11 shots in the first half, but a South Franklin goal in the 27th minute put the Lady Rockets in a 1 to 0 halftime hole. South added goals in the 39th and 42nd minutes to hand the Lady Rockets their 2nd straight loss. Westwood’s record now stands at 1 and 2 on...

Along with distancing himself from the nagging ailments that hampered him over the past two months, Julio Teheran fueled the five-run third inning that soured Edwin Jackson’s homecoming and propelled the Braves to a 7-3 win over the Padres on Tuesday night at Turner Field. Teheran scattered six hits, surrendered two runs and notched eight strikeouts over seven innings en route to his first home win of the season. The All-Star hurler aided his best start in more than a month by opening the five-run third with a double — one of the six hits Jackson surrendered in the...

Daniel Gossett tossed seven strong innings and the Nashville Sounds drilled three home runs in an 8-2 win over the Iowa Cubs in front of 6,384 fans Tuesday night at First Tennessee Park. Fresh off a promotion from Double-A Midland, Gossett allowed two runs on six hits in his Sounds (82-56) and Triple-A debut. He retired eight of the final nine batters he faced and threw 91 pitches on the night. After falling behind 1-0 in the top of the second inning, Nashville blasted three homers to back Gossett’s performance. Matt Chapman, Matt Olson and Bryan Anderson all homered...