The Lady Raider softball team of Coffee County CHS was held to 4 hits against Forrest as they fell 4 to 2 in the opening round of the Lincoln County Border Battle in Fayetteville. Forrest jumped out to a 3 to 0 lead in the first 2 innings before Tori Bell rapped a solo home run to lead off the bottom of the 2nd. Kasarah Scheller led off the bottom of the 5th inning with a double and scored on Katie Rutledge’s infield single but time expired after 5 innings to quell the Raider comeback. In the nightcap, Paige...

Four goals by Breyer Taylor lifted the Coffee County Red Raider soccer team to an 8 to 0 win over Lawrence County on Friday night in high school soccer action. Taylor notched goals in the 20th minute, on an assist from Ben Reid, and the 30th minute, on an assist from Leo Botello. Ethan Hickman found the back on the net in the 35th minute on a through ball from Reid to close out the scoring in the 1st half. Leading 3 nil at the half, Coffee County got 5 goals from 4 different players in the 2nd half...

Grant Sadler pitched 6 strong innings as the Coffee County Red Raider JV baseball team opened play in the Rebel Classic JV Tournament with an 8 to 3 win over Central Magnet. The Red Raiders touched up the Tigers pitching for 8 hits as A.J. Rollman was 3 for 3 at the plate to lead the hitting attack. Not to be outdone, the Raider defense also stepped up big with a pair of inning-ending double plays with the bases loaded to preserve the win. The Raiders are back in action on Saturday when they play at Lincoln County at...

Curtis Granderson homered twice, including a grand slam, to drive in five runs and Matt Harvey got his first win of the season as the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 6-3 on Friday night. Granderson’s sixth career grand slam was a line-drive shot he pulled into the right-field seats off Bud Norris (1-3) in the second inning. Granderson had three hits, including another homer off Norris in the fourth, giving him four on the season. New York has 21 homers in its last seven games — the most in a seven-game span in franchise history, according to...

The Colorado Springs Sky Sox sent the Nashville Sounds to a heart-breaking 8-7 loss in walk-off fashion Friday night at Security Service Field. Multiple late leads were not enough for the Sounds as Manny Pina’s one-out single in the ninth scored Michael Reed with the winning run. The Sounds held a 5-1 lead in the eighth inning, and then went up 7-5 in the top of the ninth only to see both leads vanish. Max Muncy belted a two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to break a 5-5 tie. The home run for Muncy came just...

For a 1st year tennis program, the Coffee County Middle School tennis teams have shown considerable growth and improvement this season. On Thursday, the Raider netters braved the impending rain as they traveled to “The Mountain” to take on St. Andrew’s-Sewanee. Holding a 3 to 1 lead after the singles matches, the Lady Raiders could not get the match winner in doubles as they settled for a 3 to 3 tie with the Lady Lions. Jayda Wright(by a score of 6 to 4), Alise Clark(6-1) and Anna Amado(4-2) all snagged singles wins in the match. The Raiders battled a...

Southern Illinois pitcher Brianna Jones was one of 26 players announced as a finalist for the Schutt Sports / NFCA Division I National Freshman of the Year award. Jones leads all freshmen nationally with nine shutouts this season, and her 18 wins rank third nationally among freshmen. The award will be presented prior to the start of the 2016 NCAA Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, Okla. Jones, a Manchester, Tenn., native, ranks among the best freshmen pitchers nationally. Among freshmen, she ranks first nationally in shutouts, third in wins, fourth in ERA (min. 100 innings), sixth in...

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Preds-Report-4-22-16.mp3 After the Nashville Predators took away two games on the road, the Anaheim Ducks have done the same. With a 4-1 victory in Game Four on Thursday night, the Ducks have evened the series at 2-2 after winning both games at Bridgestone Arena. The Preds felt better about their overall effort on Thursday night, compared to Game Three, but the desired results still weren’t there. “There were parts of that game where we were playing good, the crowd was in it and we were feeling good about our game; they came back, responded with...