Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Preds-Report-4-20-16.mp3 Frederik Andersen made 27 saves in his 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs debut, and the Anaheim Ducks defeated the Nashville Predators 3-0 in Game 3 of their Western Conference First Round series at Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday. Andersen earned his second career playoff shutout and has a 15-7 postseason record. He started Game 3 after the Predators won the first two games at Honda Center with John Gibson in goal for the Ducks. The Predators lead the best-of-7 series 2-1. Game 4 is Thursday in Nashville (8 p.m. ET; NHLN, FX-CA, TVA Sports 3, PRIME,...

Alex Wood’s bid for a memorable homecoming was undone by his inconsistent command and a suddenly vibrant offense that helped the rejuvenated Braves claim an 8-1 win over the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Turner Field. Tyler Flowers matched a career high with four hits and Jeff Francoeur notched his own multi-hit game for the Braves, who have won four straight since opening the season with nine consecutive losses. Flowers notched an RBI single in each of his three at-bats against Wood and Francoeur fueled a two-run first inning with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly. Wood, who spent most of...

For the 3rd year in a row, the Coffee County CHS Lady Raider Track team will have an athlete compete for the state pentathlon title as Sarah Pearson qualified on Monday at the sectional pentathlon held at Tullahoma. Pearson finished 2nd in the sectional out of 23 competitors. This will be her second straight year to advance to the state meet in the pentathlon. Teammate Karson Young finished in 3rd place and Diana Davis of Coffee County finished in 16th place. Pearson finished with 2708 points as she recorded a personal record in the 100M hurdles at 16.54 seconds....

After spotting the Lady Falcons of Lincoln County a 2 run lead, Coffee County came roaring back to get a huge District 8AAA win on Monday in Fayetteville by a final score or 4 to 2.  Lincoln County crushed the third pitch of the bottom of the first inning over the center field fence for a home run and a 1 to 0 lead.  They tacked on an unearned run in the 2nd inning before Coffee County could finally push a run across in the 4th inning.  Kasarah Scheller drove home Haley Hindshaw in the 4th as the Raiders...

The Coffee County Red Raider baseball team could not generate any offense on Monday night against nationally ranked McCallie as they lost 4 to 0 at Powers Field. The Raiders got another strong pitching performance from Davis Green as he pitched 6 innings allowing 2 earned runs on 4 hits. Bradley King came on in the 7th inning for Coffee County as his defense surrendered 2 unearned runs. Coffee County was held to 4 singles and a double on the night. Jacob Langham, Gavin Husted, Alan Rob and DeAndre Wakefield all had singles while Cade Giles rapped a double...

The bats of Coffee County Middle School woke up in a big way on Monday as the Red Raiders hit 3 home runs in route to an 8 to 3 win over South Franklin in the opening round of the CTC Tournament at Warren County. Hayden Skipper was 3 for 3 on the night with a homer and 3 RBI while Brandon Jernigan was 2 for 3 with 2 home runs and 4 RBI. Garrett Davis and Trey Rogers each added singles for the Raiders. Jernigan, Skipper and Davis combined to pitch a 1 hitter as each stayed under...

Holding the White County Warriorettes to only 4 hits while banging out 13 hits of their own was the way the Coffee County Middle School Lady Raider softball wanted to open the CTC Tournament on Monday at their home field with a 15 to 1 win over the visitors from Sparta. After taking a couple of heartbreaking losses last week to Tullahoma, the Lady Raiders hammered their way to a Tuesday rematch with the Lady Cats in the 2nd round of the tournament. Coffee County got a pair of doubles and a single with 3 runs scored from Sarah...

The tennis teams of Coffee County Central High School got a pair of sweeps on Monday night in Winchester against Franklin County. For the Lady Raiders, Maddie Taylor, Ali Shelton, Makayla Morgan, Kayla Wright and Anna Harrell all got singles wins while the doubles teams of Taylor/Shelton and Morgan/Wright won in doubles. For the Red Raiders, Jared Hu, Travor Ivey-Bodman, Shilp Patel, Reid Lawrence and Grey Riddle all won in singles play while the doubles teams of Patel/Ivey-Bodman and Riddle/Lawrence were victorious. The wins move the records of both teams to 6 and 5 on the season. Coffee County...