The CCMS Track teams each got first place finishes on Thursday in McMinnville when they took on Warren Co and North Franklin at Nunley Stadium. The Lady Raiders tallied 64 points and the Red Raiders finished with 41 points on the day as each had strong performances in the field events and relays. Individual and Team medalists were: Girls Shot Put: Marissa Douglass – 1st, Marley Perry – 2nd Discus: Marissa Douglass – 1st, Marley Perry – 2nd High Jump: Julia Duncan – 1st Long Jump: Julia Duncan – 1st, Jenna Garretson – 3rd 4 x 100m: 2nd –...

The Westwood Lady Rockets and the Coffee County Middle School Lady Raider golf teams finished 1st and 2nd respectively on Thursday in a 4 team match at Bear Trace against North and South Franklin. Elizabeth Brown tied for low scorer honors as she carded a 64 for Westwood. Macie Lawrence finished with a 67 and Brayden Gray shot a 72. For Coffee County, Olivia Lewis shot a 75 and Olivia Howell carded a 76. For the boys, North Franklin had 4 golfers shoot sub-50 rounds to finish ahead of Westwood. Coffee County came in 3rd place. Westwood was paced...

The Coffee County Middle School softball team plated a couple of runs in the first inning but could not quell a Tullahoma rally in the 3rd inning as the Lady Raiders dropped a 3 to 2 decision to the Lady Cats in the regular season finale. Ashley Evans led off the 1st inning with a single and scored on an RBI triple from Sarah West. West scored on a groundout by Amanda Mukai to make the score 2 to 0 after 1 inning. In the 3rd, Tullahoma strung together 4 hits and an error to plate 3 runs as...

Tied at nil at the half, the Coffee County Middle School soccer team saw misfortune lend a hand in a 3 to 0 loss to Tullahoma on Thursday night at CCMS. The bad breaks started in 33rd minute as Tullahoma was awarded a penalty kick which they drilled home to break the scoring drought. 4 minutes later, Coffee County directed a Wildcat corner kick into the back of the Raider goal to give the visitors a 2 to 0 lead on the own goal. Tullahoma closed out the scoring in the 42nd minute when they took advantage of  a Red...

The Coffee County Central High School JV baseball team swept a doubleheader from Tullahoma on Thursday night by scores of 7 to 3 and 2 to 0. A.J. Rollman pitched Coffee County to the win in the opener and Carlos Medina pitched the shutout in the nightcap to give the JV Raiders their 5th win in a row this year over Tullahoma. The win is also the 7th for the JV Raiders in the last 8 meetings between the 2...

Bryce Harper hit a grand slam for his 100th career homer, while Wilson Ramos also went deep to support Stephen Strasburg as the Nationals defeated the winless Braves, 6-2, at Nationals Park on Thursday afternoon. Washington swept the four-game series and improved to 7-1. “I just saw the ball go over the fence,” Nationals manager Dusty Baker said of Harper’s first career slam, which Statcast™ estimated at 425 feet. “He was happy, we were happy to get that four-run lead. I didn’t know that was his first slam. I knew that was his 100th home run. We were just...

A four-run eighth inning by the Colorado Springs Sky Sox doomed the Nashville Sounds in a 7-5 loss Thursday night in front of 5,202 fans at First Tennessee Park. Nashville had a 5-3 lead when Andrew Triggs took over in the eighth. He struck out Hernan Perez to start the inning, but then allowed an infield single to Jake Elmore. Garin Cecchini followed with a base hit to put runners at first and second. Eric Young Jr. followed with a sharp ground ball just to the right of shortstop Tyler Ladendorf who bobbled the ball allowing all runners to...

The Motlow Bucks overcame an eight-run deficit and notched their third consecutive victory when they beat visiting Calhoun Community College 14-13 Tuesday afternoon at the Driver Baseball Complex. The Bucks (17-27, 4-14) swept the visiting Cumberland University JV 9-7, 15-4 on Sunday. Motlow will continue its home stand when Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA) rival Southwest Tennessee visits this weekend. The Bucks and Saluqis will play a nine-inning contest Friday at 2 p.m. and a pair of seven-inning games Saturday beginning at noon. Calhoun jumped out of the gate Tuesday, scoring three in the first, one in the...