A 5 to 2 loss to Oakland in the title game spoiled the championship run of the Coffee County Middle School softball team as they finished as runner-up in the Greenbrier Invitational on Saturday. The Lady Raiders marched through the first 3 games of the day displaying a knock for timely hitting, strong defense and effective pitching. In the title game, Oakland held the Lady Raiders to 2 hits. Keelie Hillis and Gracie Pippenger each had a single and also reached base via a walk. Kiya Ferrell had a pair of walks and scored one of the Lady Raider...

A clean sweep of all 7 girls’ matches and a thrilling come from behind win by the boys lifted the Coffee County Central High School tennis team to a crucial district sweep in Lawrence County on Friday.  Trailing 3 to 2 after the singles matches, the Red Raiders got doubles wins from the teams of Shlip Patel/Trevor Ivy-Bodman(8-5) and Grey Riddle/Jared Hu(8-5) to grab the 4-3 match win.  Hu and Riddle also had singles wins.  The win improves the Red Raiders to 4 and 4 overall and 2 and 3 in District 8AAA play.  Coffee County can qualify for the...

A pair of 7th inning rallies by their opponents were enough to hand the Red Raider baseball team a pair of losses on Saturday at Powers Field in the Franklin County Rebel Classic. Coffee County built a 6 to 2 lead in the opener against McMinn County only to see the visiting Cherokees rally for 2 runs in the 4th inning and 3 in the 7th to drop Coffee County 8 to 7. The Raiders banged out 9 hits including a 2 run home run from Deandre Wakefield and a 3 for 5 performance from Jacob Langham. Noah Anderson finished...

A 3 to 1 win over Lincoln County on Sunday gave the Westwood Rockets soccer team a 3rd place finish in the silver bracket at this weekend’s Red Raider Invitational. Westwood got a first half goal from Lukas Workman on an assist from Eric Randolph as they went to the half tied at 1. Eliot Sain and Felix Salinas netted second half goals as Salinas also got an assist. The Rockets missed out of competing in the Gold bracket when they had both of their pool play matches on Saturday end in draws. In Saturday’s opener, a controversial “hand...

Leading 3 to 2 in the 2nd half, it appeared that the Coffee County Middle School soccer team would open up the Red Raider Invitational with a win over Whitworth-Buchanan.  The Yellow Jackets from Rutherford County had other ideas as they roared back with a pair of late goals to steal the win.  Coach Kenny Lockhart called the game “our most complete performance of the year.”  The Red Raiders got goals from Marcos Garcia and Aiden Abellano and also got a goal on a Yellow Jacket “own goal” caused by the pressure of Gilberto Infante.  The Raiders did not...

The Coffee County Middle School tennis teams came up just short in their bid to upset St. Andrew’s on Friday in Sewanee. The Lady Raiders battled to a 4 to 4 tie, while the Red Raiders dropped the final doubles match of the day to fall 4 to 3. For the Lady Raiders, Jayda Wright, Anna Amado and Macy Brown all captured singles wins while the doubles team of Lindsey Couble and Alexis Clark captured a 6-3 win. For the Red Raiders, Luke Irwin and Jaden Talley got singles wins while Irwin teamed with Joseph Sadler for a win...

The Westwood Lady Rockets were held to 1 hit and 3 walks on Friday as the Viqueens of Community defeated Westwood 15 to 0 in middle school softball action. Faith Willoughby had the lone hit for the Lady Rockets. Hallie Wimberley, Talia Dillard and Madison Hershman all got on base via the walk. Hershman added a stolen base for Westwood. The Lady Rockets will host their final home game of the season on Tuesday when they welcome Cannon County to Lady Rocket Field. First pitch will take place at 4:30...

Jeremy Hazelbaker and Stephen Piscotty recorded consecutive RBI singles to cap the two-out, eighth-inning rally the Cardinals produced before piling on in the ninth inning to complete a three-game sweep of the winless Braves with a 12-7 victory on Sunday afternoon at Turner Field. Right-handed reliever Jim Johnson retired the first two batters he faced in the eighth, and then he allowed each of the next four hitters to reach safely. After Matt Carpenter was hit by a pitch to put runners at first and second, Hazelbaker and Piscotty snuck their consecutive singles through the infield to extend the...