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Westwood Soccer Battles to a Draw with Tullahoma on Friday
A goal by the Tullahoma Middle School soccer team in the final minute ended the 60 minute battle with Westwood in a draw at 3 on Friday night at Dyer-Bouldin Field. The Wildcats scored a pair of goals just before the halftime horn and the final horn including the deciding odd man rush in the 60th minute. In the first half, the Wildcats got on the board first on a corner kick in the 17th minute. Leo Suarez leveled the score in the 27th minute and Felix Salinas add a goal one minute later on a feed from Leo...
CHS Soccer Opens Gulf Shores Tournament on Friday with Loss
The Coffee County Central High School soccer opened play in the Gulf Shores Classic on Friday afternoon taking on Florence, Alabama in a game that saw all the scoring take place in the first 15 minutes. Florence used a pair of first half goals to drop the Raiders 2 to 1. After a quick Florence goal in the 2nd minute, the Raiders answered in the 9th minute when Paco Babrrera scored off an assist from Breyer Taylor. Florence added a goal off a corner kick at the 15th minute and kept the Raiders at bay on the sloppy pitch....
Sharks Come from Behind to Top Preds in Shootout
Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Preds-Report-4-04-16.mp3 Tomas Hertl scored twice in the third period as the San Jose Sharks rallied to beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday night at Bridgestone Arena. The result gives the Preds, who clinched a playoff spot on Friday night, 92 points overall on the season. After scoring the game’s first two goals, Nashville squandered the lead in the third, ultimately leading to San Jose’s come-from-behind win. “They’re a good team, and they played well,” center Ryan Johansen said. “Two tough bounces for us, but that’s the way it goes sometimes against...
Preds Unable to Keep Pace in Loss to Penguins
Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Preds-Report-4-01-16.mp3 The Nashville Predators weren’t able to keep pace and fell 5-2 to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday evening at Consol Energy Center. The loss was Nashville’s third consecutive defeat, keeping them at 39 wins and 91 points on the season. “Tonight, we had the effects of four games in six nights,” Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “We didn’t have the jump and the pop that we needed in order to execute. Everything was a little bit slow; our puck movement, forecheck, faceoffs, everything was just off a bit.” Phil Kessel gave Pittsburgh a 1-0...
Lady Raiders Rally for Huge District Win on Wednesday
In a game that was charged with emotion and drama, the Coffee County Lady Raider softball team had the composure to rally and beat the Lincoln County Lady Falcons 5 to 3 at Terry Floyd Field on Wednesday night. Coffee County scored single runs in the 2nd and 4th innings in a game that featured multiple arguments and highly charged emotions on both sides of the backstop. Starting pitcher Kaylee Skipper of Coffee County got the win as she scattered 6 hits and had 3 strikeouts. Skipper gutted out the complete game victory despite taking a line drive off...
Late Red Raider Rally Falls Short in Lawrenceburg
A late rally, featuring a pair of home runs, was not enough on Wednesday night for the Coffee County Central High School baseball team to pull off the upset of district leading Lawrence County as the Red Raiders fell 6 to 4. The Raiders fell behind in the 1st inning as the home standing Wildcats roughed up Coffee County starter Wyatt Day for 3 walks, 3 errors and 2 hits putting the Raiders in a 5 to 0 hole. Lawrence County added an insurance run in the 4th before the Raiders could answer on the scoreboard. After loading the...
CCMS Raider Baseball Blasts South Franklin on Tuesday NIght
A four run 5th inning for the Coffee County Middle School baseball team lifted the Raiders to an 11 to 1 revenge win over the South Franklin Trojans on Tuesday night at CCMS. Brandon Jernigan tossed a complete game 2 hitter and hammered a 2 run home run for his 2nd home run of the season to key the victory and a spilt in the season series. Jernigan finished the night with 2 hits and 3 RBI at the plate and 7 strikeouts from the mound. Griffin Meeker was 3 for 4 on the night with a pair of...
Eight Run Inning Leads Lady Raider Softball to Rout of Columbia
Leading by 1 run entering the bottom of the 6th inning on Tuesday night, the Coffee County Lady Raider softball team banged out 7 hits to plate 8 runs and coast to a 14 to 6 win over the Columbia Lady Lions. The Lady Raiders looked like they were gonna breeze to an easy win after plating 5 runs in the 1st inning as Raven Rogers again led off with a triple followed by 3 doubles for Coffee County. But 4 Coffee County errors, including 2 in the 2nd inning, allowed 4 unearned runs to score for the Lady Lions....
