The Lady Raider softball team won 5 straight games on Friday and Saturday to advance to the finals of the Cookeville Middle School tournament on Saturday. Coffee Middle, riding a 10 game winning streak ran out of gas in the finals as they fell to Mt. Juliet to finish the weekend at 5 and 1. Over the course of the tournament, the Lady Raiders claimed wins over Prescott, Overton, Upperman, and 2 wins over Warren County. Grace Pippenger was the hitting star of the week-end as she was 10 for 13 with a home run and a pair of...

The Coffee County Middle School tennis team held their inaugural tennis match on Friday in Lewisburg. The first year program struggled, as is expected for their first match. Luke Irwin provided the highlight of the day as he pushed his singles opponent to an exciting tiebreaker finish before falling to the more experienced Lewisburg team. The CCMS netters will host their 1st ever home match on Monday when they welcome Shelbyville to their home courts behind the Raider Academy. That match is set to begin at 4...

After getting a 4 to 3 win over McMinn County on Friday night in the Cleveland Classic, the CHS soccer team struggled to duplicate that offensive effort on Saturday as they dropped a 2 nil decision to Walker Valley on Saturday morning. In the nightcap against the host Raiders, Cleveland found the back of the net in the last 5 minutes to grab a 3 to 2 win. Paco Barrera and Breyer Taylor each had a pair of goals on the week-end for Coffee County. Chase Harper and Miguel Medoza also added tallies on Friday night while Taylor Walker,...

Four walks and 3 singles allowed Riverdale to plate 4 runs and knock off the CHS baseball team on Saturday evening in Murfreesboro. The Raiders scattered 5 hits around 5 walks offensively as they had runners in scoring position in 4 of the 7 innings.. Alan Rob scored on a Cade Giles ground out in the 4th inning for the Raiders lone run. Davis Green, who entered the game in relief in the 1st inning, pitched 5 2/3 inning of relief allowing no runs while striking out 4. The Raiders return to district play on Tuesday when they travel...

An 8 to 4 win over Station Camp during pool play of the Hendersonville Commando Classic turned out to be the highlight of a tough weekend for the Coffee County CHS Lady Raider softball team. Coffee County, who was 1 and 5 on the weekend, was eliminated in the first round of the tournament by eventual champion Maryville as UT commitment Caylan Arnold held the Lady Raiders hitless. Tori Bell was 2 for 2 against Station Camp as she led the Lady Raiders in hitting on the weekend going 4 for 10. Coach Steve Wilder was disappointed with his...

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Preds-Report-3-21-16.mp3 When Evgeny Kuznetsov goes behind the net, his linemates know they have to be ready. “I don’t think you get used to it,” said T.J. Oshie, who converted a passout from Kuznetsov into what proved to be the game-winning goal in the Washington Capitals’ 4-1 victory against the Nashville Predators at Verizon Center on Friday. “You try to get ready for it. But even when it does come, you kind of think to yourself, ‘How’d he just do that?’ I’ll take them every time.” Kuznetsov finished with three assists and has 53 for the...

Coming off a strong, but disheartening performance on Tuesday night, the Red Raider soccer team of Coffee County CHS got their first match win of the year on Thursday night with a 4 to 1 win over Community in Unionville.  Breyer Taylor had a pair of goals and an assist to lead the Red Raider attack.  Leo Botello headed in a corner kick from Taylor in the 8th minute to open the scoring and when Taylor scored unassisted at the 27th minute, Coffee County claimed a 2 to 0 halftime lead.  Taylor got his second goal in the 46th...