The Westwood Rockets baseball team kept a very strong Middle Tennessee Christian squad in check for 6 full innings before falling 6 to 0 on Friday night at Fred Deadman Park. The Rockets held MTCS to 3 runs in the first 6 innings before the Cougars strung together 3 hits, coupled with a Westwood error, to plate 3 runs in the top of the 7th inning. That error was the lone blemish for the Rockets defense on the night as Westwood turned 2 double plays, picked a runner off of 2nd base and caught a runner stealing. Offensively, Westwood...

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Preds-Report-3-14-16.mp3 All good things must eventually come to an end. The Nashville Predators fell 4-2 to the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night at Rogers Arena, seeing their franchise-record, 14-game point streak come to a close. Nashville’s streak of 13 consecutive road games with at least a point also ended with the loss. “Tonight, there’s no question we didn’t play very well in the first period, and we were slow to get off the mark,” Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “The second and third period we took over the game, but they got a bounce off...

The Tennessee Area 13 Special Olympics, Lower Cumberland Region has a pair of events coming up and the public is encouraged to get involved. There will be a chili cookoff on Wednesday, March 23rd at Prater’s BBQ with all proceeds going to Area 13 Special Olympics. Contestants’ entry fee is $10 and folks can sample the chili for $5. For more information, you can visit the Coffee Coaches Show Facebook page. The Area 13 Summer Games will be contested on Thursday, April 28th at Tullahoma High School. As always, volunteers are needed. If you would like to donate your...

The Motlow Bucks have played eight of their first 13 dates on the road during the first half of the baseball season and will continue that trend this weekend when they travel to Columbia to face Tennessee Community College Athletic Association (TCCAA) rival Columbia State. The Bucks (9-14, 1-2) will take on the Chargers (8-8, 1-2) after winning one of three games in their opening TCCAA series against Jackson State last weekend. After losing the nine-inning opener 16-15 and dropping the first game of Sunday’s doubleheader 9-3, the Bucks stormed back and won the series finale 11-2. Historically, Columbia...

The Westwood Lady Rockets struggled defensively against the strong short game from Moore County on Wednesday night falling 16 to 1 to the Raiderettes in the Duck River Valley Conference game in Lynchburg. After threatening in the top of the 1st inning and 2nd inning, and getting a strong defensive effort in the bottom of the 1st inning, it looked like the young Westwood team was poised for the upset. However, Moore County was able to get runners on base and force some Lady Rocket errors in the bottom of the 2nd inning to race to the win. Westwood,...

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Preds-Report-3-10-16.mp3   Anthony Bitetto and Mike Fisher scored in the third period, and the Nashville Predators battled back to salvage a point following a 3-2 overtime loss to the Calgary Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome. The result gives the Predators at least a point in 14 consecutive contests, adding to the franchise-record streak. It’s been exactly one month since the club last lost a game in regulation. “That was a gutsy effort by our guys,” Head Coach Peter Laviolette said. “We battled back on the road, down two goals; it’s not really going your way, but...

The Coffee County Middle School softball team collected some revenge on Tuesday night at home as they dumped Warren County 4 to 2 in a rematch of Monday’s conference loss in McMinnville. After spotting the Lady Pioneers 2 runs in the 1st inning, 6th grader Hannah Richardson shut down Warren County the rest of the way surrendering only 3 hits on the night. Coffee County tied the score in the bottom of the first on a double by Ashley Evans and a triple by Sarah West, The Lady Raiders were able to notch single runs in the 2nd and...

Facing their toughest conference challenge of the season, the Westwood Rocket soccer team responded to the challenge in a big way with a 6 to 0 win over Fayetteville on Tuesday night at Dyer-Bouldin Field. The Rockets jumped on the visiting Tigers from the opening whistle as Felix Salinas netted a goal in the 1st minute and the Rockets added 2 more goals to take a 3 to 0 lead in the first 9 minutes. Salinas ended the night with 4 goals while Andes Cavalie and Austin Wilder each added a goal. The Rockets got a pair of assists...