The Coffee County Central High School wrestling team welcomed Siegel and Franklin County to The Meat Grinder on Thursday night for a dual meet. The powerhouse team from Siegel swept both matches while Coffee County got a win over Franklin County. In the Siegel match Coffee County got an overtime, come from behind decision win from Rein Bozich in the 138 pound weight class and Josh Tobbit(182) got a pin for the Raider’s 9 points. Coach Roger Barlow had praise for his team’s conditioning and aggressiveness against the super talented Siegel squad. Against Franklin County, Coffee County needed two...

Pete Weber’s Postgame Report http://www.thunder1320.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Preds-Report-12-18-15.mp3 Vladimir Tarasenko scored late on the power play and the St. Louis Blues rallied in the third period to defeat the Nashville Predators 2-1 on Thursday night at Scottrade Center. The loss moves the Preds to 0-2-0 against the Blues this season, leaving Nashville in fifth in the Central Division standings. “It’s kind of like I said a few games ago, it’s not good enough,” Captain Shea Weber said. “I don’t know who we’re kidding if we say it doesn’t matter if you outchance teams – I don’t think we did tonight because we...

In a pair of exciting games that came down to the wire, the Coffee County Raiders and Lady Raiders swept a doubleheader from Fayetteville on Tuesday night at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym. The Lady Raiders outlasted a scrappy Lady Tigers team to earn a 61 to 59 victory in double overtime. Listen to the game’s podcast The Lady Raiders saw a 15 point lead at the start of the 4th quarter evaporate with 2 minutes to play as the Lady Tigers pushed Coffee County to overtime. In the first overtime, a Bailey Morgan 3 pointer helped the Lady...

The Coffee County Middle School Lady Raiders closed out the pre-Christmas portion of their schedule on Monday night with a 47 to 27 conference win over Warren County. The Lady Raiders outscored the Lady Pioneers 24 to 6 in the first half to improve their season record to 11 and 0. Julia Duncan led all scorers as she poured in 25 points. Bella Vinson added 6 points and Jenna Garretson netted 5 for the Lady Raiders.   A 14 point 4th quarter by the Coffee County boys was not enough to hold off a 2nd half Pioneer rally as...

  Defenseman Kris Russell scored 1:23 into overtime to give the Calgary Flames a 2-1 win against the Nashville Predators at Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday. Forward Johnny Gaudreau led a 2-on-1 rush and fed a pass to Russell, who was able to get to the puck and beat Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne for his second goal. The Flames (14-14-2) have won six in a row and are 7-1 in games decided during 3-on-3 overtime. The Predators (15-10-6) are 1-2-1 in their past four games and 9-4-2 at home. Cody Hodgson gave the Predators a 1-0 lead at 5:09 of...

Trailing by as many as 15 points in the 2nd quarter, the Coffee County Red Raiders stormed back in the 2nd half to drop Smyrna on Monday night 61 to 56 in an overtime thriller at Coffee County’s Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym. A Grant Sadler free throw with 5.8 seconds left in the game sent the 2 teams to an overtime period dominated by Coffee County. The Red Raiders zone defense frustrated the visiting Bulldogs as Coffee County nearly eliminated 2nd half turnovers to shut off the transition offense that Smyrna used to build a 31 to 23...

Win and advance is the motto of teams in the postseason and that is exactly what the Lady Rockets were able to do on Monday night with a 33 to 25 win over Middle Tennessee Christian in the quarterfinals of the DRVC tournament. After trailing 10 to 7 after the first quarter to, Westwood got their offense on track as they scored 13 points in the 2nd quarter to take a 3 point lead into the half. Westwood was able to control the scrappy Lady Cougars in a low scoring 2nd half to advance to the semifinals.   Ashley...

The Westwood Rockets saw their season come to a close on Monday night in a quarterfinal loss to Liberty by a final score of 39 to 29.  The Rockets were held scoreless in the 1st quarter as the 2nd seeded Patriots built a 10 to 0 lead that they would never relinquish.  Westwood was able to cut the deficit to 6 points heading into the 4th quarter but the Rockets had no answer for the interior height and length of Liberty.     Westwood was led in scoring by Jake Hollandsworth who finished with 15 points.  Collin Ward, Austin...