“The girls played an amazing game today, actually an amazing three games today.”  Those are the words of CCMS softball coach Lana Creek as the Lady Raiders won three consecutive games to come out of the losers bracket to claim the CTC softball tournament title on Saturday in Tullahoma.  After falling to the losers bracket on Friday, and surviving a scare from North Franklin, Coffee County need a win over Tullahoma and a pair of wins over Warren County to win the championship.  Of her team, Creek said: “Their character won out today, they had a lot of things...

After graduating an overwhelming majority of their offense from last season, this looked to be a rebuilding year for the Raider soccer team of Coffee County Middle School.  Instead, Coach Kenny Lockhart found new scoring threats, an improved back line and solid play in goal to advance to the Final 4 of the CTC Soccer Tournament on Saturday.  Entering Saturday as a huge underdog to top seeded Warren County, the clock finally stuck midnight on the feel good, Cinderella season of the Raiders.  With keeper Elisa Carter unavailable due to illness, the powerful Pioneers dropped Coffee County 8 to...

Leads of 4 to 0 and 6 to 3 were not enough for the Coffee County CHS Red Raider baseball team on Saturday as 5th and 6th inning rallies by Tullahoma dropped the Raiders by a score of 7 to 6 in the loser’s bracket of the District 8AAA baseball tournament.  The Raiders got on the board first in the top of the 2nd inning as they plated 3 runs.  Freshman Nathaniel Tate ripped a 2 RBI double for the big hit in the inning driving in J.P. Duncan and Zach Wise after Wise’s RBI double to drive in...

A 2 out, 2 RBI single by Amanda Mukai capped a 5th inning comeback for the Coffee County Middle School softball team on Friday night in the loser’s bracket semifinals of CTC Conference Softball Tournament being held in Tullahoma. The 4 to 3 win over North Franklin kept Coffee County alive in the double elimination tournament. The Lady Raiders were pushed to the loser’s bracket by a Tullahoma comeback earlier on Friday night. In the nightcap, a single run in the 2nd by Coffee County was eclipsed by 3 unearned runs by North Franklin in the 4th inning. Coffee...

A 13 run explosion in the second inning was enough to power the Lady Rocket softball team to a 19 to 4 win over Riverside Christian on Friday afternoon at Westwood.  Sarah West and Alexcia Barnes were  each 3 for 3 for the game as Westwood banged out 15 hits.  West and Carlee Sullivan each were a home run shy of the cycle while Keyleigh Alford had a single, a triple and 3 RBI.  Hallie Wimberly got the win in the circle as she scattered 5 hits with 3 strikeouts.  Westwood will be at home on Saturday for a...

The District 8-AAA baseball tournament began for the Coffee County Red Raiders on Thursday night in Winchester. The Franklin County Rebels scored a run in the 1st and that’s all they needed as Gus Barstad would hold the Raiders to just 2 hits on the night. The Rebels score the only other run in the game in the 4th to make the final 2-0. Peyton Booth and Brandon Haston had the only hits for Coffee County. Pitcher Dylan Sandavol allowed just one earned run and was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center player of the game. Download Thunder...

After having their tennis match on Wednesday canceled due to a bomb threat at Shelbyville, the Westwood Rocket tennis teams returned to action on Thursday as they traveled to Tullahoma. The veteran Wildcats teams swept Westwood boys 9-0 while the girls got beat 7-2. Lacey Deason and Natalie Elzeer had the wins for Westwood in singles play. The Rockets will be back in action on Monday as they travel to Sewanee to take on St. Andrew’s. The singles matches will start at 4:00 PM.   The Westwood Rocket team fought hard against conference leading Forrest on Thursday but had...

Senior Pitcher Brianna Jones of the Coffee County Lady Raiders has been named the MaxPreps/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Southern Region player of the week. Jones was tremendous in the circle last week for the Red Raiders, posting a 3-0 mark without allowing a run and surrendering just three hits in 18.2 inning of work last week. She threw a pair of one-hit shutouts and struck out 37 batters to just four walks. In a 3-0 victory over Tullahoma, Jones was masterful as she struck out 17, walked two and allowed just one hit. She followed that with a five-inning,...