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After Thrilling Boys Game, Cats Sweep Raiders
Tuesday night in high school basketball Coffee County traveled to Tullahoma for District 8-AAA action. In girl’s play the Lady Cats got off to a hot start leading 14-0 early in the game and 38-20 at halftime. Coffee County fought hard to pull within 7 points in the 4th quarter but Tullahoma held on for the 59-47 district win. Leading the way for the Lady Raiders was Holli Smithson with 10 points. Sara Brown was named the Gateway Tire & Service Center player of the game. Coffee County is now 11-9 overall and 2-4 in district play. Download Thunder...
Coffee Middle Splits pair with Warren County on Monday
A 38 point second half explosion keyed a 56 to 38 win for the Lady Raiders of Coffee County Middle School over Warren County on Monday night. Leading by a single point at the half, the Lady Raiders used an 18 point 3rd quarter and a strong full court defense to throttle the Lady Pioneers upset hopes. Julia Duncan finished the night with 20 points including three 3 pointers. Sixth grader Bella Vinson came off the bench to notch 11 points, including two 3 pointers. The Raiders could not string together effective offensive possessions as they fell 35 to...
Westwood Rockets Fall to Liberty to End Season on Monday Night
The magic shooting touch that vaulted the Westwood Rockets into the quarterfinals of the Duck River Valley Tournament on Saturday, evaporated on Monday night in a 2nd round loss to Liberty. Being held to 2 first quarter points, the Rockets battled hard, but could get no closer than 4 points before falling 38 to 26 to end their season. Chase Simpkins had 14 points on the night, including 8 in the 3rd quarter. Jake Hollandsworth continued his hot shooting with two 3 point goals finishing with 6 points. With the loss, the Rockets season comes to a close as...
Former Sports Writer and Broadcaster Passes Away
On Monday Manchester and WMSR Radio lost a good friend. Derek Harryman passed away at age 29. Harryman was a sports writer for several years at the Saturday Independent and then at the Manchester Times. Harryman also broadcasted sports events on Thunder Radio, from basketball to softball and baseball. Derek was also the PA voice for Coffee County softball for the past several years and broadcasted football last season for WFTZ. Harryman just recently started working at Harton Hospital in Tullahoma. We here at Thunder Radio send our condolences to the Harryman family. Funeral arrangements will be announced...
Boys Basketball Coach Relieved Of Duties At Coffee County High School
Thunder Radio News has learned that Coffee County Central High School boys head basketball coach J.D. Douglas has been relieved of his head coaching duties effective immediately. According to CHS athletic director Richard Skipper said the decision had been made to take “the basketball program in a different direction.” Douglas will remain as a classroom teacher at CHS. Current assistant coach Ben Holl has been named the interim head coach. Douglas was in his 2nd season as boys coach at Coffee County. His career record at Coffee County was 13 and 36. The Raiders were 4 and 16 on...
Westwood Rockets Advance in Conference Tournament
Beating a team for a 3rd straight time in a single season is a tall order indeed, but that is exactly what the Rockets of Westwood did on Saturday afternoon in the first round of the Duck River Valley Conference Tournament. The Rockets, who sweated out a 2 point win on Thursday night against Huntland, blew open a tight game in the 2nd quarter to sting the Hornets 42 to 25 in the opening round of the tournament played in Chapel Hill. A Jake Hollandsworth 3 pointer with 58 seconds remaining in the first quarter tied the game at...
CHS Wrestlers Win 2 of 3 Matches at Shelbyville on Friday
The CHS wrestlers traveled to Shelbyville on Thursday night for a quad meet with Tullahoma, Franklin County and the host Eagles. The Raiders dropped a 69 to 12 decision to state-ranked Tullahoma. Austin Payne(wrestling at 182 pounds) and Dustin Seals(285) had pin fall wins for Coffee County to account for the Raider points. The Raiders edged Shelbyville 45 to 36. Chase Pruitt(152) and Brandon Baumstein(113) got forfeit wins. Joel Singleton(126)got a decision win while David Tate(138), Owen Teague(132), Nicholas Damron(120), Joshua Tobitt(195) and Austin Payne(170) got pin fall wins. Against Franklin County, Coffee County benefitted from 7 forfeit wins...
Coffee County Youth Basketball League Results from Saturday
The Coffee County Youth Basketball League tipped off their post season tournament on Saturday at Coffee County CHS’ Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gymnasium. Each of the higher seeded teams advanced to the semifinals in both boys and girls divisions that will be played on Saturday beginning at 9:00 AM. In Girls action: Hillsboro grounded Hickerson 21 to 6 Westwood stopped East Coffee 47 to 2 New Union overcame Deerfield 27 to 12 North Coffee derailed College Street 18 to 5 In Boys play: College Street trimmed Hickerson 47 to 8 Westwood downed East Coffee 37 to 8 New Union...
