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Westwood Drops a Pair at Cascade on Monday
Playing your first game out of the Christmas break is tough enough, but doing it on the road makes winning an even tougher task. The Westwood Rockets opened the 2015 calendar year in Wartrace on Monday night as they took on the always tough Champions of Cascade. In the girls game, Cascade used a 16 point 4th quarter to blow open a close game en route to a 44 to 29 win over the Lady Rockets. Seventh graders Morgan Jones and Ashley Starks each reached double figures for Westwood as Jones scored 12 points and Starks notched 11. Haley...
Coffee County Middle Splits with White County on Monday
Showing the impact of a 3 week layoff, the Lady Raiders of Coffee Middle got off to a slow start before controlling the final 9 minutes to claw out a 27 to 14 win over White County on Monday night at Coffee County Middle School. The Lady Raiders grabbed a 6 to 0 1st quarter lead on 3 pointers by Jacey Vaughn and Julia Duncan. White County scrambled back to tie it going into the 2nd quarter. Coffee County took a 15 to 12 lead into the half, before White County tied the game with 3:21 left in the...
Motlow Basketball Update
The Motlow Bucks and the Lady Bucks are on holiday break. The Bucks return to action Jan. 6, when they host the Martin Methodist College JV at 7:30 p.m. The Lady Bucks will join the Bucks and travel to Hanceville, AL, to face Wallace State on Thursday, Jan....
Lady Raider Basketball Drops Siegel on Saturday Night
Outscoring the Lady Stars of Siegel in every quarter on Saturday evening gave the Lady Raiders of Coffee County a 2 and 0 start to 2015 with the 44 to 27 win. Coffee County earned their 3rd straight win and their 5th win in their last 6 games with the non district win in Murfreesboro. After a sluggish start, the Lady Raiders closed out the 1st quarter on a 5 to 0 run to take a 6 point lead into the 2nd quarter. A Siegel 3 pointer to open the second period got the Stars to within 3 points,...
Raiders and Lady Raiders Split with Warren County on Friday
Trailing by as many as 10 points in the 4th quarter and 6 points in the first overtime period, the Lady Raiders of Coffee County dug deep on Friday night to gut out a 52 to 49 triple overtime win over Warren County at the Joe Frank Patch Gym. The Lady Raiders, whose depth was thinned by illness, fought through a cold shooting touch in the 2nd and 3rd periods to shock the Lady Pioneers. Coffee County was 20 of 29 from the free throw stripe on the night, but 4th quarter 3 pointers from Tyger Fenton and Cameron...
Sulkowski Coaching In Army All-American Bowl
The U.S. Army All-American Bowl is the nation’s premier high school All-American game, featuring the best 90 players in an annual East vs. West matchup every January in San Antonio’s Alamodome. The Army Bowl enjoys a worldwide television audience, thanks to a live broadcast on NBC. Last year’s U.S. Army All-American Bowl marked the 14th-anniversary of the Bowl and drew a crowd of 40,000-plus for the second consecutive year. The 2015 U.S. Army All-American Bowl will take place on January 3, 2015, at 1:00pm ET/12:00 CT. Coffee County head football coach Ryan Sulkowski will be one of the coaches...
Taylor Named All-American
Freshmen normally don’t get an opportunity to play much during their first year of high school football, but one player at Coffee County did play and he played very well. QB Alontae Taylor began starting in the 3rd game of the 2014 campaign and rolled up over 1,600 yards rushing, which led the nation in the regular season for freshmen. Taylor was named to play in an all-star game for the best freshmen in the nation but will not be allowed to play because of a TSSAA rule. Another honor came this week when Taylor was named MaxPreps Freshmen...
Coffee County Finishes 6th in Inaugural Red Raider Invitational
Playing with a depleted lineup due to illness, the Red Raiders dropped a 55 to 42 decision to Franklin County on Tuesday afternoon at the Joe Frank Patch Memorial Gym. Addison Carter scored 7 points in the 1st quarter to stake the Red Raiders to a 13 to 8 lead after the 1st quarter. The Rebels found their shooting touch in the 2nd quarter hitting three 3 pointers to capture a halftime lead of 29 to 24 that they would never relinquish. Carter led the Raiders in scoring with 12 points while Peyton Talley scored 10. Grant Sadler added...
