Coffee County High School senior golfer Hollee Sadler only started playing golf when she was a freshman and joined the Lady Raiders team as a sophomore. Sadler earned the right to play in the TSSAA state golf tournament as an individual as a sophomore and was joined by her teammates last season. Hollee has a lot on her mind as her senior season begins on Thursday with a tournament in Tullahoma. She would love to repeat as district and region champs and return to state. One thing Sadler will not have on her mind will be where she will...

After going 2 and 1 in the pool play round of the 7&8 year old TYBA State Tournament on Friday and Saturday, the Manchester All-Stars looked to be primed for a long run in the championship bracket on Sunday. They opened the day with a 14 to 8 come-from-behind win over the Shelbyville Storm on Sunday morning to move into the semifinals. The Red & Black got on the board first in the bottom of the first inning scoring 7 runs as they sent 10 batters to the plate.  Shelbyville battled back to take a short lived 8 to 7...

Two all-star teams from the Manchester Youth Baseball League (MYBL) will be in action this weekend in the Tennessee Youth Baseball Association (TYBA) state tournament being held in Murfreesboro. The tournament will begin on Friday afternoon and continue through Sunday. The event is being held at Barfield-Crescent Park on Veterans Parkway in Murfreesboro. The 9&10 year old Coach Pitch All-Stars will be one of 10 teams competing for a state title. The team, coached by Shawn Trail, got a scrimmage win over Cannon County on Monday as they have concluded 3 weeks of preparation. They will begin play on Friday at...

The Manchester Youth Baseball League will premiere a new adult baseball league on Friday night. The new league is open to players from ages 17 to 45 and will feature 4 teams. The teams are populated with former Red Raider stars such as Bubba Vincent, Dallas Holmes, Clark Carden, Jason Crosslin and many more. The league will play doubleheaders on Friday nights at 6:00 and 8:30 PM and single games at 6:30 on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 6:30. All games will be played on the Babe Ruth Field at Fred Deadman Park. Folks are encouraged to come out...

Westwood Middle School Athletic Director Jeff Johnson has announced that the Rockets will have 3 new coaches for their athletic teams, with two of those coaches taking over this fall. For girls’ soccer; Donna Burdine takes over for Jonathan Graf this fall. Graf, who will remain as the boy’s head coach, he will remain with the girl’s team as he will assist Coach Burdine. Coach Burdine is in her 3rd year at Westwood and is a math teacher. As we reported last week, Westwood also added 2 new sports for the coming school year. Taking over the new cross...

The Manchester Recreation summer swim team, CATS (Coffee County and Tullahoma Swimming) won the 2014 Summer Swim League Championships Saturday, July 12th. This is the first time they have won overall championships since they started the summer team 7 years...

Matt Sligh, men’s head basketball coach for the Motlow College Bucks, has added another outstanding in-state student-athlete to his 2014-15 roster with the announcement that Murfreesboro’s Reid Pierce will bring his talents to Copperweld Arena. Pierce will be a true freshman after a splendid prep career at Blackman High School. The Blaze, under head coach Barry Wortman, won the Class AAA state championship last season and Pierce was an integral part of the championship run. Blackman reached the state tournament all three seasons of Pierce’s prep career. He played his AAU basketball under Head Coach Carlton Battle and his...

Four was the magic number this weekend as 4 Manchester squads took part in the TYBA state tournament in Murfreesboro. The teams competed in 3 pool games on Friday and Saturday before being seeded into the single elimination championship bracket on Sunday. All 4 teams made it to the Final Four of the championship bracket in their respective divisions before bowing out on Sunday afternoon. For the 9 & 10 year old all-stars, after going perfect in pool play and earning a #1 seed, opened Sunday’s elimination bracket with a 9 to 0 win over the Buchanan Indians. Manchester scored 7 runs...