The Coffee County Lady Raider softball team punched their ticket to the Region 4AAA tournament with a 5 to 0 win over Lincoln County on Tuesday night in the semifinals of the District 8AAA tournament in Shelbyville. Brianna Jones was stellar in the circle as she pitched the 7 inning shutout, allowing but 2 hits while striking out 9. Jones had a solo homerun to highlight a three run 2nd inning for Coffee County. Brittany Williams was 3 for 3 at the plate for Coffee County with an RBI and a run scored. With the win, Coffee County will...

Coffee County baseball jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the 1st inning but Lincoln County chipped away and finally put away the Raiders 6-5 on Monday night in the district tournament. Coffee County got its 4 runs in the 1st on a Peyton Meeker RBI, Hunter Smithson 2 RBI double and a JP Duncan RBI. The Raiders struggled at the plate in 3rd-6th innings as they went hitless. Tyler Cavender hit a solo bomb in the 7th but it was not enough as the Falcons will move on in the tournament. Meeker suffered the tough luck loss on...

Sophomore Luke Toms hit a walk-off home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to lead the Motlow Bucks to a 7-6 win over Walters St. Saturday in the semifinals of the TCCAA/Region VII Tournament in Gallatin. With the win the Bucks advanced to Sunday’s championship game, where they fell to top-seed Columbia St 8-4. However, because Motlow (40-22) finished as the tournament runner-up, they will advance along with Columbia St. to the NJCAA East/Central District tournament May 15-17 in Covington, Georgia. The tournament in Georgia will be held this coming weekend to determine its...

Two years ago Dequon Miller had a decision to make. Was he going to be just another former high school basketball player who didn’t live up to his potential, or was he going to use his talent on the court to get an education and create opportunities for his future? Miller chose option two, and Motlow College and its basketball family are glad he did. When Matt Sligh was named head men’s basketball coach at Motlow College in July 2013, he inherited a program that had won the Tennessee Community College Athletic Association championship the previous season. With no...

The Coffee County Red Raider baseball team got a solid pitching effort from Dallas Bryan and a spirited comeback effort before falling to Columbia by a final score of 9 to 4 in the 2nd round of the District 8AAA tournament. Columbia built a 6 to 0 lead through 4 innings before the Raiders plated 4 runs in the top of the 5th inning. Zach Holder had a 2 RBI single down the right field line to provide the big hit of the inning, but the Raiders could get no closer. Dallas Bryan took the tough luck loss. Trace...

Westwood’s soccer team battled a physical South Lincoln team until the final whistle before falling 2 to 1 in the Duck River Valley Conference tournament finals on Friday night in Fayetteville. After controlling the tempo for the first 10 minutes, the Falcons of South Lincoln ramped up the physical play scoring goals in the 27th and 29th minute to take a 2 to 0 lead into intermission. Westwood coach Jonathan Graf made an adjustment in his alignment and the Rockets began to find their offensive flow in the 2nd half. A controversial Red Card against the Rocket’s Tyler Walker...

Kaylee Skipper racked up four RBIs on two hits for the Coffee County Central Lady Raiders on Saturday as the ladies defeated Tullahoma 9-2 in the District 8-AAA softball tournament in Shelbyville. Tori Bell added 2 RBI for the Lady Raiders. Brianna Jones recorded the win for the Coffee County. She allowed two runs over seven innings. Brianna struck out 13, walked three and gave up four hits. Skipper was named the Gateway Tire and Service Center player of the game. Despite winning by 7 runs the Lady Raiders trailed twice in the game, 1-0 and 2-1 before roaring...

The Red Raider soccer season came to a cruel and abrupt end on Saturday as they fell to Shelbyville by a final score of 3 to 0. The Raiders took the match into the last 4 minutes down 1 to 0 only to see two red cards give the host Eagles a two man advantage which they turned into 2 demoralizing goals. Shelbyville scored their lone even strength goal in the 28th minute on a breakaway up the middle off of a long clearing pass. Abelene Barrera had a chance to tie it in the 37th minute on a...