A busy sports weekend kicks off on Thursday as spring sports teams continue to fight through the weather issues to get prepared for their 2016 seasons. The lone regular season game of the weekend finds the Westwood Rockets soccer team on the road on Thursday as they travel to Fayetteville to take on Lincoln County. That match is set to get underway at 5:00 PM.
The Coffee County Middle School softball team will be taking part in a 3 day scrimmage tournament in Lynchburg beginning on Thursday afternoon. The Lady Raiders will take on Tullahoma on Thursday at 5:30 PM, Lincoln County on Friday at 4:15 and Columbia Academy on Saturday at 2:55 PM. All of those games will take place at the Lynchburg City Park barring a change due to weather. Coach Lana Creek and the Lady Raiders open their regular season at home on Monday when they play host to White County in a 5 PM contest.
The Coffee County Central High School softball team will be in action on Saturday at a scrimmage playday in Shelbyville. Coach Steve Wilder begins his first season at the helm of the Lady Raider program with 4 scrimmage games scheduled for H.V. Griffin Park in Shelbyville on Saturday. The Lady Raiders will face Cornersville at 10:30 AM, Moore County at noon, Smyrna at 3 PM and Community at 4:30 PM. The Lady Raiders will also travel to Riverdale a week from Saturday for their final preseason action as they open the season on Monday, March 14th at home against Shelbyville.
The Coffee County Central High School baseball team will be in action on Saturday as they travel to Murfreesboro to take on Central Magnet at noon. New Red Raider coach David Martin will host a scrimmage playday on Saturday, March 5th at Powers Field. The Red Raiders will open the regular season at home on March 14th when they play host to Shelbyville in a 5 PM district contest.
And the Coffee County Central High School soccer team will play host to their annual Red Raider Jam scrimmage playday on Saturday. Both the varsity and JV teams will be in action as each will have 4 matches. The JV team will play at 8:35 AM, 1:15 PM, 2:25 PM and 6:30 PM. The Varsity will play at 9:10 AM, 11:30 AM, 3:00 PM and 5:20 PM. The games will be held at the Raider Soccer Field and Carden-Jarrell Field behind the Coffee County Raider Academy. The soccer team opens their regular season on Tuesday, March 15th when they play host to LaVergne in a 7 PM match.
2016 Soccer Red Raider Jam
