West Swept

Written by Derek Harryman | 25 January 2012

The Coffee Middle girls basketball
team has been looking
for their first win all year but
Thursday night , at home,
against their biggest rival - the
Lady Raiders finally found it.
In front of a packed house at
CCMS - the Lady Raiders, wearing
pink for breast cancer
awareness, put together by-far
their best effort on the season to
beat Tullahoma. West led 13-12 at the end of
the first - but it was already a
vast improvement over the first
time the two teams played;
when the Lady Raiders did not
score until the second half.
They were also out-scored by
one point in the second 11-10, meaning the visiting
team would hold a two-point 24-22 lead at
the intermission.
The third quarter of the game was fast-paced
up and down the floor but there were many
more steals than points. Each team scored just
six points in the third - meaning West still held a
two-points lead 30-28.
The fourth was a completely different story
however as CCMS dominated almost the entire
quarter and out-scored West 9-2 to take a 37-32
win. Savannah Quick and Kaylee Skipper each
led the team with 12 points in the game.
"I am very proud of the way our girls battled
tonight," said head coach Rece Chumbley. "We
haven't had the season we hoped for but we
have gotten better every night."
In the boys game - it was all Coffee
County from start to finish.
When the two teams played
in Tullahoma earlier this season
- it was a heated battle which
CCMS won. The second time
around the outcome would be
the same but everything else
was off for Tullahoma.
Coffee Middle jumped out to
a 14-0 lead in the first quarter
and never looked back. In-fact
West did not score until the 3:38
mark in the third when they hit
their first shot to make the score
32-2.
The Raiders kept on piling on
the points and - the Bobcats just
had no answer for the Raiders
driving to the basket.
The home team cruised to a
34-8 win.
Boone Riddle led all scorers with 12 points in
the game. Kohl Young was next in line with six
and Trey Lashlee and Ronnie Crismond each
netted four.
"Our guys were ready to play, we had a great
girls game, they got their first win so our guys
were just ready to get out there and win," said
Jonathan Oliver. "West was missing a good player
tonight - it would have been alot closer game
if he had been playing."
The Raiders have five games left before the
CTC tournament starts and Oliver hopes his
squad can win at-least three of those games.
The tournament