Local Sports
SPORTS WEEKLY COMES YOUR WAY AT 5:05 THIS EVENING ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM. TODD HAMILTON’S GUESTS INCLUDE SCOTT THOMPSON WHO WILL REPORT FROM THE GIRLS SWEET 16, CHRISTIAN COUNTY BASKETBALL COACH KERRY STOVALL, MURRAY STATE BASKETBALL COACH BILLY KENNEDY AND AUSTIN PEAY WOMEN’S BASKETBALL COACH CARRIE DANIELS.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY COLONELS WON THEIR 16TH 2ND REGION BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP TUESDAY NIGHT DEFEATING HENDERSON COUNTY 58-53. ANTHONY HICKEY LED CHRISTIAN COUNTY WITH 16 POINTS, FOLLOWED BY DONOVAN KATES WITH 14 AND VEONTAE LEWIS WITH 12. HENDERSON COUNTY WAS LED BY PATRICK NEEL BY 18 AND BROCK STONE WITH 13.
CHRISTIAN COUNTY IMPROVES TO 29-4 WITH THE WIN AND WILL FACE NEWPORT IN THE BOYS SWEET 16 NEXT WEDNESDAY AT 5:30 HOPKINSVILLE TIME. HENDERSON COUNTY FINISHES THE SEASON 19-10.
1ST REGION FINAL: PADUCAH TILGHMAN IS HEADED TO THE SWEET 16 AFTER A 54-46 WIN OVER GRAVES COUNTY. THE BLUE TORNADO FACE SHELBY VALLEY NEXT THURSDAY AFTERNOON AT 12:30 LOCAL TIME.
4TH REGION FINAL: WARREN CENTRAL DEFEATED BOWLING GREEN 63-58. THE DRAGONS WILL OPEN THE SWEET 16 NEXT WEDNESDAY AT 11 A-M LOCAL TIME AGAINST EAST CARTER.
THE HOUCHENS INDUSTRIES/KHSAA GIRLS SWEET 16 BEGINS TODAY IN BOWLING GREEN. 2ND REGION REPRESENTATIVE HENDERSON COUNTY OPENS THE TOURNAMENT TAKING ON BUTLER, THE STATE’S NUMBER ONE TEAM MARION COUNTY GOES AGAINST MERCY AT 2:30. THE EVENING SESSION HAS ROWAN COUNTY AGAINST BREATHITT COUNTY AND CLAY COUNTY TAKES ON ANDERSON COUNTY IN THE NIGHTCAP.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS OPEN PLAY IN THE BIG EAST TOURNAMENT THIS EVENING IN NEW YORK AS THEY MEET CINCINNATI.
MEANWHILE, THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS CONTINUE PREPARATIONS FOR THEIR OPENING ROUND S-E-C TOURNAMENT GAME IN NASHVILLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AGAINST EITHER SOUTH CAROLINA OR ALABAMA. COACH JOHN CALIPARI SAYS HE NEEDS THE ENTIRE TEAM TO PLAY WELL IN THE POST SEASON. COVERAGE OF KENTUCKY’S GAME FRIDAY BEGINS AT 10:30 AM ON LITE 98.7.
KENTUCKY BASKETBALL PRETTY MUCH SWEPT THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE HONORS ANNOUNCED TUESDAY. JOHN WALL WAS NAMED THE LEAGUE’S PLAYER OF THE YEAR, DEMARCUS COUSINS THE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR BUT THE COACH OF THE YEAR AWARD DID NOT GO TO JOHN CALIPARI. INSTEAD, THAT AWARD WENT TO VANDERBILT’S KEVIN STALLINGS.
INCIDENTIALLY, WALL, COUSINS AND PATRICK PATTERSON WERE NAMED FIRST TEAM S-E-C, ALONG WITH TENNESSEE’S WAYNE CHISM.
AUSTIN PEAY’S SOFTBALL TEAM SPLIT A DOUBLEHEADER WITH STETSON TUESDAY, LOSING THE OPENER 2-0, WHILE WINING THE NIGHTCAP 5-1. MURRAY STATE’S SOFTBALL GAME WITH TRAVECCA WAS RAINED OUT.
AUSTIN PEAY’S BASEBALL TEAM LOST AT NUMBER 17 OLE MISS 14-4. THE TWO TEAMS PLAY AGAIN TODAY.
THE TENNESSEE TITANS AND FREE AGENT LINEBACKER WILL WITHERSPOON HAVE AGREED TO A THREE YEAR CONTRACT. THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS THE DEAL IS WORTH 11 MILLION DOLLARS WITH FIVE MILLION IN GUARANTEES.
THE TENNESSEAN ALSO REPORTS THE TITANS WILL PAY QUARTERBACK VINCE YOUNG’S FOUR POINT 25 MILLION DOLLAR ROSTER BONUS. THAT MEANS YOUNG WILL MAKE A SEVEN POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLAR BASE SALARY THIS YEAR AND EIGHT POINT FIVE MILLION IN 2011.
