Sports Headlines 1/7/11

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

 

BOYS:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY EVENED ITS SEASON MARK AT SIX AND SIX WITH A 95-31 WIN OVER FORT CAMPBELL THURSDAY NIGHT.  THE COLONELS PUT FIVE PLAYERS IN DOUBLE FIGURES LED BY DONOVAN KATES WITH 16 POINTS.

 

FORT CAMPBELL WAS LED IN SCORING BY MARCUS TUCKER AND ERIC BRONER WHO EACH HAD SIX POINTS.

 

ELSEWHERE:  MADISONVILLE OVER MUHLENBERG COUNTY 66-60, HOPKINS CENTRAL EDGED MCLEAN COUNTY 65-64, COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN DEFEATED LIVINGSTON CENTRAL 52-50, OWENSBORO OVER APOLLO 75-66.

 

GIRLS:  CALLOWAY COUNTY OVER CALDWELL COUNTY 73-46, OHIO COUNTY DEFEATED MUHLENBERG COUNTY 70-40.

 

TONIGHT’S GAMES

 

BOYS:  CROSS TOWN RIVALS CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND HOPKINSVILLE MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON AT COLONEL GYM.  THE GAME IS PART OF A DOUBLE HEADER WHICH BEGINS AT SIX AS CHRISTIAN COUNTY’S GIRLS MEET HENDERSON COUNTY.  COVERAGE OF THE BOYS GAME BEGINS AROUND 7:30 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

 

ELSEWHERE:  FORT CAMPBELL HOSTS UNION COUNTY, TODD CELTRAL WELCOMES APOLLO, TRIGG COUNTY HOSTS LYON COUNTY, CALDWELL COUNTY AT DAWSON SPRINGS, HENDERSON COUNTY HOSTS OHIO COUNTY, CALLOWAY COUNTY AT MARSHALL COUNTY, GRAVES COUNTY AT MAYFIELD, PADUCAH TILGHMAN AT HEATH,  WARREN EAST TRAVELS TO WARREN CENTRAL, BOWLING GREEN AT GREENWOOD,  LOGAN COUNTY PLAYS AT RUSSELLVILLE.

 

GIRLS:  UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS AT MADISONVILLE, FORT CAMPBELL GOES TO HOPKINS CENTRAL,TRIGG COUNTY HOSTS LYON COUNTY, CALDWELL COUNTY AT DAWSON SPRINGS, WEBSTER COUNTY WELCOMES UNION COUNTY, LIVINGSTON CENTRAL AT CRITTENDEN COUNTY, CALLOWAY COUNTY AT MARSHALL COUNTY, GRAVES COUNTY AT MAYFIELD, REIDLAND AT LONE OAK, PADUCAH TILGHMAN AT HEATH, WARREN EAST AT WARREN CENTRAL, LOGAN COUNTY AT RUSSELLVILLE, BOWLING GREEN AT GREENWOOD.

 

 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

 

MURRAY STATE’S TEAMS HOSTED TENNESSEE STATE THURSDAY NIGHT.

 

THE RACERS WON THEIR 25TH STRAIGHT GAME AT THE C-F-S-B CENTER WITH A 64-53 WIN OVER THE TIGERS.  DONTE POOLE HAD A CARRER HIGH 16 POINTS.

 

MEANWHILE, THE LADY RACERS LOST TO T-S-U 60-57.  KAYLA LOWE HAD HER SECOND DOUBLE-DOUBLE OF THE SEASON WITH 12 POINTS AND 10 REBOUNDS IN A LOSING EFFORT.

 

BOTH MURRAY STATE TEAMS HOST AUSTIN PEAY TOMORROW, WITH THE MEN’S GAME AT 11 A-M AND CAN BE SEEN ON ESPN U, WHILE THE WOMEN’S GAME IS SET FOR 1:15.

 

A MEMBER OF MURRAY STATE’S MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM HAS LEFT THE PROGRAM.  JEFF REESE—WHO CAME TO MURRAY STATE THIS FALL FROM GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE—IS TRANSFERRING TO ARKANSAS TECH.  REESE IS A JUNIOR FROM LAUREL HILL, FLORIDA.

 

WESTERN KENTUCKY STORMED BACK FROM 18 POINTS DOWN, BUT LOST TO DENVER IN DIDDLE ARENA 62-59.  SERGIO KERUSCH HAD 13 POINTS AND 12 REBOUNDS, WHILE JUAN PATILLO TIED A CAREER HIGH WITH 24 POINTS AND 11 BOARDS.

 

TENNESSEE’S LADY VOLS CRUISED TO A 110-45 WIN OVER ALABAMA, WITH THE LADY VOL STARTERS SCORING 60 OF THE 110 POINTS FOR THEIR 37TH STRAIGHT WIN OVER THE CRIMSON TIDE.

 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

 

THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS GO THROUGH FINAL WALKTHROUGHS TODAY IN BIRMINGHAM FOR TOMORROW’S B-B-V-A COMPASS BOWL GAME AGAINST PITTSBURGH, WITH PRE GAME COVERAGE BEGINNING AT NINE A-M ON LITE 98.7.

 

AFTER THE FOOTBALL GAME, KENTUCKY MEETS GEORGIA IN BASKETBALL WITH AIR TIME AT 2:30 ALSO ON LITE 98.7.

 

NHL

 

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS WIN THEIR SECOND GAME IN AS MANY NIGHTS, DEFEATING LOS ANGELES 5-2 LAST NIGHT.  THE PREDS ARE BACK IN ACTION TOMORROW NIGHT AT SAN JOSE.