HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

BOYS:  DAWSON SPRINGS DEFEATED TRIGG COUNTY 60-55, LIVINGSTON CENTRAL OVER REIDLAND 50-44.

GIRLS:  TODD CENTRAL OVER WARREN CENTRAL 54-41, UNION COUNTY DEFEATS TRIGG COUNTY 56-43, OWENSBORO CATHOLIC OVER HENDERSON COUNTY 56-37, MAYFIELD EDGES HICKMAN COUNTY 54-51, LONE OAK DEFEATS CARLISLE COUNTY 59-47, APOLLO OVER OWENSBORO 41-34, MUHLENBERG COUNTY DEFEATS MCLEAN COUNTY 60-49 AND MURRAY OVER HEATH 69-46.

TONIGHT'S GAMES

CHRISTIAN COUNTY'S BOYS WERE SCHEDULED TO PLAY HOST TO HENDERSON COUNTY.  THE GAME HAS BEEN POSTPONED, WITH NO MAKE UP DATE AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME.  UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS BOYS/GIRLS DOUBLEHEADER WITH HOPKINS CENTRAL HAS BEEN POSTPONED.

THE LATEST COURIER JOURNAL LITKENHOUS RATINGS HAVE LOUISVILLE EASTERN AND JEFFERSONTOWN TIED FOR FIRST, WITH WARREN CENTRAL TIED WITH BALLARD FOR FOURTH AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY RANKED 13^TH AND BOWLING GREEN RANKED 14^TH.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

AFTER LOSING TO GEORGIA SATURDAY, KENTUCKY IS BACK IN ACTION THIS EVENING AGAINST AUBURN.  COVERAGE OF THE GAME FROM RUPP ARENA BEGINS AT 4:30 ON LITE 98.7.

THE TENNESSEE VOLS ARE IN ACTION TONIGHT AS THEY HOST FLORIDA IN KNOXVILLE.  THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS SENIOR TRANSFER JOHN FIELDS WILL START AT CENTER THIS EVENING IN PLACE OF SENIOR BRIAN WILLIAMS.

THE VANDERBILT COMMODORES ARE ALSO IN ACTION TONIGHT TAKING ON GEORGIA.

AUSTIN PEAY WON ITS SIXTH STRAIGHT GAME, DEFEATING UT MARTIN 71-61.  JOSH TERRY HAD 25 SECOND HALF POINTS TO LEAD THE GOVERNORS.  TYSHWAN EDMONDSON HAD 12 POINTS AND JOHN FRALEY ADDED 10 FOR THE GOVERNORS WHO IMPROVE TO 12 -6 ON THE SEASON AND 6-0 IN THE OVC.

THE OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE AND I-M-G COLLEGE ANNOUNCED MONDAY THE CONFERENCE HAS FORMED A THREE YEAR PARTNERSHIP WITH ADIDAS.

THE DEAL MAKES ADIDAS THE OFFICIAL PROVIDER OF O-V-C CHAMPIONSHIP APPAREL AND THE LEAGUE WILL REBRAND THE CONFERENCE PLAYER OF THE WEEK AS THE ADIDAS O-V-C PLAYER OF THE WEEK.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN SWEETWATER, TENNESSEE FOR FORMER AUSTIN PEAY FOOTBALL COACH WILLIAM D. “BILLY” DUPES.  THE 81-YEAR-OLD DUPES DIED IN KNOXVILLE LAST SATURDAY.

DUPES OWNS THE LONGEST COACHING TENURE IN AUSTIN PEAY FOOTBALL, COACHING THE GOVERNORS FROM 1963-1972.  DUPES WAS 40-58-2 DURING HIS TIME IN CLARKSVILLE.  DUPES WAS A 1998 INDUCTEE IN THE AUSTIN PEAY ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME AND WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE TENNESSEE TECH ATHLETICS AND TENNESSEE SPORTS HALL OF FAME.

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FRESHMAN CENTER JAMES STONE WAS NAMED TO THE FOOTBALL WRITERS OF AMERICA FRESHMAN ALL AMERICA TEAM MONDAY.  STONE BEGAN THE SEASON AT GUARD, BUT MOVED TO CENTER FOR THE LAST FIVE GAMES OF THE SEASON.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS ARE BACK IN ACTION TONIGHT AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA HOSTING THE MINNESOTA WILD.  THE PREDS HAVE WON THEIR LAST THREE GAMES HEADING INTO TONIGHT’S CONTEST.  GAME TIME IS SEVEN P-M.