HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL SCORES FROM THURSDAY

BOYS: UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ADVANCES TO THE QUARTERFINALS OF THE TOUCHSTONE ENERGY ALL A STATE TOURNAMENT WITH A 49-43 VICTORY OVER HAZARD.

MATT MCGOWAN LED THE BLAZERS WITH 17 POINTS AND K’QUAN MCNEESE ADDED 13.  THE BLAZERS FACE NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC IN QUARTERFINAL ACTION AT 5:30 TODAY, WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 5:15 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

ELSEWHERE—TRIGG COUNY DEFEATED FORT CAMPBELL 98-78, LYON COUNTY OVER HOPKINS CENTRAL 60-49, CALLOWAY COUNTY WINS OVER HICKMAN COUNTY 56-38, SOUTH WARREN EDGES GLASGOW 61-58.

GIRLS:  IT WAS A WILD FINISH AS CHRISTIAN COUNTY DEFEATED HOPKINSVILLE 60-59 AT COLONEL GYM.  CHRISTIAN COUNTY’S CYNTHEA GOLD WAS FOULED ON A THREE POINT ATTEMPT WITH LESS THAN A SECOND TO GO, THEN MISSED THE FIRST FREE THROW AND MADE THE LAST TWO TO GIVE THE LADY COLONELS A 60-59 WIN.

DESHERICA EDWARDS LED CHRISTIAN COUNTY WITH 20 POINTS, WHILE CHRISTY SOLDO PACED HOPKINSVILLE WITH 17.  CHRISTIAN COUNTY IMPROVED TO 7-9 AND 3-1 IN DISTRICT PLAY, WHILE HOPKINSVILLE FELL TO 15-3 AND 4-1 IN DISTRICT GAMES.  THE TWO TEAMS PLAY AGAIN NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT HOPKINSVILLE HIGH.

ELSEWHERE—WEBSTER COUNTY OVER HOPKINS CENTRAL 70-44, HENDERSON COUNTY OVER UNION COUNTY 41-37.

FRIDAY’S SCHEDULE

BOYS:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY IS SLATED TO GO TO OWENSBORO THIS EVENING TO MATCH UP WITH OWENSBORO HIGH.  COVERAGE OF THE GAME WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW IS SCHEDULED FOR AROUND 7:30 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

THE HOPKINSVILLE TIGERS ARE ALSO IN ACTION TONIGHT AS THEY PLAY AT HOPKINS CENTRAL, FORT CAMPBELL PLAYS AT CRITTENDEN COUNTY.

ELSEWHERE—MADISONVILLE TRAVELS TO CALDWELL COUNTY, TODD CENTRAL HOSTS FRANKLIN SIMPSON, WEBSTER COUNTY HOSTS UNION COUNTY, LOGAN COUNTY PLAYS AT RUSSELLVILLE, MARSHALL COUNTY HOSTS GRAVES COUNTY, OHIO COUNTY GOES TO MEADE COUNTY, PADUCAH TILGHMAN AT ST. MARY, CALLOWAY COUNTY AT HENRY COUNTY, TENNESSEE, DAVIESS COUNTY AT LOUISVILLE TRINITY, WARREN CENTRAL AT WARREN EAST, BOWLING GREEN HOSTS GREENWOOD.

GIRLS:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY PLAYS AT OWENSBORO, HOPKINSVILLE AT HOPKINS CENTRAL, CALDWELL COUNTY HOSTS MADISONVILLE, FORT CAMPBELL PLAYS AT LYON COUNTY, DAWSON SPRINGS PLAYS CRITTENDEN COUNTY, RUSSELLVILLE AT LOGAN COUNTY, TODD CENTRAL AT FRANKLIN SIMPSON, PADUCAH TILGHMAN AT ST. MARY, OHIO COUNTY HOSTS DAVIESS COUNTY, MARSHALL COUNTY HOSTS GRAVES COUNTY,  WARREN CENTRAL AT WARREN EAST, BOWLING GREEN MEETS GREENWOOD.

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS GIRLS GAME WITH LYON COUNTY WHICH WAS SCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY AT 4:30, HAS NOW BEEN MOVED TO MONDAY NIGHT.  THE GAME WILL BE PLAYED AT BLAZER GYM.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

SCOTTY HOPSON DID NOT PLAY FOR THE TENNESSEE VOLS THURSDAY NIGHT, BUT THE VOLS CRUISED TO A 69-55 VICTORY AT AUBURN.  HOPSON MISSED THE GAME AFTER SUFFERING A SPRAINED ANKLE IN PRACTICE EARLIER THIS WEEK.  THE VOLS RETURN TO ACTION SATURDAY HOSTING ALABAMA.

SOUTH ALABAMA ENDED WESTERN KENTUCKY’S FOUR GAME SUN BELT WINNING STREAK 80-76 IN DIDDLE ARENA.  SERGIO KERUSCH HAD HIS SIXTH DOUBLE-DOUBLE OF THE SEASON WITH 18 POINTS AND 11 REBOUNDS.  THE HILLTOPPERS PLAY LOUISIANA MONROE SATURDAY AFTERNOON.

IN THE O-V-C:  BILLY KENNEDY GOT HIS 100^TH WIN AS MURRAY STATE’S COACH AS THE RACERS DEFEATED TENNESSEE STATE 74-65.  ED DANIEL HAD A CAREER HIGH 21 POINTS FOR THE RACERS.

MEANWHILE, THE LADY RACERS FALL TO TENNESSEE STATE 73-70.  REDSHIRT JESSICA WINFREY LED MURRAY STATE WITH 17 POINTS.

AUSTIN PEAY JUMPED OUT TO A 17-3 LEAD AND NEVER LOOKED BACK IN DEFEATING TENNESSEE MARTIN 82-53 AT THE DUNN CENTER.  TYSHWAN EDMONDSON LED THE GOVERNORS WITH 16 POINTS AND JOHN FRALEY HAD HIS THIRD STRAIGHT DOUBLE FIGURE GAME WITH 14.

THE LADY GOVERNORS CAME FROM BEHIND TO BEAT UT-MARTIN 69-61.  SENIOR BROOKE FAULKNER SCORED ALL 16 OF HER POINTS IN THE SECOND HALF.  AUSTIN PEAY WAS LED BY WHITNEY HANLEY WITH HER THIRD DOUBLE-DOUBLE OF 18 POINTS AND TEN REBOUNDS.

AUSTIN PEAY AND MURRAY STATE RENEW THEIR RIVALRY IN A DOUBLEHEADER SATURDAY AT THE DUNN CENTER, WITH THE WOMEN’S GAME TIPPING OFF AT 5:15.

THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS LOOK TO REBOUND TUESDAY NIGHT’S LOSS AT OLE MISS AS THEY PLAY AT FLORIDA SATURDAY NIGHT.  PRE GAME COVERAGE BEGINS AT 6:30 ON LITE 98.7.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS LOST THEIR FOURTH STRAIGHT GAME AT PHILADELPHIA 3-2.  THE PREDS HOST DETROIT SATURDAY NIGHT AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA, A GAME YOU CAN HEAR AT SEVEN P-M ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.

PGA TOUR

FRANKLIN’S KENNY PERRY FIRED AN EVEN PAR 71 AT THE FIRST ROUND OF THE WASTE MANAGEMENT PHOENIX OPEN.  THE LEADERS AFTER THE FIRST ROUND ARE BILL HAAS AND TOM LEHMAN ARE AMONG FOUR GOLFERS TIED FOR THE LEAD WITH A SIX UNDER PAR 65 SCORE.  PLAY WAS SUSPENDED FOR DARKNESS AFTER A TWO HOUR DELAY THURSDAY MORNING DUE TO FROST.