HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

8^TH DISTRICT GIRLS

HOPKINSVILLE DEFEATED FORT CAMPBELL 76-31.  CHRISTY SOLDO LED THE LADY TIGERS IN SCORING WITH 23, TOODIE WILLIAMS ADDED 15 AND ASHLEE COLE PITCHED IN 14 POINTS.  ANGIE RANGEL WAS FORT CAMPBELL’S LEADING SCORER WITH EIGHT POINTS.  HOPKINSVILLE IS NOW 21-3 AS THEY HEAD TO THURSDAY NIGHT’S CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, WHILE FORT CAMPBELL FINISHES THE SEASON SIX AND 13.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY DEFEATED UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS 48-37.  MARTESSIA WILLIAMS LEAD CHRISTIAN COUNTY WITH 18 POINTS AND DESHERICA EDWARDS ADDED 11.  JORDAN SHOUSE LED U-H-A WITH 10 POINTS.  CHRISTIAN COUNTY IS NOW 10-10 ON THE SEASON WHILE U-H-A FINISHES 8-14.

HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY WILL MEET IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME THURSDAY NIGHT AT SIX, WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 5:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

5^TH DISTRICT GIRLS:   CRITTENDEN COUNTY DEFEATED TRIGG COUNTY 51-42 AND LYON COUNTY EDGED LIVINGSTON CENTRAL 52-48.

6^TH DISTRICT GIRLS:  UNION COUNTY OVER WEBSTER COUNTY 51-40.

7^TH DISTRICT GIRLS:  CALDWELL COUNTY OVER HOPKINS CENTRAL 69-40.

13^TH DISTRICT GIRLS:  FRANKLIN SIMPSON OVER LOGAN COUNTY 61-43.

7^TH DISTRICT BOYS:  HOPKINS CENTRAL OVER CALDWELL COUNTY 70-47.

TONIGHT’S GAMES

8^TH DISTRICT BOYS:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY MEETS FORT CAMPBELL AT SIX, FOLLOWED BY UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS AND HOPKINSVILLE.  COVERAGE OF BOTH GAMES WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 5:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

5^TH DISTRICT BOYS:  LYON COUNTY MEETS CRITTENDEN COUNTY AT SIX, FOLLOWED BY HOST LIVINGSTON CENTRAL AND TRIGG COUNTY.

6^TH DISTRICT BOYS:  UNION COUNTY PLAYS AT HOST WEBSTER COUNTY.

7^TH DISTRICT:  HOST MADISONVILLE PLAYS DAWSON SPRINGS IN A BOY-GIRL DOUBLEHEADER BEGINNING AT SIX P-M.

13^TH DISTRICT:  HOST TODD CENTRAL PLAYS RUSSELLVILLE AT SIX IN GIRLS ACTION, TO BE FOLLOWED IN BOYS PLAY BY FRANKLIN SIMPSON AND LOGAN COUNTY.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

THE 4^TH RATED TENNESSEE LADY VOLS WRAPPED UP THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A 77-44 WIN OVER NUMBER 22 GEORGIA MONDAY NIGHT.  THE LADY VOLS ARE NOW 26-2 ON THE SEASON.

TONIGHT’S GAMES: THE TENNESSEE VOLS ARE BACK IN ACTION TONIGHT IN THE MUSIC CITY TAKING ON VANDERBILT AT MEMORIAL GYM.

THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS ARE ALSO IN ACTION THIS EVENING AS THEY MEET RUTGERS.

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS THE WOMAN CONVICTED OF TRYING TO EXTORT MONEY FROM LOUISVILLE COACH RICK PITINO PLANS TO APPEAL HER CONVICTION.

THE ATTORNEY FOR KAREN SYPHER FILED A TWO PAGE NOTICE MONDAY IN U-S DISTRICT COURT IN LOUISVILLE SAYING THEY WILL ASK THE U-S 6^TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS TO CONSIDER THE CASE.

SYPHER WAS CONVICTED LAST FRIDAY OF LYING TO THE F-B-I AND TRYING TO GET MONEY FROM PITINO IN EXCHANGE FOR HIS SILENCE ABOUT A SEXUAL TRYST IN 2003.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

AUSTIN PEAY FRESHMAN SECOND BASEMAN JORDAN HANKINS AND JUNIOR PITCHER ZACH TONEY WERE NAMED THE O-V-C PLAYER AND PITCHER OF THE WEEK MONDAY.

HANKINS WAS 8-13 IN A THREE GAME WEEKEND SERIES AGAINST VALPARAISO, WHILE TONEY RETIRED ALL 12 BATTERS HE FACED IN FOUR RELIEF INNINGS SUNDAY TO WIN OVER VALPO.

AUSTIN PEAY RETURNS TO ACTION THIS WEEKEND HOSTING THE RIVERVIEW INN INVITATIONAL BEGINNING FRIDAY.

MURRAY STATE’S BASEBALL TEAM IS IN ACTION THIS AFTERNOON AT ARKANSAS STATE.  GAME TIME IS THREE P-M.

NFL

THE TENNESSEE TITANS HIRED AN ASSISTANT COACH MONDAY AND GOT RID OF TWO OTHERS.

THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS FORMER LOUISVILLE QUARTERBACK DAVE RAGONE HAS BEEN NAMED AS WIDE RECEIVERS COACH.  RAGONE HAD RECENTLY WORKED WITH NEW TITANS OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR CHRIS PALMER AS QUARTERBACKS COACH OF THE HARTFORD TEAM IN THE UNITED FOOTBALL LEAGUE.

TERMINATED OF THEIR JOBS MONDAY WERE ASSISTANT SECONDARY COACH TIM HAUCK AND ASSISTANT SPECIAL TEAMS COACH MARTY GALBRAITH.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS WILL BE WITHOUT DEFENSEMAN RYAN SUTER AS THEY PLAY AT COLUMBUS TONIGHT.  SUTER WAS INJURED IN SATURDAY’S GAME AGAINST PHOENIX. 

COACH BARRY TROTZ TELLS THE TENNESSEAN HE BELIVES SUTER WILL BE BACK WHEN THE PREDS HOST CHICAGO THURSDAY NIGHT.  FIRST PUCK DROPS IN COLUMBUS TONIGHT AT SIX P-M.