HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

BOYS 2^ND REGION:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY OPENED DEFENSE OF ITS REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP WITH AN 88-51 WIN OVER LIVINGSTON CENTRAL.

THE COLONELS HAD THREE PLAYERS IN DOUBLE FIGURES LED BY DONOVAN KATES WITH 27 POINTS.  ANTHONY HICKEY ADDED 20 AND NICK RILEY WITH 10 AS THE COLONELS IMPROVED TO 19-9 ON THE SEASON.

LIVINGSTON CENTRAL WHICH FINISHED THE SEASON 20-9 WAS LED BY LUCAS CROFT WITH 17 POINTS.

HENDERSON COUNTY GOT ITS 20^TH WIN OF THE SEASON IN DEFEATING HOPKINS CENTRAL 78-36.  ADAM REVLETT LED THE COLONELS WITH 19 POINTS, WHILE HOPKINS CENTRAL GOT SEVEN POINTS APIECE FROM RISHAD WIKES AND DEE TRUCKEY.  THE STORM FINISHES THE SEASON 8-22.

PLAY CONTINUES THIS EVENING AS MADISONVILLE MEETS LYON COUNTY AT SIX AND UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ACADEMY TAKES ON UNION COUNTY AT 7:45.  COVERAGE OF BOTH GAMES WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 5:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.

IN OTHER WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACTION:

1^ST REGION BOYS:  FULTON COUNTY EDGED BALLARD MEMORIAL 54-53 AND PADUCAH TILGHMAN OVER CALLOWAY COUNTY 74-55.

4^TH REGION BOYS:  BOWLING GREEN OVER FRANKLIN SIMPSON 70-63 AND GLASGOW DEFEATED METCALFE COUNTY 76-41.

GIRLS 3^RD REGION:  GRAYSON COUNTY SLIDES BY DAVIESS COUNTY 69-65 AND OWENSBORO CATHOLIC OVER MUHLENBERG COUNTY 60-44.

TONIGHT’S OTHER GAMES

1^ST REGION BOYS:  MARSHALL COUNTY MEETS CARLISLE COUNTY AND GRAVES COUNTY GOES AGAINST HEATH.

3^RD REGION BOYS:  MUHLENBERG COUNTY MEETS OWENSBORO

4^TH REGION BOYS:  WARREN CENTRAL PLAYS RUSSELLVILLE AND RUSSELL COUNTY MEETS MONROE COUNTY.

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

THE KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION HAS RELEASED ITS PRE SEASON ALL STATE TEAM.  AMONG THE 56 MEMBERS ARE ALEX DAVIE AND KYLE SPENCER OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY, AND JOSH DRAKE OF HOPKINSVILLE.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS CELEBRATED SENIOR NIGHT WITH AN 87-60 THUMPING OF PROVIDENCE.  PRESTON KNOWLES HAD HIS FIRST CAREER DOUBLE/ DOUBLE WITH 20 POINTS AND 10 REBOUNDS.

THE 11^TH RANKED CARDINALS WERE ASSURED OF A TOP FOUR SEED AND A DOUBLE BYE FOR NEXT WEEK’S BIG EAST TOURNAMENT AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IN NEW YORK.

AUSTIN PEAY’S LADY GOVERNORS ADVANCED IN THE O-V-C WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT IN NASHVILLE DEFEATING MURRAY STATE 71-64.  MURRAY STATE FINISHES THE SEASON 9-21, WHILE THE 14-17 LADY GOVERNORS MEET EASTERN ILLINOIS AT NOON TODAY IN QUARTERFINAL ACTION.

MEANWHILE, THE GOVERNORS WILL OPEN PLAY TODAY IN THE O-V-C TOURNAMENT MEETING SOUTHEAST MISSOURI AT EIGHT THIS EVENING.  AUSTIN PEAY IS THE THIRD SEED, WHILE SOUTHEAST MISSOURI IS THE SEVENTH SEED.

THE TENNESSEE VOLS ARE BACK IN ACTION TONIGHT AS THEY PLAY AT SOUTH CAROLINA.  THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS CENTER BRIAN WILLIAMS DID NOT MAKE THE TRIP AS HE RECOVERS FROM A BACK INJURY SUFFERED IN LAST SATURDAY’S GAME AGAINST MISSISSIPPI STATE.

THE S-E-C WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT BEGINS AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA IN NASHVILLE TODAY.  KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE AND VANDERBILT DO NOT SEE ACTION UNTIL FRIDAY.

TRAGEDY STRIKES MIDDLE TENNESSEE’S WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PROGRAM AS PLAYER TINA STEWART IS DEAD.  STEWART WAS FATALLY STABBED AT AN APARTMENT COMPLEX NEAR THE M-T-S-U CAMPUS WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 

THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS STEWART’S ROOMATE 18-YEAR-OLD SHANTERRICA MADDEN WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH MURDER.  A MURFREESBORO POLICE SPOKESMAN SAYS THERE WAS AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN THE TWO WOMEN WHICH LED TO THE STABBING.

MIDDLE TENNESSEE IS SLATED TO OPEN SUN BELT CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT PLAY THIS WEEKEND IN HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS. 

COLLEGE BASEBALL

AUSTIN PEAY LOST AGAIN AT OLE MISS WEDNESDAY NIGHT 11-3.  THE GOVERNORS WILL PLAY THE RIVERVIEW INN INVITATIONAL THIS WEEKEND WITH GAMES AGAINST ALABAMA A AND M AND EASTERN MICHIGAN.

MURRAY STATE LOSES TO ARKANSAS STATE 5-1 AT REAGAN FIELD.  THE BREDS BEGIN A FOUR GAME SERIES WITH NORTH DAKOTA STATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT REAGAN FIELD.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HAS RELEASED A MODIFIED NC-AA LETTER OF ALLEGATIONS.  THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS THE REVISED LETTER DID NOT REVEAL ANY NEW REVELATIONS.  THERE WERE 10 ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE MEN’S BASKETBALL PROGRAM AND TWO AGAINST THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM IN THE ORIGINAL LETTER.

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THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS CONTINUE THEIR FOUR GAME WESTERN ROAD TRIP THIS EVENING AT VANCOUVER.  FIRST PUCK DROPS AT NINE P-M.