HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

BOYS 2^ND REGION:  SEMIFINAL ACTION TAKES PLACE THIS EVENING AT HOPKINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL’S TIGER GYM.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND HENDERSON COUNTY PLAY THE OPENING GAME AT SIX, WITH MADISONVILLE MEETING UNION COUNTY IN THE NIGHTCAP.  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.

BOYS 4^TH REGION:  GLASGOW MEETS BOWLING GREEN AND WARREN CENTRAL TAKES ON MONROE COUNTY IN SEMI FINAL ACTION.

BOYS 1^ST REGION:  MARSHALL COUNTY MEETS GRAVES COUNTY AND FULTON COUNTY GOES AGAINST PADUCAH TILGHMAN IN SEMI FINAL PLAY.

BOYS 3^RD REGION:  MUHLENBERG COUNTY MEETS DAVIESS COUNTY WITH THE WINNER TO ADVANCE TO THE BOYS SWEET 16.

ONE TICKET TO RUPP ARENA WAS PUNCHED SUNDAY AS DIXIE HEIGHTS DEFEATED NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC IN FOUR OVERTIMES 79-76.

CRITTENDEN COUNTY’S LADY ROCKETS WILL PLAY THE STATE’S TOP RANKED TEAM IN MANUAL FROM THE 7^TH REGION IN THE GIRLS SWEET 16 WEDNESDAY IN BOWLING GREEN.  TIP OFF IS SET FOR 1:30 IN DIDDLE ARENA AT WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS RALLIED FROM SEVEN POINTS DOWN AT HALFTIME TO DEFEAT TENNESSEE 64-58 SUNDAY.  BRANDON KNIGHT LED KENTUCKY WITH 19 POINTS, WITH TERRENCE JONES AND DARIUS MILLER EACH ADDING 15.  TENNESSEE WAS LED BY TOBIAS HARRIS WITH 18 POINTS, SCOTTY HOPSON ADDED 13 IN A LOSING EFFORT.

THE WIN LANDED THE WILDCATS THE NUMBER TWO SEED IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT IN ATLANTA THAT BEGINS THURSDAY.  THE WILDCATS WILL FACE THE SOUTH CAROLINA/OLE MISS WINNER FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 2:30 HOPKINSVILLE TIME.

TENNESSEE AND VANDERBILT BOTH HAVE FIRST ROUND GAMES THURSDAY.  THE VOLS PLAY ARKANSAS AT 6:30 THURSDAY NIGHT, WHILE VANDY MEETS L-S-U AT NINE P-M THURSDAY AT THE GEORGIA DOME.

A REMINDER, COACH JOHN CALIPARI’S WEEKLY CALL IN SHOW AIRS TONIGHT AT FIVE, FOLLOWED BY BIG BLUE SPORTS NIGHTLY AT SIX ON LITE 98.7.

TENNESSEE’S LADY VOLS DRAINED 16 THREE POINTERS IN DOWNING KENTUCKY 90-65 IN THE WOMEN’S S-E-C CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN NASHVILLE SUNDAY. 

WESTERN KENTUCKY’S BASKETBALL TEAMS ARE IN THE SEMI FINALS OF THE SUN BELT TOURNAMENT IN HOT SPRINGS ARKANSAS.

THE HILLTOPPERS ENDED LOUISIANA’S RAGIN CAJUNS 11 GAME WINNING STREAK SUNDAY NIGHT 81-76.  WESTERN WILL FACE NORTH TEXAS IN SEMIFINAL ACTION THIS EVENING AT 6 P-M.

MEANWHILE, THE LADY TOPPERS FACE ARKANSAS STATE IN SEMIFINAL ACTION AT NOON TODAY.  THE LADY TOPPERS DEFEATED DENVER 65-57 SUNDAY, WITH ARNIKA BROWN GETTING FOUR POINTS AND SIX REBOUNDS.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

MURRAY STATE DEFEATED NORTH DAKOTA STATE IN A DOUBLEHEADER 12-7 AND 2-1 SUNDAY AT REAGAN FIELD.  THE BREDS HOST BELMONT TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

AUSTIN PEAY DEFEATED ALABAMA A AND M 11-4 AT THE RIVERVIEW INN CLASSIC SUNDAY.  THE GOVERNORS ARE BACK IN ACTION TUESDAY AFTERNOON HOSTING SOUTH DAKOTA STATE.

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THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS LOSE TO THE CALGARY FLAMES 3-2 SUNDAY NIGHT.  THE PREDS ARE BACK IN ACTION TUESDAY NIGHT AT SAN JOSE.  COVERAGE OF THE GAME BEGINS AT 9:30 ON NEWSTALK 95.3FM/1230 AM WHOP.