HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

FIRST ROUND PLAY CONTINUED THURSDAY AT THE GIRLS SWEET 16 IN BOWLING GREEN.

1^ST REGION REPRESENTATIVE CALLOWAY COUNTY DEFEATED NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC IN OVERTIME 62-57. 

IN OTHER ACTION:  3^RD REGION REPRESENTATIVE OWENSBORO CATHOLIC WAS ELIMINATED BY CLAY COUNTY 61-48.  THE STATE’S LEADING SCORER—REBECCA GREENWELL OF OWENSBORO CATHOLIC HAD 28 POINTS.

ROCKCASTLE COUNTY EDGED MADISON CENTRAL 55-52 AND SHELDON CLARK DEFEATED BOYD COUNTY 74-59.

QUARTERFINAL GAMES TODAY HAVE BOWLING GREEN MEETING TOP RANKED MANUAL AT NOON, FOLLOWED BY BUTLER AND MARION COUNTY.  THIS EVENING, CALLOWAY COUNTY FACES SHELDON CLARK AT 6:30 AND ROCKCASTLE COUNTY MEETS CLAY COUNTY.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KENTUCKY BEGINS PLAY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT TODAY MEETING OLE MISS IN QUARTERFINAL ACTION AT THE GEORGIA DOME IN ATLANTA.

OLE MISS DEFEATED SOUTH CAROLINA 66-55 THURSDAY.  COVERAGE OF THIS AFTERNOON’S GAME BEGINS AT ONE P-M ON LITE 98.7.

THE TENNESSEE VOLS BLEW A 16 POINT LEAD, BUT HELD OFF ARKANSAS 74-68 TO ADVANCE TO PLAY FLORIDA THIS EVENING.  TOBIAS HARRIS LED THE VOLS WITH 20 POINTS, SCOTTY HOPSON ADDED EIGHT POINTS AND FOUR REBOUNDS.

VANDERBILT ROLLED INTO TODAY’S QUARTERFINAL ACTION WITH A 62-50 WIN OVER L-S-U.  THE COMMODORES MEET MISSISSIPPI STATE THIS EVENING.

THE LOUISVILLE CARDINALS ADVANCED TO THE SEMIFINALS OF THE BIG EAST TOURNAMENT WITH AN 81-56 WIN OVER MARQUETTE.  MIKE MARRA HAD 22 POINTS TO LEAD THE CARDS, WHO HIT 13 THREE POINTERS FOR THE THIRD TIME IN A GAME THIS SEASON.

LOUISVILLE MEETS NOTRE DAME IN THE SECOND SEMI FINAL THIS EVENING, FOLLOWING THE GAME BETWEEN CONNECTICUT AND SYRACUSE.

THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS IS INVESTIGATING A REPORT SUGGESTING COACH JOHN PELPHREY HAD CONTACT WITH A PAIR OF 2012 RECRUITS IN VIOLATION OF NC-AA RULES.

CBS SPORTS HAD A REPORT ON ITS WEBSITE THURSDAY, WHICH INCLUDED A PICTURE OF PELPHREY WITH THE TWO RECRUITS AT A HIGH SCHOOL TOURNAMENT LAST DECEMBER.

NC-AA RULES SAY COACHES CANNOT HAVE OFF CAMPUS CONTACT WITH A PROSPECT UNTIL THE JULY FIRST AFTER THE PROSPECT’S JUNIOR YEAR. 

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

TWENTY SIX N-F-L TEAMS WERE ON HAND FOR KENTUCKY FOOTBALL’S PRO DAY THURSDAY.

THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS DRAFT PROSPECTS RANDALL COBB AND DERRICK LOCKE BYPASSED THE 40-YARD DASH, BROAD JUMP AND VERTICAL JUMP.  THEY DID TAKE PART IN AGILITY DRILLS AND ALONG WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS RAN SOME PASS ROUTES FOR QUARTERBACK MIKE HARTLINE.

THE TENNESSEE TITANS WERE AMONG THE N-F-L TEAMS ON HAND.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS OPENED A FIVE GAME HOMESTAND WITH A 4-0 WIN OVER THE MINNESOTA WILD.  THE PREDATORS FACE COLORADO TOMORROW NIGHT AT SEVEN, A GAME YOU CAN HEAR ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.