Sports Headlines 3/31/11

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

 

CHRISTIAN COUNTY FELL TO CLARKSVILLE 8-5 WEDNESDAY AT COLONEL FIELD.  THE COLONELS GOT TWO HITS FROM TAYLOR WADE HANCOCK WHO TOOK THE LOSS ON THE MOUND.  THE COLONELS ALSO COMMITTED THREE ERRORS WHICH LED TO TWO UNEARNED RUNS.  CHRISTIAN COUNTY RETURNS TO ACTION MONDAY HOSTING FORT CAMPBELL.

 

TODAY’S GAMES:  HOPKINSVILLE HOSTS HENDERSON COUNTY IN A GAME WHICH WAS POSTPONED FROM WEDNESDAY, FORT CAMPBELL TAKES ON CLARKSVILLE ACADEMY, CALDWELL COUNTY GOES TO MADISONVILLE, DAWSON SPRINGS AT LIVINGSTON CENTRAL, TODD CENTRAL HOSTS TRIGG COUNTY, MUHLENBERG COUNTY ENTERTAINS BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY.

 

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

 

TODAY’S GAMES:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY MEETS HOPKINSVILLE IN 8TH DISTRICT ACTION, WITH THE GAME TIME CHANGED TO SIX P-M.  HOWEVER, THE SITE IS TO BE DETERMINED THIS MORNING.  WE’LL HAVE THE GAME WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 5:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

 

ELSEWHERE:  TODD CENTRAL HOSTS FRANKLIN SIMPSON, DAWSON SPRINGS AT MADISONVILLE, LYON COUNTY AT LIVINGSTON CENTRAL, CALDWELL COUNTY HOSTS HOPKINS CENTRAL, CALLOWAY COUNTY WELCOMES HICKMAN COUNTY, MURRAY HIGH MEETS GRAVES COUNTY.

 

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

 

CHRISTIAN COUNTY BASKETBALL TEAM WILL BE HONORED WITH A COMMUNITY WIDE CELEBRATION THIS AFTERNOON.

 

THE PARADE WILL BEGIN AT CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH AT APPROXIMATELY 4:15 WITH THE CEREMONY TO BEGIN AROUND 4:50.  SEVERAL SPEAKERS WILL BE ON HAND FOR THE CEREMONY.

 

SEVERAL PLAYERS FROM THE WESTERN PART OF KENTUCKY HAVE BEEN INVITED TO TRY OUT FOR THE KENTUCKY ALL STAR BASKETBALL TEAM.  CHRISTIAN COUNTY’S ANTHONY HICKEY WAS NAMED MR. BASKETBALL EARLIER THIS WEEK.

 

OTHERS INVITED INCLUDE CHRISTIAN COUNTY’S DONOVAN KATES AND VEONTAE LEWIS, JESSE ANDERSON OF GRAVES COUNTY, CHANE BEHANAN OF BOWLING GREEN, GEORGE FANT AND JORDAN SHANKLIN OF WARREN CENTRAL, JOSH FORREST OF PADUCAH TILGHMAN, CHRIS FREEMAN OF MUHLENBERG COUNTY AND LEONARD SMITH OF FULTON COUNTY.  THE TRYOUTS WILL BE HELD APRIL 15-16. KENTUCKY WILL FACE ITS ALL STAR COUNTERPARTS FROM INDIANA JUNE 10-11.

 

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

 

THE PADUCAH SUN REPORTED WEDNESDAY HEATH HIGH SCHOOL IS TO NAME CHRISTIAN COUNTY OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR JOHN ADAMS AS ITS NEW HEAD COACH SOMETIME THIS WEEK.

 

THE PIRATES WERE 0-10 LAST SEASON.  HEATH WILL PLAY IN CLASS THREE A DISTRICT ONE WITH FORT CAMPBELL, TRIGG COUNTY, PADUCAH TILGHMAN AND WEBSTER COUNTY THIS SEASON.

 

HEATH WILL ALSO CONSOLIDATE WITH REIDLAND AND LONE OAK IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS TO FORM THE NEW MCCRACKEN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.

 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

 

THE KENTUCKY WILDCATS ARRIVED IN HOUSTON LAST NIGHT TO CONTINUE PREPARATIONS FOR THEIR MATCHUP WITH CONNECTICUT IN THE NC-AA FINAL FOUR SEMIFINALS SATURDAY.  COVERAGE OF THE GAME BEGINS AT 5:00 SATURDAY AFTERNOON ON LITE 98.7.

 

U-K SIGNEE MICHAEL GILCHRIST HAD 16 POINTS AND 12 REBOUNDS AND WAS NAMED THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER OF THE MCDONALD’S ALL AMERICAN GAME PLAYED LAST NIGHT IN CHICAGO.  THE EAST DEFEATED WEST 111-96.

 

NEW TENNESSEE COACH CUONZO MARTIN HAS NAMED HIS FIRST ASSISTANT FOR HIS NEW STAFF.  THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS JON HARRIS WILL COME TO KNOXVILLE.  HARRIS HAS BEEN ON MARTIN’S STAFF AT MISSOURI STATE THE LAST THREE YEARS.

 

COLLEGE BASEBALL/SOFTBALL

 

BASEBALL:  MIDDLE TENNESSEE DEFEATED AUSTIN PEAY 9-6 WEDNESDAY.

 

SOFTBALL:  MURRAY STATE SPLIT A DOUBLEHEADER, WINNING THE OPENING GAME OVER EVANSVILLE 7-3, LOSING THE NIGHTCAP 8-5.

 

AUSTIN PEAY’S SOFTBALL TEAM HOSTS TENNESSEE STATE IN A DOUBLEHEADER AT FIVE P-M TODAY.

 

NHL

 

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS ARE BACK IN ACTION THIS EVENING AT THE COLORADO AVALANCHE.  COVERAGE OF THE GAME BEGINS AT EIGHT P-M ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.