HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

HOPKINSVILLE LOST TO WAVERLY TENNESSEE 3-1 AT THE MARSHALL COUNTY SLUGFEST, WHILE CHRISTIAN COUNTY TOOK A PAIR OF GAMES FROM CLARKSVILLE HIGH 7-6 AND SYCAMORE HIGH 7-2 AT THE PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS CLASSIC IN CLARKSVILLE. 

HOPTOWN WILL CONTINUE PLAY AT THE MARSHALL COUNTY SLUGFEST TODAY, WHILE CHRISTIAN COUNTY ALSO CONTINUES PLAY AT THE PLAY IT AGAIN SPORTS CLASSIC IN CLARKSVILLE.

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

CHRISTIAN COUNTY DEFEATED HAYWOOD, TN. 10-2 AT THE WORKMAN SPRING CLASSIC IN CLARKSVILLE.  RUSSELLVILLE DEFEATED TODD CENTRAL 13-3 IN FIVE INNINGS AT THE FOURTH REGION ALL A CLASSIC, HENDERSON COUNTY OVER MADISONVILLE 15-3 IN FIVE INNINGS, TRIGG COUNTY OVER CALDWELL COUNTY 11-0 IN SIX INNINGS.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH’S ANTHONY HICKEY AND DONOVAN KATES WILL PLAY FOR THE KENTUCKY ALL STARS IN A GAME THIS EVENING AGAINST THE OHIO ALL STARS AT THOMAS MORE COLLEGE.

THE KENTUCKY NEW ERA ALSO REPORTS HICKEY WILL VISIT WITH SOUTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE SUNDAY AS HE CONSIDERS WHERE HE WILL PLAY HIS COLLEGE BASKETBALL.  HICKEY’S FATHER SAYS NINE SCHOOLS ARE BEING CONSIDERED FOR HIS SERVICES.

KENTUCKY’S MISTER BASKETBALL HAS ALSO BEEN ADDED TO THE DERBY FESTIVAL BASKETBALL CLASSIC ROSTER.  THE GAME WILL BE PLAYED AT THE KFC/YUM! CENTER APRIL 22^ND.  HICKEY IS ONE OF FIVE KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL PLAYERS IN THE GAME WHICH WILL ALSO INCLUDE BOWLING GREEN’S CHANE BEHANAN WHO HAS SIGNED WITH LOUISVILLE AND WARREN CENTRAL’S GEORGE FANT WHO HAS SIGNED WITH WESTERN KENTUCKY.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

AUSTIN PEAY WRAPPED UP SPRING PRACTICE WITH A SITUATIONAL SCRIMMAGE FRIDAY, WHICH SAW THE OFFENSE SCORE SIX TIMES IN THE GAME.  THE SCRIMMAGE ALSO SAW PLACE KICKER STEVEN STANSELL NAIL NINE PLACEKICKS, INCLUDING THE LAST THREE FROM 47 YARDS OUT.

COLLEGE BASEBALL/SOFTBALL

AUSTIN PEAY’S TEAMS WILL BE IN ACTION TODAY, AS THE LADY GOVERNORS HOST MURRAY STATE IN A SOFTBALL DOUBLEHEADER, WHILE THE GOVERNORS WELCOME EASTERN KENTUCKY FOR A TWIN BILL.

MURRAY STATE’S BASEBALL TEAM HOSTS JACKSONVILLE STATE IN A DOUBLEHEADER TODAY AT REAGAN FIELD.

FORMER HOPKINSVILLE HIGH PITCHER JUSTIN HAGEMAN STRUCK OUT A CAREER HIGH 10 BATTERS IN GOING THE DISTANCE FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY IN A 5-1 WIN OVER LOUISIANA’S RAGIN CAJUNS AT NICK DENES FIELD. 

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS CLINCHED A WESTERN CONFERENCE PLAYOFF SPOT WITH A 4-1 WIN OVER COLUMBUS AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA.  PEKKA RINNE STOPPED 44 SHOTS IN GOAL, WITH PATRICK HORNQVIST GETTING TWO OF THE PREDS GOALS.  NASHVILLE CLOSES OUT THE REGULAR SEASON IN ST. LOUIS TONIGHT, WITH THE GAME AT SEVEN ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.