HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

TRIGG COUNTY DEFEATED UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS 1-0 TO ADVANCE TO THE FINALS OF THE 2^ND REGION ALL A TOURNAMENT.  THE WILDCATS WILL MEET CALDWELL COUNTY WHO DEFEATED LIVINGSTON CENTRAL 12-7.  THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WILL TAKE PLACE THIS EVENING.

ELSEWHERE:  LOGAN COUNTY OVER RUSSELLVILLE 16-4 IN FIVE INNINGS.

TODAY’S GAMES:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY WELCOMES BARREN COUNTY, TODD CENTRAL TRAVELS TO DAWSON SPRINGS, FORT CAMPBELL HOSTS WEST CREEK, TN., HENDERSON COUNTY HOSTS UNION COUNTY AND MARSHALL COUNTY GOES TO MUHLENBERG COUNTY.

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

HOPKINSVILLE WON ITS SECOND 8^TH DISTRICT GAME IN AS MANY DAYS, DOWNING UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS 14-4 IN FIVE INNINGS WEDNESDAY. 

ELSEWHERE:  FRANKLIN SIMPSON OVER LOGAN COUNTY 18-3 IN FOUR INNINGS, CALLOWAY COUNTY SHUT OUT GRAVES COUNTY 4-0.

TODAY’S GAMES:  HOPKINSVILLE PLAYS AT RUSSELLVILLE, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS HOSTS WEBSTER COUNTY, TODD CENTRAL TAKES ON MCLEAN COUNTY, TRIGG COUNTY AT MAYFIELD, DAWSON SPRINGS AT HOPKINS CENTRAL, CALDWELL COUNTY HOSTS MADISONVILLE, CRITTENDEN COUNTY WELCOMES LYON COUNTY AND LIVINGSTON CENTRAL PLAYS AT MURRAY.

HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS

HOPKINSVILLE DEFEATED CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS PLAY, WINNING THE BOYS MATCHES 6-0, WITH THE GIRLS WINNING 8-1.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY ATHLETICS DIRECTOR KERRY STOVALL HAS CALLED A 3:30 NEWS CONFERENCE THIS AFTERNOON AT THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY.  IT’S NOT KNOWN WHAT THE NEWS CONFERENCE CONCERNS.

WEDNESDAY WAS THE FIRST DAY HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS COULD SIGN NATIONAL LETTERS TO PLAY COLLEGIATE SPORTS.  HOPKINSVILLE HIGH’S CONNER AND DALLAS GATES SIGNED TO PLAY BASKETBALL FOR BRESCIA UNIVERSITY IN OWENSBORO.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

AUSTIN PEAY PICKED UP TWO BASKETBALL SIGNEES WEDNESDAY.  CHRIS FREEMAN FROM MUHLENBERG COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL AND JEROME CLYBURN FROM SANTA FE COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA INKED WITH THE GOVERNORS.  CLYBURN AND FREEMAN JOIN A RECRUITING CLASS WHICH INCLUDES GUARD HERDIE LAWRENCE FROM SUWANEE, GEORGIA.

THE LADY GOVERNORS ALSO HAD A SIGNEE WEDNESDAY.  LESLIE MARTINEZ IS A GUARD TRANSFERRING FROM COLLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN PLANO, TEXAS.  MARTINEZ JOINS A CLASS WHICH HAD THREE SIGNEES IN THE FALL SIGNING PERIOD.

KENTUCKY BASKETBALL COACH JOHN CALIPARI HAD A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH MEMBERS OF THE LEXINGTON MEDIA WEDNESDAY.  THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS CALIPARI SAID RUMORS ARE GOING TO COME OUT EVERY YEAR HE MAY GO TO THE N-B-A, BUT SAYS HE HAS THE BEST JOB IN HIS SPORT AND HE CANNOT STOP THE RUMORS.

CALIPARI WAS ASKED IF TERRENCE JONES AND BRANDON KNIGHT WOULD ENTER THE N-B-A DRAFT.  HE SAID HE WAS NOT AT A POSITION WHERE HE COULD SAY WHETHER THEY WOULD GO OR STAY AT UK, BUT SAID IT WOULD BE A NO BRAINER FOR PUTTING THEIR NAMES IN IF THAT’S WHAT THEY CHOOSE TO DO.

RICK PITINO CONTEMPLATED RETIRING AT THE END OF THE BASKETBALL SEASON, HOWEVER A COURIER-JOURNAL STORY SAYS WIFE JOANNE SAID NO TO THAT.  PITINO SAYS SHE TOLD HIM IF HE WON A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OR GOT TO ANOTHER FINAL FOUR, THAT WOULD BE THE TIME TO RETIRE.  LOUISVILLE IS SET TO ADD A TOP TEN RECRUITING CLASS TO FOUR RETURNING STARTERS THAT WENT 25-10 THIS PAST SEASON.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

MELVIN GOINS HAS USED ALL OF HIS BASKETBALL ELIGIBLITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, HOWEVER THE POINT GUARD IS TRYING TO BECOME A FOOTBALL PLAYER.

THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS GOINS HAS BEEN WORKING OUT AS A DEFENSIVE BACK.  IF GOINS IS OFFERED A SPOT TO PLAY THIS COMING SEASON, HE WOULD HAVE TO GET A WAIVER FROM THE NC-AA TO BE ELIGIBLE. 

GOINS IS TO GRADUATE THIS SUMMER WITH A SOCIOLOGY DEGREE, BUT HE WOULD HAVE TO ENROLL IN GRADUATE SCHOOL TO PLAY THIS SEASON.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

AUSTIN PEAY LOST IN A SLUGFEST TO BELMONT 17-16 WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

NHL

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS OPENED THEIR WESTERN CONFERENCE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFF SERIES WITH A 4-1 WIN OVER ANAHEIM WEDNESDAY NIGHT.  MIKE FISHER HAD TWO GOALS FOR THE PREDS WHO PLAY THE DUCKS FRIDAY NIGHT AT 9:30.  YOU CAN HEAR THE GAME ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.