CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND HOPKINSVILLE WERE SCHEDULED TO PLAY IN HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL FRIDAY NIGHT, HOWEVER THE GAME AT HOPKINSVILLE HIGH WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF RAIN.

THE TWO TEAMS WILL PLAY A DAY-NIGHT DOUBLEHEADER TODAY, WITH THE DAY GAME AT 1 AT CHRISTIAN COUNTY, WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 12:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND ONLINE AT WHOPAM.COM.   THE NIGHT GAME IS SLATED FOR SEVEN P-M AT HOPKINSVILLE HIGH, WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 6:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY LADY COLONEL SOFTBALL CLASSIC AT TIE BREAKER PARK WAS ALSO AFFECTED BY FRIDAY'S RAINS.  PLANS ARE TO HAVE POOL PLAY GAMES BEGINNING AT NINE A-M, WITH SINGLE ELIMINATION GAMES IN THE AFTERNOON.  CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND HOPKINSVILLE ARE BOTH PLAYING IN THE EVENT.

THREE OF THE TOP HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PLAYERS IN KENTUCKY ARE SKIPPING THIS WEEKEND'S TRYOUTS FOR THE KENTUCKY ALL STAR TEAM.  THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS CHANE BEHANAN OF BOWLING GREEN ALONG WITH VINNY ZOLLO AND ROBBIE STENSEL OF CLARK COUNTY WILL NOT TRYOUT FOR THE TEAM.  BOWLING GREEN COACH D-G SHERRILL TOLD THE NEWSPAPER BEHANAN IS NOT TRYING OUT BECAUSE HE PLANS TO ENROLL IN SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE AND GO WITH THE CARDINALS ON A FOREIGN TRIP THIS SUMMER AND COULD NOT DEVOTE THE TIME NECESSARY FOR THE ALL STAR GAMES AGAINST INDIANA. 

SHERRILL ADDED HAD BEHANAN WON MR. BASKETBALL, WHICH WAS AWARDED TO CHRISTIAN COUNTY'S ANTHONY HICKEY, BEHANAN WOULD HAVE "HAD TO REVISIT" HIS DECISION.  CLARK COUNTY COACH SCOTT HUMPHREY SAID ZOLLO AND STENSEL ARE NOT TRYING OUT BECAUSE THEY DID NOT WANT TO.  CHRISTIAN COUNTY'S DONOVAN KATES AND VEONTAE LEWIS ARE PARITICPATING IN THE TRYOUTS TODAY AT MANUAL HIGH SCHOOL.

KENTUCKIANS ARE IN THE TOP THREE AT THIS WEEK'S CHAMPIONS TOUR STOP, THE OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE PRO-AM IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.  PADUCAH'S RUSS COCHRAN IS THE LEADER AFTER THE FIRST ROUND WITH A SEVEN UNDER 64, WHILE FRANKLIN'S KENNY PERRY--PLAYING HIS FIRST CHAMPIONS TOUR EVENT OF THE SEASON--IS THREE SHOTS BACK WITH AN 67.  SECOND ROUND PLAY IS TODAY.

NASHVILLE'S BRANDT SNEDEKER IS PART OF A SEVEN WAY TIE FOR THE LEAD AFTER TWO ROUNDS OF THE VALERO TEXAS OPEN.  SNEDEKER FOLLOWED HIS OPENING ROUND 69 WITH A EVEN PAR 72 TO STAND AT THREE UNDER PAR AFTER TWO ROUNDS.  THE SEVEN WAY TIE FOR THE LEAD IS THE SECOND LARGEST IN PGA TOUR HISTORY, WITH THE RECORD OF EIGHT PLAYERS TIED FOR THE LEAD AFTER TWO ROUNDS SET AT THE 2001 HARTFORD OPEN.

THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS RALLIED FROM A 4-1 DEFICIT, BUT FELL TO ANAHEIM 5-3 IN GAME TWO OF THE STANLEY CUP WESTERN CONFERENCE PLAYOFFS FRIDAY NIGHT.  GAME THREE IS SET FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FIVE IN NASHVILLE'S BRIDGESTONE ARENA.  YOU CAN HEAR THE GAME ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP. 

FORMER HOPKINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL PITCHER JUSTIN HAGEMAN WILL PITCH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AGAINST ARKANSAS STATE.  THE HILLTOPPERS AND REDWOLVES WILL COMPLETE A SUSPENDED GAME TIED 3-3 IN THE 13TH INNING AT THREE THIS AFTERNOON BEFORE THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED GAME WHICH HAGEMAN WILL PITCH.  HAGEMAN WAS NAMED THE SUN BELT PITCHER OF THE WEEK EARLIER THIS WEEK.