HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL/SOFTBALL

GAMES ACROSS THE REGION WERE RAINED OUT MONDAY.  NO WORD ON WHETHER ANY GAMES WILL BE PLAYED TODAY.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTED ON ITS WEBSITE MONDAY BULLITT EAST SOPHOMORE DEREK WILLIS HAS MADE HIS COMMITMENT ON WHERE HE WANTS TO PLAY HIS COLLEGE BASKETBALL.  WILLIS VISITED PURDUE UNIVERSITY OVER THE WEEKEND AND MADE HIS COMMITMENT.  THE SIX-NINE WILLIS LED THE CHARGERS TO THE 6TH REGION CHAMPIONSHIP THIS PAST SEASON.

MEANWHILE, LOUISVILLE EASTERN'S REMY ABELL VISITED INDIANA UNIVERSITY MONDAY AND LEFT WITH A SCHOLARSHIP OFFER ACCORDING TO THE COURIER JOURNAL.  ABELL WAS RELEASED FROM HIS COMMITTMENT TO PLAY FOR BRADLEY UNIVERSITY LAST WEEK.  ABELL IS ALSO CONSIDERING WESTERN KENTUCKY, XAVIER, BUTLER AND PENN STATE.  ABELL PLAYED FOR THE 7TH REGION CHAMPIONS WHO LOST TO STATE CHAMPION CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN THE SEMIFINALS OF THE BOYS SWEET 16.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

WESTERN KENTUCKY BASKETBALL COACH KEN MCDONALD TELLS THE COURIER JOURNAL SAYS THE FINAL MONTHS OF THIS PAST BASKETBALL SEASON WERE STRESSFUL AND CONFUSING AS RUMORS SWIRLED ABOUT WHETHER HE WOULD RETURN FOR THE 2011-12 SEASON.  MCDONALD SAID HE COULD NOT DISCERN FACTS FROM RUMORS AFTER ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ROSS BJORK TOOK OVER FROM FORMER ATHLETIC DIRECTOR WOOD SELIG.  MCDONALD SAID ALL HE TRIED TO DO WAS FOCUS ON COACHING ON THE TEAM, WHICH WAS THE ONLY THING HE COULD CONTROL.  THE HILLTOPPERS WERE 16-16 THIS PAST SEASON.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIDE RECEIVER RANDALL COBB IS ONE OF 25 PLAYERS WHO HAVE BEEN INVITED TO ATTEND THURSDAY NIGHT'S NFL DRAFT IN NEW YORK.  COBB--WHO IS FOREGOING HIS SENIOR YEAR AT U-K--IS PROJECTED TO BE A LATE FIRST OR EARLY SECOND ROUND PICK.

NHL

NASHVILLE PREDATORS DEFENSEMAN SHEA WEBER HAS BEEN NAMED A FINALIST FOR THE NORRIS TROPHY, GIVEN TO THE NHL'S TOP DEFENSEMAN.  WEBER IS THE SECOND PREDATOR TO BE NAMED AS A FINALIST FOR A MAJOR AWARD.  GOALIE PEKKA RINNE WAS NAMED A FINALIST FOR THE VEZINA AWARD, GIVEN TO THE LEAGUE'S TOP GOALIE. 

MEANWHILE, THE PREDATORS ARE AWAITING THEIR OPPONENT IN THE WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS.  THE OPPONENT COULD BE THE DETROIT RED WINGS, LOS ANGELES KINGS OR VANCOUVER CANUCKS.