HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

THE HOPKINSVILLE TIGERS SAW AN 11 GAME WIN STREAK COME TO AN END LAST NIGHT AS HENDERSON COUNTY DEFEATED THE TIGERS 3-2. BOTH TEAMS SCORED A RUN IN THE FIRST INNING, WITH THE COLONELS TAKING A 2-1 LEAD IN THE SECOND. THE TIGERS TIED THE GAME AT TWO IN THE THIRD.

THEN IN THE 5^TH INNING, HOPKINSVILLE RELIEVER KEATON SCRUGGS GAVE UP A LEADOFF HOME RUN TO AVERY PITT TO GIVE HENDERSON COUNTY THE WIN. THE COLONELS ARE NOW 17-11 ON THE SEASON, HOPTOWN GOES TO 26-4, WITH TWO OF THE LOSSES TO HENDERSON COUNTY.

ELSEWHERE: LOGAN COUNTY OVER BUTLER COUNTY 11-1, WARREN EAST SHUTOUT OWENSBORO 10-0, CALLOWAY COUNTY OVER HICKMAN COUNTY 9-1.

TODAY’S GAMES: UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS ENTERTAINS CRITTENDEN COUNTY, FORT CAMPBELL GOES TO DAWSON SPRINGS FOR A DOUBLEHEADER, TRIGG COUNTY TRAVELS TO WEBSTER COUNTY, TODD CENTRAL AT WHITESVILLE TRINITY, LOGAN COUNTY HOSTS BARREN COUNTY, MADISONVILLE WELCOMES MARSHALL COUNTY, HENDERSON COUNTY HOSTS CALDWELL COUNTY.

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

HENDERSON COUNTY OVER HOPKINSVILLE 12-5, TRIGG COUNTY DEFEATED FORT CAMPBELL 11-1 IN FIVE INNINGS AND CALLOWAY COUNTY EDGED GRAVES COUNTY 6-5.

TODAY’S GAMES: UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS HOSTS TODD CENTRAL, CHRISTIAN COUNTY GOES TO UNION COUNTY, TRIGG COUNTY IS AT RUSSELLVILLE, CALDWELL COUNTY HOSTS LYON COUNTY, MADISONVILLE HOSTS HENDERSON COUNTY, LOGAN COUNTY WELCOMES BOWLING GREEN, DAWSON SPRINGS HOSTS WEBSTER COUNTY.

HIGH SCHOOL TENNIS

HOPKINSVILLE HIGH’S TENNIS TEAMS WILL HAVE PARTICIPANTS IN THE STATE TOURNAMENT.

IN REGIONAL TOURNAMENT PLAY WEDNESDAY, MALLORY PERKINS WON THE REGION GIRLS SINGLES TITLE WITH A STRAIGHT SETS WIN OVER U-H-A’S BLAKE MEADE.

HOPKINSVILLE'S ERIN ENGLER LOST TO MEADE IN THE SEMI FINALS.

GREY CAMPBELL WON THE BOYS SINGLES TITLE, WINNING HIS FINALS MATCH IN STRAIGHT SETS OVER CALDWELL COUNTY’S CLINT JOINER, AFTER DEFEATING CHAD MEADE OF U-H-A IN STRAIGHT SETS IN THE SEMI FINALS. CAMPBELL DID NOT DROP A SET IN REGIONAL TOURNAMENT PLAY.

THE KHSAA STATE TENNIS TOURNAMENT WILL BE MAY 26-28 IN LEXINGTON.

THERE’S A NEW NUMBER ONE TEAM IN KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL.

BALLARD HIGH SCHOOL IS THE TOP TEAM IN THE LATEST KENTUCKY SOFTBALL COACHES TOP 25 POLL. CHRISTIAN COUNTY IS SECOND, ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE THIRD, GREENWOOD 6^TH, BUTLER COUNTY 10^TH, MARSHALL COUNTY 20^TH, REIDLAND 21^ST AND HEATH TIED FOR 22^ND.

THREE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETES SIGNED COLLEGE LETTERS ON WEDNESDAY.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY HAD TWO SIGNEES, WITH KAYLA WADE SIGNING TO PLAY BOTH SOFTBALL AND VOLLEYBALL FOR BRESCIA UNIVERSITY. WADE HAS PLAYED ON LADY COLONEL SOFTBALL TEAMS THAT HAVE GONE TO THE STATE TOURNAMENT THE LAST FOUR YEARS, ALONG WITH THREE STRAIGHT DISTRICT CHAMPION VOLLEYBALL TEAMS, WHO ALSO WERE THE REGIONAL RUNNER UPS IN 2010.

COLONEL SOCCER PLAYER JOSH KNIGHT SIGNED WITH DIVISION THREE SPALDING UNIVERSITY IN LOUISVILLE.  KNIGHT WAS ALSO THE PLACEKICKER FOR THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY FOOTBALL TEAMS THAT PLAYED IN THE CLASS FIVE A STATE FINALS IN 2008 AND 2010.

HOPKINSVILLE HIGH BASEBALL CATCHER DAVID GARDNER SIGNED WITH BETHEL UNIVERSITY. GARDNER WAS A MEMBER OF THE HOPKINSVILLE BASEBAL TEAM THAT WON THE 2^ND REGION CHAMPIONSHIP LAST YEAR AND APPEARED IN THE STATE BASEBALL TOURNAMENT.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL WILL NAME A NEW BASKETBALL COACH FRIDAY. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR KERRY STOVALL SAYS THE NEW COACH WILL BE INTRODUCED IN A NEWS CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AT 1:45.

THE NEW COACH WILL REPLACE STOVALL, WHO RESIGNED AFTER CHRISTIAN COUNTY’S STATE CHAMPIONSHIP THIS PAST SEASON.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY WILL PLAY IN THE GREAT ALASKA SHOOTOUT THANKSGIVING WEEKEND.

THE RACERS WILL FACE CAL IRVINE NOVEMBER 23^RD, THEN FACE EITHER SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI OR HOST ALASKA ANCHORAGE NOVEMBER 25^TH.

MURRAY STATE WILL BE THE FIRST O-V-C TEAM TO PLAY IN THE TOURNAMENT, WHICH IS THE LONGEST RUNNING REGULAR SEASON TOURNAMENT IN COLLEGE BASKETBALL.

WHILE WE’RE ON RACER BASKETBALL, A NUMBER OF FORMER PLAYERS ARE ENDORSING STEVE PROHM TO BE BILLY KENNEDY’S REPLACEMENT. THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS PROHM INTERVIEWED FOR THE POSITION WEDNESDAY.

ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ALLEN WARD SAYS PROHM WILL RECEIVE SERIOUS CONSIDERATION FOR THE JOB. PROHM WAS KENNEDY’S TOP ASSISTANT FOR THE PAST FIVE SEASONS AT MURRAY STATE.

THE COURIER JOURNAL, CITING AN ESPN.COM REPORT, SAYS FORMER WAKE FOREST BASKETBALLER TONY WOODS IS LIKELY HEADED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY.

WOODS LEFT WAKE FOREST LAST SEASON AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO A MISDEMEANOR ASSAULT CHARGE STEMMING FROM AN ARGUMENT WITH THE MOTHER OF HIS SON. THE REPORT INDICATES IF WOODS COMPLETES HIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOCIATES DEGREE, HE WOULD BE ELIGIBLE THIS SEASON.

WOODS HAD ORIGINALLY COMMITTED TO LOUISVILLE, BUT CHANGED HIS MIND AFTER ASSISTANT COACH TIM FULLER LEFT TO GO TO MISSOURI.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

AFTER AN OFF DAY, THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS OPEN AN EIGHT GAME ROAD TRIP AT SALT LAKE THIS EVENING.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS LOST TO WEST MICHIGAN 6-5 AT BOWLING GREEN BALLPARK IN COMPLETION OF A PROTESTED GAME FROM TUESDAY. THE TWO TEAMS PLAY A DOUBLEHEADER THIS EVENING AT BOWLING GREEN BALLPARK.