HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

FRIDAY SCORES:  HOPKINSVILLE DEFEATED APOLLO 4-2, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS EDGED TODD CENTRAL 4-3, NO REPORT ON THE KHSAA WEBSITE ON THE CHRISTIAN COUNTY/SOUTH WARREN GAME, TRIGG COUNTY DEFEATED RUSSELLVILLE 13-6, UNION COUNTY OVER HOPKINS CENTRAL 11-1 IN FIVE INNINGS.

TODAY'S GAMES:  TRIGG COUNTY HOSTS HEATH, HENDERSON COUNTY PLAYS A DOUBLEHEADER WITH GRAYSON COUNTY, MADISONVILLE HOSTS OHIO COUNTY, CALDWELL COUNTY HOSTS MURRAY, UNION COUNTY TAKES ON APOLLO.

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

FRIDAY SCORES:   TODD CENTRAL OVER WARREN CENTRAL 10-0 IN FIVE INNINGS, DAWSON SPRINGS SHUT OUT BUTLER COUNTY 3-0, CALLOWAY COUNTY DEFEATED HICKMAN COUNTY 2-0, LONE OAK OVER LIVINGSTON CENTRAL 6-1.

TODAY'S GAMES:  CHRISTIAN COUNTY CLOSES OUT THE REGULAR SEASON HOSTING HENDERSON COUNTY AT SIX P-M, CALLOWAY COUNTY PLAYS LIVINGSTON CENTRAL AND MUHLENBERG COUNTY IN A DOUBLEHEADER, HOPKINS CENTRAL PLAYS HEATH AND WARREN EAST AT THE OWENSBORO CATHOLIC ROUND ROBIN INVITATIONAL.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL NAMED ITS NEW BOYS BASKETBALL COACH FRIDAY AND HE IS SOMEONE WHO IS VERY FAMILIAR TO THE PROGRAM.  TYLER SMITHART--WHO HAD BEEN AN ASSISTANT UNDER FORMER COACH KERRY STOVALL THE LAST THREE SEASONS--WILL REPLACE STOVALL ON THE BENCH NEXT SEASON.  BEFORE COMING TO CHRISTIAN COUNTY, SMITHART SERVED AS AN ASSISTANT COACH AT HENRY CLAY HIGH SCHOOL IN LEXINGTON.  SMITHART IS A GRADUATE OF TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY AND PLAYED HIS HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL FOR HENDERSON COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

FORMER HOPKINSVILLE HIGH PITCHER JUSTIN HAGEMAN DID NOT FACTOR IN WESTERN KENTUCKY'S LOSS TO MIDDLE TENNESSEE 5-1 FRIDAY NIGHT.  HAGEMAN PITCHED EIGHT INNINGS, ALLOWING ONE RUN ON TWO HITS, STRIKING OUT FOUR AND WALKING ONE BATTER.  HAGEMAN GAVE UP A LEAD OFF WALK IN THE BOTTOM OF THE FIRST AND THEN RETIRED 19 OF THE NEXT 20 BATTERS HE FACED.  BRIAN EDELED CAME ON TO RELIEVE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE NIGHT AND GAVE UP A WALKOFF GRAND SLAM.  THE TEAMS CLOSE OUT THE SERIES TODAY IN MURFREESBORO.

AUSTIN PEAY SWEPT AN O-V-C DOUBLEHEADER AT UT MARTIN, TAKING THE FIRST GAME 11-6 AND THE NIGHTCAP 14-3.  THE TEAMS CLOSE OUT THE SERIES TODAY.

MURRAY STATE SWEPT TENNESSEE TECH IN A PAIR OF ONE RUN GAMES AT REAGAN FIELD, 6-5 AND 8-7.  THE TEAMS CLOSE OUT THE SERIES TODAY.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY WILL PLAY A PAIR OF GAMES WITH 2011 FINAL FOUR PARTICIPANT VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH.  THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS WKU WILL HOST VCU NOVEMBER 23RD IN BOWLING GREEN AND WILL PLAY THE RETURN GAME IN RICHMOND IN THE 2012-13 SEASON.  VCU WILL THE FIRST FINAL FOUR TEAM TO PLAY IN DIDDLE ARENA SINCE LOUISVILLE CAME TO BOWLING GREEN IN THE 1986-87 SEASON AFTER LOUISVILLE WON THE 1986 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.

IT WAS ALSO ANNOUNCED FRIDAY WESTERN KENTUCKY GUARD BRANDON PETERS WILL NOT RETURN TO THE BASKETBALL TEAM.  PETERS WAS RULED ACADEMICALLY INELIGIBLE DURING THE 2009-10 SEASON AND MISSED WKU'S LAST 20 GAMES.  PETERS GRADES AT THE END OF THE SPRING SEMESTER HAD NOT MADE ADEQUATE PROGRESS FOR HIM TO RETURN NEXT SEASON.

KENTUCKY COACH JOHN CALIPARI WAS HONORED FRIDAY NIGHT DURING DICK VITALE'S CHARITY GALA IN SARASOTA, FLORIDA.  THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER SAYS CALIPARI AND NORTH CAROLINA COACH ROY WILLIAMS WERE BOTH HONORED DURING THE ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR A PLATE DINNER TO HELP RAISE FUNDS FOR THE V FOUNDATION.  BOTH CALIPARI AND WILLIAMS TALKED ABOUT LOSING PARENTS TO CANCER.  CALIPARI LOST HIS MOTHER TO THE DISEASE LAST FALL, WHILE WILLIAMS LOST BOTH PARENTS TO THE DISEASE.

THE MAINE RED CLAWS OF THE N-B-A DEVELOPMENTAL LEAGUE HAS EXPRESSED AN INTEREST TO HAVE FORMER TENNESSEE COACH BRUCE PEARL COACH THE TEAM.  PEARL WAS FIRED AT U-T IN MARCH AFTER LYING TO NCAA INVESTIGATORS DURING AN INQUIRY OF THE BASKETBALL PROGRAM.  RED CLAWS PRESIDENT JON JENNINGS SAYS THE TEAM IS SEARCHING FOR A REPLACEMENT FOR AUSTIN AINGE WHO LEFT TO JOIN HIS FATHER DANNY AINGE WITH THE BOSTON CELTICS AS THE TEAM'S DIRECTOR OF PLAYER PERSONNEL.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE WILL LOSE THREE FOOTBALL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE UPCOMING SEASON.  THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS THE THREE SCHOLARSHIPS WERE LOST BECAUSE THE SCHOOL'S FOUR YEAR ACADEMIC PROGRESS DIPPED BELOW THE NCAA MANDATED 925 MINIMUM.

U OF L OFFERED 21 OF 25 SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR THE 2011 SEASON.  ALTHOUGH THE CARDS ARE PENALIZED FOR ONE RECRUITING CLASS, THEY WILL BE ALLOWED TO KEEP THEIR SCHOLARSHIP LIMIT OF 85.

GOLF

BERNHARD LANGER HAS WITHDRAWN FROM NEXT WEEK'S SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE CONTESTED AT VALHALLA GOLF CLUB IN LOUISVILLE.  THE COURIER JOURNAL SAYS LANGER--THE THREE TIME CHAMPIONS TOUR PLAYER OF THE YEAR--WAS EXPECTED TO MAKE HIS FIRST START IN TWO MONTHS FOLLOWING THUMB SURGERY.  LANGER WON THE ACE GROUP CLASSIC EARLIER THIS SEASON.

FRANKLIN'S KENNY PERRY FAILED TO MAKE THE CUT AT THE CROWNE PLAZA INVITATIONAL AT COLONIAL GOLF CLUB IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS.  PERRY SHOT A 72 FRIDAY TO FINISH AT ONE OVER PAR.  NASHVILLE'S BRANDT SNEDEKER SHOT A THREE UNDER PAR 67 FRIDAY AND STANDS AT FOUR UNDER PAR FOR THE TOURNAMENT, WHILE UNION'S STEVE FLESCH FIRED AN EVEN PAR 70 AND STANDS AT ONE UNDER PAR.  DAVID TOMS FIRED HIS SECOND STRAIGHT 62 AND STANDS AT 16 UNDER PAR, WHICH IS GOOD FOR A SEVEN SHOT LEAD OVER A QUARTET OF GOLFERS HEADING INTO TODAY'S THIRD ROUND.

HORSE RACING

KENTUCKY DERBY WINNER ANIMAL KINGDOM IS THE MORNING LINE FAVORITE FOR THE SECOND LEG IN HORSE RACING'S TRIPLE CROWN AS THE PREAKNESS STAKES TAKES PLACE TODAY AT PIMLICO RACE TRACK IN BALTIMORE.