Sports Headlines 5.24.11

HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

RAIN WAS THE WINNER AT THE 8TH DISTRICT TOURNAMENT AT UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS.

PLAY WAS HALTED AS HOPKINSVILLE WAS TO BAT IN THE BOTTOM OF THE 3RD INNING LEADING FORT CAMPBELL 6-0.

THE GAME WILL RESUME AT 5:30 TODAY, WITH CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS TO FOLLOW. WEATHER PERMITTING, COVERAGE OF THE GAMES WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 5:15 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

5TH DISTRICT: TRIGG COUNTY DEFEATED LYON COUNTY 9-1.

7TH DISTRICT: MADISONVILLE DEFEATED DAWSON SPRINGS 14-1 IN FIVE INNINGS.

13TH DISTRICT: LOGAN COUNTY DEFEATED TODD CENTRAL 14-2.

TODAY’S GAMES: 5TH DISTRICT ACTION HAS CRITTENDEN COUNTY AT LIVINGSTON CENTRAL, 6TH DISTRICT HAS HENDERSON COUNTY AT WEBSTER COUNTY AND IN THE 7TH DISTRICT HOST HOPKINS CENTRAL TAKES ON CALDWELL COUNTY.

HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

5TH DISTRICT: LIVINGSTON CENTRAL DEFEATED TRIGG COUNTY 15-0 IN FOUR INNINGS AND LYON COUNTY EDGED CRITTENDEN COUNTY 9-8.

TODAY’S GAMES: THE 5TH DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP HAS LYON COUNTY MEETING LIVINGSTON CENTRAL. 6TH DISTRICT ACTION HAS UNION COUNTY HOSTING WEBSTER COUNTY. 7TH DISTRICT PLAY HAS CALDWELL COUNTY MEETING MADISONVILLE AND HOPKINS CENTRAL GOING AGAINST DAWSON SPRINGS.

13TH DISTRICT: FRANKLIN SIMPSON MEETS RUSSELLVILLE AND TODD CENTRAL GOES AGAINST HOST LOGAN COUNTY.

BECAUSE OF MONDAY’S RAINOUTS IN THE 8TH DISTRICT BASEBALL TOURNAMENT, THE 8TH DISTRICT SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT WILL NOW BEGIN WEDNESDAY.

LONG TIME HENDERSON COUNTY BASEBALL COACH B-T WAYNE DIED SUNDAY MORNING. IN 32 SEASONS AS HENDERSON COUNTY’S COACH, WAYNE WON 702 GAMES AND LED THE COLONELS TO THE 2000 STATE BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP.

WAYNE HAD BEEN COACHING AT KENTUCKY WESLEYAN UNTIL EARLY APRIL WHEN HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ADVANCED COLON CANCER. JUST LAST WEEK, THE HENDERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION RENAMED THE FIELD IN WAYNE’S HONOR ACCORDING TO A STORY IN THE HENDERSON GLEANER.

HOPKINSVILLE HIGH FOOTBALL PLAYER JOSH RAMSEUR SIGNED A LETTER TO PLAY COLLEGIATELY MONDAY AT MINNESOTA WEST JUNIOR COLLEGE. RAMSEUR SAYS HE HOPES TO PLAY ON THE DEFENSIVE LINE, BUT IF NOT, HE WILL PLAY ON THE OFFENSIVE LINE. 

ANOTHER LOCAL STUDENT/ATHLETE WILL SIGN A LETTER TODAY, AS CHRISTIAN COUNTY’S KYLE SPENCER WILL SIGN TO PLAY BASEBALL WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE AT TWO P-M AT CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

MURRAY STATE NAMED BILLY KENNEDY’S REPLACEMENT MONDAY AFTERNOON. STEVE PROHM—WHO HAD BEEN THE TOP ASSISTANT FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS—IS THE NEW RACERS COACH.

PROHM BECOMES THE 15TH COACH IN MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY HISTORY.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE ANNOUNCED TODD RALEIGH HAS BEEN FIRED AS BASEBALL COACH. THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS THE FIRING WAS ANNOUNCED AFTER AN EIGHT MINUTE MEETING WITH ATHLETICS DIRECTOR MIKE HAMILTON.

RALEIGH WAS 108-113 IN FOUR SEASONS AT U-T. THE VOLS MISSED OUT ON THE POST SEASON FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN AS MANY YEARS.

GOLF

FRED COUPLES HAS WITHDRAWN FROM THIS WEEK’S SENIOR PGA CHAMPIONSHIP AT VALHALLA IN LOUISVILLE. COUPLES WITHDREW BECAUSE OF A BAD BACK AND WILL BE REPLACED IN THE FIELD BY BLAINE MCALLISTER.

MEANWHILE, PADUCAH’S RUSS COCHRAN IS BATTLING A WRIST INJURY. COCHRAN TOLD THE COURIER JOURNAL HE IS ABOUT “50-50” ON WHETHER HE WILL COMPETE THIS WEEK.