IT WAS A LONG DAY IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE SECOND REGION BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TOURNAMENTS MONDAY.

BASEBALL

THE HOPKINSVILLE TIGERS ENDURED ALMOST THREE HOURS IN DELAYS BECAUSE OF HEAT, BUT DEFEATED CRITTENDEN COUNTY 16-0 IN FIVE INNINGS.

THE TIGERS HAD A SIX RUN SECOND AND A SEVEN RUN FOURTH INNING TO CRUISE TO THEIR 30^TH VICTORY OF THE SEASON TO GO WITH FOUR LOSSES. CRITTENDEN COUNTY FINISHED THE SEASON SIX AND 22.

HOPKINSVILLE WILL PLAY HENDERSON COUNTY THIS EVENING. THE COLONELS DEFEATED MADISONVILLE 6-2 IN THE TOURNAMENT’S OPENING GAME.

COVERAGE OF TONIGHT’S FIRST SEMI FINAL GAME AT SIX, WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 5:45 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOP AM.COM.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY SAW ITS SEASON END LAST NIGHT WITH A 5-3 LOSS TO UNION COUNTY. THE COLONELS TOOK AN EARLY 2-0 LEAD BEFORE THE BRAVES SCORED FOUR RUNS IN THE BOTTOM OF THE 2^ND AND ADDED A RUN IN THE 7^TH FOR THE WIN. CHRISTIAN COUNTY FINISHES THE SEASON 18-17, UNION COUNTY IMPROVES TO 23-9.

UNION COUNTY WILL MEET TRIGG COUNTY IN THE SECOND SEMI FINAL THIS EVENING AT 8:30. THE WILDCATS DEFEATED CALDWELL COUNTY 5-3 IN THE FINAL OPENING ROUND GAME.

SOFTBALL

DEFENDING 2^ND REGION CHAMPION CHRISTIAN COUNTY PICKED UP ITS 31^ST WIN OF THE SEASON TO GO WITH THREE LOSSES IN DEFEATING UNION COUNTY 15-0 IN FOUR INNINGS.

THE LADY COLONELS WILL FACE HOPKINS CENTRAL IN THE SECOND SEMI FINAL GAME TONIGHT, AS THE STORM DEFEATED LIVINGSTON CENTRAL 8-6. TONIGHT’S GAME BEGINS AT 8:30 AT MADISONVILLE, WITH COVERAGE FOLLOWING BASEBALL ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.

HOPKINSVILLE’S SEASON ENDED WITH A 7-1 LOSS TO MADISONVILLE. THE LADY TIGERS FINISH THE SEASON 13-17. MADISONVILLE FACES HENDERSON COUNTY IN THE FIRST SEMI FINAL AT SIX THIS EVENING. HENDERSON COUNTY DEFEATED LYON COUNTY 13-1 IN OPENING ROUND ACTION.

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COLLEGE BASEBALL

AUSTIN PEAY WILL FACE GEORGIA TECH IN THE OPENING ROUND OF THE ATLANTA REGIONAL FRIDAY EVENING. THE GAME BEGINS AT SIX P-M. MISSISSIPPI STATE AND SOUTHERN MISS WILL PLAY THE OTHER GAME IN THE ATLANTA REGIONAL.

VANDERBILT WILL HOST BELMONT IN THE NASHVILLE REGIONAL AT SIX FRIDAY EVENING. THE TEAMS HAVE PLAYED DURING THE SEASON WITH VANDY DEFEATING BELMONT 6-2 ON FEBRUARY 23^RD.

THE OTHER TEAMS IN THE NASHVILLE REGIONAL ARE OKLAHOMA STATE AND TROY OF THE SUN BELT CONFERENCE.

THE COMMODORES WERE ALSO GIVEN THE NUMBER SIX NATIONAL SEED. VIRGINIA WAS THE NATIONAL TOP SEED.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

KEVIN WARE—WHO ONCE PLANNED TO PLAY HIS COLLEGE HOOPS AT TENNESSEE—WILL NOW BECOME A LOUISVILLE CARDINAL.

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS WARE’S MOTHER AS SAYING HE WILL ENROLL IN CLASSES AT LOUISVILLE SOMETIME IN THE NEXT MONTH. WARE CHOSE LOUISVILLE OVER GEORGIA AFTER REOPENING HIS RECRUITING PROCESS AFTER BRUCE PEARL WAS DISMISSED AT TENNESSEE.

THE SIX-FOUR WARE PLAYED IN THE KENTUCKY DERBY FESTIVAL CLASSIC. WARE IS FROM ROCKDALE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL IN CONYERS, GEORGIA.

THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE SPRING MEETINGS BEGIN TODAY IN DESTIN, FLORIDA.

THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL REPORTS COMMISSIONER MIKE SLIVE WILL TALK ABOUT “ROSTER MANAGEMENT” FOR FOOTBALL TODAY.

COMMISSIONER SLIVE WILL INTRODUCE LEGISLATION WHICH WILL CURB THE UNPOPULAR PRACTICE OF “GRAYSHIRTING” BY LIMITING FOOTBALL COACHES TO HAVE SIGNING CLASSES OF 25 INSTEAD OF THE CURRENT 28.

FORMER KENTUCKY FOOTBALL PLAYER T-C DRAKE IS HOSPITALIZED IN SERIOUS CONDITION AFTER A CAR HIT HIS MOTORCYCLE.

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS DRAKE WAS THROWN FROM HIS BIKE AROUND NINE P-M SUNDAY WHEN A CAR MADE A LEFT TURN IN FRONT OF HIM ON U-S 62 IN NELSON COUNTY.

AUTHORTIES SAY DRAKE WAS NOT WEARING A HELMET. THE DRIVER OF THE CAR—35-YEAR-OLD JENNIFER REED—WAS CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE ASSAULT AND DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL.

DRAKE—A BARDSTOWN NATIVE—WAS A WALK ON AT KENTUCKY AND PLAYED FROM 2006-2009.