HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

THE KHSAA STATE TOURNAMENT BEGINS WITH A NEW FORMAT TODAY AT JACK FISHER PARK IN OWENSBORO.

ALL FIRST ROUND GAMES ARE BEING PLAYED TODAY, WITH 2^ND REGION CHAMPION HOPKINS CENTRAL MEETING WALTON VERONA AT FIVE P-M. ALSO AT FIVE, 4^TH REGION CHAMPION ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE TAKES ON EAST JESSAMINE.

IN THE SEVEN P-M GAMES: 1^ST REGION CHAMPION CALLOWAY COUNTY TAKES ON ASHLAND BLAZER AND 3^RD REGION WINNER OWENSBORO CATHOLIC TAKES ON LAFAYETTE.

THE TOURNAMENT RUNS THROUGH SATURDAY.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

RECENT HOPKINSVILLE HIGH GRADUATE SHIKEYA MILLER SIGNED WEDNESDAY TO PLAY COLLEGE BASKETBALL FOR LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE.  MILLER IS THE SECOND LADY TIGER IN AS MANY YEARS TO SIGN COLLEGIATELY.

THE KENTUCKY/INDIANA ALL STAR BASKETBALL SERIES RESUMES TOMORROW NIGHT AT BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY IN LOUISVILLE.

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS KENTUCKY MR. BASKETBALL ANTHONY HICKEY HAS YET TO PRACTICE WITH THE ALL STARS AS HE HAS BEEN ENROLLING IN CLASSES THIS WEEK AT L-S-U.

FORMER CHRISTIAN COUNTY STANDOUT DONOVAN KATES IS ALSO A MEMBER OF THE KENTUCKY ALL STAR TEAM.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

KENTUCKY HAS RECEIVED ANOTHER COMMITMENT FOR THE 2012 CLASS. THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS INDIANAPOLIS PIKE HIGH SCHOOL CORNERBACK JONATHON REED HAS VERBALLY COMMITTED TO THE WILDCATS.

REED IS FROM THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL AS FELLOW FOOTBALLER DAKOTAH TYLER AND INCOMING KENTUCKY FRESHMAN POINT GUARD MARQUIS TEAGUE.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

FORMER HOPKINSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL STANDOUT JUSTIN HAGEMAN WAS NAMED AS A LOUISVILLE SLUGGER FRESHMAN ALL AMERICAN ANNOUNCED BY COLLEGIATE BASEBALL WEDNESDAY. THE WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY HURLER WAS THE SUN BELT CONFERENCE FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR.

HAGEMAN WENT 8-5 WITH A THREE POINT 22 EARNED RUN AVERAGE WITH 85 STRIKEOUTS. HAGEMAN IS THE LONE SUN BELT CONFERENCE MEMBER OF THE LOUISVILLE SLUGGER FRESHMAN ALL AMERICAN TEAM.

AUSTIN PEAY ALSO HAD A PLAYER SELECTED AS A LOUISVILLE SLUGGER FRESHMAN ALL AMERICAN. SECOND BASEMAN JORDAN HANKINS LED THE GOVERNORS WITH A 351 BATTING AVERAGE ALONG WITH FOUR HOME RUNS AND 31 R-B-I.

TWO MORE MEMBERS OF AUSTIN PEAY’S BASEBALL TEAM WERE SELECTED IN THE MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL DRAFT WEDNESDAY.

LEFT HANDED PITCHER JEREMY DOBBS—THE OVC PITCHER OF THE YEAR—WAS TAKEN IN THE 33^RD ROUND BY THE SEATTLE MARINERS, WHILE CLOSER RYNE HARPER WAS TAKEN IN THE 37^TH ROUND BY THE ATLANTA BRAVES.

FORMER UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOOTBALL COACH PHILLIP FULMER MADE HIS FIRST PUBLIC COMMENTS CONCERNING THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR’S JOB AT TENNESSEE WEDNESDAY.

FULMER TOLD THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL HE IS NOT RULING OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF SEEKING THE JOB VACATED EARLIER THIS WEEK BY MIKE HAMILTON.

TENNESSEE IS EXPECTED TO NAME AN INTERIM A-D BY THE END OF THE WEEK.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES CLUBBED THE FULTON RAILROADERS 16-3 WEDNESDAY NIGHT IN FULTON. THE PIRATES OPEN A TWO GAME SERIES AT OWENSBORO THIS EVENING.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS GOT BACK ON THE WINNING WAYS WITH A 13-7 WIN AT KANE COUNTY. THE TWO TEAMS CLOSE OUT THE SERIES THIS EVENING.

AFTER AN OFF DAY, THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS OPEN A SERIES TONIGHT AT ALBUQUERQUE.

GOLF

MURRAY STATE GOLFER PATRICK NEWCOMB OF BENTON HAS A TWO SHOT LEAD HEADING INTO THE FINAL ROUND OF THE KENTUCKY STATE AMATEUR GOLF TOURNAMENT IN LEXINGTON.

NEWCOMB FIRED A 69 FOR A TWO DAY TOTAL OF 137. HOPKINSVILLE’S LOGAN LOFTUS FIRED AN EVEN PAR 72 FOR A TWO DAY TOTAL OF 153, JUST MISSING THE CUT BY ONE STROKE. RUSSELVILLE’S PAUL SANSOM IS AT 139 AFTER THE FIRST TWO ROUNDS.

THE GO JUNIOR SERIES BEGAN WITH ITS FIRST EVENT OF THE SEASON WEDNESDAY AT MADISONVILLE COUNTRY CLUB.

IN THE BOYS 13-15 DIVISION, HOPKINSVILLE’S TADD SWITZER FIRED A 79, TWO STROKES BEHIND WINNER BRANDON BLAKE OF OWENSBORO WHO HAD 77. T-J JANES HAD AN 86 AND GRANT STAMPER HAD A 104.

IN THE GIRLS 11-12 YEAR OLD DIVISION—9 HOLE PLAY—HOPKINSVILLE’S JESSICA SHELTON WAS THIRD WITH A 60 SCORE.

HOPKINSVILLE HIGH GOLFER DAYTON JONES HAD A 76 AND FINISHED TIED FOR SECOND IN THE BOYS 17-18 DIVISION AT THE PEPSI TOUR STOP WEDNESDAY AT CHERRY BLOSSOM GOLF CLUB IN GEORGETOWN.

JONES PICKED UP 75 POINTS AND NOW HAS 275 POINTS ON THE SEASON, WHICH IS TOPS IN THE 17-18 DIVISION.