HIGH SCHOOL SOFTBALL

DESPITE SEVERAL HEAT DELAYS, THE KHSAA STATE TOURNAMENT WAS ABLE TO COMPLETE ALL GAMES AT JACK FISHER PARK IN OWENSBORO ON FRIDAY.

2^ND REGION WINNER HOPKINS CENTRAL WAS ELIMINATED AFTER LOSING A PAIR OF GAMES. THE LADY STORM FELL TO CENTRAL HARDIN 4-0 AND ASHLAND PAUL BLAZER 1-0.

1^ST REGION WINNER CALLOWAY COUNTY WON THREE GAMES: DEFEATING RYLE 11-1, CENTRAL HARDIN 10-8 AND NORTH HARDIN 11-6.

3^RD REGION WINNER OWENSBORO CATHOLIC WAS ELIMINATED IN ITS FIRST GAME OF THE DAY, FALLING TO ASHLAND PAUL BLAZER 7-6.

4^TH REGION WINNER ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE WON A PAIR OF GAMES, DEFEATING PLEASURE RIDGE PARK 14-5 AND CENTRAL HARDIN 2-0.

ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE WILL FACE BALLARD IN THE WINNER’S BRACKET SEMI FINAL THIS MORNING, WITH CALLOWAY COUNTY FACING PLEASURE RIDGE PARK IN THE LOSER’S BRACKET SEMI FINAL. THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IS SET FOR THIS AFTERNOON.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY SIGNEE MARQUIS TEAGUE HIT THE GAME WINNING JUMPER TO GIVE THE INDIANA ALL STARS A 105-103 WIN OVER THE KENTUCKY ALL STARS AT BELLARMINE UNIVERSITY IN LOUISVILLE FRIDAY NIGHT.

KENTUCKY MR. BASKETBALL ANTHONY HICKEY FORMERLY OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY HAD 18 POINTS IN 36 MINUTES, WHILE FORMER TEAMMATE DONOVAN KATES HAD THREE POINTS IN SEVEN MINUTES. WESTERN KENTUCKY SIGNEE GEORGE FANT WHO PLAYED HIS PREP HOOPS AT WARREN CENTRAL HAD 18 POINTS.

THE KENTUCKY GIRLS DEFEATED INDIANA’S BEST 64-57. KENTUCKY MISS BASKETBALL AND UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SIGNEE SARA HAMMOND HAD 21 POINTS AND 14 REBOUNDS ALONG WITH THREE BLOCKED SHOTS TO LEAD KENTUCKY TO THE WIN.

THE ALL STAR GAMES CONTINUE THIS EVENING AT CONSECO FIELDHOUSE IN INDIANAPOLIS.

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY ATHLETICS DIRECTOR MITCH BARNHART AND UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE ATHLETICS DIRECTOR TOM JURICH ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THE VACANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR’S POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE.

BOTH MEN SAY THEY ARE FOCUSED ON THEIR JOBS AT THEIR RESPECTIVE SCHOOLS. TENNESSEE IS LOOKING FOR A REPLACEMENT FOR MIKE HAMILTON, WHO ANNOUNCED HIS RESIGNATION EARLIER THIS WEEK.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE WILL APPEAR BEFORE THE NCAA COMMITTEE OF INFRACTIONS TODAY IN INDIANAPOLIS. OUTGOING ATHLETICS DIRECTOR MIKE HAMILTON WILL BE AMONG THOSE APPEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE, ALONG WITH FORMER BASKETBALL COACH BRUCE PEARL AND FORMER FOOTBALL COACH LANE KIFFIN. THE HEARING IS PART OF AN INVESTIGATION INTO RECRUITING IMPROPRITIES AT TENNESSEE.

THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS KENTUCKY ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MITCH BARNHART IS WORKING ON A CONTRACT EXTENSION FOR BASKETBALL COACH JOHN CALIPARI. BARNHART SENT WORD TO THE NEWSPAPER VIA TWITTER THAT BECAUSE OF CALIPARI’S SUCCESS THIS SEASON AND RECURITMENT OF THREE STRAIGHT NUMBER ONE CLASSES. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME IN AS MANY YEARS THAT BARNHART WILL REWORK CALIPARI’S CONTRACT. THERE WAS NO MENTION OF A PAY RAISE, BUT BARNHART WANTS TO LENGTHEN CALIPARI’S CURRENT CONTRACT WHICH EXPIRES IN MARCH OF 2017.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

THE VANDERBILT COMMODORES WON THE FIRST GAME OF THE SUPER REGIONAL SERIES OVER OREGON STATE 11-1. GAME TWO OF THE SERIES IS TONIGHT IN NASHVILLE. A COMMODORE WIN WILL SEND THEM TO THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES, BUT IF OREGON STATE WINS, THE SERIES WILL GO TO A THIRD GAME SUNDAY IN NASHVILLE.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES DROPPED THEIR THIRD GAME IN A ROW AT OWENSBORO, LOSING TO THE OILERS 6-5 FRIDAY NIGHT. THE PIRATES PLAY THIS EVENING AT MARION, BEFORE HOSTING FULTON IN A DOUBLEHEADER SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FIVE AT RIVERSIDE PARK IN DAWSON SPRINGS.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS OPENED A SERIES WITH A 6-4 WIN OVER THE CLINTON LUMBERJACKS. GAME TWO OF THE SERIES IS THIS EVENING IN CLINTON, IOWA.