HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

QUARTERFINAL PLAY CONTINUED THURSDAY AT THE KENTUCKY NATIONAL INSURANCE-KHSAA STATE TOURNAMENT IN LEXINGTON.

MERCER COUNTY DEFEATED NORTH OLDHAM 7-3 AND PLEASURE RIDGE PARK DEFEATED NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC 10-4.

TODAY’S SEMI FINALS: ST. X MEETS CENTRAL HARDIN AND MERCER COUNTY GOES AGAINST PLEASURE RIDGE PARK, WITH THE WINNERS TO MEET FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY NIGHT.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

VANDERBILT OPENS PLAY IN THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN OMAHA. THE COMMODORES TAKE ON NORTH CAROLINA AT TWO P-M. THIS IS VANDY’S FIRST TRIP TO OMAHA, WHILE NORTH CAROLINA HAS BEEN IN THE C-W-S FIVE OF THE LAST SIX YEARS.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES GAME AT FULTON WAS RAINED OUT LAST NIGHT. THE PIRATES OPEN A SERIES WITH MARION THIS EVENING AT RIVERSIDE PARK IN DAWSON SPRINGS.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS WRAPPED UP A THREE GAME SERIES WITH A 5-2 WIN OVER WEST MICHIGAN. THE HOT RODS PLAY AT SOUTH BEND THIS EVENING.

THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS DEFEATED ROUND ROCK 1-0 AT GREER STADIUM. THE SOUNDS OPEN A FOUR GAME ROAD TRIP AT MEMPHIS TONIGHT.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY HAS CHANGED COACH JOHN CALIPARI’S VICTORY TOTAL IN ITS MEDIA GUIDE AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND INTERNET SITES TO MATCH THAT OF THE NCAA’S OFFICIAL RECORDS.

EARLIER THIS WEEK, THE NCAA SENT KENTUCKY A LETTER STATING THAT IF THE SCHOOL DID NOT MAKE THE CHANGES, THEY WOULD GO BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON INFRACTIONS.

CALIPARI WILL BEGIN THE UPCOMING BASKETBALL SEASON WITH 467 VICTORIES.

FORMER KENTUCKY BASKETBALLER RODERICK RHODES WILL BECOME THE NEW BOYS BASKETBALL COACH AT CORDIA HIGH SCHOOL IN EASTERN KENTUCKY. RHODES PLAYED THREE SEASONS AT KENTUCKY BEFORE TRANSFERRING TO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOR HIS SENIOR YEAR.

AFTER PLAYING IN THE N-B-A AND OVERSEAS, RHODES HAS BEEN AN ASSISTANT COACH AT SEVERAL COLLEGES INCLUDING AT TEXAS PAN AMERICAN LAST SEASON ACCORDING TO THE COURIER JOURNAL.

NFL

THE TENNESSEAN REPORTS THREE OF THE CHARGES AGAINST TENNESSEE TITANS WIDE RECEIVER KENNY BRITT IN NEW JERSEY HAVE BEEN DOWNGRADED.

THE CHARGES WERE REDUCED TO DISORDERLY PERSONS OFFENSES AND REMANDED BACK TO A HOBOKEN NEW JERSEY COURT, WHERE BRITT WILL APPEAR FOR A HEARING NEXT THURSDAY.

GOLF

THE PEPSI TOUR CONCLUDED ITS WESTERN KENTUCKY SWING THURSDAY AT HOPKINSVILLE GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY GOLFER JONATHAN GRABARA FINISHED SECOND IN THE BOYS 17-18 DIVISION WITH A 75, HOPKINSVILLE’S DAYTON JONES WAS THIRD WITH 76 IN THE DIVISION WON BY DAVIS PARDUE OF AUBURN WITH A 73.

T-J FERRY WON THE BOYS 15-16 DIVISION WITH A 74, JACK GARDNER WAS THIRD WITH 76, CAMERON ALLEN WAS SIXTH SHOOTING 80.

TADD SWITZER AND AUSTIN KNIGHT TIED FOR 7^TH IN THE BOYS 13-14 DIVISION WITH AN 82.