HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL

BOTH LOUISVILLE SCHOOLS WERE ELIMINATED FRIDAY NIGHT IN THE SEMI FINAL ROUND OF THE KENTUCKY NATIONAL INSURANCE-KHSAA STATE TOURNAMENT AT WHITAKER BANK PARK IN LEXINGTON.

CENTRAL HARDIN ELIMINATED ST. X BY A SCORE OF 8-6 AND MERCER COUNTY EDGED PLEASURE RIDGE PARK 5-4.  CENTRAL HARDIN AND MERCER COUNTY WILL PLAY FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP AT SIX P-M HOPKINSVILLE TIME THIS EVENING.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES BEGINS TODAY IN OMAHA.  ACTION INCLUDES VANDERBILT TAKING ON NORTH CAROLINA.  THE COMMODORES ARE ONE OF THREE S-E-C SCHOOLS IN THE TOURNAMENT ALONG WITH FLORIDA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.  FLORIDA FACES TEXAS THIS EVENING, WHILE SOUTH CAROLINA MEETS TEXAS A AND M.

MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

THE TRADEWATER PIRATES OPENED A SERIES WITH MARION BY LOSING TO THE BOBCATS 6-3.  THE TWO TEAMS WILL PLAY AGAIN THIS EVENING AT MARION.  

IN OTHER OHIO VALLEY LEAGUE ACTION:  OWENSBORO AND FULTON WERE RAINED OUT.  THE TEAMS WILL PLAY A DOUBLEHEADER THIS EVENING IN OWENSBORO.

THE BOWLING GREEN HOT RODS CLINCHED THEIR FIRST PLAYOFF APPEARANCE IN FRANCHISE HISTORY BY DEFEATING SOUTH BEND 7-2 IN SOUTH BEND,  THE SAME TEAMS PLAY THIS EVENING.

THE NASHVILLE SOUNDS FALL AT MEMPHIS 1-0.  THE TEAMS PLAY AGAIN THIS EVENING AT AUTO ZONE PARK.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS NEITHER LOUISVILLE NOR KENTUCKY ARE ON THE SHORT LIST FOR RECRUIT RODNEY PURVIS.  PURVIS COMMITTED TO LOUISVILLE LAST DECEMBER.  THE THREE SCHOOLS THAT ARE FINALISTS FOR PURVIS ARE NORTH CAROLINA STATE, MISSOURI AND DUKE.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

THE LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER REPORTS KENTUCKY RUNNING BACK RAYMOND SANDERS HAD ARTHOSCOPIC SURGERY ON HIS LEFT KNEE. SANDERS--THE TOP RUNNING BACK COMING OUT OF SPRING PRACTICE--IS EXPECTED TO MAKE A FULL RECOVERY AND BE BACK WITH THE TEAM FOR FALL PRACTICE IN EARLY AUGUST.

GOLF

THE COMMANDING GENERAL TOURNAMENT IS BEING PLAYED TODAY AND TOMORROW AT COLE PARK GOLF COURSE AT FORT CAMPBELL.  AMONG LOCAL GOLFERS IN THE FIELD ARE: LOGAN LOFTUS, ALEX BLANE, AND KENNY LOFTUS.  TEE TIMES BEGIN AT SEVEN A-M THIS MORNING AND RUN THROUGH 12:40 PM.