SEMI FINAL PLAY TOOK PLACE IN THE 2^ND REGION BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TOURNAMENTS TUESDAY NIGHT.

BASEBALL: THE HOPKINSVILLE TIGERS MOVED TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT YEAR WITH A 7-3 WIN OVER HENDERSON COUNTY.

THE COLONELS TOOK A 1-0 AFTER THE FIRST INNING, BUT THE TIGERS SCORED THREE TIMES IN THE TOP OF THE 2^ND ON A BASES CLEARING TRIPLE BY HUTTON WHITE.

HENDERSON COUNTY WOULD TIE THE GAME AT THREE ON A TWO RUN HOME RUN BY CHRISTIAN MCHATTON IN THE BOTTOM OF THE THIRD.

HOPTOWN WOULD THEN REGAIN THE LEAD WITH THREE RUNS IN THE TOP OF THE 5^TH AND ADD AN INSURANCE RUN IN THE TOP OF THE 7^TH.

CLAYTON SMITHSON WOULD GET THE WIN FOR THE TIGERS NOW 32-4 ON THE SEASON. SAM HIGGS TOOK THE LOSS FOR HENDERSON COUNTY WHO FINISHES 22-13.

UNION COUNTY WON THE SECOND SEMI FINAL GAME 15-5 OVER TRIGG COUNTY.

HOPKINSVILLE AND UNION COUNTY PLAY FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP TONIGHT AT 7:30 AT COLONEL FIELD, WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 7:15 ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

SOFTBALL: BOTH TEAMS FAVORED IN THE SEMI FINALS WENT DOWN TO DEFEAT WITH 1-0 LOSSES.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY SAW ITS SEASON END WITH A 1-0 11 INNING LOSS TO HOPKINS CENTRAL. THE STORM’S KAYLEE SMITH SCORED THE WINNING RUN IN THE TOP OF THE 11^TH ON A HIT BY HANNAH TOWELL.

THE LADY COLONELS DID NOT GET A HIT IN THE EXTRA INNINGS AND HAD JUST FIVE FOR THE GAME. MAGGIE GLASS TOOK THE LOSS FOR CHRISTIAN COUNTY WHILE ALI AUSTIN WAS THE WINNER FOR HOPKINS CENTRAL. CHRISTIAN COUNTY FINISHED THE SEASON 31-4, WHILE HOPKINS CENTRAL IS 27-10.

MADISONVILLE ADVANCED TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WITH A 1-0 WIN OVER HENDERSON COUNTY. THE LADY MAROONS MOVE TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WITH A 15-15 RECORD, WHILE HENDERSON COUNTY FINISHES 24-8.

THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WILL TAKE PLACE FRIDAY NIGHT.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

ONE OF KENTUCKY’S WELL KNOWN HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL COACHES WILL BE MOVING TO THE COLLEGE RANKS.

WARREN CENTRAL’S TIM RILEY RESIGNED FROM HIS JOB TUESDAY AND WILL BE NAMED AS A NEW ASSISTANT COACH FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY’S WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PROGRAM FRIDAY ACCORDING TO MEDIA REPORTS IN BOWLING GREEN.

RILEY LED WARREN CENTRAL TO THE 2004 BOYS STATE CHAMPIONSHIP AND A RUNNER UP FINISH IN 2005. RILEY WAS INDUCTED INTO THE KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION OF BASKETBALL COACHES COURT OF HONOR IN 2010.

THE COURIER JOURNAL REPORTS ROWAN COUNTY’S ADAM WING HAS MADE A SWITCH ON HIS COLLEGE COMMITMENT AND HIS SPORT.

WING—WHO HAD COMMITTED TO PLAY FOOTBALL FOR MARSHALL UNIVERSITY—WILL NOW ATTEND OKLAHOMA STATE AND PLAY BASKETBALL.

WING HIT SEVEN OF EIGHT THREE POINTERS AND SCORED 31 POINTS IN THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AGAINST CHRISTIAN COUNTY WHICH ROWAN COUNTY LOST 65-63 IN DOUBLE OVERTIME.

WING WAS OFFERED A SCHOLARSHIP TUESDAY NIGHT BY COACH TRAVIS FORD.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

TENNESSEE VOLS COACH DEREK DOOLEY SAYS DEFENSIVE TACKLE JACQUES SMITH UNDERWENT A SECOND FOOT SURGERY AS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE.

DOOLEY TELLS THE KNOXVILLE NEWS SENTINEL THE SURGERY WAS TO TAKE CARE OF A MINOR STRESS FRACTURE. SMITH—WHO HAD 24 TACKLES AND TWO SACKS IN HIS FRESHMAN CAMPAIGN—MISSED THE ORANGE/WHITE GAME THIS SPRING AFTER AN INJURY HE SUSTAINED IN HIS RIGHT FOOT.

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.

ON THIS MEMORIAL DAY, PLAY BEGINS IN BOTH THE 2^ND REGION BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL TOURNAMENTS.

BASEBALL: CHRISTIAN COUNTY SERVES AS THIS YEAR’S HOST. THE OPENING GAME AT TEN A-M HAS MADISONVILLE PLAYING HENDERSON COUNTY. THE ONE P-M GAME HAS DEFENDING REGION CHAMPION HOPKINSVILLE AGAINST CRITTENDEN COUNTY.

CHRISTIAN COUNTY PLAYS THE FOUR P-M GAME AGAINST UNION COUNTY, WITH TRIGG COUNTY MEETING CALDWELL COUNTY AT SEVEN P-M.

SOFTBALL: MADISONVILLE IS THIS YEAR’S HOST, WITH THE TEN A-M GAME SENDING HENDERSON COUNTY AGAINST LYON COUNTY. THE ONE P-M GAME SEES HOPKINSVILLE FACE MADISONVILLE.

DEFENDING CHAMPION CHRISTIAN COUNTY MEETS UNION COUNTY AT THREE P-M, WITH LIVINGSTON CENTRAL TAKING ON HOPKINS CENTRAL AT FIVE P-M.

SEMI FINAL PLAY IN BOTH TOURNAMENTS WILL BE HELD TUESDAY, WITH BOTH CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

COVERAGE OF THE HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY GAMES IN BOTH TOURNAMENTS CAN BE HEARD ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM. TODAY’S ACTION BEGINS WITH THE HERITAGE BANK PRE GAME SHOW AT 12:45.

1^ST REGION BASEBALL: MATCHUPS AT BROOKS STADIUM IN PADUCAH HAVE HICKMAN COUNTY AGAINST MAYFIELD, LONE OAK MEETS MURRAY, CALLOWAY COUNTY GOES AGAINST FULTON CITY AND BALLARD MEMORIAL MEETS REIDLAND.

3RD REGION BASEBALL: DAVIESS COUNTY MEETS HOST MUHLENBERG COUNTY, GRAYSON COUNTY GOES AGAINST MEADE COUNTY, HANCOCK COUNTY PLAYS BUTLER COUNTY AND APOLLO GOES AGAINST MCLEAN COUNTY.

4^TH REGION BASEBALL: GAMES AT WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY HAVE WARREN EAST MEETING CUMBERLAND COUNTY, LOGAN COUNTY PLAYS BARREN COUNTY, ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE GOES AGAINST BOWLING GREEN AND RUSSELL COUNTY MEETS FRANKLIN SIMPSON.

1^ST REGION SOFTBALL: PLAY AT GRAVES COUNTY HAS HICKMAN COUNTY MEETING HEATH, BALLARD MEMORIAL GOES AGAINST CALLOWAY COUNTY, REIDLAND PLAYS HOST GRAVES COUNTY AND MARSHALL COUNTY PLAYS CARLISLE COUNTY.

3^RD REGION SOFTBALL: MEADE COUNTY HOSTS THIS YEAR, WITH THE OPENING GAME SENDING MUHLENBERG COUNTY AGAINST GRAYSON COUNTY, DAVIESS COUNTY PLAYS MEADE COUNTY, BUTLER COUNTY GOES AGAINST MCLEAN COUNTY AND OWENSBORO CATHOLIC PLAYS HANCOCK COUNTY.

4^TH REGION SOFTBALL: WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY HOSTS AS BOWLING GREEN PLAYS RUSSELL COUNTY, FRANKLIN SIMPSON MEETS BARREN COUNTY, TWO OF THE TOP TEAMS IN THE STATE PLAY IN THE OPENING ROUND AS ALLEN COUNTY SCOTTSVILLE MEETS GREENWOOD AND TODD CENTRAL PLAYS METCALFE COUNTY.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

AUSTIN PEAY WON THE OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP OVER THE WEEKEND AND WILL LEARN TODAY WHO THEY WILL PLAY IN THE NC-AA TOURNAMENT.

VANDERBILT LOST IN THE S-E-C CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SUNDAY TO FLORIDA 5-0. IT IS THE FOURTH TIME IN FIVE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME APPEARANCES THE COMMODORES HAVE BEEN RUNNER UP SINCE 2004.

HOWEVER, VANDERBILT WILL SERVE AS ONE OF THE HOSTS OF THE FIRST ROUNDS OF THE NC-AA TOURNAMENT.

COLLEGE SOFTBALL

KENTUCKY’S RUN TO THE COLLEGE WORLD SERIES CAME UP ONE GAME SHORT. THE WILDCATS WON THE FIRST GAME OVER CALIFORNIA SUNDAY 8-0 AS FORMER GREENWOOD HIGH PITCHER RACHEL RILEY ALLOWED FIVE HITS.

HOWEVER, THE GOLDEN BEARS CAME BACK TO TAKE THE NIGHCAP 9-0. ALMOST 17-HUNDRED FANS WERE AT THE GAMES IN LEXINGTON.

GOLF

TOM WATSON TOOK THE SENIOR P-G-A CHAMPIONSHIP AT VALHALLA SUNDAY, DEFEATING DAVID EGER WITH A THREE FOOT BIRDIE PUTT ON THE FIRST PLAYOFF HOLE. WATSON AND EGER FINISHED REGULATION AT TEN UNDER 278.

WATSON BEGAN THE DAY TWO SHOTS BEHIND LEADERS HALE IRWIN AND JAPAN’S KYOSHI MURATA. MURATA FINISHED THIRD AT NINE UNDER PAR. THE 61 YEAR OLD WATSON IS THE OLDEST TO WIN A SENIOR MAJOR AND THE SECOND OLDEST TO WIN THE SENIOR P-G-A CHAMPIONSHIP.

FRANKLIN’S KENNY PERRY FINISHED AT ONE OVER PAR 288, TIED FOR 22^ND.

PAIRINGS FOR THE 2ND REGION BASEBALL TOURNAMENT TO BE PLAYED AT CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED.

MONDAY MAY 30TH

10 AM: MADISONVILLE (20-8) VS. HENDERSON COUNTY (21-12)

1 PM:  HOPKINSVILLE (30-4) VS. CRITTENDEN COUNTY (6-21)

4 PM:  UNION COUNTY (22-9) VS. CHRISTIAN COUNTY (18-16)

7 PM:  TRIGG COUNTY (24-7) VS. CALDWELL COUNTY (7-21)

TUESDAY MAY 31ST

SEMIFINALS  AT 5:30 AND 8 PM

WEDNESDAY JUNE 1ST

FINAL   7:30 PM

ADMISSION IS FIVE DOLLARS AND FANS ARE REMINDED YOU MUST ENTER CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL AT THE GLASS AVENUE ENTRANCE.

COVERAGE OF THE HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY GAMES WILL BE HEARD ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

PAIRINGS FOR THE SECOND REGION SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT WERE ANNOUNCED TODAY.  THE TOURNAMENT WILL BE PLAYED AT MADISONVILLE-NORTH HOPKINS HIGH SCHOOL.

MONDAY MAY 30^TH

11 AM             HENDERSON COUNTY (23-7) VS. LYON COUNTY (6-12)

1 PM               MADISONVILLE (13-15) VS. HOPKINSVILLE (13-16)

3 PM               CHRISTIAN COUNTY (30-3) VS UNION COUNTY (20-10)

5 PM               LIVINGSTON CENTRAL (22-8) VS. HOPKINS CENTRAL (25-10)

TUESDAY MAY 31^ST

SEMI FINALS AT 5:30 AND 7:30 PM

WEDNESDAY JUNE 1^ST

FINAL AT 6 PM

COVERAGE OF THE HOPKINSVILLE AND CHRISTIAN COUNTY GAMES CAN BE HEARD ON NEWSTALK 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP AND WHOPAM.COM.

THE 2^ND REGION BASEBALL DRAW WILL BE HELD SUNDAY AT 1 PM AT CHRISTIAN COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL. THAT TOURNAMENT ALSO BEGINS MONDAY.