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Today's Sports

  • Rockets’ ‘pups’ are no underdogs

    After a couple of years of being the underdogs, the Shelby County baseball team should be back among the big dogs in the 8th Region this season.

    “It seems like only yesterday our program relied on putting a bunch of unproven young pups on the field,” Rockets Coach Bart “Rudy” Roettger said. “Two years and thirty-nine wins later, those same kids are now proven winners.”  

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  • Solid pitching from the start

    The Collins baseball team got its 2013 season off to a solid start Saturday.

    The Titans topped Seneca, 12-2, then downed Doss, 2-0, on their home field.  

    Collins 12, Seneca 1

    A 6-run first inning – and a strong start from senior Dan Sanders – propelled the Titans to a 5-inning victory over the Redhawks.

    Sanders got Collins, 22-11 last season, off on the right cleat by striking out the side in the top of the first. He received all the run support he would need in the bottom half of the inning.

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  • SCHS softball: Veteran coach,...

    Kelly Cable begins her 21st season as the Shelby County softball coach with one of the youngest teams – if not the youngest – she has ever had.

    And even though the Rockets’ roster includes only two seniors and one sophomore, that can’t quell Cable’s enthusiasm.

    “I’m looking forward to this season, I know the girls are looking forward to it,” she said. “We all are looking forward to it, and we all have high hopes.”

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  • COOK: Titans played state’s...

    Kudos to Collins boys’ basketball coach Chris Gaither for his scheduling this past season.

    Even though the Titans’ 2012-13 campaign ended earlier than Gaither would have hoped, with their overtime loss to eventual champ South Oldham in the first round of the 8th Region Tournament, he and his players can take solace in the fact that they played all four teams in the Sweet Sixteen’s semifinals.

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  • Collins softball: Talented...

    The motto for the Collins softball team this season is “nothing is free.”

    The Titans learned that lesson the hard way last season. After winning the 30th District Tournament and advancing to the 8th Region final in their first season (2011), they didn’t make it out of the district tournament last year despite returning all but one key player from that inaugural squad.   

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  • SCHS boys’ tennis team sweeps to...

    The Shelby County boys’ tennis team began its season with a 5-0 sweep of visiting Carroll County on Thursday at Clear Creek Park.

    Junior Ethan Russell led the way for the Rockets with a 6-2, 6-0 victory at No. 1 singles. At No. 1 doubles junior Doug Martin and freshman Jeron Russell teamed up for a 6-0, 6-1 victory.

    Shelby County, which played at Trimble County on Tuesday, plays at North Oldham today.

     

    GIRLS’ TENNIS: SCHS loses

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  • A friend to farmers and gardeners

    When you see a 5-and-a-half-inch long bird with an 8-inch wingspan that is a deep ultra marine blue with a slightly larger head, in all likelihood you have sighted the beautiful male Indigo Bunting.

    Not to be confused with the slightly larger male Eastern Bluebird or male Blue Grosbeak or the much larger Blue Jay, all of which also display other colors along with their blues.

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  • Few seniors but some star power

    Once again Collins this spring will field tennis teams with an abundance of youth.

    The two squads, which begin their respective seasons next week, have only one senior between them. Still, both have experienced players.

     

    BOYS

    Coach Keith Nethery returns several of his top players from last season, including senior Wil Johnson, juniors Derek Stivers, Luke Noel and John Usher and sophomore Cy Dutton for what should be an improved Titans team.

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  • Experience Titans armed for...

    The 2012 season came to a disappointing end for the Collins baseball team.

    Cross-town rival Shelby County topped the Titans, 10-8, in 11 innings on their home-field in the 30th District Tournament semifinals.

    Collins, however, is putting the past behind it and focusing on the present.

    “It was one game, one bad day,” Titans Coach Roy Bailey said. “These guys, they know what it takes to get it done.”

    Collins got it done often last season, when it went 22-11. The Titans return a plethora of players from that team.

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  • Casey named to Hall of Fame

    Former Shelby County basketball great Mike Casey will be among this year’s inductees into the Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame.

    Casey, the 1966 Kentucky “Mr. Basketball,” who led the Rockets to the state title that season, and later was a standout at the University of Kentucky, will be inducted posthumously during a celebration at 8 p.m. July 20 at the State Theater in Elizabethtown.

    Casey was announced as a member of the KHSBHF’s second class at a news conference Tuesday in Lexington.

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