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Today's Sports

  • Upcoming sports schedule: April...

    Wednesday, April 10

    5 p.m.: High school girls’ tennis, Shelby County at Spencer County.
    5:30 p.m.: High school girls’ tennis, Carroll County at Collins.
    5:30 p.m.: High school boys’ tennis, Shelby County at Frankfort.
    5:30 p.m.: High school baseball, Shelby County at Henry County.

    Thursday, April 11

  • Softball: Anderson 7, SCHS 0:...

    Good teams will make you pay for extra outs, according to the old diamond truth.

    A Shelby County error prolonged the top of the fourth inning Monday night, and Anderson County showed why it feels it is becoming a good team.

    Seven consecutive Bearcats reached base – six of them scored – in the decisive inning on their way to a 7-0 victory in a key 30th District matchup at the Shelby County athletic complex.

  • Collins' baseball team...

    The Collins baseball team reeled off three more victories – two late last week and one Monday – to stay perfect for the season.

    The Titans downed Doss, 7-2, Thursday, then rallied to beat DeSales, 3-2, Saturday before bombing host Bullitt Central, 12-2, in five innings Monday night to run their record to 16-0.

     

    Collins 7, Doss 2

  • Rockets countdown hits record 10

    The Shelby County baseball team ran its winning streak to 10 games – the longest in coach Bart “Rudy” Roettger’s tenure – with road victories Tuesday and Wednesday.

    The Rockets edged host North Hardin, 4-3, Tuesday, then clobbered Carroll County, 11-2, Wednesday.

    “I can’t complain too much with the eleven and one record on the season,” said Roettger, who is in his sixth season at Shelby.

  • Slaughter makes history

    The University of Louisville men’s and women’s basketball teams have a chance to make history early next week.

    Both Cardinals squads will compete in the NCAA Final Fours this weekend – the men in Atlanta and the women in New Orleans – with the chance to become only the second school (Connecticut did it in 2004) to win both national championships in the same season (the men’s title game is Monday night, the women’s Tuesday night).

  • Wright, Smeaton power 4 victories

    The Shelby County softball team racked up four victories last weekend to win Bath County’s Lady Cat Invitational.

    The Rockets edged Cooper, 4-3, before hammering the hosts, 15-4, Friday, then shutting out Scott, 6-0, and Elliott County, 7-0, Saturday to finish the 5-team round robin unbeaten.

    “That was a good weekend to help to build our confidence and to let us know we are capable of winning games,” said Shelby County Coach Kelly Cable, whose team improved to 5-4. “I thought we pulled together as a team.”

  • The awful fall of Kevin Ware

    INDIANAPOLIS – Kevin Ware lay on the raised hardwood of a basketball court constructed in a football stadium and feeling far more pain, we would bet, than any padded professional ever had endured on a fall Sunday in that building.

    He was prone, his lower right leg dangling and useless, the shocked victim of a turn-your-head moment so awful that his teammates and coaches and even nearby journalists were left with tears, choked back words and even throats full of bile by what they had seen of this fallen basketball player for the University of Louisville.

  • 17 runs in final 3 innings rally...

    The Collins softball team overcame an 8-1 deficit and 10 errors to outlast Fern Creek, 19-18, in a slugfest Thursday in Shelbyville.

    Trailing by seven runs after four innings and down six after five, the Titans scored six runs in the sixth inning and seven in the bottom of the seventh to send the game into extra innings.

    The Tigers scored three runs in the top of the eighth to take the lead, but Collins came back with four runs in the bottom of the inning to win the game.

  • Rockets roll to 8th in a row

    The Shelby County baseball team continued its winning ways at the end of last week, with four victories in three days to run its winning streak to eight in a row.

    Shelby County (9-1) rolled over Gallatin County, 9-1, Thursday, beat North Bullitt, 9-4, Friday then topped Powell County, 8-4, and Letcher County Central, 13-3, Saturday at Powell County.

  • Slaughter has big role in ambush

    To the victors go the spoils – and pictures with Kevin Durant.

    Posing for photos with the NBA’s leading scorer was one of the perks for Shelbyville’s Antonita Slaughter, a junior guard on the University of Louisville women’s basketball team, on Sunday night after the Cardinals shocked Baylor, 82-81, in the NCAA Tournament’s Oklahoma City Regional semifinals.

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