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Today's Sports

  • Smither, Rankin sign college...

    A pair of senior student-athletes from Collins High School recently confirmed in writing their colleges of choice.

    Michael Smither signed last Thursday, during a ceremony in the school’s library, to play baseball for Berea College. Then Bailey Rankin on Tuesday inked to play softball for Southern (La.) University and A&M College.

    Through the Titans’ first 26 games Smither, a pitcher-infielder, had appeared in one game on the mound and hit .312 with seven runs scored.

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  • Rockets’ softball team blasts...

    The Shelby County softball team put up its highest single-game run total in five years Wednesday in its 18-2, 6-inning victory at Jeffersontown.

    It was the most runs the Rockets (9-17) have scored in a game since they annihilated Eminence, 19-0, in the 30th District Tournament on May 19, 2008. They scored eight runs in the first inning, one in the second and third frames before tacking on another eight-spot in the sixth against the Chargers (4-17).

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  • Streaking Titans ‘come together’

    It has been an up-and-down season for the Collins softball team.

    The Titans won four of their first five games but then lost eight of their first 11 games to begin April.

    Collins, however, won for the third time in its last four contests Monday night, slamming crosstown-rival Shelby County, 14-1, at the Shelby County Athletic Complex.

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  • Titans are blooped, blooped and...

    It was a rough weekend for Collins’ baseball team.

    The Titans, who had won their first 20 games of the season, endured a trio of losses – including two to ranked teams – in the Louisville Invitational Tournament.

    Tates Creek topped the Titans, 5-1, Friday night at Derby City Field before St. Xavier clobbered them, 12-2, in five innings, and DuPont Manual edged them, 8-6, on Saturday at St. X.

     

    Tates Creek 5, Collins 1

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  • Rockets overcome weak hitting...

    The Shelby County baseball team wrapped up last week by winning one game but losing another.

    The Rockets lambasted Louisville Central, 11-0, in five innings last Thursday but got outscored by Oak Hills (Ohio), 12-5, on Saturday at the Shelby County Athletic Complex.

     

    Shelby County 11, Central 0

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  • Shipley leads Rockets at Eastern...

    Shelby County senior Zach Shipley led the way for the Shelby County boys’ track & field team at the Eastern Relays, which took place Friday and Saturday at the University of Louisville.

    Shipley captured the 300-meter hurdles with one of the fastest times in the state this season – 39.33 seconds. That wasn’t far off the 39.19 run by North Hardin’s Dante Johnson against Shipley in the Heart of the Bluegrass meet on April 20.

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  • Decker continues dominant...

    Another strong pitching performance carried the Collins baseball team to victory Tuesday.

    Senior southpaw David Decker struck out 12 and gave up just three hits as Collins clobbered visiting Portland Christian, 7-2.

    “David pitched great,” Titans Coach Roy Bailey said. “Being left-handed and throwing from underneath and a three-fourths arm slot, he really gets great movement on his fastball. He was able to consistently work the strike zone and work ahead in the count.

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  • Shelby’s Court appears headed...

    Jon Court is on schedule to get a second chance at the Kentucky Derby.

    Court, the professional Thoroughbred jockey from Shelbyville, who two years ago had his first mount in horse racing’s Super Bowl, is slated to be back at Churchill Downs next Saturday (the first one in May) and on the back of Will Take Charge in the 139th Run for the Roses.   

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  • Not much ‘rev’ in the Rockets

    The Shelby County baseball team endured its most frustrating loss – at least it was for Rockets Coach Bart “Rudy” Roettger – of the season Tuesday night.

    Visiting Fairdale rallied to score two runs in the top of the seventh inning and tallied two more in the top of the eighth to beat the Rockets, 5-4, at the Shelby County Athletic Complex.

    It was the third setback in the past four games for Shelby County (19-6), which had won 14 of its first 15 games.

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  • River City soccer team to ‘rove...

    This spring and summer you’ll be able to see some of the area’s best men’s amateur soccer players in Shelbyville.

    The River City Rovers, a member of the Premier Development League (PDL), will play their home games at the Shelby County Athletic Complex on Burks Branch Road.

    The Rovers, who are in their third season of existence, played their home games the past two years at Christian Academy of Louisville but will relocate a little farther up Interstate 64 this season.

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