Today's Sports

While most of their friends have been at the pool, the mall, the movies or catching up on reruns of ‘Jersey Shore,’ boys’ and girls’ basketball players from both Collins and Shelby County haven’t had much time for those things so far this summer.

That’s because they’ve been honing their games.

Since school ended, prospective players for next season from both schools have been practicing, playing games and working out.

Ten state champions were crowned in Waddy on Sunday.

The Kentucky State Championship Road Race, sponsored by Headfirst Performance Magazine and Main Street Bikes in Shelbyville, took place in the late morning and early afternoon of Father’s Day.

Riders from Lexington and the Louisville-area dominated the races (formerly the Waddy Road Race), which covered a 10-mile circuit that started and ended at the Waddy Ruritan Club on Kings Highway, winning all 10 titles. But Shelby County was still well-represented.

The Shelbyville Post 37 American Legion baseball team only played one game due to rain in its 31st Annual Shelbyville American Legion Invitational Tournament over the weekend, but it was an impressive victory nonetheless.

Shelbyville beat Storm Club out of Cincinnati 10-0 in five innings Thursday night thanks to Zach Strecker’s no-hitter at Bobby Stratton Field. Shelbyville’s late game Friday night, as well as a pair of game scheduled for Saturday, were washed out.

Two Shelby County graduates are vying for their dream jobs, and you can help them reach that goal.

Molly Albrecht, 24, a 2005 graduate of SCHS, and Chris Morris, 22, a 2007 graduate of SCHS, are two of the 51 remaining applicants who are trying to earn a job as part-time co-host on Kentucky Sports Television’s nightly half-hour show about University of Kentucky sports (it runs at 7:30 & 11 p.m. on Insight Channel 2) hosted by Matt Jones.