Today's Sports

Shelbyville’s Darryl Hicks, a standout guard at Trinity High School, has committed to play basketball at Boston College, he confirmed on his Twitter account Tuesday afternoon.

Hicks is one of five finalists for Kentucky’s Mr. Basketball award, given annually to the state’s best player, which will be handed out Friday night during a ceremony at the Seelbach Hilton Hotel in Louisville.

Antonita Slaughter’s breakout season with the University of Louisville women’s basketball team has kept her older brother up late many nights.

That’s because A.J. Slaughter, who plays professionally in France, has burned the post-midnight oil watching his sister’s games.

“With the time difference, I catch myself up at 3 a.m. sometimes to watch my little sister,” he said.

The Shelby County baseball team bounced back from its first loss with a trio of victories at the end last week.

The Rockets (4-1), who lost to 13th-ranked Paul Dunbar on March 16, clobbered Kentucky Country Day, 8-2, Thursday before a pair of 5-inning victories over Oldham County (12-1) and Thomas Nelson (12-0) on Friday and Saturday.

Shelby County 8, KCD 2

The visiting Rockets outscored the Bearcats, 7-0, in the final three innings, and Kipp Moore and Dillon Boone combined to hold the hosts to two hits.

Austin Perry and the Collins baseball team finished strong Tuesday night against Trinity.

After falling behind the Shamrocks, 4-1, in part because of a shaky start by Perry, the host Titans rallied for a 6-4 victory in a battle of two teams ranked in the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association’s preseason Top 25.

“We started out a little slow, but I was happy about our kids coming back and controlling the game the last five innings,” Collins Coach Roy Bailey said.