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Today's Sports

  • Titans pound out 13th victory

    Don’t tell the Collins baseball team that 13 is an unlucky number.

    The Titans improved to 13-0 this season, thanks to three victories at the end of last week and two more at the start of this week.

    Collins beat Ballard, the 15th-ranked team in the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Top 25, 5-3 Thursday then followed that up with a 16-3 victory at Oldham County on Friday and a 9-2 romp at Western Hills on Saturday.

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  • Russells help SCHS boys rout...

    The Shelby County boys’ tennis team downed North Bullitt, 4-1, in Shepherdsville on Wednesday. The Rockets won two singles matches and both doubles matches.

    At No. 1 singles junior Ethan Russell was victorious, 8-3, while senior Zach Brown triumphed, 8-2, at No. 3 singles.

    Junior Doug Martin and freshman Jeron Russell won, 8-1, at No. 1 doubles, and sophomore Luke Dove and senior Stuart Orange were victorious, 8-4, at No. 2 doubles.

    Shelby County (4-1) played at Franklin County on Thursday.

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  • Hudgens headed to Union

    Shelby County senior Jacob Hudgens signed to play football for Union College last week.

    Hudgens, an offensive guard and outside linebacker this past season for the Rockets, said he visited the campus in Barbourville and was happy with the way he was treated as well as the surroundings.  

    “It seemed like a great place to spend four years,” he said.

    Hudgens, who stands 5 feet 10, 201 pounds, was an instrumental player on both sides of the ball for Shelby County, which went 9-3 last fall.

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  • Three Rocket pitchers combine to...

    Three Shelby County pitchers combined to no-hit visiting Williamstown as the Rockets routed the Demons, 12-1, in five innings Wednesday night at the Shelby County Athletic Complex.

    Freshman Riley Everson, senior Kyle Durbin and sophomore Cam Veeley teamed up to hold Williamstown hitless.

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  • Collins student lifts Oldham to...

    One Collins athlete recently helped his team win a state championship with a flick of the wrist.

    Collins junior Austin Myers, a right wing for the Oldham County ice hockey team, assisted the game-winning goal – with only 1 minute, 52 seconds to play – that lifted Oldham to a 2-1 triumph over Trinity in the Kentucky High School Hockey League state final, capping off a 19-0 season, on March 3 at the Iceland Sports Arena in Louisville.

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  • Titans split 4 games in softball...

    Thanks to a pair of walk-off victories, the Collins softball team split four games at the end of last week.

    The Titans topped Louisville Southern, 10-9, Thursday in Shelbyville before beating Spencer County, 7-6, Friday in their first game of the TSOA Tournament at Meade County. Collins then dropped its final two games of that tourney – Male trounced the Titans, 9-2, and the host Green Wave beat them, 8-5, – Saturday.

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  • Titans nip defending champs

    The Collins baseball team keeps on rolling.

    The Titans remained unbeaten, thanks to a pair of victories – including one over the 2-time defending 8th Region champs – this past weekend.  

    No. 23 Collins (8-0) blanked visiting North Bullitt, 10-0, Thursday before beating North Oldham, 5-4, on Saturday.

     

    Collins 10, North Bullitt 0

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  • Rockets sweept Titans for 1st...

    Thanks to a pair of victories at No. 2 doubles, the Shelby County tennis teams swept crosstown-rival Collins for the first time Friday.

    The Rockets’ boys’ and girls’ squads both edged their Titans counterparts, 3-2, at Clear Creek Park. It was the first victory for the Shelby County girls over Collins since the former “split” in 2010.  

     

    Boys

    The Rockets relied on victories at No. 1 singles and in both doubles matches to take down the Titans.

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  • Slaughter rules

    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.

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  • Hicks is Boston-bound

    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.

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