Ejlay Cowherd’s Peoria All-Stars bowed out of The Basketball Tournament, an annual showcase for recent college graduates with a $1 million total first prize, but not before the Georgetown College star earned rave reviews for his unselfish, hard-nosed play at point guard.
Ryann Thomas has become the second Great Crossing High School volleyball player to make an NCAA Division I commitment, declaring her intentions this past weekend to play at Arkansas State University.
A strong finish to Monday’s opening round has Rylea Marcum of Georgetown in the top half of the field at the 42nd annual North and South girls’ amateur golf championship.
Playing against high school and even college golfers four and five years his senior, Alex Bennett of Georgetown continues to excel on the local links.
For the first time in more than a half-century, Georgetown College could be represented in a Major League Baseball game this summer.
With the prospective and hopeful kickoff to the high school football season only seven weeks away, Scott County High School coach Jim McKee announced two significant midsummer moves within his coaching staff this week.
Assuming there is a football season for Georgetown College this fall, it will look dramatically different than anything Tiger fans have seen in the modern era.
Malea Williams’ remarkable senior season and career at Scott County High School ended Sunday with a virtual Mr. and Miss Basketball banquet.
It is more than two months later than anyone hoped or expected, but barring any last-minute changes, there will be a 2020 season for Scott County Youth Baseball.
Inseparable even during this most socially distanced of senior seasons, Scott County High School multi-sport standouts Lydia LeDet and Micah McClave also plan to be a power couple at the next level.
Of all the Eastern Kentucky men’s basketball personalities who have transformed the Colonels’ locker room at Alumni Coliseum into Scott County South, nobody got into coach A.W. Hamilton’s pipeline any earlier than Blake Harris.
Scott County High School boys’ basketball and its large delegation of followers flexed their muscles — of the keyboard variety, at least — in a “virtual state tournament” on Twitter last week.
Still the most prolific scorer in Scott County High School girls’ basketball history more than a decade after her graduation, Rebecca Gray Dyer has been welcomed into another elite circle for those exploits.
Time and a passion can be a beautiful combination.
One of the state’s tallest high school basketball recruits, and with arguably the highest ceiling for her potential, Malea Williams wanted to join forces with a college that could help her reach the mountaintop.
Tommy Castle, who took over the Scott County High School wrestling program in its infancy and guided the Cardinals to substantial state and regional acclaim, died Tuesday after an extended illness.
Scott County product Billy Tom Sargent shot one of the most impressive rounds of his golf career this week with a 9-under 62 in Tuesday’s opening round of the Unbridled Tour event at Fleming Island Golf Club in Jacksonville, Florida.
Next Monday, June 15, is a momentous day in Scott County for spring sports fans who have been cooped up and itching to see the national pastime played at any level.
One of the most prolific shooters in recent Georgetown College women’s basketball history will take her developing career as a teacher of the game to a Mid-South Conference rival.
Michael Moreno has added an icing-on-the-cake accolade to his outstanding freshman basketball season at Eastern Kentucky University.
Few high school athletes lost more than Grace Gardner when the spring season was canceled.
Former Scott County High School and Western Kentucky University star Billy Tom Sargent, now looking to make his mark in the professional golf ranks, finished 10th last week in the season-opening event of the Unbridled Tour at Boone’s Trace National Golf Club in Richmond.
Fate took away Eljay Cowherd and Chris Coffey’s chance to successfully defend their NAIA men’s basketball championship with Georgetown College this past winter.
After a thoughtful, 90-minute discussion that addressed the many health and socioeconomic challenges facing the state as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the KHSAA Board of Control voted Thursday to forgo the summer dead period that traditionally precedes the fall sports season.
Excited and grateful describe Georgetown College women's basketball's newest assistant coach, Lexxus Graham.
After waiting almost two months with hopes of being able to salvage its annual in person banquet, the Kentucky Lions Eye Foundation will present the first-ever virtual Mr. and Miss Kentucky Basketball Awards Ceremony on Sunday, June 28.
It’s an impressive accomplishment for any boys’ basketball program, never mind a first-year outfit. Four-fifths of the inaugural Great Crossing High School starting lineup will play in college next year.
Although the “interim” tag was never officially attached to Paul Rains’ title as Great Crossing High School football coach, it was evident that the twice-retired leader’s role was to light the torch and briefly fan the flame before passing it to someone else.
Kennedy Sullivan, whose powerful arm and bat staked Scott County High School to three KHSAA state softball championships in five years, has continued to shine on the diamond and in the classroom at Western Kentucky University.
Georgetown College men’s basketball legend and 1972 United States Olympian Kenny Davis has been selected for induction into the Small College Basketball national hall of fame.
Bronson Brown, who rushed for more than 2,500 yards and scored 40 touchdowns in his career as a two-way starter at Scott County High School, has committed to continue his football exploits at Georgetown College.
In a turbulent time of sports seasons, athletic programs and even entire colleges closing their doors, the Georgetown College athletic department is actually growing.
Both family and community traditions continued this week when Leilani “Nani” Valencia, a rising senior at Great Crossing High School, announced her commitment to the NCAA Division I softball program at Western Kentucky University.
After two months of conducting much of their learning remotely through Zoom meetings, Great Crossing High School senior student athletes didn’t think it unique or unusual to use the video conferencing technology and salvage their senior signing day.
Paul Rains was a week away from retirement as a teacher last spring when he was lured back to the sideline and into the hallway one final time at Great Crossing High School.
Kyle VanValkenburg, a member of the Scott County High School golf team, achieved a milestone in his young career last week in Lexington. VanValkenburg used a gap wedge to register his initial hole-in-one. He aced No. 16 at Meadowbrook Golf Course, which played at just under 100 yards on the …
Carly Oliver, who was part of KHSAA state championship softball teams at Scott County High School in 2016 and 2018, earned high marks for her abbreviated freshman campaign at Georgetown College as well.
Cooper Robb’s transfer from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and signing with Eastern Kentucky University have become official.
We all knew the decade just completed was a prolific one for Scott County High School boys’ basketball.
They were only given one season to make their mark at Great Crossing High School, but the Warhawks’ inaugural senior class should get ample opportunity to showcase their talent over the next four or five years.
Aaron Leake was already an unknown quantity to many outside the Scott County boys’ basketball program, having waited his turn while the Cardinals’ parade of upper-class talent stormed to 11th Region championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019,
He didn’t receive his full opportunity to shine as a senior with the Scott County baseball program, but Sky Reeves scored quite a consolation prize on Thursday.
We all knew it was coming, and in the grand scheme, sports and entertainment are lesser details in the scourge that is the COVID-19 pandemic.
After a long, winding road at the start of her college softball career, former Scott County High School standout Halie Fain has found her sweet spot at the University of Evansville.
Underrated and overlooked like the rest of his Scott County High School boys’ basketball team after an uncommon stretch of success by older teammates, Terrin Hamilton’s future in hoops is starting to come into focus.
You can add another name to the extraordinary list of NCAA Division I athletes from Scott County High School in recent years.
Spalding University has a selected an up-and-coming college assistant coach with ties around the state to become the next leader of its NCAA Division III women’s basketball program.
Scott County High School product Trey Ogle of the Georgetown College men’s golf team has been awarded one of the highest honors available to Mid-South Conference athletes away from the courses, fields and courts.
A month after Scott County’s bid for a third consecutive 11th Region girls’ basketball fell only four points shy, the accolades keep rolling in for the two seniors who helped provide the foundation for that powerful program in recent times.
With the likelihood of no additional school or extracurricular activities this school year increasing by the day due to the COVID-19 quarantine, baseball and softball fields around the county have been eerily quiet this spring.
With almost all social and recreational activities closed or at least significantly modified to fight the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Georgetown’s three public golf courses are in a unique position as the only game in town.
