Maybe the key to rousing the Great Crossing softball bats was an early wake-up call.
Milestone wins aren’t likely to be forgotten, but Thursday night at Sutton Field was extra special for venerable coach Scott Willard and the Scott County High School baseball team.
There is no debating which team is hottest on the local diamond as we whoosh through an unseasonably chilly mid-April.
The philosophy of playing the kind of programs you want to be is starting to pay off for new coach Billy James and a young Scott County softball team.
Georgetown College was beaten at its own game Saturday afternoon in the opening round of the NAIA football playoffs at Toyota Stadium.
Milestone wins aren’t likely to be forgotten, but Thursday night at Sutton Field was extra special for venerable coach Scott Willard and the Scott County High School baseball team.
Led by a double whammy of home runs in the top of the first inning, Great Crossing announced its triumphant arrival on the 41st District baseball scene Tuesday night and extended its overall winning streak to five games.
Isaac Moore of Great Crossing races to one of his two hurdle victories Tuesday evening in the first-ever dual track meet between the Warhawks and rival Scott County Cardinals. It was also the inaugural meet at the new GCHS track. Due to scoring irregularities, complete individual results and…
Scott County junior Kole Brannock captured the KHAA Region 8 swimming championship in the boys’ 100-yard butterfly, held Saturday at Union College in Barbourville.
College signing day at Scott County High School typically happens two or three times a year and is always a sprawling event, given the athletic program’s decades-long tradition of across-the-board success.
Great Crossing and Scott County softball showed everyone Tuesday night what to expect from their rivalry this year, probably next year, and likely in a hundred years.
An overmatched opponent Friday night helped Scott County softball alleviate some of the sting from consecutive losses in its final at-bat.Â
Every team on the bubble of an at-large playoff invitation knows the drill going into its final regular-season game: Win impressively, hope it’s enough, and wait for the committee, computers and/or pollsters to do their job.
Baseball lifers promise that if you show up at the yard and grab a seat in the bleachers any given day, you might see something you’ve never before witnessed.
Scott County High School junior Lucas Kinzer won the community’s first-ever KHSAA regional archery title on Saturday, topping the steep competition by a single point to win the boys’ division of the Region 8 meet at Royal Spring Middle School.
It goes into the books as a no-contest, but Scott County baseball’s rain-drenched Saturday morning trip to Franklin County was worth the gas mileage and laundry duty for the confidence the Cardinals gained going into district play.
Male exhibited many of the reasons Wednesday night why it was the KHSAA’s undefeated state champion and USA Today’s mythical national champion in 2019.
Scott County successfully created a district environment against a familiar out-of-region opponent Monday and Tuesday.
The flurry of firsts from Great Crossing baseball continued Tuesday evening with the Warhawks’ initial shutout.
After three fall-from-ahead losses to Scott County during the 2019 softball season, having to wait an extra year apparently made Frederick Douglass even hungrier for revenge.
Great Crossing’s first-ever home run Saturday afternoon inspired two more in the twilight. Likewise, the Warhawks’ initial win led to another.
The ride home from a spring break baseball trip, whether the destination was Vero Beach or Paducah, is abundantly more pleasant when you break out of a slump and win big in the final.
Opportunistic offense, dynamic defense and superb special teams have turned this strangest of seasons into a splendid spring for Georgetown College football.
Scott County’s young, talented softball lineup showed pluck and persistence Wednesday, playing catch-up with Louisville Mercy all evening until finally taking the lead with two runs in the top of the seventh.The host Jaguars had the last word, however, matching that pair in the bottom of the…
Neither the roster nor the feeder system looks the same as when Scott County last walked off the baseball field in May 2019, but the Cards haven’t backed one iota off their traditionally aggressive schedule.
Two years including a COVID-19 sabbatical after the community’s powerful high school softball program was split down the middle, there’s an almost entirely new Scott County roster and a new coach who’s preaching patience.
It was a year too late for everyone’s taste, but Monday night featured all the festivities to be expected from a high school’s inaugural varsity baseball game.
It certainly isn’t the way Scott County United ever wants to rally the troops in the middle of a boys’ lacrosse game.
Local wrestlers claimed three third-place finishes, a fourth and a fifth in Region 5 and 6 semi-state competition Saturday, March 20 at Ryle High School in Union, just missing the cut-off for the streamlined state meet this past weekend.
Neither sporting events nor family gatherings have been easily achieved in the past year, but Saturday’s softball game between Georgetown College and University of the Cumberlands made up for lost time.
There’s a reason preseason baseball exhibition games exist, and more often than not, coaches and teams are relieved to erase them from the ledger as soon as the final out is recorded.
Scott County High School bass fishing team members Will Stumbo and Cainaan Halsey have enjoyed a stellar spring season so far. The Cards’ combination won the Boyle County Lake Cumberland Open, topping a field of 94 boats with a total catch of 14.36 pounds and big fish of 4.91 pounds. JB and …
For nearly 40 years, Stella Walters has been serving up snacks in different forms and at various sporting events all around Scott County.Â
It is almost impossible to imagine John Calipari leaving Kentucky men’s basketball for Ole Miss, or Jeff Walz walking away from the Louisville women’s program to take the job at Wake Forest.
Home court in the 11th Region girls’ basketball quarterfinals for the third consecutive year wasn’t enough for Scott County to overcome cold shooting, foul trouble and a fired-up, longtime playoff nemesis Monday night.
Thirty days ago, Great Crossing girls’ basketball sent a resounding message with a 39-point blowout of Madison Southern.
Scott County and Great Crossing girls’ basketball found themselves on a collision course for the 2020 11th Region semifinals, giving the county a guaranteed spot in the title game.
LEXINGTON - They don’t ask how. They ask how many and who.
Georgetown College rode the D-train – Defense and Dampier – to a delightful victory Friday in the spring football home finale at Toyota Stadium.
It is tough enough for Great Crossing and other 41st District opponents to come up with an answer for Brooklyn Miles, a 2,000-point scorer at Franklin County and bound for the University of Tennessee.
LEXINGTON - One thousand four hundred seventy-two.
FRANKFORT - The undeniably bright future of Great Crossing boys’ basketball was of no pressing concern to the Warhawks’ post-game locker room Tuesday night.
LEXINGTON - Time to replenish the supply of ice and athletic tape in the Scott County girls’ basketball training room.
Dr. Bob Davis, one of the two legendary namesakes of Georgetown College’s Alumni Gym and the coach who put the Tigers’ now-elite NAIA men’s basketball program on the national map, died Saturday. He was 93.
Eleven local state qualifiers and a landmark day for the second-year Great Crossing program highlighted Saturday’s Region 5 wrestling championship meet, held at Scott County High School.
Zach Dampier’s hot hand at least temporarily put a stop to Georgetown College’s quarterback rotation and ended several weeks’ worth of offensive struggles Friday afternoon at Toyota Stadium.Â
A cold start was nothing compared to a chilling finish Friday evening for Georgetown College men’s basketball.Â
Great Crossing boys’ basketball enters the district tournament as the No. 1 seed for the second time in as many years of its brief history, but there’s a dramatically different vibe this late winter.Â
Georgetown College men’s basketball hits a round number this weekend with 30 consecutive appearances in the NAIA tournament, far and away the longest streak in the nation.