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Today's Sports

  • Fall sports start Friday

    The 2011-2012 school year is a month from starting, but the first round of high school sports are set to begin within days.

    Kentucky’s dead period ran from the last week of June through the first week of July, and starting this Friday the fall teams are eligible to have official practices. Footballs, volleyballs, golf balls and soccer balls are about to fill the air once again with unpredictable seasons looming ahead. Friday marks those starting points.

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  • Stillwater to host state contest...

    Coming from all across Kentucky, the best water skiers in the state will converge at Stillwater Lake in Eminence this weekend for the Kentucky State Water Ski Championship.

    Stillwater is a privately-owned lake located between Eminence and New Castle on Highway 55. The last three times the lake played host to the state championship, sanctioned by the American Water Ski Association, were in 2008, 2005 and 2002. It is on a three-year rotation with lakes in Walton and Paducah.

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  • Ben Schroeder decides late with...

    In what turned into a fast-paced choice of picking a college within the last three weeks, Ben Schroeder has decided to play baseball for Kentucky State University.

    All the pieces just fell into place for Schroeder, the two-sport athlete for the Wildcats who ended up picking baseball over basketball and Kentucky State over all other schools.

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  • MARCH 18, 1949: Regional Tourney...

    FERN CREEK, KY — The Eminence High School basketball team won the Eighth Regional Tournament at Fern Creek Saturday night, defeating Fairdale 35 to 33, after trailing the entire game. With about a minute to go Wallace Lowry pitched in a field goal to go ahead.

    They entered the Kentucky State Tournament on Thursday.

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  • Busch dominates field to take...

    By DAVE TAYLOR

    Landmark News Service

    Kyle Busch, driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, dominated the competition en route to capturing the inaugural NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Kentucky Speedway, Saturday.

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  • Wildcats rush past Warriors, 33-...

    EMINENCE, Ky — For the second week in a row, kicker Chet Ervin saved the day as the Henry County Wildcats came back from a second half deficit last Friday to defeat the Eminence Warriors at Eminence, 33-32.
    Ervin’s 27-yard game-winning field goal came after a stubborn Eminence team trudged  through the mud at home to take a second half lead back from the Wildcats. With four seconds left and Henry County down 32-30, Ervin’s kick split the uprights for the win.

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  • 1-point thriller

    Nearly 10 years ago, Chet Ervin’s kick sailed through the crossbars and sealed a win for the Henry County football team over its cross-county rivals Eminence in a one-point thriller, 33-32. From all accounts — including those written about in the Local — a thriller is exactly what it was.

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  • Angels, White Sox are baseball...

    Both champions of the Henry County Youth Baseball League this season lost their first game in the season-ending tournament before rolling off consecutive wins, including two over the same team in the finals, to win from the loser’s bracket.

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  • Angels, White Sox are baseball...

    Both champions of the Henry County Youth Baseball League this season lost their first game in the season-ending tournament before rolling off consecutive wins, including two over the same team in the finals, to win from the loser’s bracket.

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  • Henry County Wildcats Thirtieth...

    New Castle, Ky - Saturday night, at the Henry County gym, the Henry County Wildcats won the 30th District Championship by defeating the Shelbyville Devils, 69-65, in a hard-fought final game of the tournament.
    The entire game was nip and tuck with the quarter scores, Henry County 15 and Shelbyville 14, at the end of the first; Henry County 29 and Shelbyville 34 at the end of the first half; Henry County 44 to Shelbyville’s 46 at the end of the third quarter.

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