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AUTO RACING: Penske team follows opposite tracks heading into today’s Coca-Cola 600. | 4C The PaducahSports Sun | Sunday, May 29, 2011 | paducahsun.com Section C Lady Flash, Rowtons just miss titles Staff report losing to St. Xavier’s team of Sean Lone Oak’s doubles team of Xavier, and Samantha Maddox was named to the All-State team. After winning 3-0 in its fi rst Donohue and Joseph Siami in the senior Dakota Durrett and Eliza- of Lexington Catholic defended The Rowtons and Lone Oak’s three matches of the new state fi nals 6-1, 5-7, 6-3. The Rowtons beth Skinner lost in the semifi nals her girls singles title with a 6-0, Bobby Kaltenbach were also tennis tournament team matches, beat Daniel Miller and Parker earlier Saturday. Sacred Heart’s 6-3 victory over Ellie Gerlach of named to the boys All-State team. Lone Oak fell to Louisville As- Thieneman of St. Xavier 6-3, 7-6 Katherine English and Caitlin Christian Academy of Louisville. The team tournament followed sumption 3-1 in Saturday’s Ken- in the semifi nals. Haney beat the Lone Oak squad St. Xavier went on to win the boys a different format than in past tucky High School Athletic Asso- The last Tilghman team to win 6-1, 6-4, then went on to beat team title with a 3-0 victory over years. Regional winners were ciation’s State Tennis Meet. It was a doubles title was Rob Gould and teammates Kaelin Roberts and Corbin. Lone Oak’s boys lost to St. paired in a sectional with the top Lone Oak’s eighth state runner- Todd Crawford in 2000. Gould Ashley Williams 7-6, 7-6 in the Xavier by the same score in the four teams advance to the state up fi nish and second straight. also teamed up with Adam Craw- fi nals. semifi nals. fi nals. Teams played three singles Meanwhile, Paducah Tilgh- ford to win the 1999 title. Tornado Greenwood’s No. 1 seed Beck Lone Oak’s Durrett won the and two doubles matches in the man’s boys doubles team of broth- brothers Max and Charlie Pittard Pennington won the boys singles Kentucky National Guard Lead- team format. ers Ethan Rowton and Alek Row- were state runners-up in 2006 in title with a 6-4, 1-6, 4-2 (retired) ership Award for the girls, and Lone Oak advanced to the fi nals ton fell just short of a state title, doubles. victory over Alex Gornet of St. teammate Michelle McKamey with a 3-0 win over Russell. Chasing dreams, Atkinson adapting to reality leads 3A finishers all part of game Staff report Marshall County’s Steven At- BY DUSTY LUTHY SHULL kinson cleared 6 feet, 2 inches in [email protected] the high jump before his fi rst miss For a few, playing high school to claim a third place and the best softball is a way to ensure an extra local individual fi nish in the KH- photo in the yearbook. SAA Class 3A Track Meet in Lou- For others, it’s a way to be a part isville on Saturday. of a team, a way to compete and Atkinson tied with several a way to socialize away from the jumpers at 6-2, but won third confi nes of lockers and books. place without a miss up to that For the select few, a spot on the height. Teammate Cody Gregory softball team is a way of life, where also cleared 6-2, but fi nished 12th hitting a ball, making a catch or in the fi nal standings. The win- crafting the perfect pitch is an all- ning height was 6-8. consuming process, culminating Gregory placed eighth in the in a career past high school — or long jump with a leap of 20 feet, at the very least amassing a col- 4.25 inches. He also placed 19th lection of hardware for a future in the triple jump. Graves Coun- dusty shelf. Submitted photo ty’s boys were led by Trevor Ves- Taylor Scheer of Heath and Zach It took a whirlwind wedding Schall were wed in September before sell with a 10th-place fi nish in the and the birth of a dimply baby girl Schall, an engineman in the Navy, was shot put with a 44-feet, 1/2-inch for two highly talented softball deployed off the coast of Italy. Scheer throw players to understand that life is came back to finish her senior soft- Graves County’s Alissa Hogue more than just a game — and that ball season while giving up a dream of placed fi fth in the long jump and sometimes the best of dreams playing softball in college. 16th in the 100-meters to lead the have to change. girls. Hogue jumped 16 feet, 1.75 DUSTY LUTHY SHULL | The Sun ------ Kristin Boggess (left), Calloway County catcher, and best friend and team- inches. Since the day she stepped her in whatever she does.” mate Taylor Armstrong smile with Aubree, Kristin’s daughter born in January. Lauren Miller of Marshall out onto a softball fi eld, Taylor As a sophomore, Taylor didn’t Boggess, a senior, has found many of her dreams and goals have changed County placed eighth in the Sheerer was the mistress of the exactly think senior Zach Schall with Aubree around. 300-meter hurdles, but did not diamond. Sheerer, a center fi elder was “the one” when they started fi nish in the event she was favored and a fi ve-year starter at Heath, dating in the fall of 2008. But First Region softball Second Region softball in. Her qualifying time of 15.69 had designs on attending college when Schall, an engineman in the was very close to the winning time on a softball scholarship. Labeled Navy, asked her father’s permis- (at Graves County) (at Madisonville) of 15.62. She placed 11th in the a top-50 player as a junior in the sion to give her a ring about a year Monday Monday triple jump with a leap of 33 feet, state of Kentucky, Taylor looked ago, things were quite a bit more Hickman County vs. Heath, Noon Henderson County vs. Lyon County, 11 9 inches, just ahead of teammate like a promising catch for schools serious. Ballard Memorial vs. Calloway County, a.m. Alyssa Barnard (33-0.25). Miller such as Campbellsville. In September, Taylor said “I 2 p.m Madisonville vs.Hopkinsville, 1 p.m. also placed 11th in the triple jump “Her goal was to go to school do” after a summer-long engage- Reidland vs. Graves County, 4 p.m. Christian County vs. Union County, 3 p.m. and ran on a pair of relay teams. and play softball and she worked ment. The couple took a brief Marshall County vs. Carlisle County, 6 Livingston Central vs. Hopkins Central, Class 3A local results very hard to have that ability, and honeymoon to Virginia, where p.m. 5 p.m. Results include winning time in parenthesis, place, team and time of local fi nishers. Relay teams include she can do it,” said her mother, Taylor applied for her military ID Tuesday Tuesday runners. Heath assistant coach LaDonna before leaving her new husband Semifinals at 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Semifinals at 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. GIRLS 100-meter hurdles (15.62) – DNF, Lauren Miller Sheerer. “She chose a different at his base to head back to Ken- Wednesday Championship line that was kind of hard for us to Championship, 7 p.m. Date ant time to be determined accept. 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