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MASON COUNTY 11, ST. PATRICK 1 PANTHERS COMPLETE REGULAR SEASON today's SWEEP OF BATH COUNTY, news 61ST DISTRICT to go! Fleming County claimed Royals come up with its third straight 61st Dis- trict tournament top seed by entertainmentfinishing off a doubleheader sweep of Bath County in Ow- ingsville on Tuesday. run-rule W over Saints First the Panthers com- pleted a 5-2 win in a game ZACK KLEMME delayed by rain from last today's [email protected] Wednesday in Flemingsburg. Desmond McAdams finishes news Baseball teams sometimes as the pitcher of record in that struggle to maintain the ut- game, and combining the two to go! most intensity over the course halves, Travis Taylor racked of an entire season. up three hits and Bryson Mason County is hoping an + McKee and Heath Burnett regioninfusion of senior leadership statehad two apiece. and a little more pitching will McAdams also won Tues- help ease the midseason dol- day’s second game, fanning drums. 14 Wildcats, eight looking, in On a day when the Royals the 11-5 win. let St. Patrick hang around for Taylor went 2-for-4 with most of the game, Mason se- two RBI, Burnett was 2-for-4 today's nior Derek Moore pitched four and Cody Stewart was 2-for- innings of two-hit ball in his 4 in the nightcap. Brady views return from injury as the host Saunders drove in three runs, to go! Royals completed a regular- Brett Fawns had two RBI and season sweep of the Saints with McKee drew four of the 12 an 11-1 win Tuesday evening. walks Bath issued. Connor Osborneopinion and Fleming (13-10) finished Daulton Mason each drove in 6-0 against district oppo- three runs for Mason (15-10-1). nents and will play fourth- Mason’s three-RBI double in seed Menifee County in the the sixth inning gave the Royals district semis. a 10-run lead and invoked the The Panthers host Lewis mercy rule. County on Thursday. — LI TERRY PRATHER, THE LEDGER INDEPENDENT Mason County’s Derek Moore works plateward during his first pitching outing since returning from injury. He MONDAY: POLAR BEARS got the win as the Royals beat St. Patrick 11-1 on Tuesday. See MASON, A8 RUN-RULE BLACK DEVILS MOUNT OLIVET | Bracken County downed Deming 21-6 MONDAY: FLEMING COUNTY 10, MASON COUNTY 0 Monday night in a five-inning affair. The Polar Bears took an early 5-2 lead after one frame. Lady Panthers bunt way to sixth consecutive victory Bracken’s Jarrett Moore picked up the win on the hill, CHUCK HAMILTON opening frame and added three base for the putout and Brown great defense and didn’t make throwing a complete game [email protected] more in the third on only a pair hustled home with the first an error. The wind was blowing and giving up five runs on of hits. Kira Brown led off the Fleming run. hard today but our outfielders eight hits while fanning five The visiting Fleming County game with a walk and moved to Fleming freshman pitcher did a great job of making the batters. Lady Panthers executed their second base on Mandy Boyd’s Kayla Biddle went the distance plays on some tricky fly balls.” Offensively for the Bears brand of small ball effectively sacrifice bunt, and both run- for the Lady Panthers, allow- In the top of the third inning, (13-9), Connor Rigg, Eli Flo- in defeating Mason County ners advanced a base when the ing just four hits and working Fleming’s Rachel Boyd led off rer and Jacob Houston had 10-0 in a mercy-rule-short- throw to first got away for an herself out of several jams. with a base on balls, went to three hits each. Florer hit two ened six-inning game on Mon- error. After Mason’s Kortney Mason’s Abby Huff and Leigh second on Brown’s sacrifice home runs and collected four daytuesday, evening in 04.27,2010 Maysville. | theCarver ledger retired independent the next two Newdigate both came up with bunt and scored on an error.www.maysville-online.com/news RBI. Houston also homered The win was the sixth con- Lady Panthers on a pop-up and solid two-base hits in each of Brown scored the second of her and racked up three RBI. Ad- secutive for Fleming, which a strikeout, Paige Hurst plated the first two innings but were four runs after reaching on the ditionally,today's Josh Cummins improved to 13-12 on the sea- Boyd with the second run of left stranded. error, moving to third on an- and Zach Williamsnews had a pair son. The Lady Royals fell to the inning. Brown scored when “Kayla pitched well,” said other miscue and scoring on of hits andto three go! RBI apiece. 8-15 after dropping their fifth Carver’s strikeout pitch went Fleming coach Nathan Ryver. Travis Bishop was 1-for-2 in a row. into the dirt, forcing the Ma- “She did have five walks and with three RBI. Fleming scored twice in the son catcher +to throw to first no strikeouts but we played See FLEMING, A8 The Deming (4-11) offense region state was highlighted by Jordan Earlywine’s three-run home run in the fourth inning. He went 2-for-3 with three MONDAY:section b RUSSELLtuesday, 9, 04.27,2010 | thePHILADELPHIA ledger independent 109, CHICAGO 92 www.maysville-online.com/lifestyles LEWIS COUNTY 5 RBI. Calvin Schalch was also 2-for-3.today's — LI recipes MONDAY: RIPLEY RALLIES to go! Lions’ win FOR 11-6 SHL DEFEAT + OF MANCHESTER life travel Again on Monday, the early streak snapped innings weren’t the problem for visiting Manchester, it was the late frames as Ripley by improved came back from 5-0 and 6-5 deficits to win 11-6. section b tuesday, 04.27,2010 | the ledger independent www.maysville-online.com/entertainmentThe Greyhounds led 5-0 Red Devils before Ripley plated five in the bottomtoday's of the fourth in- JAYME PRICE ning. Manchesterrecipes went ahead For The Ledger Independent again 6-5 in the fifth, but the Blue Jays scoredto go! three runs VANCEBURG | If Russell was flying un- in the fifth and three in the entertainmentder the radar entering its matchup with sixth. 16th Region leader Lewis County Monday, The Blue Jays’ Brad seventy-five cents the Red Devils are likely showing up on ev- Kirschner and Tommy eryone’s map now. Ramsey each went 2-for-3 After all, Russell sported a 7-13 record with three RBI. Tyler Planck going in and had lost to Lewis County 9-5 guard Jrue Holiday (11) drives to the basket against drove in two runs and got in the first meeting on its home field. But (13) and forward during the second quarter of the 76ers’ the win in relief, and Dylan the Red Devils turned the tables this time, victory in Chicago on Tuesday. Arnett, Ryan Poole and Bryce jumping ahead early and riding a com- Hill were all 2-for-3. manding performance on the mound from Travis Combs was the only Alex Jones to snap Lewis County’s 14-game Hound with a multi-hit day, winning streak, 9-5. Sixers pull away in third, getting two of Manchester’s Russell (8-13) is on a four-game upswing, knocks. having put 44 runs on the scoreboard dur- Dylan Ricketts was Man- ing that span. Lions coach Keith Prater beat Bulls to tie series chester’s pitcher of record. acknowledged he expects his team learned The two Southern Hills a valuable lesson in the loss. ANDREW SELIGMAN opener, and Chicago product Evan League Division II teams are “If we gained anything from this it’s that Associated Press Turner chipped in with 19 points, slated to meet again May 8 in we have to come ready to play every day,” seven rebounds and six assists. Manchester. — LI Prater said. “As the number-one team in CHICAGO | Jrue Holiday scored 26 Joakim Noah led the Bulls with 21 the region, the bull’s eye gets bigger every points, Lou Williams added 20 and points and eight rebounds. John Lucas REDS’ SERIES OPENER time you win. This knocked us down a the Philadelphia 76ers beat Chicago III scored 15 points, but VS. CUBS POSTPONED notch and we understand we can be beat.” 109-92 on Tuesday night to even their scored just nine and Luol Deng fin- Jones, a sophomore, went the distance in first-round series in the Bulls’ first ished with eight. More alarming, the CINCINNATI | Tuesday’s earning the victory. The left-hander held game since ’s season- Bulls simply couldn’t stop the Sixers, series opener between the the Lions (17-3) to just three hits, struck ending knee injury. particularly in the third quarter. Chicago Cubs and Cincin- out five and threw 67 strikes in 111 pitches. The superstar guard received Turner scored 11 points in the pe- nati Reds was postponed be- “You can’t win many games with three a standing ovation and waved to the riod, and Philadelphia wiped out a cause lines of thunderstorms hits, especially when you give up 11,” Prater crowd as he limped onto the court to 55-47 deficit. moved through the area. The said. “The left-hander did a good job. present the game ball, then watched The Sixers were leading 68-61 mid- game wasn’t immediately re- We struggle with kids that don’t throw from a suite as the 76ers simply way through the quarter after a 12-0 scheduled. 80 (mph). It seems if (the opponent) puts blitzed the Bulls in the third quarter. run that started with a It was the first postpone- somebody up there that throws a little junk, They outscored Chicago 36-14 in foul-line jumper. Then, after a basket ment for both teams this we struggle with it.” the period, turning an eight-point by C.J. Watson, threw season and the fifth overall Russell got the scoring started with three deficit into an 83-69 lead, and pulled down a thunderous one-handed dunk at Great American Ball Park, runs in the second inning, with four players even with the league’s top-seeded over Deng for a three-point play that which opened in 2003. The notching singles. All three runs came with team. Game 3 is Friday in Philadel- drew plenty of oohs, aahs and groans game was called two hours two outs as Sean Murphy, Troy Huffine and phia. from a crowd that felt this one slip- after the scheduled start Zach Thompson each drove in runs. Holiday was 11 of 15 from the field, ping away. Tuesday night. and the Sixers shot 59 percent overall. — AP Williams came up big, going 8 of 13 See LEWIS, A9 after hitting just 1 of 6 shots in the See SIXERS, A10