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BRIEFS PREP n n Free clinic set for Saturday Trigg County smashes Lady Blazers Oak Grove Baptist Church in Trigg County has scheduled a free baseball clinic at Todd Central on diamond burn Logan Co. 9 a.m. Saturday at the Trigg County Recre- FROM NEW ERA STAFF REPORTS FROM NEW ERA STAFF REPORTS tossed a no-hitter for Fort the offense they would ation Complex. Campbell, Pedro Hernan- need. The clinic, which University Heights Academy used a six-run third Host Trigg County dez tossed a one-hitter and Christian County will continue until inning to rout host Logan County 14-4 Thursday scored nine times in the the visiting Falcons de- slipped to 2-5 on the regu- noon, is open to boys night in a high school softball game. second inning and went feated South Fulton 3-1 lar season. and girls ages 7 and The Lady Blazers (5-1) ripped of 15 hits on the on to defeat Todd County Thursday in a high school Logan Co. 10, Christian Co. 0 up. night led by Shelby Reynolds’ two singles and a Central 17-2 in five in- baseball game. Logan Co. 312 04-10 8 0 No registration is re- Christian Co. 000 00-0 0 1 double. Carson Bryant added three singles. nings Thursday night in Hernandez struck out 11 quired but a permis- WP-Miller UHA led 3-1 after two innings but blew the game a high school baseball and walked four. LP-Dixon Craft (1 IP, 3 SO, 5 BB). sion form must be open in the third. game. Fort Campbell (4-1) had signed by a parent or Hannah Shemwell earned the pitching win, strik- Corbin Estes was a four hits including a pair guardian. The baseball ing out six and walking two in six innings. She also away from the of hits by Braxton Henderson Co. shuts out clinic permission form had three hits at the plate. cycle and drove in three Lewis. is available online at University Heights Chelsea Cansler added a single and double. runs to lead the Wild- Cody Robison scored www.oakgrovebap- Former Hopkinsville High School star Lindsey cats (5-6). Zach Snod- the game-winning run University Heights tistchurch.com. They Ezell hit a three-run home run for the Lady grass and Hunter Allen in the top of the sixth on Academy gave a valiant can be printed off and Cougars. each had a single and an error by South Ful- effort but dropped a high brought to the clinic UHA returns to action tonight against Bowling double and Zack Bridges ton. school baseball game to Green. or picked up at the added a double for Fort Campbell 3, South Fulton 1 host and Region 2 fa- UHA 14, Logan Co. 4 clinic. Trigg. Fort Campbell 010 001 1-3 4 2 vorite Henderson For more informa- South Fulton 000 100 0-1 1 2 U. Heights 306 212-14 15 3 Allen picked up the pitch- County 8-0 Thursday Logan Co. 013 000-4 10 6 tion, go to the church’s WP-Hernandez (7 IP, 11 SO, 4 BB). ing win, striking out four in LP-N/A night. WP-H. Shemwell ( 6 IP, 6 SO, 2 BB). website or call 270-522- two innings of work. Leading Hitters: FCHS – Lewis (2 1B), UHA trailed only 2-0 be- LP-Milan 6521. Zach Lee (1B), Hernandez (1B). Leading Hitters: UHA – Cansler (1B, 2B), Lexi O’Daniel (1B), Makenzi Hamby Bryce Bicksler had a fore Henderson put up (1B), Sydney Davenport (1B), Bryant (3 1B), Reynolds (2 1B, 2B), H. Shemwell pair of hits to lead Todd. four runs in the fifth in- (3 1B), Paige Allen (1B). Indians acquire RHP Trigg Co. 17, Todd Co. 2 ning to blow the game Todd Co. Cent. 200 00-2 4 3 Christian Co. leaves bats Trigg Co. 394 11-17 12 3 open. Lady Wildcats commit 8 errors, Caldwell wins Asencio from Braves WP-Allen (2 IP, 4 SO, 0 BB). in dugout against Logan The Blazers (0-8) man- GOODYEAR, Ariz. LP-Guinn (1 IP, 1 SO, 1 BB). Christian County’s of- aged only four hits with Caldwell County took advantage of eight Trigg (AP) — The Cleveland Leading Hitters: Todd – Guinn (1B), fense failed to earn a hit Austin Byrum, Austin County errors and defeated the Lady Wildcats 15-5 Bicksler (2 1B); Trigg – Snodgrass (1B, Thursday in a high school softball game. Indians have acquired against visiting Logan Gee, Shelton Strader and 2B); Estes (1B, 2B, 3B), Trace Kuberski The Lady Tigers scored in all five of its at-bats in- reliever Jairo Asencio (1B), Dillon Dawson (1B), Allen (1B), County Thursday night Wade Willen each earning cluding four runs in the fourth and fifth innings. from the Atlanta Bridges (2B), Ben Wigand (1B), Allen as the Cougars walked singles. (1B, 2B). Trigg trailed just 7-5 after three innings but er- Braves for cash. away with a 10-0 baseball Henderson Co. 8, UHA 0 The 28-year-old was victory over the U. Heights 000 000 0-0 4 2 rors paved the way for Caldwell. on the Braves’ re- Pitching continues Colonels. Henderson Co. 100 142 x-8 10 0 Jessie Stone had a single and two doubles for stricted list all of 2010 WP-Travis Caldwell. The Cougars scored LP-Chandler West (1/3 IP, 0 SO, 4 BB). after it was discovered to fuel Fort Campbell three times in the top of Trigg (1-6) was led by Brianna Messmer and Ari- Leading Hitters: UHA – Byrum (1B), anna Brown, who each had a pair of hits. Alexa he had come to the U.S A night after J.D. Swails the first and it was all Gee (1B), Strader (1B), Willen (1B). as Luis Valdez and Agosto added a double. Caldwell Co. 15, Trigg Co. 5 claimed to be three Caldwell Co. 133 44-15 14 3 years younger. The In- Trigg Co. 203 00-5 7 8 dians are already deal- WP-Darnell ing with a similar case LP-Alison Russell (4 2/3 IP, 7 SO, 1 BB). Leading Hitters: Caldwell – Holt (2B), Yates (3 1B), Young (1B), Stone (1B, 2 as the pitcher formerly 2B), Wright (3 1B), Meeks (1B), McConnell (1B), Davis (1B); Trigg – Sierra Bush known as Fausto Car- (1B), Brown (2 1B), Agosto (2B), Messmer (2 1B), Russell (1B). mona was actually Roberto Hernandez and three years older. Lady Rebels fall to host Franklin-Simpson Hernandez remains in Todd County Central stranded three runners in the Dominican Repub- the top of the seventh and dropped a 3-0 District 13 lic attempting to ob- softball game to host Franklin-Simpson Thursday tain a work visa. night. Asencio is a candi- The Lady Wildcats scored one run in the first, date to get the final fourth and sixth innings to take a 3-0 lead. spot in Cleveland’s Todd’s Lauren Addison, Kayla Watkins and Na- bullpen. He is out of talie Perry singled but the Lady Rebels left them minor league options. stranded. The right-hander, Watkins suffered the pitching loss, despite giving who had 26 saves last up only five hits. season at Triple-A Frank.-Simp. 3, Todd Co. 0 Gwinnett, won the Todd Co. Cent. 000 000 0-0 4 3 Franklin-Simpson 100 101 x-3 5 1 Caribbean Series MVP WP-Franklin this winter. He ap- LP-Watkins peared in nine games Leading Hitters: Todd – Sweeney (1B), Addison (1B), Perry (1B), Watkins over three seasons for (1B). Atlanta. Cubs send veteran Randy Wells to minors KEITH JENKINS | KENTUCKY NEW ERA Maroons edge CCHS MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Hopkinsville pitcher Haley Foster throws home during a District 8 softball game against Christian County on Right-hander Randy Thursday at Lady Tiger Field. Wells was among nine FROM NEW ERA STAFF REPORTS Damion Wheeler, Dylan players sent to the mi- Phipps and Raheem DISTRICT: Madisonville-North nors Thursday by the Lady Cols rout Hoptown in softball Milner won singles Hopkins took the final . matches for the match in the tiebreaker Wells, a 12-game win- FROM PAGE B1 18-1 advantage. Colonels. and slipped past host ner in 2009, was 7-6 After drawing a walk from Lady “This team embodies and allowing Christian County to score Christian County 5-4 with a 4.99 ERA last Colonels senior reliever Jasmine what a team should be two runs in the opening frame. Thursday afternoon in season when he was Matchen, who picked up the win after and it’s awesome to Senior captain Kayleigh Wilson a high school tennis slowed by an early in- striking out four and tallying two dou- watch it happen,” helped the Lady Tigers cut the Lady match. jury to his forearm. bles at the plate, Wilson scored the Lady Christian County coach Colonels’ lead in half in the bottom Tigers’ second a final run after crossing Matt Studzman, David Chase said. His demotion means half of the first after knocking a sharp Jeff Samardzija (suh- home from third on a single by Mallory single past the glove of Christian Smithson. MAR’-juh) and Chris County pitcher Lauren Hobson and COLLEGE BASKETBALL Volstad have made the “I liked the way we battled back and n later coming around to score from never gave up,” Holloway said. “I liked starting rotation along third on a base hit by Courtney Camp- with Ryan Dempster, our leadership. Even when we were bell. down forever to nothing, Kayleigh Wil- Matt Garza and Paul “Our hitting, I thought we hit the ball Stanford wins NIT Maholm. son and Erin Ganley were out there talk- pretty good today,” said first-year Hop- ing and keeping everyone’s heads up.” Also sent down was kinsville coach Anthony Holloway. lefty Travis Wood, who Christian Co. 18, Hoptown 2 NEW YORK (AP) — Stanford’s young guards Chas- “They just hit it better.” Christian Co. 245 07-18 15 0 son Randle and Aaron Bright each scored 15 points, struggled this spring Christian County took advantage of Hopkinsville 100 01-2 4 4 after being acquired in and the Cardinal routed Minnesota 75-51 to win the two errors by the Lady Tigers in the WP- Matchen (3 2/3 IP, 4 SO, 1 BB). NIT title Thursday night. trade that sent stand- LP- Wilson (3 IP, 1 BB). second inning and Whipple put the vis- out reliever Sean Mar- Leading Hitters: CCHS –Glass (2B), Cunningham (2B), Whip- Stanford forced two turnovers to open the second iting the Lady Colonels ahead 6-1 with a shall to Cincinnati. ple (HR, IB), Matchen (2 2B), Pelletier (2B), Hobson (1B), Keller half to take a 10-point lead and stayed up by double two-run bomb that brought home Mor- (1B, 2B), Leavell (1B, 3B) Harris (1B, 2B), Wyatt (1B); HHS – Wil- figures the rest of the way. The Golden Gophers Wells, Wood, lefty son (1B), Smithson (2 1B), Campbell (1B). Scott Maine, outfielder gan Cunningham who reached on an turned it over 22 times on the night. error. The third-seeded Cardinal (26-11) won their sec- Dave Sappelt and REACH KEITH JENKINSat 270-887-3261 or kjenkins@kentuck- catcher Welington Christian County plated five more runs ond NIT title, the first coming in 1991. in the top of the third and piled on seven ynewera.com. Follow him on Twitter at Castillo were optioned www.twitter.com/MrKeith_Jenkins. to Triple-A Iowa. Non- more in the fifth to take a commanding roster invitees sent to minor league camp were right-handed pitcher Blake Parker; infielders Edgar Gonza- CCHS: lez and Matt Tolbert; Collins signs with Kentucky Wesleyan and catcher Blake Lalli. FROM PAGE B1 he liked going to the sta- had 32 solo tackles, seven sacks and two ronment, the practices, he dium and being the big Kansas’ Manning forced fumbles last sea- was just going to do some- dog coming off the bus. That just pushed him son, said he’ll play line- YOUR BIG BLUE agrees to coach Tulsa thing,” Royce Collins said backer at the Division II of his son. “But up here, more. NEW ORLEANS “I’m so appreciative of school. he saw the importance of STATION LITE 98.7 (AP) — A person fa- Coach Lovelace and his miliar with the situa- it. He could see the efforts. staff. They really made a REACH KEITH JENKINSat 270-887-3261 tion says Kansas He could see what all the difference in that child’s or [email protected]. Follow NCAA TOURNAMENT assistant coach Danny hard work is doing. He life.” him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MrKei- Manning has agreed to used to joke with me that Daniel Collins, who th_Jenkins. SATURDAY become the head coach at Tulsa. FINAL FOUR CBSSports.com first reported Manning’s decision. KENTUCKY VS. Manning will help AP source: Ohio’s Groce hired at Illinois coach the Jayhawks LOUISVILLE through the Final CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — An official at Groce replaces Bruce Weber, who was Four, according to a the University of Illinois is confirming fired earlier this month. PRE-GAME person who spoke to that the school has hired Ohio coach John Groce has been at Ohio, a Mid-American The Associated Press Groce as its next men’s basketball coach. Conference school, since 2008. He led the Bob- COVERAGE @ 3:00PM on condition of The official said Groce was introduced cats to the NCAA tournament twice, includ- anonymity Thursday at a news conference Thursday afternoon ing a run to the Sweet 16 this year that ended TIP-OFF @ 5:09PM because an official an- in Champaign. The official spoke on con- with an overtime loss to North Carolina. nouncement had not dition of anonymity because Groce’s hire The Illini finished this season 17-15 after YOUR HOME FOR THE KENTUCKY been made. hadn’t been official announced. a 2-12 collapse at the end of the season. WILDCATS IS LITE 98.7 WHOP-FM