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B6 Saturday-Sunday, April 21-22, 2012 | SPORTS | www.kentuckynewera.com GOLF n PREP n Purtzer, Bryant team up for 1st-round Legends lead SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Brad Bryant and Tom Purtzer teamed up for a 12- “That’s still kind of under 60 to take the first round lead at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf burning in my gut. That championship Friday. The score was one shot off the course record set in 2008 by Tom Watson and ran through my mind on Andy North at the best-ball event at The Club at Savannah Harbor. the first putt today. I “It was a great day,” Bryant said. “We played well together. This course just thought, ‘Gee, I don’t kind of matches our games. There were holes out there where we both had birdie putts.” want to leave this The key hole for the leaders was the par-5 seventh. Both players hit into haz- short.’” ards, but Purtzer managed to work his way out and save par from 10 feet. “That was like making an eagle at that Kenny Perry hole at that time,” Bryant said. Champions Tour golfer n Michael Allen and David Frost, Franklin, Ky., native Kenny Perry and “It’s not something you really plan,” Paducah, Ky., golfer Russ Cochran, Jeff Frost said. “Things just kind of worked Sluman and Brad Faxon, Bruce Fleisher out that way. I think 10 under is very and Tom Jenkins all were two strokes good, but we maybe could have been a back at 62. couple more (under).” Fred Couples teamed with Jay Haas Despite the birdie-fest, pars can be for a 9-under 63. Also at 63 were Andy crucial in this best-ball format, too. Bean and Chien Soon Lu and Joey Sin- Perry felt the key to his team’s round JOE WILSON | KENTUCKY NEW ERA delar and John Cook. was a 15-footer Cochran made to save Hopkinsville High School football Cook wowed the Championship Tour par at No. 3. coach Marc Adam Clark (above) fans when his approach to the 457-yard “It kept us from having a bogey on the signals a touchdown during a tack- 18th bounced into the cup for an eagle. card,” Perry said. ling drill on Friday afternoon at the “I watched John Cook make 2 at No. Perry is still bothered by a putt he Tigers’ practice field. Meanwhile, 18,” said Perry, whose team was paired missed here last year when David Eger Hoptown defenders swarm run- with Cook and Sindelar. “That was awe- and Mark McNulty won the event after ning back Corey Nibert during a some. That’s a tough hole.” Perry and then-partner Scott Hoch tackling drill. Hopkinsville com- Allen and Frost made birdies on seven missed short par putts on the second pleted its first week of spring foot- of the first eight holes. playoff hole. ball practice Friday. The Tigers are looking to break an 11-game los- ing streak when their season opens Aug. 17 at Lancaster Chris- tian Academy in Tennessee. Across town, Christian County High School did not have spring football drills this season. Instead, coach Steve Lovelace said he was focus- ing on weight training. NFL n TANDY: Former Col preparing for next level FROM PAGE B1 Former NFL players different things,” Dr. Bishop told the De- from the southern Pennyrile include: troit paper. “Being a biology major is not Jerry Reese: Reese played at Christian a trivial major either. I have no doubt County High School before earning All-South- that he’ll be able to master the intellec- eastern Conference honors at Kentucky. He tual aspects of the NFL. No doubt what- later played for the Pittsburgh Steelers and in soever.” the World Football League for the Barcelona The NFL draft begins at 7 p.m. Thursday Dragons. at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The Artose Pinner: Pinner played for Hop- second and third rounds will be Friday kinsville High School and eventually led the night and the fourth through seventh Southeastern Conference in rushing for the rounds will be April 28. University of Kentucky. He was drafted by the Tandy would be the first southern Pen- Detroit Lions and played for several NFL teams nyrile athlete to be drafted into the NFL including the Lions, Minnesota Vikings and At- since former Hopkinsville star Artose lanta Falcons. Pinner was chosen by the Lions as the David Means: Means played for Hop- 99th pick of the 2003 NFL draft. kinsville High School and eventually played of- Unlike Pinner, who said he always fensive line for Southeast Missouri State. He wanted to be Barry Sanders, Tandy said was drafted in 1973 by the Buffalo Bills and he had NBA dreams when he was blocked for the legendary O.J. Simpson. younger. Herb Covington: After starring at Hop- “Growing up I thought my best sport kinsville High School, Covington was drafted was basketball,” Tandy said. “I wanted out of Memphis State by the New Orleans to go to the NBA. But I realized that Saints in 1968. He did not play in a regular sea- probably wasn’t going to happen during son game. middle school and early in high school. Pete Moore: According to former Hop- kinsville football star Richard Graham, the for- Then everything happened so fast. I had mer Hoptown All-American played at Alabama a good sophomore year as quarterback after high school and was drafted by the At- and after my junior year we sent out a lanta Falcons. He did not play a game in the film and West Virginia came with a NFL. scholarship offer. All of a sudden, here Micah Johnson: The former Fort Camp- GRADUATION we are.” bell High School star was All-SEC at Ken- Tandy, who led the Colonels to the 2004 tucky before being signed as a free agent by state baseball championship, redshirted the New York Giants. He has played for the his freshman season at West Virginia. Giants, Miami Dolphins and Kansas City He credits that year for helping him de- Chiefs. He is with the Cincinnati Bengals in PARTIES velop his defensive skills. He played 2012. mostly offense in high school, setting Al Baker: The Trigg County High School All- Colonel records for career passing with American played at Kentucky before being 8,961 yards and 90 touchdowns. During drafted by the New York Jets. Let us help you plan a party to remember. his senior year in 2006, Tandy threw for 2,723 yards and 32 touchdowns and The next week may go by like a blur, but From personalized invitations, napkins, rushed for 898 yards and five scores on for the low-key Tandy, it may seem like for- 138 carries. ever. But he knows by May, all of the ques- “That redshirt year was huge for me be- tions he has about his future will be banners, balloons and water bottle labels, we cause I got to go against the first- and sec- answered. ond-team offenses every day in practice,” “I guess we’re going to see what hap- Tandy said of his first year in Morgan- pens,” Tandy said. have a package that works for your budget. town. “I just learned a lot and I was able to use that experience once I got into the REACH JOE WILSON at 270-887-3260 or games.” [email protected]. COLLEGE FOOTBALL n UK: Kentucky to hold Blue-White game today FROM PAGE B1 tian County standout Mal- ended the season by snap- colm McDuffen was the ping a 26-game losing Burden and Anthony Wildcats’ top weakside steak to rival Tennessee at Mosley, safety Winston linebacker. McDuffen, who Guy and linebacker Danny home. will be a sophomore this Kentucky opens the 2012 Trevathan, who led the season, had nine tackles in Southeastern Conference season Sept. 2 at in-state 2011. rival Louisville. in tackles in both 2010 and Kentucky, which had its 2011. Admission and parking final practice of the Located inside the Kentucky New Era Junior Avery Williams, for the spring game are who had 49 tackles and an spring Friday, finished 5-7 free and on a first-come, 1618 E. 9th Street, Hopkinsville, KY interception last season, overall and 2-6 in SEC play first-served basis. was listed as the No. 1 mid- last year, and failed to 270-885-7667 dle linebacker on the qualify for a postseason REACH KEITH JENKINSat 270-887-3261 or www.hopkinsville.biz team’s pre-spring defensive bowl for the first time [email protected]. Follow him on [email protected] depth chart. Former Chris- since 2005. The Wildcats Twitter at www.twitter.com/MrKeith_Jenkins..