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Way to go Corbin High School Lady Redhounds Golf Team. They finished as the 2026 10th Region Team Champions last week during play at Wasioto Winds Golf Course in Pineville. Corbin’s Makena Myatt was the individual champion shooting a 76 on what I can attest is a tough course. (If I went and played Wasioto Winds today from some of the back tees, then I would probably be lucky to shoot under 76 for just nine holes, let alone 18 holes like Myatt did.) Myatt did not even play her best golf in the region tournament. On Aug. 18, she fired a five under 67 to set the lady’s course record at...

The MLB season is in the final push with one week left in the season. The AL divisions are still not clinched. However, the National League (NL) division have been clinched as of today (Sunday). Here are some interesting facts, and how the teams clinched their divisions. First, the NL Central where the Brewers clinched the division back on Tuesday the 15th with a 5-1 win over the Pirates. The Brewers are the best team in baseball with a 97-58 record and are led by Cy Young favorite Jacob Misorowski who has a 1.89 ERA. Their bats have also been elite with them having a .259 batting average which is second...

Wow. Corbin High School’s Makena Myatt has been something this year on the golf course. She recently captured the Kentucky 2A Championship shooting an even-par 72 at Owensboro Country Club. She is ranked 10th out of 148 female high school golfers statewide. On Sept. 23, she was slated to tee off at Wasioto Winds Golf Course in Pineville in the region tournament. (The results were not known at the time of the writing of this column.) You could say it is a course she knows well. On Aug. 18, she fired a five under 67 to set the lady’s course record. She even sank a birdie putt on the final hole. Hopefully, she...

As anyone, who has golfed much in their lives will attest, golf is not a cheap sport to play. In addition to purchasing your golf clubs and golf bag, which is an expense ranging from a few hundred dollars to several hundred dollars or more, you also must purchase golf shoes, golf tees, golf gloves and golf balls. These latter four items are much cheaper than the golf clubs but still add up. This is especially true for golf balls, which one periodically tends to lose on the golf course. How often you lose balls depends on a range of factors, such as the golfer’s skill level, the difficulty level of...

The end of the MLB season is less than a month away, and some awards are going to be a blowout while others are going to be close. Some awards have been closer as of lately. These are my predictions for the MLB awards. First, the Cy Young in the National League (NL), where I believe that it will come down to Chris Sale and Jacob Misorowski. This year Sale has had a 2.10 ERA with 184 strikeouts (K) to go with only 29 walks. He also has a 14-9 record, and a 1.01 Whip in 150 innings pitched (IP) and 11 K/9. Now, Miskorowski’s resume, he has a 1.97...

Recently, the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers played in one of the most interesting series. The Braves ended up sweeping this series, but the sweep can’t describe the amount of drama that was in this series. This is my recap of the Braves vs Dodgers series. First, in Game 1, the Braves won 4-3. In the 1st, after the Dodgers go down 1-2-3 in the top, Drake Baldwin gets a single, followed by an Acuna pop out and a Matt Olson single sending Drake Baldwin to 3rd. After that Mauricio Dubon singles to right, scoring Drake Baldwin and sending Matt Olson to 3rd. After that, Michael Harris also singled...

Starting in 2017, the MLB started hosting a MLB game in Williamsport, PA. This year we had a match up between two first place teams, the Atlanta Braves vs the Milwaukee Brewers. This game was a close one. Here is my recap of the 2026 Little League Classic. First, I want to mention  the pitching in the game. The match up we saw was the Braves Tyler Mahle vs the Brewers Shane Drohan. First, Tyler Mahle was amazing for Atlanta, he pitched 5 innings letting up 6 hits, and 1 earned run, while getting out of countless jams. For Drohan, he pitched solidly, letting up 8 hits and letting up...

The MLB season is very close to ending and some divisions are pretty much over and some divisions are going to come down to the wire. Here are the top 3 divisions that I believe are over. First, the National League (NL) East. In the NL East the Braves have a 7.5 game lead on the Phillies.  Coming out of the trade deadline both teams made great deals, the head of the Braves deadline was Tyler Mahle, who in a Braves uniform has a 0.75 ERA, the Phillies got one of the best second basemen in allstar Louis Arraez who is batting .315 this season. Leading up to just before the...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the MLB playoffs and Wild Card picks, who gets in, who gets a bye were all big questions. In this article, I want to name all the teams that get to move on to the NLCS, and ALCS. These are my second round playoff predictions. First, in the Dodgers vs Phillies series, I have the Dodgers winning the series in 3. This season the Dodgers have been without a doubt one of the best teams in baseball. Whenever the Dodgers play a team who has an above .500 winning percentage  the team goes 34-31 showing that even when the team gets a tough opponent...

Since this week’s edition is serving as a retrospective of the most talked about events of the past 12 months, I would like to take the opportunity to look back at the biggest sports stories of 2022. As always, this is a tough list to compile. With four coverage area schools participating in everything from football to track to volleyball to wrestling and even e-sports, it’s impossible to include every major event. However, after starting in January of 2022 and working my way forward all the way through last month, I have decided on the top six sports-related stories that were covered by the News Journal. My goal was to...