Baseball

The Whitley County Colonels came back from a two-run deficit in the seventh inning to pull out a 14-8 victory over North Laurel in the first round of the 13th Region Baseball Tournament on Saturday. The Colonels strung together four singles with four walks, and two errors to push across eight runs in the inning. "I told our guys to just be us," said Whitley County Coach Jeremy Shope of what he told the team going into what could have been, potentially, their last at-bat of the season. "We had been in these situations many times this season. "We've had to come from behind in the late innings. They were prepared...

Tuesday’s 50th District Baseball Title game between Corbin and Whitley County may have been a precursor to next Tuesday’s 13th Region Title game. The district champion Redhounds will face off against host Jackson County in the opening round of the tournament Saturday, while the district runner-up Colonels have drawn 49th District Champion North Laurel. Whitley County and North Laurel will open region play at 11 a.m. That will be followed by Harlan County against Knox Central at 1:30 p.m. The winners of those games will face off in the first semifinal game on Monday night. Lynn Camp will open the tournament against Middlesboro at 4 p.m. The final game will feature Jackson County and Corbin...

The Corbin Redhounds and Whitley County Colonels each punched their ticket to the 13th Region Baseball Tournament, which begins Saturday. Whitley County’s Bryce Anderson held the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets hitless over three innings as the Colonels won the opening game of the 50th District Baseball Tournament, 15-0. Anderson struck out eight, throwing 45 pitches in the game. The Colonels put up nine runs in their half of the first inning en route to the win. Caden Petrey went three-for-three at the plate for Whitley County, including a double. Sam Harp had two hits in his three at-bats, including a double, adding three RBI’s. Andrew Stack had two hits, including a double, with three RBI’s. With the...

The Corbin Redhounds came back from an early 6-4 deficit to defeat Whitley County 12-8 for the 50th District Baseball Championship Tuesday night. Down 8-6 going into the top of the seventh inning with a runner on second and two outs, Kade Elam belted a 1-0 pitch to left field for a home run to tie the game. Corbin rallied in the eighth inning for four runs to take a 12-8 lead. Whitley County got a pair of doubles in its half of the eighth to cut the lead to 12-9, but Elam got the final two outs to secure the win. Both teams will advance to the 13th Region Tournament, which is...

The Corbin Redhounds Baseball team punched its ticket to the 13th Region Tournament by defeating South Laurel in the opening round of the 50th District Tournament Monday afternoon, 3-2. The Redhounds got things going in the bottom of the fifth inning. Kade Elam led off with a single, and after moving to second on a wild pickoff throw, advanced to third on Evan Poore’s single. One out later, Poore stole second, and Elam was able to successfully steal home on the same play to give Corbin the 1-0 lead. Bradric Helton was hit by a pitch and then Cameron Combs singled to load the bases. With two outs, Walker Landrum came up with a...

Whitley County's Bryce Anderson held the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets hitless over three innings as the Colonels won the opening game of the 50th District Baseball Tournament, 15-0. Anderson struck out eight, throwing 45 pitches in the game. The Colonels put up nine runs in their half of the first inning en route to the win. Caden Petrey went three-for-three at the plate for Whitley County, including a double. Sam Harp had two hits in his three at-bats, including a double, adding three RBI's. Andrew Stack had two hits, including a double, with three RBI's. With the win, Whitley County has secured a spot in the 13th Region Baseball Tournament, and will play the winner...

“It’s go time!” That is how Corbin High School Softball Coach Crystal Stidham described the first round of the 50th District Softball Tournament, which begins at noon today at South Laurel High School alongside the 50th District Baseball Tournament. On the softball diamond, the Williamsburg Lady Jackets will be looking to pull the huge upset of top seed South Laurel. Over on the baseball diamond, top seed Whitley County and the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets will face off in the opening round. The first round of the tournaments will continue at 3 p.m. Corbin and Whitley County will face off in softball, while Corbin will take the field against host South Laurel in baseball. The winners...

While Whitley County Baseball will go into next week’s 50th District Tournament as the top seed, the Colonels and rival Corbin Redhounds have each strung together long winning streaks as the season nears its end. Whitley County improved to 25-8 on the season after running its current winning streak to seven Monday night with a 10-0 shutout of visiting Harlan County. Monday’s game was the back end of a home-and-home series with the Black Bears, in which the Colonels put up 21 runs, while shutting out Harlan County over 10 innings. Grant Zehr pitched a complete game for the Colonels Monday night, giving up three hits, while striking out four and walking...

The Corbin Redhounds bounced way back from Saturday’s 11-0 loss to Somerset, riding Evan Poore’s no-hitter to an 11-0 victory over Harlan County Monday night. Poore threw 56 pitches, 40 for strikes in the effort. The only baserunner came in the top of the second when the leadoff batter reached first on an error. After getting the first out on a fielder’s choice, Poore cleared the bases by picking off the runner on first and then recorded one of his eight strikeouts on the night for the third out. The Redhounds blew the game open in their half of the inning. Bradric Helton stroked a bases loaded triple to pad Corbin’s 1-0 lead to...

The Whitley County Colonels Baseball team remains percentage points ahead of Corbin in the race for the top spot in the 50th District, winning two of the three games played this week to improve to 17-7 on the season. “I don’t think we’ve hit our peak yet,” said Coach Jeremy Shope. “We have shown some signs of being pretty good but we’ve also shown some signs of now.” The Colonels defeated North Laurel 13-2 on Tuesday in five innings. Matthew Wright, Bryce Anderson, Sam Harp and Caden Petrey each had two hits for Whitley County, with Wright, Harp, Petrey, Luke Stanfill and Trevor Downs each driving in two runs in the game. On...