Baseball

For the second night in a row, the Corbin Redhounds squared off against the Whitley County Colonels while the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets faced the South Laurel Cardinals. As reported on thenewsjournal.net Tuesday evening, Corbin was able to defeat Whitley County in their first meeting thanks to a late-game surge in the top of the seventh inning. On Wednesday the Redhounds did the same, this time scoring two runs in the bottom of the seventh to come away with a 5-4 victory. With the win they now stand at 11-4 on the season, 2-0 in 50th District play. Meanwhile, Whitley falls to 11-5, 0-2. After defeating South Laurel on Tuesday, the Williamsburg...

Regular season district play opened up Tuesday for area high school baseball teams, with the Whitley County Colonels hosting the Corbin Redhounds and the South Laurel Cardinals hosting the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets. The Redhounds went to Whitley County Tuesday looking to keep a three-game win streak alive. On the other hand, the host Colonels were hoping to hang on to their region-best win-loss record. In the end, it was Corbin who was able to come out on top by the final score of 12-4, improving them to 10-4 on the season. Kyle Edmisten and Dylan Wilson teamed up on the pitching mound for Whitley, striking out a total of seven batters,...

The Corbin Redhounds started the week off with a disappointing 9-6 road loss to 13th Region rivals North Laurel Monday. The loss dropped the Hounds to 6-4 on the year, but head coach Cody Philpot is remaining confident in his team’s ability to win when it matters the most. “We just have to stay the course,” Philpot said. “We can’t get too high or too low. We just have to control what we can control, and eventually things will begin to go our way.” “I told the guys not to get down on themselves,” Philpot said of the outcome of Monday’s game against the Jaguars. “They know they can play better, and...

Both the Whitley County baseball and softball teams are looking strong as we approach the midway point in the month of April. The baseball Colonels recently went 4-0 during a Spring Break trip to play in the 2018 Cal Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, SC. In their first game back Monday, they continued their winning ways with a dominating 24-0 shutout victory over visiting Harlan that improved them to 9-2 on the year. As for the Lady Colonels, they have won their last two contests over McCreary Central and Wayne County by a combined score of 17-0, putting them at 5-3 on the year. When asked about the team’s progress so far this...

This From the Sidelines column appeared in the print edition of the April 4, 2018 News Journal as part of special coverage from the 2018 13th Region All "A" baseball and softball tournaments, as well as the upcoming 2018 All "A" state championship tourneys... It has been a big school year for coverage area teams in regional All “A” competition. Things started back in the fall with the addition of the brand new Williamsburg Lady Jacket volleyball team to the annual 13th Region All “A” championship tournament. Also in the fall, Lady Jacket golfer Morgan Owens-Lewis qualified to appear in the 2017 All “A” state championship invitational. This past winter we saw...

Last week the Williamsburg High School softball team became 13th Region All "A" champions, and on Wednesday the baseball Jackets followed suit by defeating visiting Barbourville 13-6 to also win an All "A" regional title in 2018. As reported in Wednesday's print edition of the News Journal, the Yellow Jackets took down Pineville 12-2 on Monday to pick up their first win in this year's 13th Region All "A" tournament. Then, as detailed in a previous web post (see "Tuesday Night Highlights"), the Jackets defeated Harlan Indpendent 10-0 in the tournament semifinals. That set up a championship game at Briar Creek Park Wednesday against the Barbourville Tigers, who picked up...

Most coverage area high school baseball and softball teams were in action on Tuesday, March 27. Read on for a full list of results… In a matchup between two rivals in the 50th District, the Corbin Lady Hounds traveled to Williamsburg, handing the Lady Jackets their first loss of the year, 6-2. Senior Lady Hound Madison Hicks hit a two-run homer in the game that helped lift her team to the victory. In the 51st District, the Lynn Camp Lady Cats fell on the road to Knox Central 13-5 after a big five-run fifth inning by the Lady Panthers. In 13th Region All “A” baseball tournament action Tuesday, the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets...

Both the Corbin Redhounds baseball team and the Corbin Lady Hounds softball team are coming into the 2018 season as defending champions in the 50th District, where the competition is almost always fierce. Despite that fact, however, both Corbin teams will enter the spring season ready to defend their district crowns. Both will feature a large cast of returning starters, as well as some talented younger players that are eager to show they have what it takes to make an impact at the varsity level. As for the baseball Hounds, they will be led by a large senior class that includes Blake Botner, Matthew Hart, Braden Dickerson, Josh Hash, Michael Scott,...

First-year Whitley County High School Baseball Coach Jeremy Shope has the same goal this season for the Colonels as he has had for his prior teams. “I want our goal to be go win a state championship. It is so much more than winning, but ultimately that is why you play the game to try to go win ball games,” Shope said Friday, less than 24 hours after tryouts on the first official day of spring practice. “I am excited about the coming weeks. I am excited about this bunch. I think we have a lot of ability there. They have really grown in the offseason. We have had many open...

The Williamsburg High School baseball program is about to enter its fifth season with head coach Bryan Hopkins at the helm. In that time, the baseball Jackets have seen a lot of improvement, going from a 3-24 record in 2014 to a 12-win season in 2016. Last year the team won nine games, including an appearance in the 13th Region All “A” championship, and two district victories over Whitley County and South Laurel. In 2018, Williamsburg has their sights set on double digits in the win column once again, as well as an opportunity to compete in the 13th Region championship tournament this May. And with the right personnel in place,...