Baseball

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...

Going into the home stretch of the 2021 high school baseball season, Corbin and Whitley County are neck and neck in the 50th District standings. Corbin’s four-game winning streak came to a screeching halt with a 10-0 loss at Clay County Monday night, but the Redhounds have won eight of the last ten. Corbin dug a big hole from the beginning of the game, spotting the Tigers six runs in the first inning. Offensively, the Redhounds struggled as well, with a collective five hits on the night. “Tonight will serve as a wakeup call,” said Coach Cody Philpot noting that his team had won several games lately without playing its best baseball. “We had...

The Whitley County Colonels baseball team ran its current winning streak to five games on Monday as Caden Petrey pitched a no-hitter in the 17-0 victory over Williamsburg. Petrey needed just 44 pitches and gave up one walk while striking out eight. Petrey provided a big chunk of the Colonels’ offense, going three for four with two doubles, a homerun, and four RBI’s at the plate. Whitley County started off the week Thursday with a come-from-behind win over visiting Jackson County. The Colonels trailed 2-1 going into the bottom of the sixth inning. With the bases loaded, Bryce Anderson hit a ground ball to first base, but was safe on a error, allowing Brayden...

The Corbin Redhounds Baseball team ran its current winning streak to three games Monday night with a 15-0 win at Williamsburg. Bradric Helton threw three innings of one-hit baseball for the Redhounds, while striking out seven, and drove in three runs for Corbin. “The guys did what they needed to last night and have to come back tonight refocused to do the same thing,” said Coach Cody Philpot noting the teams were scheduled to play Tuesday night at Corbin. The game had not yet been completed as of press time. The Redhounds were coming off an 8-5 victory at Somerset on Saturday. Jacob Baker had three hits and three RBI’s for Corbin. The Redhounds...

The four baseball teams in the 50th District, Corbin, South Laurel, Whitley County and Williamsburg, are in the midst of a regular season stretch of matchups that will continue, off and on, over the next week. Corbin and Whitley County went down to the wire in the first game of a home and home series Monday night before the Colonels scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to come out on top, 9-8. “One thing about this team is that they will scratch and claw to the final out,” said Whitley County Coach Jeremy Shope. Luke Stanfill and Caden Petrey each went three-for-four with a double and triple to...

While area school systems are on spring break this week, their baseball teams are moving into the second week of the season. Corbin Redhounds The Corbin Redhounds were shutout at Powell, Tennessee, 7-0 Saturday, dropping its first game of the season. The Redhounds were limited to two hits in seven innings. “That was just baseball,” said Corbin Coach Cody Philpot. “We hit some balls hard right at people and made a couple mistakes against a team that was good enough to take advantage of anything that they were given. We allowed two big innings that were fueled by a couple of mistakes and couldn’t get anything going offensively.” “That was an early test for...