Basketball

Regular season district competition continued in the local area Tuesday with 50th and 51st District showdowns... The Corbin Redhounds and Lady Hounds hosted Williamsburg in a boys/girls double header that saw the home teams win both contests. The Corbin girls won, 79-25, to improve to 14-5 on the year, 2-1 in district play. With the loss, the Lady Jackets fall to 6-11, 0-3. In the later game, the Corbin boys prevailed by a final score of 87-49. This improved the Hounds to 13-5, 4-0 while the Jackets drop to 12-6, 0-4. Corbin 79, Williamsburg 25 (girls) Corbin - 14  25  29  11  -  79 W'burg - 11  4  8  2  -  25 CHS -...

Regular season district competition continued Tuesday evening as the Whitley County Colonels and Lady Colonels hosted Corbin in a pair of games with seeding implications on the line. The girls were up first, and it was a game that remained competitive right up until the final moments. In the end, however, the Lady Redhounds managed to pull away and secure a seven-point victory, 47-40. The win improves Corbin to 13-4, and an even 1-1 in the district. With the loss, the Lady Colonels falls to 11-6, 1-2. Corbin 47, Whitley Co 40 Corbin - 11  13  7  16  -  47 Whitley - 14  10  10  6  -  40 CHS - Kylie Clem 32, Raegan...

Coverage area high school basketball teams were back in action Tuesday night after recent snowy and icy conditions canceled several scheduled contests over the past week. It was a night that featured four seeding games in the 50th District, as the South Laurel Cardinals and Lady Cardinals visited Corbin while the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets and Lady Jackets made the short trip across town to Whitley County High School. The Lady Hounds were coming off of a 79-72 victory over Knox Central Monday night at Harlan County High School in the finals of this year’s Kentucky 2A Sectional tournament. It was a huge win that advanced Head Coach Isaac Wilson’s squad to...

All of the presents have been opened, the eggnog drunk, A Christmas Story has played on TV 100 times and Santa has parked his sleigh back at the North Pole. Now it’s time again for basketball! Specifically, it’s time again for the Annual Cumberland Falls Invitational Tournament at Corbin High School. This Friday-through-Monday, the Redhounds will host five other teams who will all be vying for the right to call themselves 2024 CFIT champions. Being split into two pools, group A will feature Corbin, Lynn Camp and Little Miami out of Ohio while group B will consist of Bell County, Richmond Model and the Somerset Briar Jumpers. The action gets underway Friday,...

If you’re in the mood to watch some basketball, the Whitley County Colonels are giving you plenty of options this week as they present the 2024 BSN Borderline Classic at Whitley County High School and the University of the Cumberlands. This year’s Borderline Classic event promises to be action-packed, featuring teams from seven different regions in Kentucky, as well as programs coming in from Tennessee, Ohio, Missouri, and even Nevada. Friday’s scheduled games, Dec. 27, include: • Middlesboro vs. Nicholas County - Noon at University of the Cumberlands • Green Valley Christian (NV) vs. Archbishop McNicholas (OH) - 1:45 p.m. at UC • Evangel Christian vs. Tri-Cities (TN) - 2 p.m. at Whitley County...

Coming off a 17-14 season, the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets saw noticeable improvement last year from the season before, but still fell short of some of the lofty goals Head Coach Anthony Hibbard had hoped to achieve. Despite the shortcomings, the Jackets are once again setting their sights high as the 2024-2025 season tips off. Hibbard said that he is “excited” about the upcoming season and expects to have a solid group of players on the court this year, especially with a core of experienced seniors to help lead the team. “We have a solid core of returning players who have experience in our system and have been a part of some...

In regards to how the 50th District is shaping up this season for boys basketball, Whitley County High School Head Coach Eric Swords said that fans can expect “a dog fight as always.” “South Laurel, I think, has everybody coming back. Corbin has a good group coming back. Williamsburg has an older group over there. In the 50th District, I think every night it will be like last year. We went three-and-three and beat everyone in the district. I think everybody is right there and it will come down to who executes and who wants it more,” Swords added. The Colonels had a 20-10 record in 2023-24, ending last season with...

When considering the amount of veteran leadership that was lost to graduation from last year’s Corbin Lady Hounds basketball team, some may think that the program is entering a rebuilding phase in 2024-25. When you take a closer look, however, you will see that the team is actually bringing more than enough weapons back to the lineup to be considered among the region’s top squads once again. True, Corbin said goodbye to a very special group of senior athletes at the end of last season that included Kallie Housley, Bailey Stewart and Darcie Anderson. This class was responsible for putting the Lady Hounds back on top of the district and...

“If you stay the course and keep working hard, you’ve done everything that you need to do. Now it’s just about performing when the lights are on you, and when you do perform, the opportunities will keep coming.” This was just one piece of advice that University of the Cumberlands graduate student Jonathan Brown had to offer young athletes recently. A native of London, England, Brown knows all about the sacrifices that are necessary to be successful in athletics. Thanks to his determination and unwavering belief in his own abilities, he has managed to live out his dream of traveling across the United States while competing in college basketball...

Several weeks after former Whitley County varsity girls basketball Head Coach Sean Pigman announced his resignation, the Lady Colonels have learned that their new head coach will be a familiar face to the WCHS community - Michael Petrey. Petrey is a 2004 graduate of Whitley County, and a 2010 graduate of Eastern Kentucky University. As a basketball Colonel, he was part of two district runner-up teams, scoring 1,000 points along the way. Petrey has coached basketball at every level during his career with the Whitley County school district, starting in 2008. Last season, he served as an assistant under Coach Pigman on the varsity girls team. Petrey has been a special education...