Football

After an easy 44-8 victory over the Bell County Bobcats last week, the Corbin Redhounds (11-1) are now set to host the Casey County Rebels (10-1) in this year’s region championship game, scheduled to take place this Friday at 7:30 p.m. under the lights at Campbell Field. The Hounds had no trouble against the Rebels back on October 21, going on the road and defeating them 35-7 to sew up a district championship title. This time around, Casey County will have to make the trek to Corbin, where they will undoubtedly be the heavy underdogs in this rematch contest. Corbin had another week of impressive stats against Bell County, with junior QB...

Three coverage area teams made it to the second round of this year's state championship playoffs, but now only one remains... The Corbin Redhounds improved to 11-1 Friday with a 44-8 victory over visiting Bell County. Next week the Hounds will welcome in Casey County for a regional championship matchup. The Whitley County Colonels saw their season come to an end Friday, losing to visiting Pulaski County 41-28. The Colonels close out their 2016 campaign with an overall record of nine wins and three losses. Also closing out their season Friday were the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets, who fell to visiting Hazard 56-31. The Jackets went 7-5 on the year. For more on these contests,...

Round one of the 2016 KHSAA high school football championship playoffs is in the books, and we are now left with three of our four coverage area teams left standing. The Lynn Camp Wildcats ended their season at 6-5 after traveling to Pikeville and falling 55-3 to the defending Class A champion Panthers in their first round matchup last Friday. That leaves us with Corbin, Williamsburg an Whitley County, all of whom will be hosting round two games this Friday evening, November 11. Starting with Corbin, the 10-1 Redhounds will be hosting district rival Bell County after their dominating performance against Knott County Central last week. The Hounds were able to put...

The Whitley County Colonels came to play Thursday night when they hosted the Lincoln County Patriots in the first round of the 2016 Class 5A football state championship playoffs. A fumble on the game’s opening kickoff was recovered by the Colonels deep in Patriot territory, leading to a 14-yard scoring run from senior Nathan Jackson a few minutes later. The Noah Langford PAT put the home team up 7-0 with 10:08 remaining in the first quarter. Lincoln tied things up at 7-7 with 3:38 on the clock, but Whitley quickly responded, going up 14-7 at the 1:47 mark when junior quarterback Dylan Wilson threw the ball to receiver Dawson Swain, who...

With the 2016 regular season now officially closed, coverage area football teams are making their final preparations before beginning postseason play later this week. The Corbin Redhounds ended their regular season schedule with a dominating performance at Knox Central High School last week, shutting out the host Panthers on their Senior Night by the final score of 39-0. Junior quarterback Camron Sizemore had another big night against Knox, throwing for 284 yards and three touchdowns. He also finished the contest with one rushing TD. Sophomore Chase Estep was Sizemore’s favorite target through the air, catching seven passes for a total of 90 yards. Estep did most of his damage on the ground,...

The following are final scores of interest from high school football games played on Friday, October 28... The Corbin Redhounds improved to 9-1 on the season, defeating the Knox Central Panthers in Barbourville, 39-0. Next week the Hounds will host Knott County Central in the first round of the Class 3A playoffs. The Whitley County Colonels were looking for their ninth win in a row at Leslie County Friday, but the Eagles were able to come away with the 37-20 win. The 8-2 Colonels will host Lincoln County next week in the first round of the Class 5A playoffs. And the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets got their fifth win in a row Friday,...

With their victories last week, the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets, Corbin Redhounds and Whitley County Colonels have all gone undefeated against district opponents in 2016. Jackets defeat Lynn Camp The Williamsburg Yellow Jackets came to Lynn Camp High School last Friday evening looking to close out the district portion of their schedule with a perfect 3-0 record. That is exactly what they did, defeating the Wildcats 53-7 and improving their season record to 5-4 overall. The early stages of the game were very competitive, with neither team being able to get anything going offensively. At the end of one quarter both squads remained scoreless, but it didn’t take long for that to change...

The following are final scores of interest for high school football games played on the evening of Friday, October 21... The Corbin Redhounds became district champions and improved their overall season record to 8-1 with a 35-7 victory at Casey County. Next week they will travel to Barbourville to finish out their regular season schedule with a game against the Knox Central Panthers. The Whitley County Colonels won their eighth game in a row Friday, defeating visiting Letcher County  Central 44-12. With this victory, the Colonels have achieved a perfect 4-0 record in district play in 2016, granting them home field advantage in the playoffs. Next week Whitley will try to...

The following is a collection of the high school football coverage appearing in the October 19 edition of the News Journal... COMEBACK COLONELS: Whitley erases 27-0 deficit, secures district title with win over Harlan Co Things were looking bleak for the Whitley County Colonels when they found themselves trailing 27-0 in the second quarter of last Friday’s game at Harlan County, but this resilient group has shown that they don’t even know the meaning of the word “quit.” “They got up 27-0, but this team, my brothers, we do not lay down,” explained senior Jake Paul. “We do not let people walk over us, and that’s how we were able to come...

The following is a collection of high school football coverage from the October 12 edition of the News Journal... DRAGON SLAYERS: Jackets begin district play with 30-8 win over visiting Harlan If you were just looking at things on paper, you might have considered the Harlan Green Dragons to be the favorites coming into last week’s district matchup against the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets. The Dragons were coming into Rose-Stanfill Stadium with a 5-1 record, while the home standing Yellow Jackets had only achieved two victories at that time. Also, consider what Harlan did against Williamsburg last year - defeating them 28-19 in a muddy mess of a game at their place about this...