Football

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...

The following are scores of interest for high school football games played on Friday, October 7... The Williamsburg Yellow Jackets picked up their third win of the season Friday, defeating the visiting Harlan Green Dragons 30-8. More importantly, the win puts Williamsburg at 1-0 in district play ahead of their road game at Pineville next week. Speaking of Pineville, the Mountain Lions were able to travel to Lynn Camp Friday and come away with a 35-28 victory, giving the Wildcats their first loss since week 0. Lynn Camp will try to rebound next week when they travel to face Harlan. And finally, the Whitley County Colonels continued their winning ways Friday, picking...

The following is a collection of the high school football coverage appearing in the October 5 edition of the News Journal... Whitley Wins Again: Colonels fend off North Laurel, secure fifth victory in a row A blocked field goal with only seconds left in last Friday’s game between the Whitley County Colonels and the North Laurel Jaguars sealed the deal and gave Whitley a one-point win, 23-22, improving them to 5-1 on the season, 1-0 in district play. “There is nothing like this,” said senior wide receiver Tyler Downs after the game. “This is unreal.” Down led the Colonels in receiving yards against the Jags, finishing the night with a total of 51,...

The following are final scores of interest for high school football games played on the evening of Friday, September 30... The Whitley County Colonels have now won five games in a row, improving to 5-1 on the season and 1-0 in district play when they were able to hang on and defeat the North Laurel Jaguars in London Friday by the final score of 23-22. Next up for the Colonels will be a home game against the Perry County Central Commodores on Friday, October 7. The Lynn Camp Wildcats also extended their win streak Friday, defeating visiting Clinton County 41-32 to secure their sixth victory in a row and improve them...

The following is a collection of the high school football coverage found in the September 28 edition of the News Journal... The streak continues: Wildcats hope to make it six in a row against Clinton Co The Lynn Camp Wildcats continued their current win streak last Friday night, defeating the visiting Jellico Blue Devils 40-38. Jellico won this game last year by a large margin, so this year’s result would seem to indicate that the Wildcats are indeed a much improved bunch. Once again, the Cats did most of their work on the ground, with sophomore running back Dalton Cook finishing the night with 119 rushing yards and one touchdown. Junior Brenton Medlin finished...