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The sports world featured a number of highs and a few lows in 2021. Here are the top 10 as chosen by your intrepid sports editor. 1) Mark White fired Whitley County Basketball had a rough season in 2020-21, going 4-16 that included and 11-game losing streak and a first-round loss in the 50th District Tournament. Hopes were high as the Colonels opened the 2021-22 season 2-0, but Colonel Nation was left wondering after Coach Mark White was suddenly ousted without explanation from the school or district administration. In a press release sent out announcing the decision, Athletic Director Bryan Stewart said that White was no longer with the program, but provided no...

Corbin High School sports fan will have a new pack of Redhounds to root for as Coach Chuck Davis has held his first practices for the wrestling team. Davis said Monday that more than 40 students in grades eight through 12 have turned out for the practices that began Thursday. “We hope to fill at 14 weights and if we get enough girls, fill the 12 weights to field a full team there,” Davis said noting that seven girls have currently come out for the team. Davis said while the wrestlers have begun learning the basics, they are still awaiting the arrival of mats and uniforms and to finalize the required paperwork...

Approximately 230 runners are slated to take to the streets of Corbin on Nov. 13 to compete in either the Colonel Sanders Half Marathon, or the accompanying 10K race. However, Corbin Tourism Director Maggy Monhollen, one of the event organizers, said there is plenty of room for additional competitors. While Monhollen emphasized that there will be no raceday signups, competitors have until 11:59 on Nov. 6 to enter. Entries may be completed online at www.colonelsandershalfmarathon.com. The entry fee is $90 for the half marathon or $60 for the 10K. “We can guarantee medals, but we cannot guarantee T-shirts,” Monhollen said of anyone who signs up going forward. The half marathon will begin at 8:30...

Corbin fans will have new winter sports teams to cheer for as boys and girls wrestling is being added as a varsity sport. The Corbin Board of Education approved the creation of a high school wrestling program during a special called meeting Friday. “We had the interest,” said Corbin Athletic Director Tackett Wilson noting that approximately 30 students, both boys and girls, turned out initially and the number has now grown to about 40. Kentucky high school wrestling has 14 weight classes in boys ranging from 106 pounds to 285 pounds. Girls’ wrestling has 12 weight classes from 100 pounds to 235 pounds. Wilson said the next step is to hire coaches for each...

The family of a University of the Cumberlands wrestler who died in September has filed wrongful death lawsuit against the university and individuals associated with the athletic department and UC Wrestling. The lawsuit filed Monday in Whitley Circuit Court names the university, the Cumberland Foundation, Inc., Cumberland Athletics Properties, Inc., University President Dr. Larry Cockrum, UC Athletic Director Christ Kraftick, now former UC Wrestling coaches Jordan Countryman and Jake Sinkovic, and other unnamed individuals as defendants in the lawsuit. Kyle and Jacqueline Brace, the parents of Grant Brace, along with his sister, Kaylee Wagnon, claim in the lawsuit that 20-year-old wrestler Grant Brace died as a result of heat stroke he...

The lights that have been removed from Campbell Field will all find new life. At a special called meeting of the Corbin Board of Education, the board voted unanimously to donate four of the six poles to the City of Corbin, while moving the remaining two to the track at the high school. Superintended Dave Cox said Corbin City Manager approached him concerning the future of the poles and the possibility that they be donated to the city. Cox initially said the plan was to keep the poles for spare parts. However, officials from Musco Sports Lighting, who is installing the new lights, told Cox that the best option would be to use...

Tackett Wilson, of Corbin, was one of three finalists for the Kentucky High School Athletic Association’s Outstanding Football Official Award. Wilson along with Burney Jenkins of Georgetown and Scott Moore of Union were named as the finalists. KHSAA officials noted that nominees are selected not only what he or she does on the field, but the contributions the individual makes to the community, along with their leadership efforts, training efforts and mentoring of newer officials. Finalists were named in each of the 10 sports in which the KHSAA licenses officials. With officiating numbers declining at the national level, the KHSAA is always accepting applications from individuals interested in giving back to their community....

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association is constantly seeking sports fans, former players, parents whose children have graduated, and other members of the community who want to be involved in the game and the community by suiting up as a sports official. Butch Cope, Associate Commissioner at the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, said the KHSAA is now accepting applications for new officials in football, volleyball, soccer, cross country/track, boy’s and girls’ basketball, wrestling, swimming, field hockey, baseball, and softball. Applications may be submitted online at the KHSAA website, www.khsaa.org. Once the application is submitted, Cope said the individual will be sent a printed copy of the rulebook to study in preparation...

Corbin High School’s “Reelin’ Redhounds” are back on Lake Hartwell in South Carolina this morning for the second day of bass fishing in the 2021 High School Fishing World Finals and National Championship. In the world finals, Corbin’s team of Leighton Cornett and Dylan Prewitt lead the Redhounds entries, standing tied at 128th among the 398 entries. Cornett and Prewitt turned in three fish with a total weight of 5 pounds, 4 ounces. The team of Austin Ooten and Tanner Davis are tied for 227th place with a three-fish total of 3 pounds, 13 ounces. Corbin’s John Brady White and Tyler Wine are tied for 253rd place with a three fish total of...

Two Corbin High School Bass Fishing duos at the state bass fishing tournament Josh Elliott and Jeffrey Casey finished 38th out of 88 teams, while John Brady White and Tyler Wine finished 55th.