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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 Corbin High School cheerleading squad has enjoyed great success in recent years. During halftime of the Redhounds’ game last week at Knox Central, CHS cheer’s four seniors in 2016 – Hannah Coots, Lexie Carr, Breanna Smith and Shaylla Shelton – took the time to discuss their accomplishments, what it has taken for them to get to this point and what they hope the future will hold for them in the months and years ahead. Coots, 17, has been cheering for the past seven year. She said that the life of a cheerleader includes practices every day after school, as well as cheering at games. In addition to that, she...

Over the weekend, all area high school cross country teams took part in regional competition at Cave Lake Park in Monticello. Places and times for local runners in the Region 6 A meets were as follows… Boys varsity - Bruce Hopkins (6th, 19:30.45), Garrett Combs (8th, 19:39.55), Brady Jones (13th, 20:12.72), Jamie Haus (17th, 20:45.32), Tate Fields (20th, 21:13.40), Nathaniel Preston (26th, 21:40.06), Kevin Siler (31st, 22:25.85) and Deuce Ballou (22:59.99). Girls varsity – Selena Mattingly (1st, 21:34.42), Abigail Schwarz (2nd, 22:00.62), Natalia Munoz (11th, 25:34.54), Renee Lumley (15th, 26:09.53), Jenna Dople (18th, 28:30.15) and Kelsey Connell (21st, 29:30.89). The Williamsburg boys finished in second place out of six teams, while the...

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,...

  Read on for the latest developments from this year's 13th Region volleyball tournament, being held at Whitley County High School... THURSDAY: After a 3-0 (25-18, 25-14, 25-18) victory over the Corbin Lady Hounds Thursday night, the Whitley County Lady Colonels are your 2016 13th Region champions. "I'm very excited to be going back to state," said Whitley senior Laura Richardson after the win. "With it being my senior year, I think it's going to be a great way to go out with a bang. I'm so happy to be playing with these girls, and we've had such a great season. I'm just very proud of everybody." Freshman Grace Barton said, "I think we...

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...

After a 3-0 (25-19, 25-5, 25-14) win over Knox Central Thursday evening, the Whitley County Lady Colonels volleyball team are once again 51st District champions. The district title win took place at Barbourville High School Thursday, and it improved the Lady Colonels to 27-9 on the year. Whitley will now shift their focus to this year's 13th Region tournament, which they will be hosting next week. Look in the 10/26 print edition of the News Journal for coverage from the 2016 13th Region volleyball tourney.

With a 4-0 victory over North Laurel Thursday night, the Corbin Lady Hounds soccer team became back-to-back 13th Region champions. “This is awesome,” said Head Coach Hannah Going after the win. “Last year going to state was such an amazing opportunity, and to be able to go back-to-back is just awesome. I’m so proud of these girls, I’m so proud of the team. They’ve worked so hard, and they really deserve this.” Corbin only had a 1-0 lead going into halftime after junior Abby Baker scored a goal about midway through the first half. North Laurel’s Jenna Rockwell had a great shot on goal just before time ran out in the...

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...