Soccer

At its Board of Control meeting Thursday morning, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association discussed the possibility of adopting further changes to the 2020 fall sports season. In the end, however, the board voted to keep the current plan in place that would have athletes being able to officially begin practices on Monday, August 24. Details of the plan to resume athletic activities this fall include the following: The sports of soccer and volleyball will be allowed to conduct intrasquad scrimmages beginning with the first day of practice on Aug. 24. Football will be “restricted to phase-in of activity per Bylaw 23 and revised guidance.” Interscholastic scrimmaging will not be...

In a nearly three-hour online board of control meeting Tuesday, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association has outlined how school sports should proceed as we enter into the fall season. KHSAA Commissioner Julian Tackett spoke early on during Tuesday’s meeting saying that he and other association officials have been closely monitoring all data concerning COVID-19 in the state. He said that it is important to be careful while moving forward with any attempts to resume school sports, also acknowledging that the association needs to be continue to be ready to make adjustments to any and all plans “at a moment’s notice” if necessary. Before beginning discussion on how the fall season...

The Corbin-Whitley County area has presented Neel Patel and Trey Cima with many great opportunities in the sport of soccer, and this summer they are teaming up to give back with a new venture they are calling Topflite Soccer Training. Patel is a former Whitley County Colonel and Corbin Redhound. He was named to the All-State Team in 2018 before going on play collegiately as a Berea Mountaineer. He is currently in the process of transferring to the University of Louisville. Cima is the son of longtime Corbin Redhounds soccer head coach Armando Cima. He was named to the All-State team as a Hound in 2017 and 2018, and he is...

Monday marked the first day that area coaches were able to meet with their teams for in-person practice sessions. With several coronavirus-related restrictions still in place, these sessions were largely focused on strength and conditioning, but regardless of the work being done, the fact that teams can once again gather in person is a huge step forward, and it goes a long way in providing some hope for the upcoming fall sports season. Among those teams getting back together for the first time Monday was the Whitley County High School varsity boys soccer team. A large group of eager athletes showed up to the Whitley County soccer complex to hear...

It was a very big night for coverage area sports teams Friday... Starting with playoff football, the Corbin Redhounds defeated visiting Knox Central 42-21 to improve to 6-4 on the year and advance to play at Wayne County High School in round two next week. An updated look at the Class 4A state tournament bracket can be found here - https://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/khsaa/kyfb19/tournament_178004 The Whitley County Colonels defeated the visiting North Laurel Jaguars 21-20 Friday, improving to 8-3 overall and advancing to host the Southwestern Warriors in round two next week. An updated look at the Class 5A state tournament bracket can be found here - https://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/khsaa/kyfb19/tournament_178005 Finally, the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets and Lynn...

Continue to check back with this post, as it will be updated with results from the 2019 49th District soccer tournaments as they become available... Update 1: On Tuesday, October 8 the Corbin Redhounds improved their season record to 14-4-1 with a 6-1 victory over Oneida Baptist Institute at the Whitley County soccer complex in Williamsburg. The win not only advances Corbin to this year's district championship game on Thursday, but it also qualifies them for the 2019 13th Region championship tournament. In girls soccer action Tuesday, the North Laurel Lady Jaguars defeated South Laurel, 5-0. Both Whitley County teams are scheduled to be in action Wednesday, with the Colonel boys hosting...

We are now just days away from the start of the fall 2019 high school sports season. It’s one of the busiest times of the entire year, with area cross country, soccer, golf, volleyball and football teams all gearing up to get back into competition. This week, we look ahead to some of this fall’s most highly anticipated events, beginning with cross country... The landscape will look a little different in high school cross country this season after some of our coverage area’s top runners graduated as members of the class of 2019. Our local schools will look to remain competitive in the region, however, with hopes of once again sending several...

It was a big week for the Corbin High School soccer program after a total of four players - two Redhounds and two Lady Hounds - signed to continue their athletic careers in college. On Wednesday, Lady Hounds Maddy Saylor and Emily Foster both signed on with the University of the Cumberlands women's soccer program. CHS girls soccer head coach Hannah Goins said of her two outgoing seniors, "I am extremely proud of both Maddy and Emily for their accomplishments." "Both of these young ladies have been a big part of our team over the past four years. They have been extremely dedicated to our program, and have an amazing work...

With so many major championships won by coverage area teams over the past twelve months, the News Journal’s annual year-end list of top sports stories will require a total of ten spots for 2018. 1. Corbin boys basketball team wins region, advances to quarterfinals of Sweet 16 tournament It was a tough call for which story should take the top spot this year, but in the end the Corbin Redhounds’ 13th Region championship and trip to the Sweet 16 at Rupp Arena was too big not to be placed at number one. Led by senior Andrew Taylor, who finished his career as the Corbin High School basketball program’s all-time leading scorer, the...

The Whitley County Lady Colonels soccer team ended its 2018 season with a loss to North Laurel in the semifinal round of this year’s 49th District tournament. It was a heartbreaking result for a talented team that had aspirations of playing in a region tourney for the first time in the program’s history, but that result in no way diminishes the fact that this group has made a lot of history over the last 24 months or so. Leading the way for the Lady Colonels this fall were five senior players – Jacqueline Oliphant, Jaine Stephens, Haley Hamblin, Haven Gilley and Lilly Rice. When these five came on the scene...