Soccer

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...

As reported in the October 24 print edition of the News Journal, the Corbin Redhounds soccer team hosted Perry County Central Tuesday evening in round one of the 2018 KHSAA state championship tournament. A goal by freshman Austin Wise off of a corner kick by senior Trey Cima with 8:31 remaining in the game put the Hounds up 1-0, and then a Cima penalty kick about five minutes later gave Corbin the eventual 2-0 victory. With the win, the Hounds improve to 11-8-1 on the season and advance to the Elite 8 of this year's state championship tourney. In the quarterfinals they will face St. Xavier (23-2-1), who defeated South Oldham...

As reported in the October 10 edition of the News Journal, the Corbin Lady Hounds were set to square off against South Laurel at Williamsburg High School Tuesday night with a 50th District championship title on the line. In the end, it was Corbin who came away with the thrilling 3-2 win (25-23, 22-25, 26-28, 25-18, 15-12) to improve to 29-7 on the year. With the loss, South drops to 29-6 overall. Both teams will now advance to the 2018 13th Region tournament, which is scheduled to kickoff this Saturday at Corbin High School. Be sure to look inside next week's print edition for more details. In soccer action Tuesday, the...

This From the Sidelines column appeared in the July 4, 2018 print edition of the News Journal... With World Cup mania running wild right now, I thought I’d take this opportunity to go ahead and talk a little bit about what we can expect in the upcoming 2018 varsity soccer season. 2017 was a big year for our four coverage area squads, with both Corbin teams advancing to the Elite Eight of the KHSAA state championship tourneys, the Whitley County girls ending the season with a second-best win-loss record in the region of 13-5 and the Whitley boys showing signs of continued improvement, nearly knocking off North Laurel in round one of the...

Three senior Corbin Redhound athletes signed on to play their respective sports at the collegiate level Tuesday morning. Two football Hounds, Aaron Money and Eythan Sims, and one soccer Lady Hound, Abby Baker, signed their letters of intent in front of coaches, family members and classmates inside the gymnasium at CHS. Money, who signed with the University of Pikeville, and Sims, who signed with Lindsey Wilson College,  helped lead the Corbin football team to a 13-2 season in 2017 including district and regional championships, and an appearance in the Class 3A state championship game at Kroger Field in Lexington. Speaking about his two outgoing seniors, Redhounds head coach Justin Haddix said...