Soccer

With the New Year just days away, this week we look back at the News Journal’s biggest sports stories of 2017. 1. The Corbin Redhounds’ run to the Class 3A state football championship: Undoubtedly, the biggest sports story of the year was Corbin football’s 13-2 season that included the program’s first appearance in a state championship game since 2002. The football Hounds featured a talented cast of both seasoned veterans and young up-and-comers in 2017. The combination was enough to get the team over the hump, defeating Louisville Central in the state semifinals after losing to Belfry in week 14 of both the 2015 and 2016 seasons. Corbin came up against a...

The Corbin Redhounds and Lady Hounds started play in the 2017 KHSAA state championship soccer tournaments Tuesday night, with both teams advancing on to Saturday's quarterfinal round in Lexington. The Corbin girls were in Prestonsburg Tuesday, playing against the Region 15 champion Lady Blackcats. The Lady Hounds looked like the underdogs on paper, but in the end it was Sarah Fryer who scored two goals and lifted Corbin to a 2-1 victory. The win improves the team to 10-11-2 ahead of an Elite Eight matchup against Notre Dame (20-5-2) this Saturday in Lexington. The Corbin boys were also on the road Tuesday, facing Region 15 champions Pikeville. Goals by Trey Cima and...

Last week the Corbin Redhounds and Lady Hounds soccer teams were disappointed after falling to South and North Laurel respectively in the championship games of this year's 49th District tournaments. The mood is a much different one now, however, as both teams were able to win 13th Region titles Thursday night in a pair of rematches from the 2017 district finals. Both contests were held at Corbin Primary School Thursday, with the Lady Hounds versus the Lady Jaguars up first. Corbin was without star senior Abby Baker in the recent district tournament, but she was back for region, and she made all the difference in the championship game. She first scored...

As reported in the October 18, 2017 edition of the News Journal, the Corbin Lady Hounds volleyball team advanced to Tuesday night's 50th District championship game at Whitley County High School after defeating Williamsburg on Monday, 3-0 (25-14, 25-10, 25-15). The Lady Hounds faced South Laurel in the district finals after the Lady Cardinals defeated defending 13th Region champions Whitley County in their semifinal round game Monday, also in three straight sets (25-17, 25-16, 25-12). Corbin got off to a great start against South Tuesday, winning the first two sets 25-19 and 25-19. The Lady Cards made a comeback, however, winning sets three and four (25-22, 25-14) to force a decisive...

The Corbin Lady Hounds soccer team was disappointed after a 5-0 loss to North Laurel in the finals of the 2017 49th District tournament this past Friday evening, but now they’re shifting their focus to next week’s 13th Region championship tournament at Corbin Primary School. The Lady Hounds will be coming into the tournament as the two-time defending region champions, and they will hope to put together a three-peat performance that will lead to an appearance in the 2017 KHSAA state championship tournament later this month. “We’re just going to try to shake this one off, and come back stronger and harder for the next game,” Corbin Head Coach Hannah Goins...

Friday was not a good night for either of the Corbin High School soccer teams, as both would fall in the championship games of the 2017 49th District tournaments at North Laurel High School in London. The boys played first, taking on the South Laurel Cardinals. The game was scoreless until late in the first half, when junior Cardinal Gage Jackson scored a goal for his team at the 11:05 mark. Senior teammate Clay Weaver made it 2-0 in favor of South when he scored another goal soon after with 9:40 left in the half. Weaver would score again with 29:15 left in the game, making it 3-0, which would end...

After four games in London Monday evening, three of the News Journal’s four coverage area soccer teams were able to keep their 2017 season alive. Whitley girls defeat OBI It was Oneida Baptist Institute that handed the Whitley County girls soccer team a pair of crushing first-round losses in the 49th District Tournament the last two years. The Lady Colonels weren’t having any of that this time around, burying OBI in an avalanche of scoring by strikers Reis Anderson and Madison Broyles to cruise to an 8-1 victory in the opening round of the girls’ tournament Monday night at South Laurel High School. “We just wanted to come out strong and be aggressive...

The 2017 boys and girls 49th District soccer tournaments kicked off Monday evening at North and South Laurel High Schools in London. The Whitley County Lady Colonels squared off against Oneida Baptist Institute at South Laurel, winning 8-1 to improve to 13-4-1 on the year. Freshman Reis Anderson scored five goals in the win for the Colonels, who will now face the North Laurel Lady Jaguars in the district tournament semifinals. That game is scheduled to take place Tuesday at 8:00 PM at North Laurel High School. The Corbin Lady Hounds also picked up a huge win Monday, defeating South Laurel 3-2 in sudden death penalty kicks. The game was tied...

This will be an extra-special year for the Whitley County soccer program, as they are celebrating their tenth anniversary in 2017. Lady Colonels Head Coach Kelly Sawyers has been there from the beginning, saying, “Our first team was actually in middle school. In 2009 we started a junior varsity team at the high school level, and I remember clearly having to practice on the baseball field.” “In 2010 we started our first varsity team, we were in the process of building our own complex and that’s when things really started to come together for us.” Sawyers went on to explain that youth soccer was introduced at the elementary level beginning in 2011-12,...

The Corbin Redhounds and Lady Redhounds soccer teams are both just a few weeks away from kicking off the 2017 season, and hopes are high for both boys coach Armado Cima and girls coach Hannah Goins. Both teams will be deep in experience this year, as large junior classes that saw plenty of playing time in 2016 will return to the field as seniors this fall. Goins’ girls are also returning with significant success under their belts. The Lady Hounds are the two-time defending 13th Region champions, losing to 16th Region champions Russell in the first round of the 2016 state tournament. “There is a little bit of pressure coming in again...