Track/Cross Country

Who medaled at last week's KHSAA state track & field championships in Lexington? Read on to find out... The following is a complete list of finishes involving coverage area athletes from last Thursday’s Class A state track & field meet at the University of Kentucky: Girls’ 4x800 relay - W’burg 18th place in 11:28.63 (Grace Ann Abbott, Heaven Warren, Nevaeh Warren and Abigail Schwarz) Boys’ 4x800 relay - W’burg 19th place in 9:18.72 (Nick Baird, Andrew Myers, Danny Moses and Brady Jones) Girls 100M hurdles - Macy Damron of W’burg 10th place in 17.28 and Lylah Mattingly of W’burg 15th place in 18.31 Boys’ 110M hurdles - John Riley Rowe of W’burg 22nd place...

Next week coverage area athletes will compete for regional baseball and softball championships, as well as state track and tennis titles. The 2019 13th Region baseball tournament will kickoff Monday, May 27 at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN. The Corbin Redhounds will face Bell County in game one at 11:00 am. Knox Central vs. Clay County will come next, followed by Middlesboro vs. Barbourville and North Laurel vs. Whitley County in the night game. Semifinal round games will be at 5:30 and 8:00 pm on Tuesday, May 28, and the championship game will be played Wednesday, May 29 at 7:00 pm. The 2019 13th Region softball tournament will also begin...

It was a busy night in our coverage area Tuesday, with a district baseball champion crowned, several regional tennis championships decided and track & field teams hitting the road to compete for a chance to appear at state. Starting with baseball, this year's 50th District championship game between Corbin and Whitley County was another classic in a series that has become well known for producing plenty of memorable moments. It didn't start out that way, however, as the Redhounds were able to get out to a commanding 9-0 lead after a three-run bottom of the first inning, a five-run bottom of the third and a one-run bottom of the fourth. The...

The 2018 high school cross country season came to a close over the weekend as the KHSAA state championships were held at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. The following is a complete list of all coverage area runners appearing at state, as well as where they finished in each of the day’s races... Class A Boys (286 total runners) W’burg (15th out of 37 teams) Andrew Myers – 57th in 18:26.08 Brady Jones – 86th in 18:57.76 Danny Moses – 105th in 19:19.01 Tate Fields – 144th in 19:52.49 Jamie Haus – 175th in 20:25.88 Collin Taylor – 226th in 21:37.02 Elijah Harrington – 277th in 25:05.24 Lynn Camp (35th of 37 teams) Joseph Kerby – 172nd in 20:24.46 Ethan Blevins...

All of the News Journal’s coverage area cross country teams were in action over the weekend at Cave Lake Park in Wayne County. It was the site of the 2018 regional championships, and after a long list of impressive performances many local runners now have their sights set on competing in this weekend’s KHSAA state championships. Williamsburg won the Class A Region 6 boys race at Cave Lake, meaning the entire team is headed to state. That includes Alex Coleman, Tate Fields, Elijah Harrington, Jamie Haus, Lane Hawn, Brady Jones, Donovan Marnhout, Danny Moses, Andrew Myers and Collin Taylor. Also headed to the Class A state championships as a team are Lynn...

As reported in last week’s edition of the News Journal, a total of 18 high school tennis players from the coverage area are slated to compete in this year’s KHSAA state championships in Lexington. The tournaments will kick off tomorrow (Thursday) with Corbin’s Katherine Niemeier taking on Carrie Beckman of Sacred Heart at 8:00 a.m. at the University of Kentucky’s Boone/Downing Tennis Complex. Whitley County’s Anna Grace Zehr will take on Charity Nickel from Somerset, also at 8:00 a.m. at Boone/Downing. Corbin’s Samantha Spady is scheduled to face Savannah Kruse from Bullitt East at 9:15 a.m. In the girls doubles bracket, Corbin’s Sarah Gibbs and Emily Morton will face Sarah Englert and Ashley...

Area track and field teams were in action again late last week, with Corbin, Williamsburg and Lynn Camp traveling to Harlan County to compete in this year’s SEKC championships on Friday, and the Whitley County Colonels appearing in the Heart of the Bluegrass meet in Harrodsburg on Saturday. The Williamsburg girls brought home first place from the SEKC meet, with junior Selena Mattingly securing four individual first place finishes, and teammates Danasia Buchanon and Lillie Hall finishing with two first place awards apiece. Mattingly crossed the finish line first Friday in the girls’ 400m (1:01.20), 800m (2:32.98), 1600m (5:42.04) and 3200m (12:32.79) races. Meanwhile, Buchanon dominated in the hurdles, winning the girls’...

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 Mattingly dynasty continues at Williamsburg. After placing third at the KHSAA Class A state championship cross country meet as a middle schooler, Lady Jacket runner Selena Mattingly captured her first state title as a freshman in 2015. She returned to the state meet as a sophomore last fall, this time coming away with a still-respectable fifth place finish. Coming into this year’s state meet, Mattingly and her coaches were hopeful for at least a third place performance. She did better than that, however, beating her nearest opponent (Kailee Perry of Morgan County) by 16 seconds to once again become Class A state champion with a final time of 19:28.72. “I was...

This past Saturday, area cross country teams traveled to Monticello to take part in region competition. In Class A Region 6, both the Williamsburg High School boys and girls teams were able to capture runner-up honors. In addition to that, junior Selena Mattingly once again became region champion when she finished the varsity girls race with a time of 20:38.06. Teammate Abigail Schwarz finished third in the girls race with a time of 22:17. 51. Mattingly, Schwarz and the rest of the Yellow Jacket runners will now compete in this Saturday’s Class A state championship meets at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Start time for the girls race is scheduled...