Volleyball

Whitley County High School senior Alicyn Croley signed her letter of intent on March 24 to play for Transylvania University next season. Croley started playing volleyball in the fifth grade. She was a three year starter on the high school volleyball team. Last season, she had 200 digs, 50 blocks, 149 kills, and 19 service aces her senior year. “When I say this one goes 100 percent, 110 percent all the time, she does no matter what the circumstances,” said WCHS Volleyball Coach Neysa Countryman. “I will never forget a match where she rolled her ankle for probably the third or fourth time and refused to come out … It was because...

Your Corbin Lady Hounds are once again champions of the 13th Region after their defeat of Whitley County Thursday night at Bell County High School. The Hounds won this year's regional championship contest 3-1 (25-20, 21-25, 25-10, 25-20), improving them to 14-5 on the season. Meanwhile, the Lady Colonels ended their 2020 campaign with an overall record of 14-4. Corbin will now shift their focus to the KHSAA state championship tournament, which is scheduled to get underway Monday, November 2. The Hounds will travel to Lexington to take on Region 11 champions Henry Clay in round one. Your 2020 Corbin High School volleyball team members are: Chloe Adams, Ava Maguet, Emma Ashurst,...

After last week’s ruling from the Kentucky High School Athletic Association that they would move forward with their plan to begin fall athletics in early September, there was much speculation about whether Gov. Andy Beshear would override the decision during his Monday press briefing. As it turns out, Beshear decided to not reverse the KHSAA’s decision, but he also made it clear that he does not think it is wise for schools to allow athletic competitions to resume at this point in time, explaining that we are currently in a perilous situation where the number of new cases of COVID-19 could begin to spike again if we make the mistake...

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...

2019 had its fair share of great sports memories. This week we take a look back at the most talked about events on the field or court from the past 12 months… Corbin boys cross country team wins regional and state championships The top story on our list this year comes from this past fall season when the Corbin High School boys cross country team brought home regional and Class 2A state championship titles. The Redhounds knew they had a very good chance to make it to the top of the region this year, and they knew that they would likely put forth a good showing at the state meet the...

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...

With a 3-1 victory over South Laurel Thursday evening at Knox Central High School in Barbourville, the Corbin Lady Hounds volleyball team won its third consecutive 13th Region championship title. The Lady Hounds defeated Oneida Baptist Institute 3-0 (25-7, 25-13, 25-15) on Tuesday, and the tournament host Lady Panthers 3-0 (25-13, 25-12, 25-9) on Wednesday to earn their spot in this year's regional finals. Meanwhile, the Lady Cardinals defeated North Laurel, 3-0 (25-12, 25-17, 25-13), and Lynn Camp, 3-0 (25-22, 25-7, 25-12), to advance to Thursday's region championship, which was a rematch of last week's 50th District title game that Corbin also won, 3-0 (25-18, 25-22, 25-22). The Lady Hounds went up...

As reported in the October 23, 2019 print edition of the News Journal, the Corbin Lady Hounds faced South Laurel Tuesday night for this year's 50th District volleyball title, while the Lynn Camp Lady Cats met Knox Central in the finals of the 51st District tourney. The Lady Hounds were able to overcome the Lady Cardinals at SLHS 3-0 (25-18, 25-22, 25-22), improving to 22-8 on the season. Meanwhile, Lynn Camp gave visiting Knox Central all they wanted in their championship contest, but in the end the Lady Panthers were able to walk away with a 3-2 win, dropping the Lady Cats to 10-8 on the season. All four of these teams...

This report appeared in the October 9, 2019 edition of the News Journal... The 2019 Lady Colonels First Priority Volleyball Classic was held last Friday and Saturday at Whitley County Middle and High Schools. At the end of the two-day event the host Lady Colonels had gone 5-1 and finished as tournament runner-up, while the Cumberland Homeschool Trail Blazers finished 2-3 and were crowned champions of the consolation (Silver) bracket. “It went really well,” said Whitley County head coach Neysa Countryman of the 2019 Classic. “We had some tough practices before the tournament, and I feel like we executed the things that we had worked on really well.” The Lady Colonels won...