Community Sports

 The Mount Washington Under-6 All-Star team, the youngest All-Star team that the league names has had a strong summer. Unlike some of the older All-Star teams, the U-6 squad does not have tourneys in the Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth series. Instead, the machine-pitch group plays in some independent tournaments. On July 11-12, the team won the Die Hard Invitational at Valley Sports Complex. The team also finished second in the Firecracker Tournament at Fern Creek.  The team still has a tournament at Germantown.

 MOUNT WASHINGTON -- Eagle Scout projects have always been beneficial to the community, putting in countless hours of service.  And Boy Scout Robby Smith’s project will be no exception; however, his will hold a special significance. “I was talking to my grandpa (Robert E. Younger) about all of the monuments (in Bullitt County) and we didn’t have one for the Korean War so I wanted to do one,” he said. Younger, a Mount Washington resident, was a staff sergeant in the Navy during the Korean War.

 FERN CREEK – A trio of Bullitt County All-Star teams competed last week in the Ohio Valley Regional Softball Tournaments at Fern Creek Park. This was the second Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth event for all three of the squads. Two weeks earlier, the teams had taken part in the West Kentucky State Tournament in Glasgow (including additional teams from the Blue Lick league) with mixed results.

 JEFFERSONTOWN – A pair of Bullitt County U-10 Baseball All-Star teams finished out the summer season last week competing in the West Kentucky Metro State Tournament at Skyview Park in Jeffersontown. As it turned out, the teams from Blue Lick and Mount Washington did not get to compete against each other and both bowed out fairly early in the eight-team, double-elimination event. The Blue Lick U-10 All-Stars, a team that failed to win a game in the district tournament two weeks earlier, did pick-up a win in this event before eventually falling.