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High School Sports

  • Pitch committee does enough as East beats CAL

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – Veteran Bullitt East baseball coach Jeff Bowles will be the first to say that his team has a wealth of good pitchers.

    Unfortunately, the coach will also say that to this point, none of those pitchers has stepped forward to be the team’s ‘ace’, or a great pitcher.

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  • With strong body of work early BE’s Williams still in demand

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.

    Bullitt East senior basketball player Raegan Williams can say just that as she continued to press forward this winter after suffering an ACL injury in November that forced her to miss her entire senior season on the court.

    Still, through it all, Williams stayed positive and continued to push for her career goal of playing college basketball.

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  • North’s Keehn continues baseball career with Tigers

     HEBRON ESTATES – North Bullitt senior Brady Keehn is like a lot of high school students when it comes to picking a college – he wanted to be away from home, but not too far away.

    That was what made Georgetown College near Lexington appear so perfect for Keehn. It took just one visit, in March, to decide that playing baseball for the Tigers, as well as being a student, was the best course of action for him.

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  • Local tennis teams start regional play today

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – Tennis players wrapped up the regular season last and prepare for Sixth Region action to begin Monday afternoon.

    The three high schools can have up to two singles players and two doubles teams entered into the regional tourney.

    Action will begin on Monday afternoon.

    (The regional draws were held on Sunday, which was past press deadlines for today’s Pioneer News.)

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  • Fields are set for district diamond action

      SHEPHERDSVILLE – There are now just two weeks remaining in the in the regular season for baseball and softball and the pairings for the 23rd and 24th District Tournaments are already set.

    The good news for local diamond sport fans is that Bullitt Central will be hosting both of the 23rd District events while Bullitt East will have the baseball and softball tourneys in the 24th District.

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  • BE gets the best of Mercy 1-0

      MOUNT WASHINGTON – Five times Bullitt East and Mercy have met in the regular season as district rivals and five times the game has come down to a single run.

    On Tuesday, it was Bullitt East that scored the one and only run as the Lady Chargers defeated their arch-rivals 1-0 to move to the top of the seeding process for the upcoming 24th District Tournament. The Lady Chargers are hosting the district tournament this season during the week of May 22.

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  • Southern drops Lady Eagles 4-2

     HEBRON ESTATES – Sometimes it seems like a play or two in a game will set the tone for the entire contest.

    Facing Southern, the North Bullitt softball team may have had the experience on Wednesday.

    Southern came into the 23rd District regular season finale  for them with a 2-0 record and the top seed in the tournament assured with a win. North Bullitt, at 1-0 in district play, pushed it right down to the wire before falling 4-2.

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  • BE’s Duvall hospitalized again with knee woes

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – For the second time since the end of the high school basketball season, Bullitt East standout and 2017 Kentucky Miss Basketball Lindsey Duvall has spent time in the hospital due to continuing problems from her fall 2015 knee surgery that forced her to miss most of her junior season.

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  • Eagles earn top district seed 5-0 over Central

     HEBRON ESTATES – One team was fighting for its goal. The other appeared to already feel it had reached its goal.

    With Alec Lush throwing a one-hit shutout, North Bullitt locked up its goal of winning yet another regular season District 23 title. That gives the Eagles the top seed in the upcoming tournament.

    For the Bullitt Central Cougars, head coach G.J. Moore wasn’t impressed with the effort. A victory could have set up a three-way tie for the quest for a top seed.

    At the end of the day, North Bullitt came away with a 5-0 victory.

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  • Mother Nature wins out over East and LIT

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – Mother Nature pretty much got the best of Bullitt East and the Louisville Invitational event that the Chargers were hosting last week.

    At first, it appeared that Bullitt East head coach Jeff Bowles had pulled a rabbit out of his hat by moving the first night of action up a day, starting the four-team round-robin event on Wednesday with a single game. There was also a single game on Thursday.

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