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High School Sports

  • East’s Smith signs to fish for Campbellsville

     MOUNT WASHINGTON -- A love for all things outdoors paid off recently for Bullitt East senior Dalton Smith when he signed to join the fishing program at Campbellsville University.

    Smith helped create the Bullitt East fishing program several years ago and he has also been a major contributor to the Chargers’ highly successful archery program.

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  • BE’s Green to compete in track at Spalding U.

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – Coming out of Eastside Middle School, Connor Green was a basketball and baseball player. Even in middle school, he was part of the Bullitt East baseball program.

    But midway through his sophomore season, Bullitt East track coach Lenny Raley started preaching the Green the positives of that sport. With baseball losing ground, Green opted to join the track team that spring.

    He has never looked back.

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  • All-Star weekend puts spotlight on locals

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – For the middle of June, there was a lot of activity in the area this past weekend.

    In Louisville, a pair of local players took part in the Kentucky High School Coaches Association East/West Junior All-Star Basketball Game at Bellarmine University.

    This is a normal summer event as this was the 30th annual contests with the best rising seniors from the Fifth and Sixth Region taking on their counterparts from the Seventh and Eighth Region. There was a good crowd this season as almost 1,000 fans took in the two contests.

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  • Hallelujah!! BC and BE to meet in hoops this winter

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – If you are not already sitting down, you might want to be pull up a chair before you read any further.

    Here goes.

    After three years of constantly avoiding each other in basketball, Bullitt Central and Bullitt East have scheduled each other in both boys’ and girls’ games next season. Or at least they will complete that task soon.

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  • BE’s Masden headed to Bellarmine track team hoops with IUS squad

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – Three years ago, Bullitt East’s Lauren Masden would have predicted that she would be signing grant-in-aid papers to attend the college or her choice in the spring of 2017.

    Masden would have also told you that she would be signing to be a basketball player.

    As it turns out, Masden had the big picture right, but she missed on the sport. Instead, the Charger senior recently signed with Bellarmine University to join the track and field program as a distance runner.

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  • All-Star games in many sports this weekend

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – There will be All-Star games of just about every spectrum you can think of this weekend.

    On Saturday, the annual Kentucky High School Coaches’ Association Junior All-Star game will be played at Bellarmine University’s Knights’ Hall. There will be a pair of Bullitt County players taking part in the two games.

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  • Central’s Metcalf headed to Brescia for track

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – Having friends in the right places can pay off in a lot of ways.

    That was certainly the situation for Bullitt Central track athlete Colton Metcalf this spring as a well-placed suggestion to Bresica University track coach Luke Stoffel got the ball rolling for Metcalf to join the Bearcats. The push came from former Lady Cougar track athlete Kassi Gilbert who was a freshman with the Brescia track team this past spring.

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  • Despite not playing, it was a great week for Duvall

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – It wasn’t the start to the summer that Lindsey Duvall had dreamed about, but the ultimate week of being Kentucky’s 2017 Miss Basketball turned as well as could be expected under the circumstances.

    Duvall had become resigned to the fact several weeks ago that she would not be cleared to play for the Kentucky All-Stars following surgery on April 30 because of infection in a knee that she had twice in the past 18 months had surgery on because of a non-cancerous growth that was removed back in November of 2015.

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  • BE’s Osborne signs for hoops with IUS squad

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – Bullitt East standout Jared Osborne, the 2017 Bullitt County Player of the Year, wants basketball to be a part of his life – forever.

    The next step in that long journey will have Osborne playing his collect basketball at Indiana University Southeast. The Charger senior made that decision in mid-April and then signed last month during a ceremony in the Bullitt East Media Center in front of friends, family and coaches.

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  • BE grad Gravens earns NAIA All-America honors

     Story courtesy of Midway College Sports Information Department.

    MIDWAY, KY. – In just one season in a Midway University softball uniform Kelsey Gravens has accomplished a lot, but her latest accomplishment might just be the cherry on top as she has earned All-American honors from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

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