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Today's Sports

  • Eagles have the experience for a...

     HEBRON ESTATES – After winning 22 games last season, with 18 in a row during one point, and with all but one player returning, the North Bullitt Eagles have reason to be excited about the upcoming season.

         While the players are always going to be excited at the start of a season, the euphoria extends to the head coach this time around. After serving as an assistant coach at Bullitt East last season, Korey Craddock is back in the Eagles’ nest as the head coach.

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  • Chargers are once again regional...

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – Expectations can be a good thing. Unrealistic expectations can be a tough anchor to overcome.

    That is what Bullitt East head coach Bob Blackburn is telling the Charger Nation after his team has been ranked among the top-20 teams in the state in various pre-season polls.

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  • Refreshed Lady Cougars ready for...

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – The 2013-14 season didn’t end badly for the Bullitt Central Lady Cougars, it just didn’t end the way they had hoped it would.

    After closing out the regular season with seven wins in the last eight games, the Lady Cougars were peaking at just the right time. Unfortunately, two starters, Lexi Graham and Kasey Renfrow, went down with serious knee injuries in the final games.

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  • BE’s Jacob Bowles set to play...

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – Bullitt East senior baseball player Jacob Bowles will be the first to admit that he has been a ‘late bloomer’ when it comes to his sport.

    In fact, there was a time when his father, Bullitt East baseball coach Jeff Bowles, sat down with is son and mentioned the possibility of having to cut his son from a future Charger team. That was when Jacob was still in middle school, but the message took hold and the younger Bowles worked hard at his sport.

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  • Local standout Jordan Vorbrink...

     LOUISVILLE – Tuesday was a red-letter day for Shepherdsville resident Jordan Vorbrink.

    The senior at Louisville Mercy High School fulfilled a lifelong dream as she signed to play softball at the University of Louisville. It all became official in a signing ceremony in her high school auditorium along with nine of her classmates who were also announcing college destinations.

    (Vorbrink had actually signed with the Lady Cardinals the previous Wednesday, the first day of the NCAA early signing period).

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  • Cougars have the starters for...

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – Coming off the program’s best season in a decade, a season that included a district title and a run to the semi-finals of the Sixth Region Tournament, the Bullitt Central Cougars are poised for another successful winter.

    Yes, the Cougars suffered heavy graduation losses that included Bullitt County Player of the Year Brett Bourland as well as starters Jacob Wampler, Zack Humphrey and Zach Martin.

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  • North Bullitt girls will be...

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – Nobody was happier than head coach David Marion when 14 middle school players showed up to practice with the North Bullitt varsity last Friday.

    No, the 14 players won’t be asked to play any varsity minutes this winter, but their arrival more than doubled the number of players who had been practicing with the Lady Eagles. Earlier in the month, Marion had been forced to call off the team’s green/gold scrimmage for a lack of players.

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  • Local runners shine at state...

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – The Eastside Middle School fifth- and sixth-grade girls’ cross-country team returned home from the Kentucky Track and Cross-Country Coaches Association State Championship meet recently with the big trophy.

    This was almost a repeat title for the core group of girls as a year ago they won the title in the fourth-grade and under state title.

    There were 38 teams and 362 runners in the field for the 3,000-meter race at Masterson Station Park in Lexington.

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  • Mount Washington Middle School...

     MOUNT WASHINGTON – On Oct. 30, Mount Washington Middle School placed a plaque in the gym to honor Omer Stallings, who passed away over the summer.

    Mount Washington Middle School teacher Doug Soards said a few words at the event which was attended by members of the Stallings’ family. Soards message that night is included below.

     

    As many of you are aware, on July 2nd of tis year, we lost a vital part of no only our Mount Washington community, but our Lady General family.

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  • Leasor stepping down after...

     SHEPHERDSVILLE – This time, Bullitt Central football coach Danny Leasor got to go out on his terms.

    Following eight seasons on his second stint as the head coach of the Cougars, Leasor is stepping down after one of the best seasons in the program’s history. Bullitt Central finished this past season with a 9-3 record, tying the mark of the 1990 team, which he also coached, as the most productive for the program since 1979.

    The news that Leasor is retiring is not new news. Leasor had announced before this season began that it would be his last.

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