Today's Sports

 ELIZABETHTOWN – Rain forced a two-day delay in the Girls’ Third Region Golf Tournament last week, but that didn’t slow Bullitt East eighth-grader Macie Brown from qualifying for a second consecutive trip to the state tournament.

Even on Wednesday, after torrential rain on Monday pushed everything back, the playing conditions were still difficult as the ground was soft and it had been several days since the Elizabethtown Country Club golf course had been mowed. The tourney was played with ‘lift, clean and place’ rules in effect.

 SHEPHERDSVILLE – Finding themselves trailing 17-6 after the first play of the second half, the Bullitt Central Cougars responded with 21 unanswered points on Friday and claimed The War with a 27-17 victory over Bullitt East.

Bullitt Central was still down 17-12 entering the fourth quarter, but then scored twice in the final 7:17 to get the win, the team’s fifth in six outings this fall.

It was just a week earlier that the Cougars trailed North Bullitt until the final play of the third quarter 14-12 before rallying to win 47-21.

 HEBRON ESTATES – Failing to ‘fire’ in the second half despite moving head 14-12 midway through the third quarter on Friday against arch-rival Bullitt Central and eventually losing 47-21, the North Bullitt Eagles will have to pick up the pieces this week as they face another strong challenge as Oldham County visits.

 SHEPHERDSVILLE – The news last week that the Kentucky High School Athletic Association was going to make some major alterations to the post-season for baseball and softball was a little bit of a surprise.

It was just several years ago that baseball split its 16-team state tournament to two weekends in Lexington. All the talk at that time was that the move would help smaller schools as there would need to be less pitching required as there would be just two games a week instead of the four needed the previous few seasons.