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High School Sports

  • Yocum wins state in 200-meter dash

    Bardstown senior Victoria Yocum took the Class 1A state title Saturday in the 200-meter dash.

    Previously she had won a state title in the 400-meter dash as an eighth grader. Saturday's win in Louisville rounds out an outstanding career, rebounding from a knee injury her freshman year. Yocum covered the 200 course in 25.71 seconds, .28 ahead of runner-up Madison Culbertson of St. Henry, the overall girls' team champ.

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  • Record-breaking Beasley finds LWC ‘a good fit’

    Coaches and players don’t always connect the way they’d like. But sometimes they do. And when they really, really connect, amazing things can happen.

    “We understood each other very well,” record-setting Nelson County quarterback Dylan Beasley said of his relationship with his head coach, Jamie Egli. “Just the way he explained the game plan, the plays, it really clicked with me.”

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  • Tigers’ Jones reflects on historic career

    Bardstown seniors Anna Jones and Riley Smith caught a difficult draw in the opening round of the girls’ doubles State Tennis Championships, falling 6-2, 6-0 to the No. 9 seed in the draw.

    The loss to Assumption’s Carolyn Morris and Halie Pennington brought a difficult end to the career of the history-making Jones, who teamed with Gabi Hamilton as a sophomore to become the first females in Bardstown history to qualify for the state tournament.

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  • GIRLS' SOCCER: Zellers inks with EKU

    When Bethlehem goalkeeper Shawn Zellers was working her way back two years ago from a difficult sophomore-season knee injury rehabilitation with her physical therapist mother, Carol, her dad says he didn’t have much of a job to do.

    But Mark Zellers may have been soft-selling his role in the delicate, painful and frequently heated negotiations between his strong-willed wife and his equally determined daughter.

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  • TRACK and FIELD: State meet Saturday at U of L

    If pre-meet performance listings mean anything, Victoria Yocum could be poised for a big day Saturday.

    The senior sprinter from Bardstown is projected to win the 100- and 200-meter dash at the Class 1A KHSAA State Track and Field Championships at the University of Louisville’s Cardinal Park, and she is rated fifth in the 400 — an event she won as an eighth-grader. Yocum, who is headed to Murray State in the fall, is also part of the Tiger girls’ 4x200 relay squad, which is projected fifth.

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  • District softball, baseball starts Monday

    The 19th District softball and baseball tournaments get under way Monday at Idle Hour park in Springfield, marking the second time in three years Washington County plays host.

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  • BASEBALL: Cards top Eagles to claim top seed in district

    Nelson County’s first trip through the district was met with mixed results, a 2-2 mark through the first four games that had them looking up at front-runner Bethlehem.

    But the Cardinals kept plugging away, winning all four on their second spin through the district, including Monday’s 3-1 win over the Eagles to wrest away the top seed in the 19th District tournament, which begins Monday at Washington County’s Idle Hour Park.

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  • PREP ROUNDUP: Rains postpone district games

    Friday’s rains put the final games in the 19th District softball and baseball races into a temporary holding pattern, leaving the exact final seeding in doubt.

    Games featuring Bardstown at Nelson County in softball and Bardstown at Thomas Nelson in baseball — as well as the critical Bethlehem at Nelson County baseball game to decide the top seed — were all postponed. Reschedule dates had not been set as of press time Saturday, but school officials said their hope was to complete the games early this week.

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  • YOUTH SPORTS: NCLL softball in growth spurt

    NELSON COUNTY LITTLE LEAGUE

     

    During the past several years, the Nelson County Little League has seen a re-emergence of girls’ softball.

    This year the league has 80 girls (ages 6-12) playing in pitching machine and girl-pitch divisions on a total of seven teams. Games include a combination interleague play at Dean Watts Park as well as games against Oldham County and Trimble County.

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  • FOOTBALL: Tigers' Cecil headed to Campbellsville

    When you’re called upon to anchor a defensive line, that’s a huge task itself. But Bardstown senior Chris Cecil proved himself up to the task and then some, parlaying that skill into a college scholarship.

    Cecil signed recently to continue his football career in the Mid-South Conference at Campbellsville University.

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