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High School Sports

  • WRESTLING: Fundamentals key for young Cards

    Nelson County graduated six seniors from last season, a group with a wealth of experience, including state tournament experience.

    Those guys are gone, however, leaving Sean McCarthy spending a lot of time coaching up fundamentals with a new group, many of whom are first-year wrestlers.

    “That was a really great (senior) group,” McCarthy said. “It’s been a learning process.”

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  • GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Banshees fall just short at WC

    Bethlehem traveled to Washington County Friday night in hopes of picking up its second win of the season, but the Commanders got revenge for the Banshees’ December win, 52-50.

    “We go through these dry spells where we get good shots, but we just don’t make them, and it hurt us,” Bethlehem coach Chris Taylor said.

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  • BOYS' BASKETBALL: Eagles top Commanders

    Despite injury troubles, Bethlehem keeps plugging along, picking up a 57-45 win Friday at Washington County to improve to 11-2 overall and 3-0 in 19th District play. That sets up a showdown Tuesday at Bardstown for the top spot in the district seeding race.

    “Our seniors stepped up when the game was on the line and rose to the occasion,” Bethlehem coach Artie Braden said.

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  • GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Nelson wallops Bardstown, 92-41

    Over the Christmas break, Nelson County went 5-3 in tournament play. Not bad, but not great as some of those losses were ones coach Kelly Wood thought his team should have won.

    “We haven’t played (well) our last three or four games,” Wood said. “We just went through the motions.”

    On Friday, however, the Cardinals rediscovered some of the fire they will need if they’re going to contend for a 5th Region title, walloping homestanding Bardstown 92-41.

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  • BOYS' BASKETBALL: Tigers turn back Cardinals

    With about three minutes left in the first quarter, defending district and region champ Bardstown found itself in a hole against visiting Nelson County, and struggling to score with point guard Anthony Myrks sitting out because of an ankle injury.

    “We started out slow tonight,” Tiger coach James “Boo” Brewer said. “Nelson County did a great job of cutting off our penetration.”

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  • BASKETBALL: Grundy emerges as key Tiger cog

    When folks around the state think of Bardstown basketball, usually coach James “Boo” Brewer and his senior backcourt — sons Anthony Myrks and Jordan Brewer — come to mind as the face of the Tigers.

    And with good reason.

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  • GIRLS' BASKETBALL: Local girls find the road tough during holiday tourneys

    Bardstown improved to 5-7 on the year Thursday, bouncing back from a pair of losses earlier in the week to top Shawnee, 57-19, in the First Citizens Bank Classic at North Bullitt.

    The Tigers dropped a 62-50 decision Wednesday to Bullitt Central.

    Against Shawnee, Bardstown got 15 points from Julia Comandini and another 14 from Shyla Calbert in scoring the runaway win. The Tigers held the Golden Eagles (0-10) to just four points in the second half and zero in the fourth quarter.

    Abbie Parrish also added 11 for Bardstown.

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  • BOYS' BASKETBALL: Tigers keep winning in LexCath tourney

    Bardstown’s hot run of play in the Republic Bank Holiday Classic continued Wednesday as the defending 5th Region champs dispatched St. Xavier, 63-55, to advance to Thursday’s semifinals.

    Bardstown (7-3) faced top-ranked Trinity after press time for this issue. The Tigers will face either Henry Clay or host Lexington Catholic in Friday’s championship at 7 p.m. or in the 5:30 p.m. third-place game.

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  • Big Stage Performance

    It’s official.

    Anthony Myrks likes performing on the big stage.

    One week after scoring 30 points in helping his Bardstown team upset seventh-ranked Moore in the opening round of the King of the Bluegrass Tournament, Myrks scored 16 points, dished out nine assists, and pulled down six rebounds as the Tigers rolled past Houston (Tenn.) 78-65 in their first game in the Republic Bank Holiday Classic in Lexington Monday.

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  • Lady Tigers can’t get past Greenwood to clutch tourney championship

    She’s a Lamb who played like a lion.

    She’s Molly Lamb, and the senior guard is the primary reason that Greenwood was able to pull away from Bardstown in the second half en route to a 72-57 win in the championship game of the Caverna Lady Colonels Christmas Tournament on Friday night.

    Lady Tiger coach Paul Stone said his team had no answer for Lamb, who scored a game-high 30 points.

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