Ball Game

Dear Editor, I've had a lot of time to think about what I was going to say in this letter, and each time I get a sad feeling in my soul that bigotry and ignorance is still alive. This is in reference to the Danville-Boyle County rivalry game. I went to Danville High School, and the rivalry was there, but it was was nowhere near what it has progressed to today. So to begin our history lesson - for those of you who threw cotton at Admiral Stadium last year and thought it was OK this year to wear the T-shirts that said "100 percent cotton", - slavery was abolished many years ago, so my mother didn't pick cotton.

The Lincoln County High School athletic department will host its annual basketball "Little League Night" Friday night. The Feb. 1 matchup features 45th District boys' action with Danville at Lincoln. The junior varsity game begins at 6 p.m. with the varsity game at 7:30 p.m. All Lincoln County Little League players wearing their jerseys to the game will be admitted FREE. General admission to the ball game is $5.

The Telephone Pioneers met for lunch, July 9, at Bartons in Winchester. Those in attendance were: Margaret Altom, Wayne Altom, Bonnie Biggerstaff, Annette Crossfield, Leona W. Epperson, Vivian Everman, Bob Hellmann, Kay Hellmann, Alma Jones, Gordon Long, Martha Long, Flora Montgomery, Olivia Montgomery, Elizabeth Prather, Betty A. Reed, Allen Rogers, Mary Rogers, Bill Thiry, Nancy Thiry, Mava Vaughn and Edna Witt. Approximately 22 telephone people and their families from Winchester joined Pioneers from other towns and had a fine evening at Applebee's Ball Park, enjoying a picnic lunch and a ball game, thanks to Pioneer Appreciation Day on Saturday, July 11. The Pioneers will hold their August luncheon at Ramsey's at Brighton Place in Lexington Thursday, Aug. 13.

Kentucky coach John Calipari isn't interested in talking revenge. Avenging a 73-72 loss to Indiana would be an easy motivational tool for Calipari this week as the top-seeded Wildcats prepare for Friday night's East Region showdown against the Hoosiers at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga. It's a matchup Big Blue Nation has been yearning for since Christian Watford sank at 3-pointer at the buzzer on Dec. 10 in Bloomington, that bounced Kentucky from...

HARRODSBURG - The Harrodsburg/Mercer County Twilight Christmas Parade here will begin at 6:30 p.m. today and the grand marshal will be one of the participants. The Christmas Committee is honoring the Mercer County High School Marching Band for its victory in the state band contest as part of the AA Class in October. The band will be one of the parade participants. There are 12 to 15 floats scheduled to be in the parade. Because of a basketball game at Harrodsburg High School, the parade will be organized on U.S. 68, which will be blocked from Factory Street to the Harrodsburg High School entrance.

Nicholas Holderman is headed to the "Today Show. " Holderman, son of Staci and Chris Holderman, has been invited to appear on Tuesday's Today Show on NBC. On Sept. 2, it appeared that Nicholas, who was just 17 months old at the time, might lose his right eye to a horrific accident. But today, he is completely - and his parents believe miraculously - recovered. "We came home from a ball game that night and hadn't been in the door two minutes when he fell off the recliner," Chris, the principal at Perryville Elementary School, said.

The rival between East and West Jessamine baseball has been a tug of war game the last few years, and this time it was East's Jaguars that were outmuscled. East lost to the Colts, 4-3, in the first round of the 46th District tournament at West High, putting to an end the team's 13-20 season. This season the teams were 1-1 against each other. "I think we played well enough to win, I thinks e did everything to win," said East coach Jimmy Hill, who was asked to leave the field after a bout with an official.

Something will have to give when George Rogers Clark opens district play Friday night at Cardinal Stadium. The Cardinals and Madison Central enter the contest with identical 4-0 records. Both teams are just one of four teams outside of Louisville that are ranked in the Top 10 in the latest Associated Press 6A poll. The Indians are ranked No. 4 and the Cards are seventh. Central has an edge in the series over the past six years. Clark's last win over the Indians came in 2001 when the Cardinals dealt the Indians a 31-20 setback in Richmond.

For the first time in school history, the Lincoln County boys soccer team is in the position to repeat as district champion. Lincoln made school history last year by capturing its first-ever 30th District title to advance to regionals. While no longer a member of that district, Lincoln can still repeat as a champion, having earned a shot at the 45th District title by defeating Boyle County 4-2 Monday night in semifinal tournament action at Garrard County Middle School. Lincoln (11-5)

When East Jessamine took the field Friday night at Dunbar, it was with a new-look offense that was launched 10 days before. On Aug. 29, East quarterback Skyler Rose notified the team that he would need season-ending ankle surgery. Lucky for the Jags, they didn't have a game that week and were able to institute a new offense centered around sophomore Ronnie Carson. “The Jets run it; Denver ran it; let's go with (Tim) Tebow-style stuff and just put an athlete back there and see what it looks like,” East coach Mike Bowlin said.

The George Rogers Clark High School football team won't have to take another road trip this week. After opening the season with a road loss at Corbin, followed by a setback to neighboring Montgomery County last week with an open date sandwiched in between, the Cardinals will play their first home game of the year against Bryan Station Friday night at Cardinal Stadium. “Its going to be great to be home, it really is,” Clark coach Steven Collins said earlier this week. “You get some familiarity (by playing)

Kentucky coach John Calipari isn't interested in talking revenge. Avenging a 73-72 loss to Indiana would be an easy motivational tool for Calipari this week as the top-seeded Wildcats prepare for Friday night's East Region showdown against the Hoosiers at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga. It's a matchup Big Blue Nation has been yearning for since Christian Watford sank at 3-pointer at the buzzer on Dec. 10 in Bloomington, that bounced Kentucky from...

by Nancy LeedyEmily Fox scored 24 points and Sydney Harris had 19 points and nine rebounds as Lincoln used a 37-9 run to break open a close game and defeat visiting Woodford County 78-59 Monday.A competitive game through most of the first half, the Lady Patriots got things rolling late in the second quarter, scoring the last nine points to turn a 34-28 deficit into a 37-34 halftime lead. The game-changing run rolled on into the second half. Buoyed by a triple and 11 points from Fox and 10 from Harris, Lincoln found itself comfortably ahead 65-43 with just 4:45 remaining in the game.“I'm proud of the girls,” Lincoln coach Cassandra McWhorter said.

By Nancy Leedy Lincoln County girls' basketball is not for the faint of heart.For more times than she likes to recall this season, Lady Patriot coach Cassandra McWhorter has watched double-digit leads evaporate before victory was finally won.It happened again Monday as Lincoln frittered away a 17-point first-half lead but held on to beat visiting Whitley County 65-63.“We called them the heart attack kids last year, the cardiac kids or something,”...

LANCASTER – Matt Carrier rushed for 220 yards and tallied four touchdowns in a row to lead Lincoln County to its third straight win. The senior running back scored all of Lincoln’s touchdowns as the Patriots downed Garrard County for a sixth-straight time, handing the Lions a 28-8 loss at Dyehouse Stadium. The Patriots now lead the Lincoln-Garrard series 18-8. “It’s my favorite game of the year,” said Carrier of the rivalry. “It’s a big rivalry and it’s a fun game.

take in its regular-season home finale. The Cardinals, who broke a four-game losing streak with a 27-12 triumph over Tates Creek last week, can solidify a second-place finish in the district and secure a home playoff game to open the postseason with a win over Madison Central Friday night at Cardinal Stadium. “We need to make sure we win to at least finish second,” Clark coach Paul Columbia said earlier this week. Columbia said the win over Tates Creek last week gave his a boost heading into the final two weeks of the regular season.

HARRODSBURG ? Notre Dame had a 3 1/2 minute span in the third quarter Wednesday where the Pandas could do no wrong, and Mercer County could do little right. And that proved to be too much for Mercer to overcome, as Notre Dame held off the Titans 51-46 in the semifinals of the Titan Christmas Clash at Mercer. "We really felt like we should have been up 10 or 12 at the time, and we kind of let them crawl back in it right there, and we missed free throws there in the second quarter and some easy shots.

Seven games into the season, George Rogers Clark hasn't gotten used to its new identity. "Mentally, this team has not learned to (adjust) from being the hunter to being the hunted," Clark coach Scott True said. "Last year we were the hunter, and right now, we're the hunted. We can't get mentally adjusted to that. We're getting everybody's best shot every night. " The mental lapse continued Tuesday night when Clark lost for the fifth time in the last six games with a 53-50 setback to Covington Scott Tuesday night.