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East Jessamine softball's eight-game win streak came to an end Monday night Lexington Catholic. The Lady Jaguars lost to the Lady Knights 8-3. East was in the game through the first four innings despite being down 3-0, but things got out of hand quickly in the fifth as the three-run lead ballooned to an 8-0 blowout. “Haylee (Hamm) had a rough night; it was her worst night as a varsity starter,” East Jessamine coach Tom Hamm said. “She just had an off night.” The Lady Jags didn't get on the board untill the top of the sixth inning.

The George Rogers Clark girls soccer team gave it everything they had in a 2-1 shootout loss to host Harrison County in the opening round of the 24th District Tournament Friday night at LeBus Field. Clark held a 1-0 lead after Kendall Thornberry connected on a penalty kick at the 7:57 mark. Mariah Pohl was fouled inside the box, resulting in the score by Thornberry. The score remained that way until the Fillies tied the score on a free kick just outside of the 18-yard box with less than five minutes remaining in regulation.

The Colts got beat on one shot Tuesday night, and that one shot ended their 17-win season. Lexington Christian’s lone goal came in the first 15 minutes of the game, and West battled the rest of the night to just get one in the net, to no avail. “Talk about a class act–these girls (West Jessamine) are a class act,” West coach Kevin Wright said. “They worked their tails off and dominated that game. One shot beat us. “We’re holding our heads high.

STANFORD - In a year that saw many governments struggle through lean times, Lincoln County Fiscal Court ended the 2010-11 fiscal year healthier than expected. “We actually ended the year in the black,” said Treasurer Teresa Padgett. Magistrates at Thursday's called Fiscal Court meeting learned that the county finished the year with nearly $1.5 million in carry-over funds. But all of that surplus money was channeled right back in to the county's $8.2-million budget for the fiscal year that begins Aug. 1, including a $240,000 line item for use in emergencies.

East Jessamine's girls' soccer season came to an end Thursday night in a heartbreaking 2-1 loss to Lincoln County in the region semifinal. The Lady Jags led for more than 50 minutes of the match after senior Devon Burnside gave them a 1-0 lead five and a half minutes into the game. Burnside got free and beat the keeper one-on-one in the box. East had its chances to extend the lead on several occasions but could not get another goal, either pushing the ball too far or too high. Lincoln's first real chance to tie the game came with 9:20 remaining in the first half when a shot glanced off the left post.

A Lincoln County man barricaded himself in his trailer Sunday when deputies tried to arrest him on outstanding warrants. The situation ended peaceably about five hours later after a state police special-respnose team coaxed the man out. No shots were fired, deputies reported. Matthew D. Grider was arraigned Monday in district court on an assortment of charges.

George Rogers Clark High School boys' soccer coach Greg Dyk, top photo, speaks to his team following a 5-1 loss to Louisville St. Xavier in the boys' state soccer finals Saturday night at Toyota Stadium in Georgetown. The Cardinals ended the season with a 17-5-4 record. Left photo, George Rogers Clark High School junior Mark Saporito collects his thoughts following the game.

The East Jessamine Jaguars knew they were going to get a tight game. But they didn't expect Southwestern to score on a balk. But the Warriors did in the sixth inning and held on past an East rally in the seventh to win 1-0, and advance in the 12th Region tournament at West Jessamine Monday afternoon. "We told them in the beginning that it would probably be a 1-0 game," East Coach Tasha Bowlin said. "We didn't think they'd get the run the way they got it. That stuff happens it's part of the game.

PARIS - An injury-plagued season came to an end for the George Rogers Clark girls' soccer team in a 2-0 loss to Bourbon County Tuesday night in the opening round of the 24th District Tournament at Stonerside Field. The Lady Colonels (13-4-3) advance to Thursday's finals and will take on Montgomery County (11-4-4), which escaped with a 3-2 triumph over Harrison County in the first of two first-round contests. The Lady Cards ended the campaign with a 6-9-3 record. Clark coach Bill Kirk was disappointed with his team's performance.

STANFORD — Back in late August, when the Boyle County volleyball team was in the midst of a 3-12 start, expectations were not high that the Rebels would be one of the last two teams left standing in the region. So there was definitely no hanging of heads Thursday night after the Rebels’ surprising run to the 12th Region Tournament finals ended with a 25-14, 25-13 loss to two-time defending champion Southwestern. “We started off really, really rough this year.

MORELAND - Lincoln County officials remain optimistic a new $5.5 million sewer system along the U.S. 127 corridor is a possibility in the near future, even though the flow of funding for infrastructure upgrades has slowed to a trickle. Officials involved in attempts to secure funding and bring sewer to the currently sewer-less west side of the county delivered a hopeful briefing Monday evening at New Hope Baptist Church in the Moreland area. Dozens were on-hand at the public hearing to examine maps of the proposed sewer system and ask questions.

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Editor's Note: This is the final installment of a series of stories with Kentucky tight ends coach Vince Marrow, who has been instrumental in UK's recruiting success in Ohio since joining Mark Stoops' staff. LEXINGTON - If there's one thing Vince Marrow wants to make sure that Kentucky fans know about him it is this: He's not an inexperienced coach. “My agent was reading something about Vince Marrow just being some GA (graduate assistant) from Nebraska with no experience,” Kentucky's new tight ends coach said.

Editor's Note: This is the fourth in a series of stories with Kentucky tight ends coach Vince Marrow, who has been instrumental in UK's recruiting success in Ohio since joining Mark Stoops' staff. LEXINGTON - It's not hard for Vince Marrow to explain the recruiting success he's had in Ohio since joining Kentucky coach Mark Stoops' staff less than six months ago. “I think, honestly, it's just where I am from, Youngstown. It's a blue-collar place, a football family place,” the Kentucky tight ends coach said.

Vicki Hudson Eubank, or “Miss Vicki” to a number of Winchester adults and children, will be retiring from Animal Krackers Discovery Center after providing day care services for Winchester for more than 40 years. Brooke Hudson Wasson and Sarah Jane Snowden, Eubank's daughters, set up a surprise event for her Tuesday morning at the day care. The trademark baby blue building was garnished with balloons and streamers while children, family, friends and people for whom she had previously cared gathered out front  to welcome Eubank to her surprise.

A new criminal-justice program has blossomed in its first year at Jessamine Career and Technology Center and will be bigger next year. The public-safety career pathway includes criminal-justice classes and fire-science classes. First-year teacher Will Hall taught a criminal-justice overview this year and will add classes in trial focus and criminal procedure next year - classes he said are already full. “One of them is a trial-focus class, and that's for anyone interested in the courtroom side of things,” Hall said.

Too much, too early put West baseball in an insurmountable deficit in Tuesday's 12th Region semifinals loss. The Colts (24-11) were outgunned by the heavy-hitting Southwestern Warriors, 7-3. "I thought we were a little tight coming out, and it showed," West head coach Jody Hamilton said. "We ended up making a few errors that cost us a run. " West senior pitcher Matt Yeich, who got the starting nod, gave up three runs in the opening inning that was started on a double by Southwestern sophomore Jacob Burchett.

Well, that's all folks. The last day of classes in Jessamine County is on Friday, bringing to a close the 2012-2013 school year. Over the past two weeks, I've witnessed my Facebook feed fill with photos and memories of a year (or years) passed as children graduate from preschools, elementary schools, junior highs, high schools and colleges. In our family, the end of the school year marked the end of our son's preschool career. Next year, he'll join hundreds of other kindergarteners at the Early Learning Village.

Editor's note: This is the first of a series of stories with Kentucky tight ends coach Vince Marrow, who has been instrumental in UK's recruiting success in Ohio since joining Mark Stoops' staff. LEXINGTON - Kentucky fans might not have known much about Vince Marrow when he joined Mark Stoops' coaching staff at UK, but the tight ends coach has quickly made a name for himself as a successful recruiter, especially in Ohio where six of UK's verbal commitments in the 2014 recruiting class are from.

A dramatic late-season turnaround for the West Jessamine Lady Colts came to an emotional end Monday. The Lady Colts earned 10 of their 13 victories since April 22; slightly past the season's midpoint. The club's 8-4 Memorial Day loss came at the hands of Rockcastle County, who they ran by just into their midseason tear. "I thought that obviously coming in, we had a better chance than that (to win)," West head coach Michelle Baker said. "We made several mistakes defensively that wound up costing us; mistakes that we've not been making here in the recent few weeks.