Mercer

The Mercer County Titans aren’t going to let a couple of good days get to their heads. Mercer has already doubled its win total from last season and is off to its first 2-0 start in three years, but coach Bill Mason said the Titans are staying “pretty well grounded.” Mason said the Titans will face their toughest test yet when they return to Henry Clay on Friday to play Lafayette. “We are excited, yet grounded,” Mason said. “I do believe Lafayette will be our toughest test to date.

HARRODSBURG — When Mercer County holds on to the ball, coach Bill Mason says the Titans are a much better team. But they “lost the turnover battle,” and that proved costly in last Friday’s loss to Lafayette. Mason said the Titans can’t afford the same mistakes Friday in their home opener against Anderson County. “We fumbled four times and lost two and had two interceptions. We did a nice job of limiting their offensive play (only 33 plays)

The Mercer County Convenience Center, recycling center, county road department and animal shelter will be closed Tuesday for training. All operations will reopen Wednesday. For more information, call (859) 734-6340.

HARRODSBURG - The Mercer County Titans Youth Football Camp for children in grades one through six will be Monday and Tuesday at the Mercer sports complex under the direction of the high school coaching staff. Mercer students who have signed permission forms will be transported to the sports complex at 2:45 p.m. for camp registration on Monday. The camp ends at 5 p.m. both days. Cost is $30 per child and includes a camp T-shirt, state championship poster and pizza the last day. Registration forms are available online at www.mercertitans.

HARRODSBURG - The Mercer County Fair continues through Monday at the fairgrounds on Linden Avenue. Tonight's schedule includes a Coca-Cola talent show at 5:30, goat show and youth tractor-driving contest at 6, and horse show and truck pull at 7. The floral hall will be open from 6-9:30 p.m. Gate admission is $5; children 6 and under get in free. Carnival ride bracelets are $8. Events Saturday and Sunday are free. Motorsport events through Saturday cost an additional $3.

In the other semifinal, South Laurel beat Mercer 25-14, 25-6. Southwestern and South Laurel meet tonight for the regional title. Despite the loss, Boyle coach Heather Wheeler was pleased with her team's effort. "I'm very proud of the all the girls accomplished this year. We played hard, we just ran up against a team that was better than us," she said. "We did the best we could, we fought as hard as could fight. My kids really grew, they matured and improved over the year. People should look of big things from Boyle County volleyball in the year's to come.

HARRODSBURG - The Mercer County volleyball players know that what they did Tuesday night won't mean a thing this time next week. But for the time being, it goes down as perhaps their program's greatest accomplishment. Mercer's first victory over crosstown rival Harrodsburg was a milestone for a still-growing program, cause for celebration for the seniors who had waited four years for it and a source of confidence that can be tapped in the event the two teams meet again in the postseason.

HARRODSBURG - The faces of the Danville girls really did tell the story of this game, but you had to take more than one look. There were some sullen looks early in the game, when things weren't going as well as they expected. But those same faces were beaming by the end of the evening. Once the Admirals got untracked, they had plenty to smile about as they rolled to a 5-0 win over Mercer County Thursday night at King Middle School. It was the third shutout in as many games this season for Danville, which has kept nine of its last 11 opponents off the scoreboard.

HARRODSBURG - A local man has been arrested after a 17-year-old male juvenile reportedly was kidnapped Nov. 2 on James Street, police said. Jermaine Alexander Jones, 36, of 517 Ashley Drive, was charged with kidnapping (minor) and lodged in the Boyle County Jail. Patrolman Lynn Davis reported that Jones also assaulted the victim twice - once when he kidnapped him on James Street, and again at the Jones home on Ashley Drive. The victim was returned to James Street.

HARRODSBURG - Three people went to the hospital after a traffic accident Friday in Harrodsburg, police said. Janice M. Reeves, 54, of 336 Hughley Lane, along with Alvarado T. Hernandez, 45, of 301 Cedar St., and two of his five passengers, Miguel C. Hernandez and Nicholas Henrnadez, also of Cedar Street, were taken to James B. Haggin Memorial Hospital for treatment. Alvarado Hernandez was driving north on the bypass, and the Reeves vehicle pulled out in front of his car near a traffic light.