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Following a postponement of the Sept. 6 match between the Lady Jags soccer team and Pulaski, they met Saturday with East (7-2-1) coming out on top 4-2. Devon Burnside, Danielle Lee, Victoria Slade and Ashley Taylor each scored a goal in the team's seventh win of the season. Burnside and Slade each had an assist. The win was coming off the Lady Jags' first loss of the season more than a week before. Little Caesar's Classic On Monday, East competed in the Little Caesar's Classic in Boyle County.

Norfolk Southern will move its rail crew change point next year from Danville to the Burnside area south of Somerset. Company spokesman Robin Chapman confirmed a report in Thursday’s Commonwealth Journal newspaper in Somerset that the move, which was first proposed in January, will happen at the beginning of next year. Chapman said some new tracks and crew quarters, which he described as being like a hotel, should be complete in November. Chapman said the move will immediately affect 80-90 employees.

Casey County came up just short in the first game and dropped a 25-22, 25-14 decision to Pulaski County Monday night at Somerset. "We played a real nice game the first game," Casey coach Allen Patterson said. "We actually had them that in that first game and just let it get away. " McKinzee Weddle had 10 assists and four digs along with four points off serves for Casey (9-6-2). Meredith Coffey had four kills, Bethany Snow had three kills, Ellen Hogue had five points off serves and Tiffany Spaw had four assists.

STANFORD - The Garrard County boys won all but one singles match and one doubles match in a 7-2 win over Pulaski County Saturday at Lincoln County. Four of the matches were decided by tiebreakers played in lieu of a third set. Jordan Denny, Corey Horn and the doubles team of Horn and Jacob Denny won three of them for Garrard. Singles No. 1 - Phillip Arndt (GC) def. Matt Todhunter (PC) 6-0, 6-0; No. 2 - Will Stevens (GC) def. Josh King (PC) 6-1, 6-1; No. 3 - Jordan Denny (GC)

A Somerset woman was airlifted to University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center after she was injured Monday in a traffic accident on U.S. 27 South. Sarah Meece, 28, was headed south in a 1999 Kia and failed to notice a vehicle that was stopped to make a turn. Her vehicle struck a 1996 Ford pickup truck driven by Shirrel Mullins, 48, of Stanford, according to state police. Meece's vehicle struck the truck in the rear, causing her to lose control and be ejected. Meece's vehicle overturned and came to rest in the parking lot of Robinson Fuel Oil Service.

Pulaski County Invitational At G.E. Field, Somerset Saturday GIRLS Team scores - 1. Covington Holy Cross 47; Pualski County 52. Top individuals - Emily Belwood (Southwestern) 20:41 LINCOLN - 9. Emily Frith 21:44. BOYS Team scores - 1. Southwestern 52; 2. Covington Catholic 84. Top individual - Sabastian Rhode 16:52.4. LINCOLN - 7. Eric Sanders 17:53;

The West Jessamine Colts' dreams of a repeat as 12th Region champions were dashed after falling to host Pulaski County Tuesday night, 8-2. Early on, the Colts struggled to find the strike zone and the Maroons took advantage, picking up two runs with two outs in the second inning to build a 3-0 lead. In the following stanza, Pulaski doubled it's lead to 6-0. The score would stay that way until the top of the sixth inning, when Deanne Geary picked up an RBI with a bases-loaded single.

The game was already decided, but the play perfectly illustrated just how easily Boyle County dominated the game. Visiting Pulaski County had finally scored with only 16.9 seconds left in the first half after Boyle already had amassed 48 points and over 300 yards of total offense. However, rather than let the clock run out, Boyle quarterback Brandon Smith lofted a perfect pass that Seth Tamme caught in full stride and easily outran two defenders for a 68-yard touchdown pass two seconds before halftime.

Three different players produced four goals as the Lincoln County Lady Patriots collected a 4-2 win over district foe Pulaski County Tuesday at LCHS. Morgan Reed was the only multi-goal Lady Patriot in the game, scoring twice on goalkeeper Andrea Jenkins as Lincoln handed Pulaski it’s first district loss. Sydney Harris and Laura Estridge both had a goal apiece as Lincoln improved to 3-0-1 in the 30th District, 6-3-2 overall. “Nobody ever plays a perfect game, but there’s so many different things that we do right every week but we don’t seem to get them all together.

Sophomore runner Brian Carlson was the lead runner in his last two 3200-meter races, capturing first place in the event at the Boyle County Invitational and the Pulaski County All-Comers meet. Carlson racked up his latest win at Danville Friday night, covering the 3200 distance in 10:06.86. The Boyle finish was an improvement in time from his win at the meet in Somerset, almost 21 seconds faster than his finish on the Pulaski County High track. Carlson won that event in 10:27.1.  Lincoln's top male runner didn't have to fend for first in his win at Pulaski, with Southwestern's Corey Owens six seconds back in a time of 10:33.8.

STANFORD - It doesn't get much closer than the Lincoln County boys tennis team's loss to Pulaski County Friday at LCHS. The Maroons defeated their hosts 6-3, but it took four tiebreaker matches to decide a winner. Lincoln's Ethan Smith emerged as a victor in one of the four tiebreaker matches, all in singles competition. However, teammates Ethan Lasure, Conner Playforth and Austin Grigsby came up short in their tiebreakers. Smith defeated Pulaski's Brandon Lorman 7-6 in a 7-5 tiebreaker for the Lincoln boys' lone singles win. The other singles tiebreakers were decided by a score of 7-2, with Lasure falling to Brett Phelps, Playforth going down to Brandon Matthews and Grigsby bowing to Bradley Correll, “The match had four singles matches go into a tiebreaker, the most I have ever seen in one match,” Lincoln coach Allen Lewis said.

Mercer County exploded for six runs in the top of the first inning, led by nine runs after three innings and routed visiting Pulaski county 13-3 in five innings Saturday. Jon Banks capped the six-run first with a three-run home run. John Ingram had three hits and J.T. Long and Russell Sims doubled for the Titans (2-0). Jackson¿Stoeckinger allowed just a single hit in the first inning and went all five innings to get the win. In the first, Ingram singled and Long doubled. They both scored on Sims' double, Curry Brown singled home Sims, Chris Goodman scored and Banks capped the inning with his three-run blast.

Casey County held Pulaski County to a single point in the second quarter Thursday to build a 12-point halftime lead and the Rebels rolled to a 52-27 win in the 47th District semifinals at Somerset. Casey (12-15) advances to Saturday night's championship game to face Somerset. The Briar Jumpers (13-16) beat Rockcastle County 56-52 in Thursday's other semifinal. Lakken Miller scored 12 points, Christin Terry and Katie Douglas each scored 11, and Jasmine Johnson had nine points for Casey.

It has been five years since an area boys team last won the 12th Region, and it's likely to be at least one more year before it happens again. This is another season in which none of the eight teams in the Advocate's coverage area - roughly half of the teams in the region - seem to be in position to make the run to Rupp Arena over the next two weeks. Boyle County came close last year, capping a tremendous second-half turnaround with a drive to the regional title game before falling to Southwestern.

A 30-9 first quarter deficit proved to be too much for the West Jessamine Colts (15-11) to overcome as the Maroons of Pulaski County (21-6) cruised to an 84-65 victory on senior night. “They took over the game early, and we put ourselves in a tough position, but I thought we fought and fought and did some good things to get back in it, but give Pulaski credit; they always answered any run and any challenge we made,” West coach Damon Kelley said. “They're one of the top teams in our region.

The Boyle County boys had one of the top teams in the 12th Region right where they wanted it, and they couldn't do a thing about it. The Rebels held a potent Pulaski County team to an unusually low point total Friday night, but their own lack of offensive production eliminated any chance of an upset. They committed 25 turnovers and managed only 14 baskets, an unhealthy combination that led to a 49-36 loss at Rebel Arena. Pulaski posted its lowest score in 37 games, but Boyle equaled its lowest total in 28 games, and coach Steve Adams said the Rebels' youth showed through.

SOMERSET - The Lincoln County girls basketball team picked up its ninth consecutive season-opening win over Pulaski County Monday night as the Lady Patriots defeated the host Lady Maroons 65-59. Lincoln, ranked No. 10 in preseason polls, wasn't clicking quite the way it did when it won the 12th Region title last season and marched into the Final Four at state, but the Lady Patriots overcame a sloppy start to fight off a strong challenge from their hosts. Pulaski opened up a 10-5 lead in the first quarter, was within two at the half and whittled a 10-point Lady Pat lead down to two with just 1:37 to play before finally bowing to Lincoln.  “It's been a long time since March 'til now,” Lincoln coach Cassandra McWhorter said.

KINGS MOUNTAIN - A Waynesburg man wanted in Pulaski and Lincoln counties was arrested by a Lincoln deputy after a cat-and-mouse pursuit Oct. 23. Christopher T. Stull, born Sept. 13, 1991, was lodged in the Lincoln County Regional Jail and charged with first-degree fleeing and evading and marijuana possession, Lincoln County Sheriff Curt Folger said. Stull already had a lengthy list of charges he was wanted for, including Pulaski charges of first-degree fleeing and evading and wanton endangerment of a police officer, among others, Folger said.

Shannon Murray scored three goals as the Mercer County girls defeated Pulaski County 4-0 in their regular-season finale Thursday at Harrodsburg. Samantha Travillian had two assists and Nikki Wilham had one assist on Murray's goals, which helped Mercer (12-5-1) record its eighth shutout victory and hand Pulaski (5-7-2) its fifth shutout loss. Murray also assisted on a goal by Gentry Brown. North Laurel 0, Danville 0, tie - At Danville, Danville (7-7-3) played North Laurel (7-10-2)