Tates Creek

The George Rogers Clark freshman boys basketball team dropped a 29-22 loss Tates Creek Wednesday. Luke Sharrock and Jordan Williams paced the Cards with five points each, followed by Markos Shoemaker with four.¿Sam Barrett and Cameron McQuerry each had three and Braxton Greene finished with two points.

West Jessamine turned doubters into believers on Friday night by defeating Lexington powerhouse Tates Creek 34-14. The Colts defense forced six turnovers and held the Commanders to just two touchdowns, while the offense poured on 20 points in the second half to cruise to victory. West is now 5-0, for the full story check out this week's Jessamine Journal

Heading into halftime of Friday night's game against Tates Creek, West Jessamine held a slim 9-7 lead, but the Commodores' second-half surge put the Colts away 28-9. Tates Creek's first touchdown of the night came on their opening possession which drained more than five minutes off an already dwindling clock. With 1:38 remaining in the first period, running back Dennis Oxendine broke a 16-yard touchdown run to put the Commodores on the board 7-0 following an extra point. West was able to respond with a lengthly drive of its own - nearly 10 minutes in fact.

George Rogers Clark girls basketball coach Scott True liked the way his team performed at Tates Creek Monday night, but the Lady Cardinals fell on the short end of the score in a 45-36 loss to the Lady Commodores. The setback was the second in a row for Clark, which suffered a 49-45 overtime defeat at Campbell County last weekend in Alexandria. “Overall, I felt like we played harder and we competed much better than we did (last) Saturday,” True said. “We got down early, but we really battled and did some good things.” True said his team's biggest downfall was an inability to hit shots.

The Boyle County girls played on even terms with No. 23 Tates Creek for two-thirds of the game before falling 4-0 Wednesday at Lexington. Tates Creek (3-3-2) scored all of its goals in the last 27 minutes as Boyle (4-4-1) ran out of steam. "With their strength and speed, they just eventually wore us down," Boyle coach Brian Deem said. "I was extremely pleased with the way our girls played tonight. " Boyle goalkeeper Lydia Hignite logged 15 saves in the first half, when Tates Creek shot 18 times.

Alex Combs provided all the scoring Boyle County needed Wednesday, as the No. 12 Rebels shut out No. 23 Tates Creek 1-0 in the Rebel Showdown semifinals. Boyle (12-0) plays the winner of tonight's Anderson County-Louisville Mercy match in Saturday's 4 p.m. championship game. In the first half, Combs buried a cross pass from Meagan Curry to put Boyle ahead for good. Brooke Terrell recorded her seventh shutout of the season. "It was a really exciting game, with two well-coached, well-conditioned teams," Boyle coach Brian Deem said.

The streak is over. The George Rogers Clark football team honored its 16 seniors and remained in contention for a home playoff game with a 34-13 rout of Tates Creek Friday night at Cardinal Stadium. The victory broke the Cards' five-game losing streak and was Clark's first win since a 38-27 win over Montgomery County on Sept. 2 in Winchester. Clark clung to a 14-13 lead at the break, but tallied three touchdowns in the second half, all of those on five straight Tates Creek miscues.

Whatever Brian Deem had to say to his players Saturday afternoon must have gotten their attention. The Boyle County softball team had won the first of its two games, but the Boyle coach said the 10th-ranked Rebels didn't look very good doing it. Deem told them so between games, and they responded with one of their most lopsided wins of the season, a 14-0 rout of Mercer County in the final game of a three-team round robin at Rebel Stadium. Boyle had five scoring innings in the six-inning game and enjoyed its second-largest margin of victory this spring.

The team of Nikki Coffey, Hannah Robertson, Hannah Harris and Logan Arnold teamed to set a meet record in the 3,200-meter relay Saturday to lead Boyle County at the Commodore Classic at Tates Creek in Lexington. Their time of 10 minutes, 12.42 seconds broke the Rebels' own record time of 10:15.61 set last season. Coffey and Arnold were on that team as well. The team of Kate Carman, Harris, Arnold and Tabitha Evans took second in the 1,600 relay (4:19.85). For the Boyle boys, Clint Hellyer was second in the 300 hurdles (42.43)

Most days, Carol Norton puts on her black pants, lavender button-down and black Taco Bell hat. “I think (I'm) just like most people,” she said. “For the most part, I want to go to work every day; that's just our human nature.” For Norton, working at Taco Bell is a way of life. After all, she has been working at the Nicholasville fast-food establishment for 14 years, and has worked in the fast-food industry for 38 years. “My husband was a gypsy; he thought he had to move all the time,” she said.

West Jessamine's tennis coaches knew entering the season they had teams needing to rise to the occasion, but what they didn't know was it needed to be done without their top singles acts. Thus far in the 2013 season, only head coach Josh Yost's boys' team has had its No. 1 seed (senior Andrew Monell) on the court. Yost said in his absence players such as senior Grant Wells, junior Joel Mansur and sophomore Nick Kulaga have relished the opportunity against formidable opponents.

The George Rogers Clark girls basketball game against Tates Creek scheduled for tonight at Norton Gymnasium has been canceled because of inclement weather and no makeup date has been set. Clark, coming off a 68-60 victory over Bourbon County last Saturday night, will take on Bracket County in a road encounter Saturday night. Clark is at Madison Central Tuesday night in Richmond. The boys basketball team will take on Rowan County in a 7:30 p.m. contest Thursday night at Norton Gymnasium and will play Covington Scott in the Martin Luther King Classic set for 5 p.m. Saturday in Winchester.

HARRODSBURG - The Mercer County girls were fortunate just to have a game Wednesday night. And for the most part, they made the most of it. Facing an opponent they weren't expecting in a game they weren't fully ready for, the Titans still took care of business in the first round of their tournament, rolling to a 78-58 victory over Tates Creek. Cassidy Martin scored 32 points to lead three Titans in double figures and lead Mercer into the semifinals of the Whitaker Bank Titan Christmas Clash, where a foe that is both familiar and unfamiliar awaits.

Last year's trip to the state tournament for the West Jessamine girls' soccer team lasted 10 days and included first- and second-round wins on their home field. This year's trip lasted only 80 minutes and came to a close with a 4-0 defeat at the hands of Tates Creek - a team West had played to a 1-1 draw just a few weeks before. “(Tates Creek) has a quality squad, and Bo (Lankster) does a great job with them,” West Jessamine coach Kevin Wright said. “They're loaded with juniors and seniors and have weapons all over the field.

LEXINGTON - A game full of missed opportunities came down to the final seconds, and for a moment, it looked like the George Rogers Clark Cardinals would have a solid shot at earning their first win of the season. Instead, officials ruled the game over and Clark left Tates Creek High School with a 46-39 loss to the Commodores. The Cardinals (0-8) forced Tates Creek into a 4th-and-long with five seconds remaining. The Commodores lined up to punt, but the punt was a fake, designed to waste the final seconds.

The George Rogers Clark football team has plenty to play for with three games left in the regular season. The Cardinals have a shot at securing a home playoff game with two district games remaining, starting with Friday's contest at Tates Creek. Clark also remains in contention for a possible top seed, if it can run the table in the district, along with a little help from the other three district teams during the next two weeks. “We take care of business this Friday and (then) against Madison Central, we're hosting a playoff game,” Clark coach Steven Collins said.

Danville's Meagan Smith edged out Butler's Rose Jolly on Saturday to break the course record and win the Tates Creek Invitational at Masterson Station Park. Smith won the 3.1-mile race in a time of 19 minutes, 13.3 seconds, edging Jolly by a half-second. Hillbilly Run At Bardstown, Boyle County's Nikki¿Coffey finished seventh in a personal-best time of 20 minutes, 5.5 seconds to lead area runners at the Nelson County Hillbilly Run. Lincoln County's Morgan Gourley finished 13th in the girls race in 20:54.