LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

THE TRACK & FIELD TEAM, UNDER COACH JOSE POPE, SAW FOUR PLAYERS QUALIFY FOR THE STATE MEET: GERMANI CROSBY (SHOT PUT), ZYANYA CROSBY (DISCUS), PAYTON BYRD (200 METER DASH), AND KEATON PENDLETON (LONG JUMP).

LINCOLN COUNTY’S TREMANE ALCORN EYES THE BASKET FOR A FREE THROW DURING THE PATRIOTS’ 57-50 LOSS TO PULASKI COUNTY IN THE 12TH REGION CHAMPIONSHIP. THE BOYS FINISHED WITH A 24-10 RECORD AND ALMOST REPEATED LAST SEASON’S REGIONAL TITLE. ALCORN WILL CONTINUE HIS CAREER AT BEREA COLLEGE, WHILE HIS TEAMMATE, COLTON RALSTON, WILL PLAY AT ASBURY UNIVERSITY. THEIR LEGENDARY COACH JEFF JACKSON RECORDED HIS 400TH COACHING VICTORY AT LCHS DURING THE SEASON.

IN GIRLS BASKETBALL, COACH JAMES JACKSON RESIGNED AFTER HIS SECOND SEASON AS THE LADY PATRIOTS COACH. CAITLIN PARSON (NEE HALL), A 2016 GRADUATE OF LCHS WAS HIRED ON MAY 18TH TO LEAD HER ALMA MATER AS THE PROGRAM’S EIGHTH HEAD COACH. FANS WILL REMEMBER HER PLAYING FROM 2012-2016 WITH HER TWIN SISTER CRISTIN, WHO WILL JOIN HER AS AN ASSISTANT COACH

THE 2023 PBK-BANK & WPBK-FM DEATH VALLEY BOWL XXVI

GAME 1: GARRARD COUNTY VS GREEN COUNTY

GAME 2: LINCOLN COUNTY VS CASEY COUNTY

AUGUST 18TH, 2023

GERMANI CROSBY, ONLY A FRESHMAN, BROUGHT HOME HER SECOND STRAIGHT AA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP IN THE GIRL’S SHOT PUT

THE GIRLS SOFTBALL TEAM COACHED BY BRANDI BAKER FINISHED WITH A 12-13 RECORD AND A FIRST ROUND LOSS IN THE 45TH DISTRICT TOURNAMENT. THE TOP HITTERS WERE SOPHOMORE EMILY JEFFRIES ( 468) AND FRESHMAN MCKENZIE SHELTON ( 444) THEY WERE ALSO THE TOP PITCHERS ON THE TEAM, WITH SHELTON PICKING UP SIX WINS IN SIXTEEN STARTS

THE BOYS BASEBALL TEAM COACHED BY BRYAN MOBERLY POSTED A 16-17 RECORD AND ALSO SUFFERED A FIRST ROUND LOSS IN THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT JUNIOR TWINS SAWYER ( 360) AND SETH ( 326) HORTON WERE THE TOP HITTERS ON THE TEAM A ROSTER FULL OF PITCHERS ALLOWED THEIR SKIPPER TO SEND TWELVE DIFFERENT PLAYERS OUT TO TAKE A TURN ON THE MOUND.

IN TENNIS, COLTON RALSTON BECAME THE FIRST LCHS SINGLES PLAYER TO QUALIFY FOR THE STATE TOURNAMENT SINCE HIS COACH COLIN HART DID IT IN 2014.