Area Sports

Sam Warren Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com Junior Malachi Yulee leads the Mercer County Titan football team in all rushing categories, accumulating 914 yards rushing and 12 touchdowns through nine games. The Titans, now with a 3-1 district record are heading into the final game of the regular season on Friday, Oct. 26, at Boyle County. Yulee…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com The floor at Jack Coleman Sr. Gymnasium on the campus of Burgin Independent School looks a bit different this year. After designing and installing a new logo last basketball season, a new floor and middle logo was designed and completed on Thursday, Oct. 11. The gym was last painted in…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com                       The Burgin Bulldogs competed at the Mercer All-Comers meet at Anderson Dean Park on Thursday, Oct. 18. They placed third overall among males, didn’t place in the top three overall among females, but had a strong finishing nonetheless. The…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com The Mercer County Titans and Burgin Bulldogs boys and girls’ cross country teams both competed in the Central Kentucky Conference meet on Tuesday, Oct. 16, at Anderson Dean Park. The Titans finished eighth overall on the boy’s side and seventh overall on the girl’s side. Burgin boys did not place…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com All good things come to an end. The three-year reign for the Mercer County Titans (7-11-2) boy’s soccer team in the 12th region came to an end on Tuesday, Oct. 16, in a 4-0 loss to the Danville Admirals (17-1-1), in the first round of the region tournament, hosted by…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com The Mercer County Titans (4-4) travelled to Campbellsville to take on the Taylor County Cardinals (6-1) in a battle for the district championship and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. The Cardinals were able to reclaim the lead in the second half and hold off the Titans for a 26-21 victory.…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com      The West Jessamine Colts (15-4-1) have had the Mercer County’s’ (7-10-2) number this soccer season, and that continued in the championship game of the 46th District on Wednesday, Oct. 10, with the Colts claiming the district title in a 5-1 win. Micah Tackett led the Colts in goals with…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com       Beating a team three times in a season is tough, but the Mercer County Titans (6-10-2) accomplished that feat, defeating the East Jessamine Jaguars (4-9) by a final score of 10-2 on Monday, Oct. 8, in the first round of the 46th District Tournament at Mercer County Senior…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com       It wasn’t the ending the Mercer County Lady Titans (10-7) soccer team was hoping for. They were  defeated in extra time on Tuesday, Oct. 9 by a late Jenna Dickinson goal in the first half of extra time to propel the Lady Jaguars (6-11) to a 2-1 win…

Arpan Dixit Herald Staff sports@harrodsburgherald.com       After qualifying for the 2018 girls golf state tournament last week at the regional tournament in Richmond, senior Bekah Upchurch ended her high school career with a top-20 finish at Bowling Green Country Club on Wednesday, Oct. 3. She is the first Lady Titan to ever make it…