Area Sports

April Ellis Herald Staff The Mercer County Senior High boys basket­ball team have opened the season with a strong start going 3-0 with one of the most challenging schedules the team has seen in recent years. Saturday, Dec. 2, at the Jaguar Tip-Off Classic, the Titans beat the Tigers of Clay County, 65-52. Senior Owen…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] The Georgetown College Tigers (9-1) won their first NATA Football Championship Series game since 2017 against the Baker University Wildcats (9-3) of Baldwin City, Kansas, on Saturday, Nov. 25. The Tigers didn’t scrape by either, Baker never really had a chance and the Tigers offense was firing on all cylinders.…

April Ellis Herald Staff After a rough perfor­mance in their second pre­season scrimmage Saturday against Hazard High School, the Mercer County Titans opened the official season with a 62-60 victory over the Somerset High School Briar Jumpers on Monday night Nov. 27. It was a tale of two halves for the Titans. They sta11ed out…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] The Burgin Lady Bulldogs opened the high school basket­ball season with a comeback win over Lexington-Sayre on Monday, Nov. 27. Isabella Mayes fought for the offensive board and laid it in off the backboard for Burgin’s first basket of the 2023-24 season. Both offenses sra1ted slow and struggled to make…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] EDITOR’S NOTE: The headline of the previous edition of this story incorrectly identified Jacobe Taylor as the only senior on the team. Landon Irvin is also a senior. We apologize for the error. The Burgin Bulldogs boys basketball team will need to make many substantial adjustmentsafter the loss of five…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] The Burgin Lady Bulldogs faced North Hardin Classical in a scrimmage spanning six, six minute periods on Saturday, Nov. 18, in Burgin. The Lady Bulldogs have a deep and athletic roster which has allowed Head Coach Keith Monson to do more experimentation with the defensive tactics. “Our press is something…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] The Mercer County Senior High boys basketball program struggled their way to a 14-18 finish in the sixth and final season of Josh Hamlin’s ten­ure. The 2022-23 Titans fin­ished 13 out of 18 region 12 programs, and lost 65-48 to eventual region champions Pulaski County in the open­ing round of…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] Many Region 12 fans were surprised when the Mercer County Lady Titans basketball team took down the 30-3 Danville Lady Admirals in the Region 12 championship game last season. Danville had won 11 games straight heading into to regional final, and the Lady Titans managed to win six straight games…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] The CU-Harrodsburg Women’s basketbll program began their season with an exhibition game against Franklin College of Franklin, Indiana. The Pioneers enter the 2023-24 season having undergone significant recon­struction to their roster, as well as naming a new head coach in Lakesha Perry, former coach at the Louisville Fillies of the…

Austin Cocanougher Herald Contributor The University of Kentucky football team is 6-4 heading into their SEC road challenge against intra-division rival South Carolina. Corning off of a ter­rible performance to a red-hot Alabama team on senior night, the Wildcats need to recover quickly. With one final chance to steer the ship straight and piece together…