Area Sports

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] For the first time since 2006, both boys and girls Mercer County Cross Country teams qualified for the KHSAA State Cross Count1y Championship at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington. Junior Marshall Hart fin­rshed first amongst all Mercer mnners with a time of 17:21.16. Hart’s time was enough to claim…

Austin Cocanougher Herald Contributor Terrible, no good, very bad, ugly and unacceptable. All words that could be used to describe the Wildcats’ performance Saturday, Oct. 14, when they took on the Missouri Tigers under the lights at Kroger Field. Coming off of a disappointing blowout at number one ranked Georgia, most expected Kentucky to respond…

After a couple of rough tournaments, Mercer Bass Fishing bounced back. The junior and high school teams walked away with a second­ and thjrd place finishes. Colton Mink and Eli Horn placed second in the Junior Kentucky MLF division on Cumberland Lake this past weekend. They had two fish weighing in at 3.43 pounds. Braylon…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] There are surely few peo­ple within the Mercer County School system who dedicate their time and effo1t to the care and development of kids outside of school as much as Lynn Flach. Flach began her career as a substitute teacher in Mercer County in 1997, and now works in special…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] Mercer County Titan foot­ball is 7-1 for the first time since 2020 following its 34-21 victory over Casey County (4-4) in Liberty on Friday, Oct. 13. The Rebels’ opening kick­off bounced slowly through the middle of the field before being picked up by Denim Griffieth on the 28. Griffieth cut…

Samuel Warren Herald Staff [email protected] Mercer County Senior High School boys golf just ended an exceptional season of competi­tion, capped off by an appear­ance at the opening round of the state tournament by sopho­more Tanner Robinson. Titans golf competed in and qualified from the class 2A sectional tournament in July, which was one of the…

Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] Mercer County cross country competed in an all­-comers meet at Anderson-Dean Community Park Thursday, Oct. 5. Apart from preparing for the upcoming regional meet on Saturday, Oct. 21, in Monticello, the program used this time to celebrate its seniors, Sam and Katie Lewis. Both brother and sis­ter finished second in…

Byron Collier Herald Staff The Mercer County Lady Titans volleyball team went into their final home game hoping for a win, after a rocky regular season record of 6-14, to get ready to make a run in the postseason. The starters for their game against Garrard County (15-12) on Thursday, Oct. 5 were Jorga Sanford,…

Austin Cocanougher Herald Contributor Saturday, Oct. 7, was an all-systems failure for the Wildcats. Going into Athens, Georgia, to play the num­ber one team in the country, the Kentucky football team was set to shock the world. Starting the season 5-0, fans were ready to knock down the final door that kept us from being…

  Sam Warren Herald Staff [email protected] Mercer County Titan football (6-1) kicked off dis­trict play this past Friday, Sept. 29, with an emphatic 36-0 victory over the Knights of Marion County (4-3). In recent history, Mercer County has had no prob­lems against Marion County as they often win by large margins, but after reaching a…