Today's Sports

CRESTWOOD – The Anderson County girls' basketball team exploded early to advance to the Eighth Region tournament championship game for the second consecutive year.

The Lady Bearcats built an unbelievable 25-3 halftime lead, then cruised to a 52-28 romp over host South Oldham on Friday night. The Lady Bearcats were never as much as tied and held South Oldham without a field goal in the first half.

Tiffany Davenport led Anderson with 13 points and 11 rebounds, while seventh-grader Eriel McKee scored 10 points and snared 10 rebounds.

All season long, the consensus has been that Anderson County should be at the head of the class when it comes to the boys’ Eighth Region title chase.

And that consensus has been that two teams, Shelby County and North Oldham, are the biggest threats to Anderson’s first trip to the state tournament since 1997.

Little has happened to change anyone’s mind.

FRANKFORT – Wrestling just gets in your blood.

It might be hard for those who equate one of the world’s oldest sports with Vince McMahon’s pyrotechnics at WWE to understand.

But the stage at the Frankfort Convention Center last week was no showtime. It was simply four mats, each with two combatants going at it for a chance to move on until a champion is crowned.

“When you are on the mat, it’s just you and the other guy,” is a mat mantra.

FRANKFORT – The powers that be in basketball have not come up with a 9-point shot.

Glen Drury knew that when he called time-out with four seconds to play and his team hopelessly down 61-52 at Franklin County Friday night.

“I called time to let the kids know why they had beaten us. I told them we have had a great season,” Drury said, “but now we are 0-0 again.”

It is the life of a regional favorite, one that some are already penciling in for a trip to the Sweet 16, but Franklin County showed that the Bearcats are beatable.