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Spring Break sports not all about winningI made my annual Spring Break trip
to Florida last week. Four area teams also made the trip south. The Corbin baseball team went to Hilton Head, the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets’ baseball team went to Cocoa Beach (Fl.) while the Lady Redhounds traveled to Fort Walton Beach. Whitley County made the trip to Cocoa Beach as well.
It was a tough trip for the teams as they returned with a combined record of 2-15 after playing some pretty good teams.
Williamsburg took on number six ranked Owensboro Apollo twice and Ashland Blazer, which are ranked among the top 30 Kentucky teams. The Jackets played the Tomcats twice. They also played Frankin (TN) and Raceland. Raceland is a school much like Williamsburg and is a true Class A school. The Jackets lost that game, 6-3.
Williamsburg Coach John Mountjoy said, “It was a learning experience.” That’s the thing about these trips to
Florida or South Carolina. It’s not all about winning. The trip allows for addi-tional practice time and games. Some of the players got a wake up call when they had to play or practice at 9 a.m.
It is a great time to bond and enjoy themselves, but it is also a time to get to know your teammates on the field more than if you had to battle the Kentucky weather.
Corbin Coach Rob Ledington has always taken his teams south for Spring Break. The last several years the Redhounds have gone to Hilton Head. The Redhounds got in plenty of practice and four games against Hilton Head High School.
One of the parents told me Monday that no matter who they put on the
mound; they could really throw the ball. The ‘Hounds scored just one run in four games.
Ledington feels the experience will pay off down the line. “We are going to play teams that will beat your brains out, but the reason we play those games is to make the district-seeded games and our regional competition a little but easier for us,” he said.
Ledington believes in playing a tough schedule throughout the season. After playing Williamsburg twice this week and Middlesboro Thursday, the Redhounds will take on 5th ranked Bryan Station in Lexington Saturday. They will also play Tates Creek, one of the top teams in the state.
The same goes for the girls’ softball teams. Corbin played four games in Fort Walton Beach. The Lady Redhounds got to play some teams from Kentucky they will not likely see again. They played Paducah Tilghman, Whitesville
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APRIL 11, 2012
■ By Jim [email protected]
CORBIN 7, WILLIAMSBURG 1
‘HOUNDS TAKE DISTRICTWIN FROM WILLIAMSBURG
■ By Jim [email protected]
Trace Vorbeck hits two-run homer to lead Corbin
Lady ‘Hounds edgeSomerset, 1-0
Corbin Softball Classic this weekend
Photo By JIM McALISTERGETTING THE WIN: Corbin’s Chad Brown hurls a pitch against the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets Monday at Don House Field at Corbin High School. The Redhounds beat the Yellow Jackets, 7-1 in a district seeded game.
Jim McAlisterCalling The Shots
Photo By JIM McALISTERHEADING HOME: Hunter Williams beats out a throw to the plate for the only score of the day for the Jackets.
Corbin snapped a six-game losing streak as the Redhounds beat the Williamsburg Yellow Jackets, 7-1 at Don House Field Monday afternoon.
The loss extended the Williamsburg losing streak to eight games as the teams were scheduled to meet again Tuesday afternoon at Briar Creek Park in Williamsburg.
“We played well,” Corbin Coach Rob Ledington said about his team’s victory over Williamsburg. “We threw strikes and we made the plays and had two errors. Other than that we did what we had to do.”
“I thought we swung the bats well today. We put seven runs on them and to be honest there were at least two situ-ations were we had runners at second and third with less than two outs and did not execute runs in those situa-tions,” Ledington said.
Scoring was a problem for both teams as they combined to leave 21 runners stranded in the game. Williamsburg left 11 runners while Corbin left 10 runners on the base paths.
The Redhounds (4-10) scored once in the first four innings to jump out to a 4-1 lead in the game. Junior Matt Jewell got things started in the home half of the first when he reached base on a throwing error by Williamsburg pitch-er, Logan Hamblin. Jewell got two bases on the error. He quickly scored when senior Trace Vorbeck smacked a double into center field for the 1-0 lead.
In the second with one-out, junior Derek Terry hit a single over third. He went to second on a bunt by Keaton Burton. Hamblin was unable to pick up the ball in time to make a play. Zack Farley followed with the perfect bunt to load the bases. Jewell answered with a fly ball to center field,
allowing Terry to come across the plate on the sacrifice.
Vorbeck stepped to the plate, but the EKU-bound hit-ter was given an intentional walk and the bases were load-
ed for Foley.Hamblin came up with a
big strike out to get out of the jam and the teams went to the third with Corbin on top, 2-0.
The Yellow Jackets (6-9) sent three players to the bases, but came up with only one run. Hunter Williams led off with a single in the hole at short and Vorbeck couldn’t make the play as Williams beat out the throw to first.
Donnie Bowlin flew out to right field before Michael Rose walked. Junior catcher Micah Purdie followed with a base hit over second and the bases were loaded. Sizemore drove in Williams with a fly ball to right field for the second out of the inning. Jonathan Teague popped out to Foley (catcher) to end the inning.
Marcus Kuhl led off the bottom of the third with a walk. Hamblin tried to pick
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Corbin senior Bethany Hensley scored a run in the bottom of the fourth and that was all Corbin needed to get a 1-0 win over Somerset in high school softball action Monday at the Lady Redhounds Complex.
Hensley walked then scored on a Hannah Helm base hit to give Corbin a 1-0 lead. Sophomore Hannah Hart and her defense did the rest as the Lady Redhounds held on for a 1-0 win.
“It was a pitcher’s duel,” Corbin Coach Chris Hart said. “Hannah did a great job with her curve ball. She hit her spots and kept them off-bal-ance. Hart had six strikeouts in the victory.
Corbin returned from Fort Walton Beach Saturday with three games under their belts after two games were washed out because of rain.
Heath 10, Corbin 0: The 24th
ranked Heath Lady Pirates held Corbin to two hits in the final day of the Fort Walton Beach Bash and defeated the
Lady Redhounds 10-0.The Lady Pirates scored
four runs in the bottom of thefirst and never looked back.
Chelsea Hagwood limitedthe Lady Redhounds to twohits and just two runners inthe game. Number nine hit-ter Kelly Farley stopped theperfect game in the top of thethird with a single to centerfield. And in the fifth, fresh-man Callie Schoolcraft hit asingle into right field for abase hit.
Corbin 6, Campbellsville 0:Corbin struck for three runsin the bottom of the first andnever trailed in the win over the Lady Eagles. In the bot-tom of the first,
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Photo By JIM McALISTERHANNAH HART delivers a pitch against Heath, Ky. duringthe Fort Walton Beach Bash last week in Florida. The LadyRedhounds lost to Heath, 10-0.
The Whitley County Lady Colonels scored early and often as they rolled past the Barbourville Lady Tigers Monday in Barbourville, 14-0 in five innings.
Senior Ashley Lindsay got things started for the Lady Colonels by reaching base on a single to start the game. It didn’t take long for sopho-more Alexa Chaffman to knock Lindsay home.
Before the inning was over, Lindsay, Brandie Peace, Bethany Powers, Chaffman and Jadon Dopel scored. Peace scored twice in the inning as Whitley County batted around in the inning.
Whitley County added seven runs in the top of the second for a 13-0 lead and never looked back in win-ning for the fifth time in eight games.
“We played great,” Whitley County Coach Amanda Moses said. “We hit the ball and didn’t have any errors.”
“I think we have been hit-ting the ball pretty good since the season started. I just want ust to be ready mentally for every game we play,” she
said.The Lady Colonels returned
from Coach Beach, Fl., where they won one out ofthree games. They defeatedFleming County, 3-1, but lostto Boyd County, 6-1 and Bell County, 9-5
“I thought we played verywell in Florida,” Moses said.“We didn’t get to play as many games as we wanted to,but we had a good time while we were there.”
“We have had a differentline-up in all of our games,”Moses said.
“Our defense has played very well at times, then atother times we have notplayed as well as we should.We came out of one gamewith no errors. We are hitand miss right now, but I amnot worried about it. We arepreparing for the district withthese games,” Moses said.
Whitley County will travel to Jackson County Thursdaybefore returning home to playKnox Central Friday.
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Lady Colonelsroll past Lady Tigers
