From staff reports

CADIZ, Ky. — Christian County High School’s Sean Hurd proved too tough for the Lake Barkley Airport course as he took first place in the Trigg County Rotary Fenton Dawson Memorial run Thursday afternoon.

Photo Provided Christian County cross country runner Sean Hurd approaches the finish line as he took first in the varsity race of the Trigg County Rotary Fenton Dawson Memorial run Thursday in Cadiz.

Hurd, who won the Dawson Springs Invitational last weekend, cut more than a minute off his time and finished the 5K course in 17:06.

According the WKDZ.com, coming in just :10 behind Hurd was Fort Campbell’s Thomas Wilson who took second with a time of 17:16.

Leading the way for host Trigg County was Jay Jolly, who finished in 17th place with a time of 18:53, as the Wildcats took sixth place in the varsity race, followed by Christian County in seventh.

Also running for the Colonels were Roman Roman (22nd, 19:04), Chris Aubin (30th, 19:18), Jeff White (75th, 23:06) and Eugene Braxton (82nd, 24:55).

Also running for the Wildcats were Jonathon King (33rd, 19:33), Zeke Wright (35th, 19:35), Jakelzie Martin (40th, 19:53) and Jayven Jones (65th, 21:52).

In the varsity girls’ race, Trigg’s Lynease Byers finished second with a time of 20:23 followed by Marcey King (20th, 23:37), Rachel Cronin (45th, 28:04) and Monica Jones (48th, 28:39).

In the middle school race, Christian County took first place with a total of 36 points, besting third-place Trigg County by 17 points.

Leading the way was Danny Johnson, who won the 3K race in a time of 15:54, :27 over second place finisher Romaine Cunningham from Trigg.

Also running for the Colonels were Kyle Lancaster (5th, 17:42), Matthew Johnson (7th, 18:13), Alex Lancaster (8th, 18:38) and Brandon Scott (15th, 19:10).

Others running included Trace Altman (18th, 19:36), Logan Scott (21st, 19:53), Jonathan Beymer (23rd, 20:04), Taylor Saltsman (24th, 20:17), Chance Reagan (26th, 20:49) and Brennan Maynard (54th, 30:33).

The other top finishers for Trigg County were Brian Dossett (10th, 18:46), Raymond Cronin (12th, 18:57), Debo Mayes (13th, 19:06), Corbin Estes (16th, 19:14), Ethan Dossett (17th, 19:18), Landon Sumner (20th, 19:52), Adam Calhoun (32nd, 22:55), Austin Hendricks (40th, 24:49), Matthew Brokering (41st, 24:22), Hunter Allen (46th, 25:53) and Kyle Rivera (51st, 26:57).

In the girls’ middle school race, Trigg’s Alex Olin finished second with a time of 18:41.

Christian County’s Jamesha Mosley finished 16th in 24:07 to help lead the Lady Colonels to a third place finish. Rachael Snyder finished 17th in 25:00 followed by Karalyn Beymer (33rd, 29:08), Lacey Walker (35th, 30:13) and Amber Bruce (36th, 30:19).

Christian County returns to action Saturday in the Logan County Cougar Invitational.

Christian County has started to win at the right time as the Colonels beat Grayson County 3-1 Thursday night at the Stadium of Champions.

It was their fifth win in the last seven games.

Scoring for the Colonels (7-8) were Zach Mosier, Kyle Spurr and Josh Knight as Cole Isom, Aaron Hutchison and Cory Armstrong assisted.

In the JV game, Christian County routed Grayson 6-1.

From staff reports

ELKTON, Ky. — Ashley Westerman saved one of her best games for Senior Night, but it wasn’t enough for the host Todd County Central Lady Rebels, who dropped a 2-1 District 11 volleyball game to Franklin-Simpson Thursday.

Westerman finished her home career with a 12-kill, four-dig, seven-ace game, but Todd came up short 20-25, 25-19, 25-16.

Madison Wheeler had 10 kills and senior Melanie Young added six kills, three digs and two aces.

Samantha Blake and Nicole Aikens each added seven digs and Jessica Marchetti had four digs and two aces for the Lady Rebels (8-18, 1-5).

In the JV game, Todd defeated Franklin-Simpson 21-19, 21-17 behind the play of Brook Garrett, who had six aces, three kills and a dig.

Crickett Burnett had two kills and an ace for Todd.

Cline powers Heritage Christian JV on to victory

GLASGOW, Ky. — Caitlin Cline served 11 straight points to rally visiting Heritage Christian to a victory over Glasgow Christian Thursday night in a JV volleyball match.

The Lady Warriors (17-2) trailed 8-18 until Cline served HCA into a 19-18 lead. HCA went on to win the first game 21-19. It followed that up with a 21-14 win to sweep the match.

Alden Gray had four aces and 11 kills.

Their next match is Saturday against the Holy Angels of Louisville.

From staff reports

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Heritage Christian Academy volleyball team dropped a match to Trinity Christian 25-22, 24-26, 25-23 Saturday.

The Lady Warriors were led offensively by Aranda Koch with seven kills and Alden Gray with nine service points and five aces.

Katy Ward added seven aces as Heritage Christian dropped to 17-5 on the season.

Trigg County JV squad  finishes 2-3 in tourney

PRINCETON, Ky. — The Trigg County JV volleyball team finished 2-3 at the Caldwell JV Slamfest Saturday at the CAB Gym.

After losing the first game to host Caldwell County 17-21, 21-12, 15-4, the Lady Wildcats won their next two matches as they beat the Christian County freshmen team 21-17, 21-19 and then beat Hopkinsville’s JV 21-18, 21-10.

But then Trigg ran into Madisonville (7-21, 21-16, 15-6) and Owensboro Apollo (21-4, 21-7) to finish out play.

Stephanie Graves led the Lady Wildcats with 26 kills and 12 aces and Samantha Harper added 11 aces, 18 assists and three kills.

Also contributing was Amber Morris with six kills, seven aces and 10 blocks.