Zack Klemme

Ashland's boys basketball team knows it will need a sterling defensive effort on Wednesday against the state’s highest-scoring team and its career leading scorer.

ASHLAND -- In search of its first victory of the season, Huntington High’s softball team found some late life on Saturday morning.

A year after Marshall’s women’s basketball team found immediate success with then-coach Kim Caldwell, Boyd County’s girls program hopes to do the same with a Kim of its own.

Alan Short was philosophical about a striking change coming to Lawrence County’s football schedule.

ONA – Aden McCormill termed his first at-bat Saturday afternoon “pretty ugly.” And Jared Nethercutt surrendered two runs on three hits in the top of the first inning.

ONA – Cabell Midland needed the “if necessary” elimination game to win the Class AAA Region 4 Section 1 baseball tournament in each of the last three years, and Spring

ONA -- Spring Valley and Cabell Midland faced off for a baseball tournament championship for the second time in 12 days on Saturday.

Dave Nitz came within nine innings of what might have been the pinnacle of his career in the first year of a stint that has lasted half a century.

HUNTINGTON – Gary Gilmore didn’t have to be told about the importance of Coastal Carolina taking advantage of Marshall pitching miscues on Saturday afternoon.