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With only three weeks from Friday the start of the 2026 high school football season, Christian County Public Schools Superintendent Chris Bentzel said he is confident the renovation to the football field surface will be finished in time for the first game.  Bentzel was a guest on Monday morning’s Early Bird Show and said the rain has slowed the work of installing turf at the Stadium of Champions. He said he remains optimistic that […]

It will be a doubleheader showdown between the top teams in the Ohio Valley League tonight when the Hoptown Hoppers travel to face the Henderson Flash.  The Flash lead Hoptown by a half-game for first place in the OVL standings. First pitch is scheduled for 5 p.m. while the second game is set for 7:15.  Mother Nature continues to play havoc with the Ohio Valley League baseball schedule.  Rain forced the postponement […]

The Region 2 Softball Tournament is scheduled to begin Monday morning at Lee S. Jones Park in Eddyville.  The opening game is set for 11 a.m. with District 6 champion Henderson County (23-8) against District 7 runner-up Caldwell County (12-16).   The second game in the top half of the bracket will feature District 8 champion Christian County (19-12-2) against District 5 runner-up Lyon County (23-15) at 1 p.m. The Lady Colonels and Lady Lyons split their regular season […]

Christian County scored 13 runs in the top of the fourth inning and hammered host Fort Campbell 19-0 in a four-inning baseball game Thursday.  The Colonels (17-13) had 10 hits on the day and took advantage of 10 walks.   Andrew Mayes had a pair of doubles. Jonathan Lewis and Layton Creamer also had a double for Christian County. Blake Boehman had a pair of singles and Sebastan Dazey drove in three runs.  Drew Fincham […]

Alyssa Petterson and Talyn Ezell had RBI-singles in the bottom of the sixth inning and sent host Christian County to a 4-2 high school softball win over Madisonville-North Hopkins Tuesday night.   Madisonville scored a run in the top of the second and the lead stuck until the bottom of the fifth when a pair of Lady Maroons’ errors allowed the Lady Colonels to take a 2-1 advantage.  Madisonville tied the game in the […]

It was a big weekend for two former University Heights Academy runners.  Cole Glover led Eureka College to a 10th-place finish in the Vikings Olympics track meet in Rockford, Ill.  Glover placed seventh in the 1500 meters with a personal-record time of 4:12.16.  Meanwhile, Evelyn Morales placed 13th in the 400-mter hurdles with a time of 1:08.53 in the Indiana State Pacesetter Invitational track meet.  Morales, a senior at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, moved to No. 70 […]

(Age 76, of Hopkinsville) Graveside service will be Wednesday, July 2nd at 2pm at Kentucky Veterans Cemetery West. Visitation will be Tuesday from 5pm to 8pm at Hughart, Beard & Giles Funeral Home.