This week in Kentucky high school sports history
Posted by Mike Fields on April 22, 2008
1959
Ralph Kimmell’s Manual High School’s baseball team takes a 15-0 record into a game against UK’s freshman team. Manual starts ace lefthander Bob Marr, who has three no-hitters already this season. UK beats Manual 10-9 . . . Jock Sutherland, who led Gallatin County to the Sweet Sixteen, is given a set of golf clubs at the team’s awards banquet. The guest speaker is Ralph Carlisle, who coached Sutherland at Lafayette . . . Julius Berry of Dunbar is third player named to the Kentucky All-Stars, joining Pat Doyle of North Marshall and Leland Melear of Manual . . . Lafayette’s sports teams are suspended from competition for two weeks because the track team used an ineligible athlete in a meet . . . Roger Huston’s triple in the bottom of the seventh drives in Larry Bass as Lexington Catholic beats Bryan Station 1-0 at Woodland Park . . . Former Cynthiana High School sports star and UK basketball player Joe B. Hall, 30, is named head coach at Regis College in Denver. Herald sports columnist Billy Thompson says of Hall, “He’s a real swell guy, and I’m sure he’ll come through with flying colors.”
1969
Mason County baseball coach Jim Mitchell, whose team has been rained out of several games, schedules a quadruple-header for his Royals on a Saturday, with games against Tollesboro and Deming, and two against Fleming County . . . Flaget all-state football star Kenny King, a 6-foot-5 end, signs with UK. His brother Jerry plays basketball for Louisville . . . Bill Harrell, who led Shelby County to the 1966 state title and went on to become an assistant at the University of Nebraska, is hired as Morehead State’s head coach . . . EKU Coach Guy Strong signs Lily guard Phil Storm, who averaged 27 points as a senior . . . Bryan Station’s baseball team has a 13-3 record. The Defenders are led by Doug Flynn, Pat Byrne, Mike Isaacs, Frank LeMaster, Mike Belcher and Freddie Hillard . . . Lafayette’s track team, led by Larry Foster’s victories in the discus, and high and low hurdles, wins the Fayette County Invitational.
1982
Virgie basketball star Todd May, Mr. Basketball, signs with UK after weeks of waiting. May, who averaged 31 points, 19 rebounds and 6.5 blocked shots in leading Virgie to the Sweet Sixteen semifinals, also considered Vanderbilt and Wake Forest. “He’s a Kentucky boy and he’ll stay a Kentucky boy,” said Virgie Coach Bobby Osborne . . . U of L signee Billy Thompson’s 27 points lead the U.S. All-Stars to a 144-85 rout of the Kentucky-Indiana All-Stars in the Derby Festival. Len Bias has 21 points for the winners. Keith Berry of Bryan Station leads the Kentucky-Indiana team with 16 points . . . Transylvania Coach Don Lane signs Marvin Watts of North Hardin to go with earlier recruits Bobby Storie of Clinton County and Kip Hagan of Henry Clay . . . Trigg County track star Sam Love, who will run for UK, is prepping to win the state 800 and 1,600 for the third year in a row.
