Today's Sports

Tennis head coach Chris Estes has praised his youthful team since the start of the season. They have seven eighth graders, five freshman, six sophomores, one junior and two seniors.

Top seeds for the team are sophomore Dylan Parr, in his first year as a singles player, and freshman doubles player Michelle Seymour.

Parr warranted championships in the conference and regional tournaments last year with now-graduated Terry Caven.

Parr has been playing years as a tennis player but first displayed his athletic abilities as a baseball player.

The LaRue County Lady Hawks split a doubleheader April 27 with Elizabethtown’s Lady Panthers.

LaRue’s ladies won the first game 6-3 and dropped the second 3-1.

Amelia Miller and Megan Smith shared the win on the mound; Brittany Enlow took the loss in the second game, striking out one and walking none.

In the first game, senior second baseman Megan Mauldin, senior shortstop Christian Cox and Miller, a freshman, each hit a single. Cox had two steals and two runs scored to go with an RBI, while Mauldin scored once and Miller had two RBIs.

Senior Alex House, who plays for Mid-Continent University in Mayfield, had five hits in six at-bats last weekend against Martin Methodist College and has a seven-game hitting streak.

House, a former LaRue County High School baseball standout, is a centerfielder for the Cougars.

Tesha Paysen didn’t believe her University of Louisville softball teammate Megan Hornback last week when the catcher told Paysen she had made the Lady Cards’ starting lineup.

“I never look at the lineup, because I’m a freshman,” said Paysen, a 2008 LaRue County High School graduate. “Megan is a cutup, always joking, and I thought that she was joking this time, too.”

But when Paysen, nicknamed “T” or “T-baby” by her teammates, took a peek at the lineup, there she was, starting in left field.