Mark Mathis

Owensboro

Sports scribe in Kentucky, Owensboro & western Ky. in particular. Written about a lot of #UK games. Also a father, husband, all around dude!!

Articles

This Louisville CWS run was special, like the first in 2007

1 week ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Mark Mathis

The University of Louisville baseball team lost its opening game, but still managed to club its way to the final four of the College World Series this week in Omaha. The Cardinals were eliminated 11-3 by Coastal Carolina on Wednesday. This trip could be the return to something bigger for the team that Dan McDonnell has coached since 2007. Just so happens, that was the first year Louisville made it to the College World Series.
Murray State baseball was a magic ride for many

1 week ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Mark Mathis

Murray State's run to the College World Series proved invaluable to the baseball program's image, visibility, and showed what a thrill it was to go on a big-time college baseball ride that was completely unexpected. Murray State baseball, its coaches, its players, really became famous making over the last few weeks, and they looked like they were having a heck of a lot of fun along the way.
UK's Garrison looking to become better rebounder, shot blocker

1 week ago | pmg-ky2.com | Mark Mathis

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Louisville, Murray State, in same place now at MCWS

2 weeks ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Mark Mathis

Louisville and Murray State have not been in the same stratosphere during their histories in college baseball. They are in the same place right now, which is an rare moment. Louisville is making its sixth trip to the Men's College World Series in the last 18 years. Murray State is making its first trip ever to the CWS. Murray went to the Missouri Valley Conference in part on the strength of its well-known men's basketball program for a lot of years in the Ohio Valley Conference.
Daviess-Henderson state softball game to finish Sunday

2 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Mark Mathis

LEXINGTON — After three rain delays, Daviess County and Henderson County had their KHSAA State Softball Tournament game suspended at 11:30 p.m. ET Saturday night. Henderson County was coming to bat in the bottom of the fourth inning with a 1-0 lead. AdvertisementThe game was stopped twice because of heavy rain showers before the first two innings could be completed. The second rain delay lasted a little over an hour, with play resuming just before 9:45 p.m. CT.
Meade County falls to No. 1 Trinity in first round of state

3 weeks ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Mark Mathis

LEXINGTON — Meade County knew what it was up against when it took the field against Louisville Trinity in the first round of the KHSAA State Baseball Tournament. The No. 1 Shamrocks wasted no time in establishing the tone in beating Meade 12-2 in the opening game of the Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Baseball State Tournament at Kentucky Proud Park at the University of Kentucky. Trinity showed just how good it is in the first inning, when the Rocks hung six runs up. Max Phillips hit a triple for two runs.
No. 4 Daviess drops No. 1 South Warren at Softball State

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Mark Mathis

LEXINGTON — No. 4 Daviess County had studied the hitters from No. 1 South Warren late in the season and throughout the postseason, anticipating facing SW in the opening round of the KHSAA State Softball Tournament. The Lady Panthers worked their pitching rotation to near perfection with Sophia Cain mostly and Kamryn Timmons, got some key hits when they had the chance to score, and held off South Warren 3-1 on a sunny Thursday in John Cropp Stadium at the University of Kentucky.
Daviess has several going to play softball in college

3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Mark Mathis

No. 4 Daviess County has a lot of college softball level talent on the squad as it makes final preparations for its KHSAA State Softball Tournament matchup with No. 1 South Warren. DC and South Warren will meet Thursday at noon CT at John Cropp Stadium at the University of Kentucky in the Clark’s Pump-and-Shop Softball State Tournament. AdvertisementDC has seven players on this roster that have committed to play college softball.
ALL-3RD REGION SOFTBALL TEAM

1 month ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Mark Mathis

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Oweh should help himself and Kentucky with one more season

1 month ago | messenger-inquirer.com | Mark Mathis

Otega Oweh went public late Wednesday afternoon with what all Kentucky BBN had been waiting to hear since the end of Mark Pope's first season as head coach. Oweh will be playing in Pope's second season as Kentucky basketball coach. That's makes the possibilities for the second Pope squad in Lexington much more enticing than they would have been without Oweh.