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The 2012 boy’s soccer season was a very successful one by any measure, considering the fact that both Somerset and Southwestern won district championships, while all three programs advanced to the 12th Regional Soccer Tournament.
Coach Steve Wallace made a triumphant return to the sidelines in 2012, leading a very young and inexperienced Briar Jumper team to a 10-8-2 record and a 47th District Tournament title.
Sean McBride and the Southwestern Warriors bounced back from a disappointing campaign in 2011 to post a very respectable 13-6-3 mark this past season — a year that saw the Warriors win the 48th District Tournament.
Pulaski County meanwhile finished at the .500 mark with a 9-9 record, but for the second consecutive year, coach Casey Inabnitt’s club showed marked improvement in qualifying for the regional tourney once again.
Thanks to outstanding seasons by all three local teams, all three are very well represented on The Commonwealth Journal’s 2012 Boy’s All-County Soccer Team.
Leading the way on our team this year is our Player of the Year, which this year goes to Southwestern’s Pedro Herrera.
Herrera led everyone in town in scoring this season with 23 goals, which was good enough for 15th in the state of Kentucky.
Herrera also tallied 14 assists on the year, in helping coach McBride and the Warriors rebound from that disappointing 2011 season.
“Pedro had a terrific year for us,” stated McBride.
“He was 15th in the state in scoring, and offensively, he is such a dangerous player,” added the SWHS coach. “He forced opposing defenses to key on him, which opened up more opportunities for other players to score.”
Joining Herrera on our squad are two of his teammates, in Jordan Jones and Zach Stolze.
Jones played solid all year long in front of the nets for the Warriors, registering seven shutouts for the season.
Stolze meanwhile had a solid senior year for the Warriors.
Stolze finished 13th in the state with 16 assists for the season, and was a kid that McBride called Southwestern’s most improved player for the year.
Three Pulaski County Maroons make our team — Jose Delgado, Austin Byrd, and Daniel Pitman.
Delgado — a junior — came out of nowhere this season to help coach Inabnitt and the Maroons enjoy the success they had in 2012.
Delgado came off the bench as a reserve for the majority of the season, yet he tied for scoring honors on his team, notching 12 goals for the year.
Byrd meanwhile makes our team for the second year in a row, and tied with Delgado for scoring honors for PC with 12 goals scored this season.
Pitman meanwhile was our Player of the Year in 2011, and he followed that up with another big year this past season as a senior.
Pitman was moved out to a wing position this season, yet he still managed to score five goals and dish out 3 assists for the year.
Rounding out our team for this past season are Mostafa El-Kalliny, Austin Hill, and Nick Henry from Somerset.
El-Kalliny was voted as an All-State Honorable Mention candidate for a solid senior year in 2012 — a year that saw him lead the Briar Jumpers with 17 goals and 12 assists for this past season.
Austin Hill meanwhile had a solid junior season, finishing right behind El-Kalliny with 15 goals scored for the season, to go along with 11 assists.
Nick Henry notched 5 goals and 5 assists this past year, which was good enough to have him selected on both the All-District and All-Region teams, as well as being described by coach Wallace as the most active player on the field for Somerset for the entire year.
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Southwestern High School's Jose Herrera was named the Commonwealth Journal Boys Soccer Player of the Year. CJ File Photo
Herrrera named Player of the Year
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Eight is Great!
During last night’s 48th District Softball Championship game, Southwestern had a sign on their dugout wall that read “The third time’s the charm.”
That statement held true for Jim Woodall and the Lady Warriors, as the they defeated McCreary Central when it mattered most, which was in last night’s title game at Wayne County High School.
After falling to the Lady Raiders of McCreary Central twice in their pair of regular season match-ups, Southwestern, with a 12-7 victory last night, tallied their eighth district championship in a row. -
Somerset downs Pulaski to claim title
For the last four years Somerset High School and Pulaski County High School have battled it out for the 47th District baseball championship . Counting Tuesday night, three out of the four years the Briar Jumpers have brought back the gold. Somerset defeated the Maroons 7-4.
Of their 7 runs scored, the Briar Jumpers tallied 5 of those runs off homers. Somerset freshman Logan Ramsey hit a three-run homer in the first inning and sophomore Chandler Purcell hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning. -
Warriors blast past Wayne Co., 14-9
When Southwestern is hitting the ball solid, they are a very dangerous baseball team.
Wayne County received a first-hand look at just how much damage the Southwestern bats can do on Tuesday evening at Warrior Stadium, as the homestanding Warriors tallied 14 runs on 16 hits in a 14-9 victory over the Cardinals in the 48th District Baseball Championship game. -
Lorman, Henderlight keep Pulaski alive
Facing a four-run deficit and down to their last three outs, elimination looked inevitable for the Pulaski County High School baseball team on Monday night in the opening round of the 47th District Baseball Tournament at Charlie Taylor Field.
But a Pulaski last-inning rally capped off by a Henry Lorman bases-loaded clearing double off the left field wall and a Chris Henderlight walk-off RBI base hit propelled the Maroons to a 7-6 comeback win over Rockcastle County High School. -
Warriors down Monticello, 11-1
It takes five wins to make it to the Forcht Bank/KHSAA Baseball State Tournament.
The Southwestern Warriors are one-fifth of the way there now, as they took down Monticello in the first round of the 48th District Baseball Tournament on Monday night at Warrior Stadium. With the five-inning, 11-1 victory over the Trojans, the Warriors advanced to the championship game and next week’s regional tournament.
Alex Eaton’s ball club did exactly what they needed to do to make it back to the regional tournament once again. The third-year Southwestern coach is hoping that his squad can come away with the program’s first regional title since 2004. -
Lady Warriors advance to finals; looking for 8th straight district title
So far in the 2013 high school softball season, McCreary Central has had their way with Southwestern in their two regular season match-ups.
The Southwestern Lady Warriors will get a chance to get a little revenge against McCreary Central, as the two teams will meet up in the 48th District Softball Championship. -
Somerset cruises to 15-1 win over Rebels
After a slow start in the first two innings, the Briar Jumpers put it all together with a 10-run third inning en route to a 15-1 (5 inning) win over Casey County High School in the first round of the 47th District Baseball Tournament at Charlie Taylor Field.
The Rebels scored in their very first at-bats, and the Jumpers countered with a three runs of their own in the bottom half of the first after Jumpers’ junior Charlie Dishman blasted a three-run homer to left field to plate Jacob Pelston and Addison Thompson. -
Mills, Cheuvront, Goldson win state titles
Local track and field athletes turned in one of the all-time best efforts at the state level in Saturday’s Class A and Class AAA Kentucky High School Athletic Association State Track and Field Championships at the University of Louisville’s Owsley Frazier Cardinal Park.
Somerset High School garnered two state crowns in the Class A state meet, as junior Cam Cheuvront won the 100-meter dash and sophomore Maranda Mills won her second consecutive triple jump state crown.
Later in the day in the Class AAA state meet, Pulaski County High School junior Jimmy Goldson ran away with the 800-meter state title. -
Sammy Jo Bullock places 7th in nation
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Pulaski downs Corbin on Senior Night
On Tuesday afternoon at PC Field, the Pulaski County Maroon baseball team bid farewell to Taylor Gover, Eric Jones, Dustin Vaught, Henry Lorman, Tyler Wesley, and Tyler Hail on senior night before Danny Masten’s club took on a Corbin team that had earned a shutout victory over PC earlier in the year.
On Tuesday however, it was the Maroons that would not be denied on senior night, and it was those seniors that lead the way for Masten and company.
Taylor Gover notched two doubles and drove in a career-best six RBI in the game, while fellow senior Henry Lorman hit the first homerun of his varsity career and drove in three more runs. - More Local Sports Headlines
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