OPINION: Sorace heading to ski in Washington
Not-so-random thoughts and notes on the world of sports while helping my younger brother prepare for his month-long visit to the Old Country. Insert joke about fish and chips here. Cheerio!
Tony Sorace is on his way to Washington, but he’s not going to the Evergreen State just to check out Seattle’s famed Space Needle.
The former Elizabethtown High School basketball player was 1-of-10 men selected to compete for the Southern Region during Saturday’s and Sunday’s 13th annual Malibu Boats Collegiate All-Stars Water Ski Championships at Blaine’s Borderline Sports Lake.
Sorace will have a chance to compete in Saturday night’s inaugural Bellevue Cadillac Collegiate Night Jump Challenge as well as going after a slalom, trick, jumping or overall title.
ON THE DIAMOND
NATHAN ADCOCK considers it $75 well spent.
Before Sunday’s game against the Peoria Chiefs, the 19-year-old Wisconsin Timber Rattlers pitcher called his grandmother back home in Elizabethtown to inform her he was purchasing his special-edition pink jersey for her. This was the third consecutive year the Timber Rattlers wore the jerseys on Mother’s Day to promote breast cancer awareness and since Adcock’s grannie is a breast cancer survivor, he thought the uniform would be a more-than-suitable gift for her.
“I paid $75, and I’ll probably donate some more,” the former North Hardin standout told Appleton Post-Crescent staff writer Brett Christopherson. “It’s a tragedy if you lose somebody close like that to cancer.”
Ex-Central Hardin pitcher DAVID OWENS will be spending the summer in New York, but it won’t be much of a vacation.
An Eastern Kentucky University sophomore, Owens has agreed to play for the Watertown (LaFargeville) Wizards of the 14-team New York Collegiate Baseball League.
Owens, who is among EKU’s leaders in pitching appearances this season, earned a win over rival Western Kentucky during the regular season.
Through Monday’s games, former Central Hardin pitching standout STEVIE DELABAR was 2-3 with a 4.35 earned run average with the Lake Elsinore (Calif.) Storm, a farm club of the San Diego Padres.
ON THE GRIDIRON
In his May 10 SportingBlog, Sporting News college football expert Matt Hayes tapped Kentucky quarterback Andre WOODSON as the fifth-best player nationally at his position.
The only players Hayes ranked about the former North Hardin star were West Virginia’s Pat White, Hawaii’s Colt Brennan, Southern California’s John David Booty and Louisville’s Brian Brohm.
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