Bass fishing regional runners-up

This past Saturday, April 27th, Boyle took its top six teams in the co-ed division and their two all-girls teams to the regional tournament. The girls competed against a field of six boats and needed to catch a fish to make it to state. The co-ed division had around 80 boats competing for the top 17 spots to make it to state.

 

The Rebels took teams Keenan and Coleman Stewart, Brayson Claunch and Cameron Owens, Brent Christopher and Connor Young, Cameron Burchett and Josh Kernodle, Kyler Claunch and Riley Preston, Colin Wise and Emmitt Grubbs, Abigail Short and Allie Addison, and Ashlen Young.

 

Most teams struggled early in the day as not many fish were active and had  not moved shallow quite yet, due to weather conditions. Once it started to warm up, the fishing started to speed up. Teams caught fish shallow on beds mostly. 

 

Boyle tried to bring home their first Regional Title ever in school history. Five of the eight teams qualified for state. B. Claunch and Owens took second place as the runners-up in the tournament, setting the record for the highest placing team from Boyle in the region tournament.

 

The Rebels that will compete in state are Owens and B. Claunch in second, K. Stewart and C. Stewart in fifth, and K. Claunch and Preston in 15th. In the girls division, Ashlen Young took third place, and Allie Addison and Abigail Short took fourth place.

 

Other teams were right on the cut line to make it. These Rebels will compete in state May 10th and 11th at Kentucky Lake!

The Rebels slam the Patriots!!

The boys tennis team took a great win over Lincoln County on Monday. They played the Patriots at home and won with a final score of 4-1.

The boys started the match with singles. Mason Young started the night off by taking the first set 6-1, then winning for certain in the second set 6-0.  Sean Guiney had a great win over Zane Fields, winning 6-0 6-0. Finally, Bryar Bentley wrapped up the singles match winning 6-2 6-0, sweeping the singles.

The night ended with doubles. Ethan Drake and Desmond Rapp followed up by playing a hard match but just falling short, 6-4, 6(2)-7 then losing the super tiebreak 4-10. Finally, Caleb Sutton and Jacob King finished off the night starting slow, dropping the first set 4-6. They started to pick up the pace winning the second set 6-3, and winning the overall match 10-5 in a super tiebreaker.

Sutton said, “It was a great win for us, but I wish it didn’t take us three hours.”

Their next match is Tuesday April 30 against McCreary at Southwestern.

Rebs lose a battle to the Commodores

Last Friday night, Tates Creek traveled to Boyle to face the Rebels. Tates Creek was a challenging opponent and a win we wanted to get after losing to them last year. Sadly, the team fell short of this goal and took as loss with a final score of 7-5.

This game does not necessarily reflect in the score, though. The Rebels were missing all of their seniors, except for Braylon Booker. This roster loss did make an impact because seniors occupy 7/9 starting spots. Despite this loss, the Rebels played pretty well. For many players it was their first start this year and for some, it was their first start ever. In the final inning the Rebs scored four runs to make it 7-5, tightening the gap between them and Tates Creek, with a runner on second. They were one huge hit away from tying it up and going into extra innings.

When asked his mentality going into the game, junior Colin Wise said, “I knew it was going to be a struggle but I trusted we were gonna play our hardest and I feel like we did. Not getting to play too often, everyone wanted to prove what they had, so we came out to play. Obviously, it is always a bummer to lose, but I’m proud of our fight.”

The Rebs will take on Garrard County on Monday at 6. This is a huge game because Garrard is ranked first in the district. If Boyle can pull out a win they will take the lead in the standings and get a better seed in the off-season.

Boyle completes the sweep on Lincoln!

After beating Lincoln 11-1 the night before, Boyle was at home vs. Lincoln. Boyle was 14-6 going into the game and Lincoln was 7-12.

Logan Parnass started and finished the game on the mound, pitching all seven innings, allowing seven hits, and only one run off of a home run to deep right field. He also recorded five strikeouts, with an overall very impressive performance.

Boyle started off the game very hot, getting three singles in a row and bringing in two runs! Boyle then brought in a third run, and after Lincoln’s home run in the top of the fourth, Boyle brought home two runs to extend the lead to 5-1. After that Lincoln hit a roadblock with hitting, but Boyle kept hitting the ball very well with one run in the sixth and two in the seventh. Boyle had very aggressive base running all night, stealing a impressive total of 15 bases on the night!

Josh Cool, a player who was subbed in as Designated Hitter, said “The game went well, we made good plays in the field, our pitcher threw strikes and got outs. We left runners in scoring position that we definitely should have gotten across to score, and we had too many strikeouts, so that’s something for us to work out before the next game.”

Overall, a great performance from the Rebels!! They will play again Friday against Tates Creek at home!!

Girls tennis sweeps the Golden Lions

 

On Thursday, the girls tennis team took a trip to Garrard County to take on the Golden Lions.

The first match of the night was number one singles. Per usual, Emma Young was in that spot and did a fantastic job. She won all eight sets against her opponent, winning the first match of the night for Boyle.

The number one doubles team consisted of Maya Smith and Hannah Bischoff. They took care of business, only dropping one set out of the nine played. They won the match 8-1.

At this point, the overall score was 2-0 in Boyle’s favor. The next match was the number two singles. That match was over rather quickly, as Kristine Tran beat her opponent 8-1.

Next, the number two doubles team stepped up. Emily Messer and Matti Carlsen played really well, winning 8-0.

The final match of the night was the number three singles, and was played by Emma Taylor. She finished the night well for Boyle County, beating her opponent 8-1.

Overall, the Rebels won the night 5-0. This was a big district victory for Boyle, as they turn their sights to Lincoln County on Monday.