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This year’s girls’ 13th Region basketball tournament kicked off Wednesday evening at the Corbin Arena.

This year’s girls 50th District tournament kicked off at South Laurel High School in London Tuesday evening, while the Lynn Camp boys were in action at Pineville High School in round one of the 2019 51st District tourney.

Regular season district play wrapped up for four coverage area basketball teams Tuesday when Whitley County squared off against crosstown rivals Williamsburg in a girls-boys double header at JB Mountjoy Gymnasium.

The Whitley County Colonels and Lady Colonels hosted Corbin on Senior Night Friday.

Corbin hosted Williamsburg in a 50th District double header Tuesday.

Several important district contests took place in the coverage area Tuesday.

Friends, family, former players and fellow coaches all gathered Monday to honor the first, and most successful, coach ever of the Corbin High School girls’ basketball program.

Andrew Taylor became the all-time leading scorer in Corbin’s history during his five-year stint playing varsity basketball for Tony Pietrowski’s Redhounds. The question was not “if,” but rather “where” he would end up playing collegiate ball once his high school career was...

On December 29, the Clay County Tigers handed Corbin a 70-59 loss in the championship game of the Redhounds’ own 2018 Cumberland Falls Invitational Tournament. On Tuesday, January 8 the Hounds got their revenge, handing Clay their very first loss of the 18-19 season, 69-55.

With so many major championships won by coverage area teams over the past twelve months, the News Journal’s annual year-end list of top sports stories will require a total of ten spots for 2018.