Today's News

The Westminster (Utah) Griffins rose from the ashes (a 33-27 halftime deficit) to down the St. Catharine College Patriots 69-55 in the first round of the NAIA Division I Women’s Basketball National Championship Thursday afternoon in the Frankfort Convention Center. Westminster (28-3) went on to defeat Faulkner (Ala.) in a second-round game, but fell to the overall No. 1 seed Westmont (Calif.) in Saturday’s quarterfinals.

March is National Nutrition Month and a great time to remind families and youth several steps they can take for better health through smart decision making. Everyone likes a good snack, but what we think we’ll enjoy the most, is not always the healthiest for us. Also, we don’t always take the time to prepare snacks, we grab whatever is the closest and easiest to obtain. It boils down to planning our healthy snack choices and to changing old habits.

The St. Catharine College softball team staged a last inning rally to beat IU-Southeast in the second game of a doubleheader at home Friday. But that was the only game Holly Smith’s team could salvage in four games played at Salt River Electric Field last weekend.

The Patriots (4-6) dropped Friday’s opener to the Grenadiers by an 11-0 count in five innings before posting an 11-10 victory in the nightcap. On Sunday, Concordia (Mich.) won the opener 10-4 and the second game 11-7.

A friendship was forged when 2005 Washington County High School graduate Kyle Medley and Paducah (St. Mary High School) native Eric Roof took their talents to St. Catharine College to continue their baseball careers. Nearly eight years later they were together on the diamond again last week, but as assistant coaches at Division I schools and on opposite sides.