Area Sports

Gnau and Colonel teammate Steffen Baierlein tried out and were both selected to the very talented football squad   IVAN K. RICE I doctorofsports@aol.com   PARIS, KY – The Bourbon County Middle School football program continues to make waves beyond its own field, thanks to two standout athletes who recently tested their skills against some…

The winner will advance to tomorrow evening’s 10th Region Championship game   IVAN K. RICE I doctorofsports@aol.com   CYNTHIANA KY – Tonight in Cynthiana, Coach Andrew Steele’s Bourbon County Lady Colonels soccer team will play in the semifinal round of the girls’ 10th Region Tournament against traditional powerhouse and defending champion Campbell County (13-7-2), who…

Bourbon County will play the winner of Boyd County/Estill County on Saturday afternoon at Rowan County High School   IVAN K. RICE I doctorofsports@aol.com   PARIS, KY – The reigning 2A Section 5 Champion, the Bourbon County Lady Colonels, rolled into Blanton Collier Stadium last night to take on a much-improved Paris Ladyhounds soccer team.…

  IVAN K. RICE I doctorofsports@aol.com   2) Dalton Tucker – Football The Bourbon County star made the Indianapolis Colts’ roster  For this former Bourbon County Colonels, his dream came true after officially becoming a full-fledged Indianapolis Colts, as the waiting and worrying were finally over. Twenty-four year-old undrafted free agent Dalton Tucker of Millersburg…

The programs finished the year with the unthinkable, state runner-up trifecta (XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track)   IVAN K. RICE I doctorofsports@aol.com   PARIS, KY – When you have three different teams that accomplished the same thing, it’s hard to pick which was the best because all three were pretty darn good. And by the…

The senior-to-be is extremely talented on and off the athletic fields and courts   IVAN K. RICE l doctorofsports@aol.com   PARIS, KY – When it comes to playing multiple sports at the high school level, there’s no secret that many athletes, especially at small schools, will play several competitive sports where training is a must,…

Class A (Paris and Nicholas County) will be contested today at UK, while Class 2A (Bourbon County) will compete tomorrow   IVAN K. RICE I doctorofsports@aol.com   LEXINGTON, KY – The KHSAA 2025 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop State Track & Field Championships will be held at the University of Kentucky Outdoor Track and Field Complex with the…

KHSAA Region 4 Track and Field Championship will get underway today at the County   IVAN K. RICE I doctorofsports@aol.com   PARIS, KY – This evening, if the stormy weather can hold off, the 2025 Class 2A Region 4 Track and Field Championship is scheduled to get underway at 5:30 at Bourbon County High School.…

The school system is losing more than a head softball coach   IVAN K. RICE I doctorofsports@aol.com   PARIS, KY – Prior to the start of the 2025 season, Paris Ladyhounds Softball Coach Dwayne Rice, who took the program to new heights, said that this would be his last season. And last week, in a…

Recipient of inaugural “Bob White/Mike Fields Media Service Award”   PAT CONLEY | Citizen staff   LEXINGTON, KY – Citizen sports editor Ivan “Doctor of Sports” Rice has received numerous awards and accolades over the course of his more than four decades—and counting–of promoting youth sports in Bourbon County and beyond. One honor he’ll surely treasure forever…