Rangers upset Auburn and Olmstead to win county boys championship Third seeded Lewisburg knocked off  the two higher seeds on the way to the championship of the boys Logan County Middle School Tournament Saturday. Final Lewisburg 37, Olmstead 23 Coach Brent Hinton’s team beat top seed...

Two Panther Icons were honored Friday. They spent over four decades teaching, coaching, mentoring, and leading the youth at Russellville and Russellville High School.  Wayne Mullen, Russellville High School Class of 1961, was a star basketball player for the Panther Regional Runner-Up Te...

Sports notes piled up from a few days to a few months: In making the announcement about the selection of Mikie Benton as head Russellville football coach Friday (http://theloganjournal.com/Stories.aspx?Article=sports1053), Athletic Director Kyle Yates noted that Benton is the third new head coach w...

Russellville High School has announced the hiring of Mikie Bentonas the new RHS Panther Head Football Coach.     Benton takes over the Russellville Panther football program as just the fourth Panther Head Football Coach since 1976. Coach Benton is a 2008 graduate of Russellville High...

Auburn and Olmstead have earned byes in both divisions of the Logan County Middle School Basketball Tournament, which is to be played this week. The Auburn Lady Tigers are the number one seed and Olmstead the second seed in the girls division. The Olmstead Rams are the top seed in the boys division...

A full night of activities has been planned Friday, including some basketball, in the second Clash of the Cats for this season at Russellville High School. Also on the docket are the following: 1) adding a new member to the Russellville Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame; 2) honoring a pair of former RHS...

The eastern half of the region dominated the Fourth Region All A Classic this weekend in Clinton County. The Monroe County girls and the Clinton County boys are the champions. The Todd Central girls reached the regional finals by beating Clinton County in Saturday’s semifinals. They lost by ...

Russellville’s basketball teams will play Monroe County in All A Regional Tournament at Clinton County Saturday afternoon. Coach Shannon Booth’s Lady Panthers will play the Lady Falcons at 1 p.m., and Coach Rex Booth’s Panthers will take on the Falcons at 4:15. Between games, the...

Coming off its first loss of C-USA play at UAB on Saturday, WKU will look to rebound on Thursday morning at 11 a.m. (CT) as the Lady Toppers host UTSA in the seventh annual Spread the Red Education Day game inside E.A. Diddle Arena. Thursday’s game will feature f...

In celebration of the tenth season of professional baseball in southcentral Kentucky, the Bowling Green Hot Rods have announced the creation of the Hot Rods Hall of Fame, which will debut for the 2018 season.   Prior to Opening Day on April 5, 2018, two former players or coaches of ...

 On a night to remember forever, Russellville’s pair of first-year basketball coaches earned their first-ever district victories Thursday evening. They will get unlimited opportunities to discuss them now and reminisce about them later, since Shannon and Rex Booth are wife and husband. &...

Charles Wesley “Wes” Strader, the “Voice of the Hilltoppers” as the radio play-by-play broadcaster for Western Kentucky University football and men’s basketball for 36 seasons and one of the most prominent figures in the commonwealth of Kentucky’s sports broadcast...

The fourth class of inductees into the Logan County Athletic Association Hall of Fame will be honored Friday between games of the Clash of the Cats at LCHS. Five outstanding individuals are taking their places along with other elite athletes and coaches from Logan County High School and five former ...