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Focused on Harlan County sports — today and yesterday

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Focused on Harlan County sports — today and yesterday

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Football
Photos by Danny Vaughn Bell County quarterback Blake Burnett fired a pass through the rain drops in the Bobcats' 44-0 rout of visiting Powell County on Friday in the first round of the 3A playoffs.
Bell runs through the rain in a first-round victory over Pirates
By Bill Templeton, Sports Writer • November 8, 2025

  https://middlesboronews.com/2025/11/08/bobcats-run-through-the-rain-drops-in-first-round-rout-of-powell/

Harlan County junior Kayden Adams ran through the rain drops for a 36-yard kickoff return in the Bears’ first-round playoff game against visiting Wayne County. Adams’ run was the highlight of the evening for HCHS in a 26-2 loss.
Not ready for prime time – Bears fall to Wayne in first-round game
November 8, 2025

With seven wins in the regular season and a second-place finish in District 8 of Class 4A to earn their first home playoff game in six years, the Harlan County Black Bears made progress in 2025 after back-to-back one-victory...

Harlan running back Boss Bryson worked his way outside in Thursday's first-round playoff loss at Middlesboro.
Fast starts propels Yellow Jackets to rout of Harlan in playoff opener
November 6, 2025
Bell County receiver Joseph Brigmon went up for one of his five catches Friday in a double-overtime loss to Pulaski County.
Maroons win a double-overtime thriller in battle of heavyweights
November 2, 2025
Middlesboro running back Jacob Tinnel rumbled through a hole in the Lexington Sayre defense during Friday's game. The Jackets completed a 9-0 regular season with a 34-27 victory.
Jackets edge Sayre to complete unbeaten regular season slate
November 2, 2025
Basketball
Ralph Roberts watched the action from the sideline during a game with his Cumberland Redskins in the 1980s.
Mountain coaching legend, Roberts led Redskins to seven district titles
June 28, 2025

  Ralph Roberts, a mountain basketball coaching legend from the 1960s through the 1980s, died Friday morning in Versailles at 92. A graduate of Wayland High School...

Harlan County coach Gary Greer talked to his Lady Bears during summer scrimmage action earlier this month at Leslie County High School.
Lady Bears close summer slate by splitting games at Clay County
June 23, 2025

The Harlan County Lady Bears closed their summer schedule by splitting two varsity games Friday at Clay County, defeating Leslie County 49-40 before falling 50-41 to Clay County. Sophomore...

Participants in the Ella Karst Camp at Evarts Elementary School are pictured.
Karst leads hoops camp at Evarts
June 23, 2025
Harlan County coach Kyle Jones talked to the Bears during a timeout in action earlier this summer. Harlan County swept past three opponents Friday in the KABC Summer Shootout at Lexington Catholic with wins over Ohio County, South Oldham and Metcalfe County.
Bears sweep all four scrimmages at the KABC Shootout in Lexington
June 20, 2025
Harlan sophomore guard Jaxson Perry sailed to the basket in summer basketball action at Whitley County. The Green Dragons completed their summer slate on June 16-18 at UVA-Wise.
Green Dragons close summer slate with three days at UVA-Wise
June 19, 2025
Baseball/softball
Harlan standouts Eli Freyer and Baylor Varner have been selected to the Kentucky Scout Team by Prospect U and will play in camps at colleges around the state this fall.
Kentucky Scout Team adds Harlan standouts Varner, Freyer to squad
By John Henson, Managing Editor • September 15, 2025

Baylor Varner and Eli Freyer have been two of the cornerstones for a Harlan baseball program that has been transformed over the past couple of years with two straight 52nd District...

Karsten Dixon
Dixon earns victory as Distillers clinch second seed in tournament
July 25, 2025

Karsten Dixon helped his Kentucky Distillers team clinch the second seed in the Commonwealth Collegiate Baseball League with a strong showing on the mound earlier this week. Dixon,...

Former Harlan County standout Tristan Cooper is pitching in a summer league for college players in North Carolina.
Cooper, former HCHS standout, playing in college summer league
July 23, 2025
Scott Lewis has been named the softball coach at Harlan High School after working the last three years with the school's middle school program.
Lewis moves up for second stint as coach of Harlan softball program
July 16, 2025
All-county boys basketball 2020
Former Harlan all-stater named to UK Hall of Fame

Former Harlan all-stater named to UK Hall of Fame

June 29, 2023

Former Evarts standout brings Johnson Central team to HCHS

Former Evarts standout brings Johnson Central team to HCHS

June 21, 2023

Ellis blessed all those he was around in years as broadcaster, coach

Ellis blessed all those he was around in years as broadcaster, coach

December 30, 2022

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Track/Cross Country
Clover Fork Clinic expansion becomes a reality with ground breaking ceremony in Evarts
From The Sidelines: Miner and educator, artist and coach, Howard touched thousands of lives

From The Sidelines: Miner and educator, artist and coach, Howard touched thousands of lives

May 3, 2023

From New England to Harlan County, Nash enjoying smooth transition at Clover Fork Clinic

From New England to Harlan County, Nash enjoying smooth transition at Clover Fork Clinic

January 24, 2021

Celebrating a golden anniversary in Clover Fork

Celebrating a golden anniversary in Clover Fork

December 7, 2020

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Volleyball, soccer
Harlan County's Kylee Hoiska went up for a kill in action against Corbin in the 13th Region Tournament. The Lady Bears fell 25-21, 25-14, 25-16 to end its season at 17-14.
Lady Bears’ season ends with loss to Corbin in 13th Region semifinals
October 27, 2025

For the sixth time in school history, the Harlan County Lady Bears’ season ended in the 13th Region Tournament semifinals with a 25-21,...

Middle school/youth league
Black Mountain guard Kash Gooden worked against Wallins' Sam Carmical and Charlie Thomas in action Saturday from the Black Bears Panorama at Harlan County High School. Gooden, Black Mountain's top scorer last year, suffered a hand injury in the second half.
County middle school season opens with panorama at HCHS
By John Henson, Managing Editor • November 8, 2025

James A. Cawood won twice while Wallins and Cawood added one win each as part of seventh- and eighth-grade action Saturday at the Black Bears Panorama at Harlan County...

Harlan's Derrick Holman put up a shot in seventh-and eighth-grade basketball action Monday. Holman scored 14 points to lead the Dragons in a 48-32 loss.
LOCAL SPORTS
November 3, 2025

Dragons, Jackets split middle school doubleheader Harlan and Middlesboro split a middle school doubleheader Monday at Harlan. Case Adams scored 27 points as the Jackets...

Harlan County defenders Carson Clark, Hunter Roark and Isaiah Myers.teamed to stop a Johnson County ball carrier in Saturday’s Region 4 championship game. The Black Bears advanced with a 26-0 victory.
Bears advance to state final four with victory at Johnson County
November 2, 2025
Kolbi Green
LOCAL SPORTS
November 1, 2025
Team members include, from left: Andrea Napier, Morgyn Belcher, Crissalynn Jones, Jocelynn Miracle, Taylynn Napier and Annie Burton.
County basketball teams (7-8)
October 29, 2025
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County middle school season opens with panorama at HCHS
College sports
University of Kentucky sophomore forward Trent Noah, a 2024 Harlan County graduate, put up a shot in the Blue-White Game on Friday. The Cats will play their exhibition opener against No. 1-ranked Purdue in Rupp Arena on Oct. 24, with another preseason scrimmage against Georgetown University on Oct. 30 before the regular-season opener Nov. 4 against Nicholls.
Noah, Cats warm up for season opener with Blue-White Game
October 18, 2025

UK basketball schedule 2025-2026
UK basketball schedule 2025-2026
October 7, 2025

Sports columns
BIll Templeton
Wildcats, Spartans advance into Sweet 16 of NCAA Tournament
By Bill Templeton, Sports Writer • March 26, 2025

The first weekend of the 2025 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament is officially in the books, and the two teams in my bracket that I...

BIll Templeton
After 40-year wait, trip to Rupp for UK game lived up to expectations
By Bill Templeton, Sports Writer • January 16, 2025

In the six, or so, months that have elapsed since John Henson welcomed me onto his team as a contributing sports writer for the Harlan Enterprise,...

Golf/tennis
Harlan County seventh grader Annie Burton (left) and senior Hailie Hensley had strong showings at the Region 10 Tournament on Tuesday in Somerset.
HC’s Hensley, Burton have strong showings at regional tournament
September 23, 2025

Harlan County’s Hailie Hensley and Annie Burton had strong showings Tuesday in the Region 10 Tournament at Somerset. Hensley was 11th in the...

Photo of the Week
Cawood coach Jim Cullivan is pictured on the cover of the Harlan Daily Enterprise football preview in 1986 after earning state coach of the year honors for leading the Trojans to an undefeated regular season in 1985. The Trojans were also unbeaten in the 1982 regular season. Cullivan posted a 66-28 record from 1980 to 1988.