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Congrats Coach Thelen! It would be hard to imagine CovCath making a better hire than Coach Thelen. Happy Day in Park Hills.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, June 7, 2024 Contact: Bob Rowe browe@covcath.org or Tony Bacigalupo tbacigalupo@covcath.org Covington Catholic hires Jake Thelen as new head basketball coach Former Colonel standout, Division II All-American brings high school and college coaching experience Park Hills, KY – Covington Catholic High School has named former Colonel standout Jake Thelen its new head basketball coach. A native of Edgewood, Kentucky, Thelen starred at Covington Catholic – where he was selected to play in both the Kentucky/Indiana and the Kentucky/Ohio All-Star games – before embarking on an All-American career at Bellarmine University and gaining coaching experience at three top Division I basketball programs. Thelen, Class of 2011, finished his career at Covington Catholic with a scoring average of 16.6 points per game and is the 8th all-time leading scorer in CCH basketball history with 1,258 points. He also holds the CCH single game record with 18 field goals. Thelen most recently served as Director of Player Development/Assistant Coach for the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball team. Prior to joining UC, Thelen was the director of basketball operations at the University of Georgia – the youngest director of basketball operations at a Power 5 school when he arrived in Athens at age 25. Thelen’s on-campus coordination helped the Bulldogs land a consensus top-10 class in head coach Tom Crean’s first full recruiting cycle. That group was headlined by Anthony Edwards, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft and one of six top-100 prospects Georgia has signed during Thelen’s tenure in Athens. Thelen was an All-American forward at Bellarmine University, where he finished ranked No. 16 among Bellarmine’s career scoring leaders with 1,412 points in three seasons. As a senior, he posted the second-highest point (651) and rebound (375) tallies in school history to average a double-double of 18.6 ppg and 10.7 rebounds per game. Thelen was a consensus All-American and was named the GLVC Player of the Year in 2015. Thelen was tabbed first-team All-America by Basketball Times, DII Bulletin, the National Association of Basketball Coaches and BennettRank.com.

Jake Thelen it is!

I listened to the UConn women's coach for a few seconds yesterday and this was my takeaway. He was saying college hoops is professional basketball now and if you are going to coach a pro team, especially a team like the Lakers, why not go for it. Those are all my words but again that was my takeaway.

Final Score: McCracken County 3 West Jessamine 2

2 all in the bottom of the 5th.

WJ 2 McM 1, top of 4th.

1-0 McCracken in the 3rd.

West Jessamine and McCracken County are 0-0 in the 2nd.

What a play by the Ryle catcher to get the 2nd out.

The Raiders had a chance to take the lead but two batters in a row took a called third strike. I give a lot of credit to the EC pitcher there, but still.

It was a double steal.

Ryle ties it up with some super aggressive base running, 2-2 in the 6th.

The first round of the 2024 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Baseball State Tournament presented by UK HealthCare began at Legends Field in Lexington on Thursday. Russell County, Trinity (Louisville), Pleasure Ridge Park and Lexington Catholic advanced to Saturday's quarterfinal round. Box Scores (First Round) Russell County 4, Simon Kenton 1 Trinity (Louisville) 2, Pikeville 0 Pleasure Ridge Park 11, LaRue County 5 Lexington Catholic 6, Mason County 0 The first round of the 2024 Clark's Pump-N-Shop Baseball State Tournament will continue on Friday, starting at 10 a.m. ET. For complete details, visit: https://ly.khsaa.org/u4mg