On a beautiful day, the Letcher County Central Cougar baseball team and new coach Matthew Rigsby opened the season against Breathitt County and suffered a heartbreaking loss to begin the year.
With the Cougars leading 11-6, Breathitt County scored 6 runs in the top of the 7th inning, to take the lead and then held off the Cougars in the bottom of the 7th for the 12-11 win.
Breathitt County is now 2-0
Up next the 0-1 Cougar baseball team will on the road this evening to face Powell County in Stanton with first pitch 6:00pm.
The Cougars will be back home on Saturday for a big 14th Region rivalry game against Perry County Central at Cougar Field with first pitch at 12:00 noon.
The Jenkins Cavaliers and Coach Devin Newsome opened their 2025 season with a road game at Castlewood, VA on Monday.
The Cavaliers lost to Castlewood 10-0.
The Cavalier baseball team will next play this evening at Cordia at 6:00pm in a district game.