Chris Stobaugh has been named boys' basketball coach at North Oldham High School.
Stobaugh, an assistant coach the past two seasons at North Oldham, replaces David Henley, who posted a 34-28 record before taking the job at Eastern.
Stobaugh, 30, inherits a North Oldham program that loses four starters from a squad that finished 19-11 but does return top scorer David Levitch.
"We'll be able to build around him," Stobaugh said. "Even though we'll be inexperienced, I think we can be competitive. We'll play a little faster than we have in the past and have a more exciting brand of basketball."
The 2000 DeSales graduate was an assistant there and at Male before heading to North Oldham. He also was DeSales' head coach during the 2005-06 season, posting a 21-10 record and leading the Colts to the Sixth Region Tournament final before they fell to Pleasure Ridge Park.
Softball all-star games today
The seventh annual Kentucky-Tennessee All-Star softball games will be played this afternoon at Western Kentucky University. Game times (EDT) in the best-of-three series are 1, 3 and 5 (if necessary).
The series is tied 3-3.
Here is the Kentucky roster:
Players: Kristin Fields (North Laurel); Ashley Flener (Hopkins County Central); Ashley Funk (Meade County); Morgan Hart (Pleasure Ridge Park); Heather Hayden, Erica Howard (Reidland); Bethany Hensley (Corbin); Chelsea Honchell (Estill County); Ashley Lindsay (Whitley County); Kelsi Pardue, Sandy Young (Allen County-Scottsville); Brooke Payne (Owensboro Catholic); Maddie Phillips (Male); Tabby Shewmaker (Mercer County); Destiney Taul (Montgomery County); Rachel Yeary (Bell County). Coaches: Tony Hayden (Reidland), Kelly Cable (Shelby County), J.W. Campbell (Bell County), Tracy Spickard (Franklin County).
Tidbits
Former assistant Christy Higdon has been named head girls' basketball coach at South Oldham. She replaces Frank Wright, who left after eight seasons to become the coach at Ballard.
Higdon was Butler County's head coach for 16 seasons before stepping down in 2004.
* Collins graduate Chris Cervantes signed to play baseball at Eastern Kentucky University. He was 7-2 with a 1.50 ERA last season.
