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11 THE ADVOCATE-MESSENGER WWWAMNEWS.COM LARRY VAUCHT, SPORTS EDITOR (859) 936-0353 FAX (859) 236-9566 SPORTS DEPT. (859) 236-2551 or (800) 428-0409, extension 137 or 246 To report a score, use extension 305. 1 THURSDAY MAY 9, 2013 fO TTT) Tv TTT) 5) IT VU iiXi Kenseth team's penalties reduced New Cats impress LSI) signee By LARRY VAUCHT larryamnews.com LSU-bound Jerrell Martin played with or against six future Kentucky Wildcats in the McDonald's All American Game in Chicago and then went against two more Derek Willis and Dominique Hawkins in the Kentucky Derby Festival vv. -t I Basketball Classic in Louisville. "Everybody im-pressed me," said X.

.3 .4. Former Kentucky wide receiver Champ Kelly, right, instructs a group of again June 21-22, and a number of former Wildcats will join make guest Former Wildcat Kelly wants boys at his football camp last year in Lexington. Kelly will host the camp appearances. to help youngsters improve i i A Photos submitted i 1 i 1 i 'Si i I i VAUGHT'S VIEWS Larry Vaught Sports Editor larryamnews.com It's about the campers. We come in and don't make a big stink out of who is there to help, and you are going to get awesome coaching.

"The kids are going to leam football. We are going to prepare them for success on and off the field. For younger campers, we will stress the basics while getting into more extensive training with older campers. We will have a variety of guest speakers delivering messages on life skills and the importance of making good decisions. "I like a mixture of ages.

Older kids are able to be leaders by example. I want younger kids there at ages 1 0 or 1 1 from now until they graduate and they know what that 'CHAMP Camp' on the front of the T-shirt represents." CONCORD, N.C. (AP) A NASCAR appeals panel sided with Joe Gibbs Racing on Wednesday and eased some of the penalties imposed for having an illegal part in Matt Kenseth's race-winning engine at Kansas last month. NASCAR punished JGR after discovering during a post-race inspection that one of eight connecting rods in the engine at the April 21 race did not meet the minimum weight requirement. The part was too light by 3 grams, less than the weight of an envelope.

JGR did not dispute the part was illegal, but argued the penalties were too severe because it leases its engines from Toyota Racing opment and is not permitted to touch anything inside of them. Toyota accepted responsibility and insisted one light rod did not give Kenseth a performance advantage. The three-member National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel agreed and dramatically reduced almost every penalty. The points deducted from Kenseth were reduced from 50 to 12, which moves him from 1 1th in the standings to fourth. The panel also reinstated the three bonus points he earned for the victory for seeding in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

The panel also reduced crew chief Jason Ratcliff's suspension from six races to one race, and eliminated the six-race suspension for owner Joe Gibbs. It let stand Ratcliff's $200,000 fine. The only action the panel took was increasing Toyota's penally from a five-point fine to seven points. "Glad to have today be-. hind us so we can get our focus back on racing.

I respect NASCAR and the appeals process, I feel like they got it right," Kenseth posted on Twitter. Gibbs said he was done with the process and would not appeal anything further. "Right now, we just want to get back to racing," the team owner said. NASCAR is not eligible to appeal anything further to chief appellate officer John Middlebrook. Of the 151 appeals heard since NASCAR began keeping records in 1999, penalties were upheld 106 times.

The panel reduced penalties 32 times, eliminated penalties 1 1 times and increased them twice. Running into regionals i Coffey, right, of Boyle Martin, who had 20 points and five rebounds in the Louisville game. "Everybody could make a big push in college. They are all very good. "I am really excited to play against them.

I am glad they are over there. It will be tough games, but I can't wait to see what happens." Jordan Mickey, another LSU signee, had a game-high nine rebounds and four blocked shots along with eight points in the Louisville game. Tennessee signee Robert Hubbs made three 3-pointeis, and South Carolina pledge Sindarius Thornwell had 12 points off the bench. "Kentucky isn't the only school in the SEC with good players coming in. The SEC is going to be great and one of the strongest conferences around," Martin said.

Willis certainly came away impressed with Martin. "To be honest with you, I thought he was going to be more of a back to the basket post player, but he is really versatile. He is going to be real good for LSU, probably even better than I realized" Willis said. Still, UK has six McDonald's All-Americans Julius Randle, Andrew Harrison, Marcus Lee, James Young, Dakari Johnson and Aaron Harrison joining the program. That's the most any school has ever added in one year.

"Yeah, that is pretty unfair, nobody has that," Martin laughed and said. How did he think UK pulled that off? "Well, Kentucky is a good school. They have a lot of guys in the NBA and more on the way. I guess that is why they went there for that. They are just trying to get to the next level and they know the coaches at Kentucky are really good for doing that," Martin said.

See NOTEBOOK, on B8 Kelly had the camp at Bryan Station last year, but wanted to reach out to "a few different kids" by moving the camp to Henry Clay. "Our plan originally was to try every couple of years to move to a different area to reach more kids. We hope the kids in the Bryan Station area want to come to camp regardless of where we are." But he would like to have more than just Lexington campers. North Hardin coaches told Kelly it hopes to bring at least 30 players arid as many as 44 players. Kelly is hoping other high schools will do the same.

Kelly will have a variety of former Kentucky players at the camp again, such as Derek Abney, Dougie Allen, Leonard Burress, Chris De-maree and others. Last year See VIEWS, on B8 Derek Abney, shown at last yer's camp, is among the former Kentucky stars expected to attend next month's camp. His purpose is simple: put on an informative, entertaining youth football camp for youth ages 10-17 that costs the participants nothing. "When I was growing up in Florida, I could not af-' ford to go to camps. We couldn't do it.

I wanted to attend, but couldn't because of money," said Champ Kelly, a former Kentucky wide receiver and the assistant director of pro personnel for the Denver Broncos. "I said if I was ever in position to have a camp like that for kids, I would want to give them the most coverage and most instruction possible for no cost." He'll do that again June 21-22 at Henry Clay High School in Lexington in the camp for players ages 10-17. "It's going to again be a time for the kids to meet the stars, but it is about more than that," Kelly said. "It's not about the guys coming back to help me. IIMUll Ml W.UWWWIIVWMraVWW.I .11" JIMNIIUIIII if.

II III! UBU HI II ILIUM I I IIIWI I I. MJ I HW W.l it ft. 1 County leads the field during -a race at the Boyle County Invitational last month. Boyle and other area track and field team? will compete for state berths; in regional championship meets this week: Lincoln County is in the Class AAA, Region 7 meet at 5:30 p.m. today at Southwestern.

Boyle, Casey County, Garrard County and Mercer County are in the Class AA, Region 5 meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at Boyle: Burgin and Danville are in the Class Region 5 meet at 4 p.m. Saturday at Danville. The state meet is May in Louisville. Hal Morrishmorrisamnews.com i i.