{"id":294421,"date":"2026-09-26T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294421\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T10:36:09","slug":"banshees-win-all-a-sectional-title-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294421\/","title":{"rendered":"Banshees win All \u2018A\u2019 sectional title | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zoe Thurmond scored twice as the Bethlehem Banshees beat visiting Brown 3-0 Tuesday night to return to the All \u2018A\u2019 State Tournament again.<\/p>\n<p>Thurmond\u2019s two goals carried Bethlehem to the small-school state tournament for the second year in a row and for the 10th time in the past 11 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Sophia Miles added a goal and an assist, while Catherine Deopere chipped in with a pair of assists.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Reonna Morgan stopped the only shot on goal she faced from the Bears, making a leaping save on a point-blank shot in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem took on Walton-Verona in the quarterfinals of the All \u2018A\u2019 State Tournament at the Collegiate soccer complex in Louisville Friday morning. Following the small-school state tournament, the Banshees (11-4) host South Oldham at 8 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson County 3, John Hardin 3<\/p>\n<p>The homestanding Cardinals (3-10-3) played to a high-scoring draw with the Bulldogs during Wednesday\u2019s senior night festivities.<\/p>\n<p>No statistics were available.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson County plays at 5th Region rival North Hardin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Nelson 8, Louisville Holy Cross 0<\/p>\n<p>The host Generals (7-4-1) won for the fourth time in five games with Wednesday\u2019s mercy-rule win over the Cougars.<\/p>\n<p>No statistics were available.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Nelson hosts region rival LaRue County at 7:30 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>BOYS<\/p>\n<p>Bardstown 2, John Hardin 1<\/p>\n<p>Carson Kinniard scored twice as the homestanding Tigers (10-3) topped the Bulldogs (7-6-1) Tuesday night at Garnis Martin Field.<\/p>\n<p>Ivy Poynter and Naru Sugie each had one assist for red-hot Bardstown, which has won its last seven games in a row.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers play at region rival Marion County at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem 1, North Hardin 0<\/p>\n<p>The visiting Eagles improved to 5-5-1 on the season with Wednesday\u2019s win over the Trojans. No statistics were available.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem, which played in the All \u2018A\u2019 State Tournament over the weekend, plays at Meade County at 8 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson County 4, Nelson County 2<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Hinestroza and Quinton Haydon each scored once, but it wasn\u2019t enough as the Cardinals (6-9-1) fell to the Bearcats (4-7-3) at home Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ayden Votaw added one assist for Nelson County,<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Easton Curtsinger stopped four of the eight shots on goal he faced from Anderson County.<\/p>\n<p>The Cardinals, who hosted Barren County Saturday afternoon, play at Bullitt East at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Marion County 3, Thomas Nelson 0<\/p>\n<p>The homestanding Generals (1-9) lost their seventh straight game after they were shutout by the Knights Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>No statistics were available.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Nelson plays at Mercer County at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Thurmond scored twice as the Bethlehem Banshees beat visiting Brown 3-0 Tuesday night to return to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[113936,153,155,154,120295,32184,30758,113937],"class_list":["post-294421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bardstown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-john-hardin","tag-kentucky","tag-nelson-county","tag-thomas-nelson-publisher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}