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You may have heard about the Mercer boys soccer team’s slip-and-slide muddy celebration at the end of Saturday’s championship game, but The Harrodsburg Herald has the pictures.

Check out the slideshow here and you can share in the thrill of victory.

Mercer County as a whole had several runners step up big and represent at the 2009 Boyle County Invitational Thursday night.

The Burgin boys were the top team at the meet, while freshman runner Alex Beckerson earned his first winning time of the season. The Bulldogs now have four wins in four meets while Beckerson has finished 2nd, 2nd, 2nd and 1st individually. Beckerson’s mother and assistant coach Darla Beckerson said the team had a special nickname for Alex after his string of “close but no cigar” finishes.

“He has been placing 2nd so often lately, that we’ve started calling him silver,” Beckerson joked.

Burgin’s Mackenzie Kibler took first place in the girls middle school run, covering 1.9 miles in 12:53. Mercer eighth grader Jacob Crowell won the boys middle school race with a time of 11:29, while teammate Dean Tyler picked up third with 11:57.

Mercer girls: Down 1-0 at the half, the Lady Titans surged for two goals in the second. They surrendered a goal for the tie score and were unable to score in extra time. Final score: 2-2 tie.

Mercer boys: The Titans ran away with the competition with two goals in the first half. After beating Pulaski by five in the season opener, Mercer stretched the lead to three and walked away with the shutout win. Final score: 3-0.

For pictures from both games, click here to check out The Harrodsburg Herald’s sports Flickr page.

Coach Chris Beckerson has his eyes on a regional title and an impressive outing from his boys team has Burgin off to a good start.

The Burgin boys team took the top prize at the AJ Special held at Asbury University last weekend and won top team honors at the Woodford All-Comers Meet.

For more on their feats, check out this week’s edition of The Harrodsburg Herald.

Mercer’s boys soccer team beat Somerset Tuesday night by a score of 2-1. The Titans scored two goals in the first half and despite a goal with seven minutes to go, Somerset couldn’t mount a proper comeback.

The win is Mercer’s third this week, along with a tie to local power Anderson County last week.

To read about all of the Titans games, check out this week’s edition of The Harrodsburg Herald. For pictures, check out The Harrodsburg Herald’s Sports page on Flickr. If you’d like to buy a photo, give The Herald a call at 859-734-2726

Thursday night’s home scrimmage between the MCSH soccer Titans and John Hardin was called off in the middle of the second half when a player was severely injured and tempers flared between fans. Team trainer Todd Davis told The Herald that he signaled for an ambulance for Mercer’s Sterling Shannon after he went down with an injury to his knee.

“You have to make that decision if you can’t move the player or evaluate the injury,” Davis said.

The situation reached a head when the opposing crowds became restless and began antagonizing one another. A player who wished not to be named said the John Hardin players seemed to be cheering after the injury, which drew reactions from parents and players. Davis, the former athletic director for the school district, said the call to end the scrimmage early was the right one.

“The crowds and players were getting upset and had I still been in that position, I would have made the same decision,” Davis said.

The extent of Shannon’s injury or his availability for the season are not known at this time.