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  1. Agree. I haven't heard this one, but I've heard others do it. They need to remember it ain't radio, and it ain't about them. We can see the game and the plays; just tell us who the players are. Less is almost always more.
  2. Story and stats from the first meeting from amnews.com, FYI: Turnovers doom Mercer in 34-6 loss at Lexington Catholic
  3. Here's an early story on the game from amnews.com: Mercer stuns previously unbeaten Boyle 31-30 in Class AAAA playoffs
  4. This is why I think it goes to VII. But what do I know? I didn't even consider the possibility that those three Danville opponents would win.
  5. Not so fast, my friends. I assumed some losses that didn't actually occur, and as gchsuk9 points out, Danville and Somerset remain tied for the No. 2 seed at this hour with 15 points each. However, I read Application VI to apply to ties involving more than three teams. If that's true and it doesn't apply, that would take us to Application VII: the Board of Control. The stakes are high here, as the difference is a home game vs. Shelby Valley for the No. 2 see and a long, long trip to Betsy Layne for the No. 3 seed.
  6. My bad, I looked for a thread and didn't see one. Still don't, but please delete this if it's a duplicate.
  7. Final from Danville. Frankfort finishes the regular-season 8-2; Danville finishes 5-5. The game had playoff implications for the Admirals, who finished in a three-way tie for the District 2A-7 title and needed a win to get one of the top two seeds. They finished third in the tiebreaker behind Middlesboro (1) and Somerset (2) and will play a first-round playoff game at Betsy Layne.
  8. And now, a word about Jawan Grey. Admiral. You could describe Grey as a talented player, a hard worker, one of the leaders of his team. But in a season in which Danville is attempting to redefine itself, perhaps the best way to describe him is to say that no one has defined what it means to be an Admiral quite like Grey. Grey, a senior running back-defensive back, isn’t the only player who has done good things at Danville this season, though he has been one of the most productive players for the Admirals. And he probably isn’t the only player who has a grasp of the history and tradition of Danville football and his place in it, though he surely does. But Grey seems to be as good an ambassador for Danville football as anyone on the current roster, someone who appreciates what the Admirals have done in the past and is doing his best to make sure they are still relevant for the forseeable future. Consider, for instance, what Grey said Sept. 27 after what might have been the Admirals’ most important win of the season, a 48-34 victory at Green County 48-34 that followed back-to-back blowout losses and an open week during which half a dozen or so players left the team. “We needed to send a message that Danville football is not dead,” Grey told The Advocate-Messenger after that game. “We’ve all heard the talk that this is not like past Danville teams. Our seniors are not going to let this thing collapse.” Certainly, nothing has collapsed at Danville, though it seemed before that win as though it might. The Admirals are 5-4, and tonight Grey and his fellow seniors will play what could be their final game at Admiral Stadium, a game against Frankfort that will determine whether they open the Class 2A playoffs at home or on the road. Grey and everyone else on the team must have been apprehensive about what lay ahead for them last winter when longtime coach Sam Harp resigned and Clay Clevenger, one of Harp’s former players, came from Henderson County to take his place. Grey said before the season that the changes Clevenger introduced required some adjustment on the part of the players, but he also embraced the discipline and commitment the new coach required. Clevenger said after the win at Green that Grey had taken ownership of the team, citing him as an example of “players who want to represent the program the right way and will play hard.” Grey, a three-sport star (football, basketball, track and field) made some of the biggest plays in that game, rushing for a career-high 297 yards and four touchdowns, catching a couple of passes and getting an interception. And he has made some of the biggest plays all season long. He surpassed 1,000 rushing yards last week and currently has a total of 1,047 yards and 14 touchdowns, with two games of more than 200 yards, he is the team’s No. 2 receiver and has two touchdown catches, and he has made a number of big defensive plays as well. It’s impossible to know what the future holds for Danville, either in the remaining games of this season or in the years to come. Grey won't be on the field beyond this fall, but if the Admirals continue to thrive and contend for championships, he’ll deserve at least some of the credit for helping the program stay competitive during an important time of transition.
  9. That makes a lot of sense, and 4,000 might be stretching it these days. The Boyle-Lexington Catholic game didn't even fill Boyle's stadium this year.
  10. Mercer is bidding for its second consecutive winning season; Dunbar is trying for its first since 2005.
  11. Garrard tries to clinch a winning season, West Jessamine tries to get to .500 in the first meeting between the teams since 2010.
  12. Final from Harrodsburg. Boyle wins a defensive struggle to take the district title in 4A-5. The Rebels had the ball only twice in the first half and led 7-0, then scored again with under 4 minutes left. The Titans contained Boyle's running game but couldn't take advantage of their chances on offense. Boyle is first, Mercer is third in their district. Boyle will host Clay County and Mercer visits Knox Central for first-round playoff games, both for the second year in a row.
  13. The Somerset win makes for a three-way tie, which might give Danville a shot at No. 1 if it beats Frankfort and can count Frankfort's wins in the tiebreaker.
  14. Levi McKinney is one of those guys who doesn’t miss too many plays. And he’s one of those guys who wouldn’t have it any other way. That, of course, does not make McKinney unique. On any given Friday night, at almost any game in Kentucky, you can find plenty of players who play both offense and defense. Even at schools like Boyle County, the Class 4A school for which McKinney plays, two-way players are commonplace, even necessary in a year such as this when the Rebels’ roster is smaller than normal. And while a number of them have helped the Rebels get to where they are this season, McKinney has been as valuable as any of them on both sides of the ball. McKinney, who plays tight end or wide receiver on offense and linebacker on defense, has had a big year both on offense and on defense for Boyle, which is 8-0 and ranked No. 2 in Class 4A heading into its final district game Friday night at Mercer County. The senior is the Rebels’ co-leader in receptions with 17 catches for 304 yards and two touchdowns, and he shares the team lead in tackles with 77 — 9.6 per game — and leads the team in interceptions (three) and fumble recoveries (two). “It’s my senior year, and I’m trying to go out with a bang, trying to help my teammates the best I can and just play my heart out,” McKinney said. He was a key contributor on both sides of the ball last season, when he had seven receptions for 111 yards and one touchdown on offense and 47 tackles and one interception on defense. “I just used that as motivation,” he said. McKinney started for about half of the 2012 season on defense and rotated in as a reserve on offense. Now he’s on the field for almost every play, and he said he much prefers that to the view from the sideline. He is one of several players who have excelled on both sides of the ball this fall for Boyle. For example, Seph Burke is the leading rusher and shares the team lead in tackles, Josiah Robbins is a threat to pass or run at quarterback and has made several big plays in the secondary, Aiden Stewart-Hoskins has been valuable at linebacker as well as in the offensive backfield, and some linemen such as Austin Bell and Justin Roution also play both ways. “It’s the Boyle County way. You have to work your hardest, just do the technique you’ve been taught, even if you’re tired,” McKinney said. “It’s not about us; it’s about who played here before us.” Many of those who came before the current crop of players and who helped the Rebels win or contend for championships were two-way players as well, but such players might be even more important this year, as the Rebels are dressing just over 40 players. Boyle doesn't have the market cornered on two-way players by any means, and a number of other schools in the higher classifications make good use of them as well. One of the keys to making that work, of course, is conditioning, and Boyle has done a good job over the years of developing and conditioning players who can make plays in the fourth quarter as well as the first. “We condition all summer, and we’re still conditioning after practice,” McKinney said. The Rebels build up much of their endurance at Jabez, where they sequester themselves every August at a 4-H camp near Lake Cumberland for the most intense week of the season, and Boyle players and coaches often shout “Jabez!” when the time comes to suck it up for a critical play or series, especially late in the game. “It’s pretty hard, but whatever it takes to win, and its amazing to come together as a football team down there,” McKinney said. And if that’s what it takes to prepare players like McKinney to be on the field for almost every snap, he says that’s a price worth paying. “I love it. It’s amazing,” McKinney said of being able to play both ways. “I may get tired out there, but the ability to play the game is just amazing.”
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