Class 6A
1. Male
2. Frederick Douglass
3. Trinity
4. Manual
5. Saint Xavier

Class 5A
1. Highlands
2. Bowling Green
3. South Warren
4. Scott County
5. Woodford County

Class 4A
1. Boyle County
2. Corbin
3. Covington Catholic
4. Paducah Tilghman
5. Franklin County
6. Ashland

Class 3A
1. Christian Academy-Louisville
2. Lexington Catholic
3. Central
4. Belfry
5. Lloyd Memorial

Class 2A
1. Lexington Christian Academy
2. Beechwood
3. Owensboro Catholic
4. Mayfield

Class 1A
1. Raceland
2. Pikeville
3. Campbellsville
4. Paris

Players Featured This Week

Daniel Thomas (RB/LB, Bell County)
Season to date: 205 carries for 2,088 yards and 34 touchdowns | 54 tackles | 1 sack | 1 scoop and score

Steve Partin (RB/QB/LB, Knox Central)
Season to date: 121 carries for 1,266 yards and 18 touchdowns | 56 tackles | 11 TFL | 5 sacks

Brody Benke (QB, Highlands)
Season to date: 82/130 for 1,253 yards and 17 touchdowns with 4 interceptions | 799 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns | 112 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns

Sage Dawson (QB/DB, Boyle County)
Season to date: 83/117 for 1,546 yards and 16 touchdowns with 2 interceptions | 168 rushing yards and 1 touchdown

Jackson Wasik (QB, Lexington Catholic)
Season to date: 109/167 for 1,608 yards and 17 touchdowns with 1 interception | 103 rushing yards and 1 touchdown

Shaun Boykins (WR, North Hardin)
Season to date: 58 receptions for 925 yards and 12 touchdowns | 2 rushing touchdowns

Zah'Ron "Zeek" Washburn (RB, Manual)
Season to date: 19 carries for 94 yards | 7 receptions for 52 yards and 2 touchdowns

Formula uses AVG margin of victory/loss with cap of 36 pts. plus strength of schedule of teams played. Running clock games where teams' ratings are more than 40 pts apart, I enter it so the superior team's rating isn't dropped. Out of state opponents are not counted in ratings.

Top 20:

Trinity 92.08
Boyle County 89.03
Male 87.71
Frederick Douglass 85.29
Corbin 82.86
Highlands 79.48
Covington Catholic 79.02
Christian Academy - Lou. 78.11
Lexington Christian Academy 77.29
St. Xavier 77.04
South Warren 74.82
Bowling Green 73.68
Paducah Tilghman 72.25
Mayfield 72.06
Ballard 71.21
Manual 70.68
Bryan Station 70.31
Owensboro Catholic 69.62
Beechwood 68.22
Southwestern 67.24

Players Featured This Week

Daniel Thomas (RB/LB, Bell County)
Season to date: 183 carries for 1,837 yards and 29 touchdowns | 45 tackles | 1 sack | 1 scoop and score

Steve Partin (RB/LB, Knox Central)
Season to date: 89 carries for 1,122 yards and 16 touchdowns | 27 tackles | 9 TFL | 5 sacks

Brody Benke (QB, Highlands)
Season to date: 75/123 for 1,157 yards and 15 touchdowns with 4 interceptions | 787 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns | 101 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns

Cole Hodge (QB, Christian Academy of Louisville)
Season to date: 142/198 for 1,942 yards and 28 touchdowns with 4 interceptions | 335 rushing yards and 1 touchdown

Max Gainey (WR, Male)
Season to date: 19 receptions for 458 yards and 9 touchdowns | 1 rushing touchdown | 1 kick return touchdown

Tyleeq "TyTy" Williams (ATH, Bardstown)
Season to date: 110 carries for 889 yards and 11 touchdowns | 272 yards and 2 touchdowns | 1 scoop and score | 23 tackles | 1 sack | 1 interception | 2 kick return touchdowns

Class 1A
1. Raceland 
2. Pikeville 
3. Campbellsville 

Class 2A
1. Lexington Christian Academy 
2. Beechwood 
3. Owensboro Catholic 
4. Mayfield 

Class 3A
1. Christian Academy-Louisville 
2. Lexington Catholic
3. Central 
4. Belfry 
5. Lloyd Memorial 

Class 4A
1. Boyle County 
2. Corbin 
3. Covington Catholic 
4. Paducah Tilghman 
5. Ashland 

Class 5A
1. Highlands  
2. Bowling Green 
3. South Warren 
4. Scott County 
5. Woodford County 

Class 6A
1. Male 
2. Frederick Douglass 
3. Trinity 
4. Saint Xavier 
5. Manual 

Top 20:

Trinity 90.79
Male 87.3
Boyle County 87.29
Frederick Douglass 85.68
Corbin 84.18
Covington Catholic 80.83
Christian Academy-Lou. 78.95
Highlands 78.3
Lexington Christian 76.56
South Warren 74.9
St. Xavier 74.15
Bowling Green 72.65
Manual 72.2
Mayfield 72.1
Paducah Tilghman 72.02
Beechwood 70.21
Ballard 69.84
Bryan Station 69.22
Owensboro Catholic 68.89
Southwestern 66.83

Class 1A
1. Raceland
2. Pikeville
3. Campbellsville


Class 2A
1. Lexington Christian Academy
2. Beechwood
3. Owensboro Catholic
4. Mayfield

Class 3A
1. Christian Academy-Louisville
2. Lexington Catholic
3. Central
4. Bell County
5. Lloyd Memorial
6. Belfry

Class 4A
1. Boyle County
2. Corbin
3. Covington Catholic
4. Paducah Tilghman
5. Ashland
6. Franklin County

Class 5A
1. Bowling Green
2. Highlands
3. South Warren
4. Scott County
5. Woodford County

Class 6A
1. Male
2. Frederick Douglass
3. Trinity
4. Saint Xavier

Players Featured This Week

Jackson Wasik (QB, Lexington Catholic)
Season to date: 101/156 for 1,408 yards and 14 touchdowns with 1 interception | 3 rushing

Avery Bodner (RB/DB, Boyle County)
Season to date: 64 carries for 576 yards and 12 touchdowns | 256 receiving yards and 3 touchdowns | 44 tackles | 6.5 TFL | 4 sack | 1 interception | 2 fumbles forced and 1 recovered

Sage Dawson (QB/DB, Boyle County)
Season to date: 54/75 for 1,398 yards and 12 touchdowns with 2 interceptions | 143 rushing yards and 1 touchdown

Brody Benke (QB, Highlands)
Season to date: 69/109 for 1,042 yards and 14 touchdowns with 4 interceptions | 621 rushing yards and 8 touchdowns | 101 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns

Cole Hodge (QB, Christian Academy of Louisville)
Season to date: 131/185 for 1,715 yards and 24 touchdowns with 4 interceptions | 307 rushing yards and 1 touchdown

Daniel Thomas (RB/LB, Bell County)
Season to date: 142 carries for 1,466 yards and 24 touchdowns | 38 tackles | 1 sack | 1 scoop and score

Evan Pitzer (QB, Covington Catholic)
Season to date: 84/120 for 1,304 yards and 15 touchdowns with 2 interceptions | 280 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns

Jutarious "Juju" Starks (RB/DE, Mayfield)
Season to date: 68 carries for 496 yards and 10 touchdowns

At the midway point of the regular season, we have 24 teams still without a loss. Here they are, organized by class, with this week's opponent. We'll carry this over week to week from here on.

The undefeated team is listed first:

1A
Campbellsville vs. Bethlehem 
Kentucky Country Day at LaRue County 
Paris - BYE WEEK 
Sayre at Nicholas County  

2A
Betsy Layne vs. Prestonsburg 
Owensboro Catholic at Crittenden County  

3A
Bell County at McCreary Central 
Clay County at Rockcastle County 
Franklin-Simpson at Butler County
Glasgow at Adair County 
Hart County at Caverna
Lloyd Memorial vs. Newport
Union County vs. McLean County  

4A
Ashland vs. Greenup County 
Boyle County vs. Lexington Catholic 
Corbin at Hazard
Covington Catholic vs. Holmes
Franklin County at Shelby County
Henry County at North Oldham
Jeffersontown vs. Doss
Paducah Tilghman vs. Allen County-Scottsville 
Wayne County vs. Taylor County
Western Hills at Spencer County  

6A
Manual at CAL

Who’s is the best coach in the state to NOT win a state Championship? I expect some interesting answers. Have they not won one due to talent cycles? Just plain luck? Doesn’t mean that they won’t win one. It’s just super hard to win one. 

Grab The Rosary Beads, It's Catholic Week In 'Title Town'

Records: LexCath (2-3) | Boyle County (5-0)

BGP Rankings: LexCath (#2 in 3A) | Boyle County (#1 in 4A)

Week 5 Results: LexCath lost to LCA | Boyle County beat Taylor County 

Series History: Boyle County leads 22-14 all-time 

Burning Question: Can the Knights find Boyle's Achilles heel? Better question: Does it even exist? The Rebels have bordered on invincible for most of the season, with more playmakers than the opposition can account for. Case in point, Avery Bodner and Montavin Quisenberry accounted for over 400 yards from scrimmage in Boyle's playoff win over the Knights last year while Demauriah Brown was still an Admiral.

For LexCath to pull this off, Jackson Wasik needs the game of his life, because a shootout may be their only path to victory. In two games against the Rebels last season, he completed 74% of his throws for 565 yards and six touchdowns, so the precedent for him playing well is there.

Boyle County is 42-3 since 2020. Wasik helped deal the Rebels one of those three losses. If there's a quarterback with the moxy to escape Danville with a win, Wasik may be it. 

Saint Xavier (3-1) is coming off a 31-21 loss to  Elder (OH). Trinity (2-3) is coming off a 37-20 loss to Male. The game will be at L&N Stadium home of University of Louisville on Friday at 8:00 pm. Trinity leads the all time series 48-40-2 while St. X has won two in a row.

Last year, St. X won 13-8.

Common opponent:

St. X 20 Male 10
Male 37 Trinity 20

I think this game comes down to can Trinity keep the St. X passing attack in check and can St. X keep the Trinity rushing attack in check after giving up 305 yds rushing to Elder. In a rivalry game anything can happen because both teams will be extra motivated to win this despite what win/loss records are. 

Does St. X make it three in a row or does Trinity get win 49 in the series?

Top 20:

Corbin 85.3
Frederick Douglass 84.39
Covington Catholic 82.29
Male 82.23
Trinity 81.66
St. Xavier 81.56
Highlands 80.68
Boyle County 78.07
Manual 76.57
Christian Academy 75.14
Lexington Christian 75.12
Mayfield 73.66
South Warren 73.28
Paducah Tilghman 73.09
Bowling Green 71.73
Beechwood 71.24
Owensboro Catholic 69.94
Lexington Catholic 67.7
Bryan Station 65.36
Ryle 64.99

Players Featured This Week

Brady Hensley (RB/DB, Lexington Christian Academy)
Season to date: 146 carries for 1,125 yards and 16 touchdowns | 128 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns

Daniel Thomas (RB/LB, Bell County)
Season to date: 125 carries for 1,278 yards and 21 touchdowns | 22 tackles | 1 scoop and score

Tyleeq "TyTy" Williams (ATH, Bardstown)
Season to date: 49 carries for 562 yards and 7 touchdowns | 221 yards and 2 touchdowns | 1 scoop and score | 1 sack | 2 kick return touchdowns - statistics incomplete

Steve Partin (RB/QB/LB, Knox Central)
Season to date: 68 carries for 812 yards and 11 touchdowns | 22 tackles | 7 TFL | 3 sacks

Cutter Boley (QB, Lexington Christian Academy)
Season to date: 87/144 for 1,196 yards with 6 touchdowns and 4 interceptions

Jackson Wasik (QB, Lexington Catholic)
Season to date: 81/125 for 1,099 yards and 12 touchdowns with 1 interception

Cole Hodge (QB, Christian Academy of Louisville)
Season to date: 84/121 for 1,349 yards and 19 touchdowns with 3 interceptions | 223 rushing yards and 1 touchdown

Avery Bodner (RB/DB, Boyle County)
Season to date: 53 carries for 520 yards and 11 touchdowns | 191 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns | 38 tackles | 3.5 TFL | 1 sack | 1 interception

Sage Dawson (QB/DB, Boyle County)
Season to date: 54/75 for 1,036 yards and 8 touchdowns with 1 interception | 1 rushing touchdown

Class 1A
1. Raceland
2. Pikeville
3. Campbellsville

Class 2A
1. Lexington Christian Academy
2. Beechwood
3. Owensboro Catholic
4. Mayfield

Class 3A
1. Christian Academy-Louisville
2. Lexington Catholic
3. Central

Class 4A
1. Boyle County
2. Corbin
3. Covington Catholic
4. Paducah Tilghman
5. Ashland

Class 5A
1. Bowling Green
2. Highlands
3. South Warren
4. Scott County

Class 6A
1. Saint Xavier
2. Male
3. Frederick Douglass
4. Trinity
5. Manual
6. Bryan Station

Players Featured This Week

Cole Hodge (QB, Christian Academy of Louisville)
Season to date: 84/121 for 1,147 yards and 17 touchdowns with 2 interception | 152 rushing yards and 1 touchdown

Cutter Boley (QB, Lexington Christian Academy)
Season to date: 59/98 for 908 yards and 6 touchdowns and 4 interceptions

Brady Hensley (RB/DB, Lexington Christian Academy)
Season to date: 107 carries for 877 yards and 11 touchdowns | 123 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns

Avery Bodner (RB/DB, Boyle County)
Season to date: 30 carries for 381 yards and 6 touchdowns | 6 receptions for 177 yards and 1 touchdown | 33 tackles | 3.5 TFL | 1 interception

Sage Dawson (QB/DB, Boyle County)
Season to date: 42/58 for 837 yards and 7 touchdowns with 1 interception

Evan Pitzer (QB, Covington Catholic)
Season to date: 49/68 for 725 yards and 7 touchdowns with 0 interceptions | 149 rushing yards and 3 touchdowns

Willie Rodriguez (TE/LB, Covington Catholic)
Season to date: 11 receptions for 235 yards and 5 touchdowns | 18 tackles | 3 TFL | 1 fumble forced and 1 recovered

Brody Benke (QB, Highlands)
Season to date: 49/63 for 693 yards and 8 touchdowns with 3 interceptions | 394 rushing yards and 5 touchdowns | 92 receiving yards and 2 touchdowns

JT Haskins Jr. (ATH, Bryan Station)
Season to date: 17 receptions for 320 yards and 2 touchdowns | 13 tackles | 2 interceptions

Daniel Thomas (RB/LB, Bell County)
Season to date: 95 carries for 921 yards and 16 touchdowns | 22 tackles | 1 scoop and score

Formula: Strength of schedule played plus average margin of victory/loss with max margin 36 points. Out of state opponents don't count in ratings.

Frederick Douglass 93.18
Trinity 89.34
Manual 80.76
St. Xavier 79.31
Male 73.81

Highlands 74.64
South Warren 70.63
Scott County 63.44
Bowling Green 63.36
Dixie Heights 61.04
Owensboro 59.63

Corbin 86.16
Covington Catholic 80.89
Boyle County 78.82
Paducah Tilghman 74.28

Christian Academy of Lousiville 75.11
Lexington Catholic 68.64
Central 61.78
Bell County 55.38
Union County 55.12

Lexington Christian 73.86
Mayfield 73.81
Owensboro Catholic 67.14
Beechwood 64.8

Raceland 58.46
Pikeville 58.35
KY Country Day 44.19
Campbellsville 42.73
Paris 39.89
Newport Cent. Cath 37.11

Class 1A
1. Raceland
2. Pikeville 
3. Campbellsville

Class 2A
1. Beechwood 
2. Lexington Christian Academy
3. Owensboro Catholic
4. Mayfield 

Class 3A
1. Christian Academy-Louisville
2. Lexington Catholic
3. Central
4. Bell County
5. Lloyd Memorial
6. Belfry 

Class 4A
1. Boyle County
2. Corbin
3. Covington Catholic
4. Paducah Tilghman
5. Ashland 

Class 5A
1. Bowling Green
2. Highlands
3. South Warren 
4. Scott County
5. Woodford County 

Class 6A
1. Saint Xavier
2. Frederick Douglass
3. Male
4. Trinity
5. Manual
6. Bryan Station

Corbin 87.81
Frederick Douglass 84.48
Trinity 81.95
Manual 81.09
St. Xavier 80.05
Covington Catholic 78.97
Boyle County 74.91
Christian Academy - Lou. 74.12
Male 73.2
Paducah Tilghman 72.32
Lexington Christian 72.01
Highlands 71.37
Ryle 69.86
Scott County 69.41
Mayfield 69.33
Central Hardin 68.63
Bowling Green 66.5
Beechwood 66.32
Owensboro Catholic 66.1
Ashland Blazer 65.93

A few short weeks ago, Brady Hensley was viewed as the Robin to Cutter Boley's Batman.

Each week since has witnessed Robin recalibrate the Mr. Football narrative more and more in his favor. Boley may still end up walking away with it at season's end, but his running back has been the state's 'player of the year' so far.

His breakaway speed grabbed headlines against Bowling Green. Last week, Pikeville got a look at the power and physicality in his repertoire.

Hensley was a brute at the goal line, disregarding arm tackles and leaving bodies in piles on his way to a four touchdown night and 191 yards all together.

Pikeville safety Deonte Stevens instinctively lowered his shoulder as Hensley was crossing the goal line for the second of his four scores. Hensley responded like a bull charging a matador waving a red cape, "goring" Stevens and leaving him doubled over.

Players Featured This Week

Brady Hensley (RB/DB, Lexington Christian Academy)
Cutter Boley (Lexington Christian Academy)
Cole Hodge (QB, Christian Academy of Louisville)
Evan Pitzer (QB, Covington Catholic)
Brody Benke (QB, Highlands)
Trevor Havill (QB, Saint Xavier)
Willie Rodriguez (TE/LB, Covington Catholic)
Avery Bodner (RB/DB, Boyle County)
Sage Dawson (QB/DB, Boyle County)
Daniel Thomas (RB/LB, Bell County)

After reading this post by @Shaquille_Oatmeal in the Boyle County/Scott County thread it got me thinking, here is the post:

After watching Boyle’s first two games this season, I’ll be really surprised if this team doesn’t go 15-0 and win the class 4A state championship. 

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Here are the toughest games left on the schedule for Boyle in the regular season:

Scott County

Lexington Catholic

Frederick Douglass

Then of course five playoff games.  So I will ask again, will Boyle County go undefeated this year?

Class 1A
1. Pikeville
2. Raceland
3. Campbellsville 

Class 2A
1. Beechwood 
2. Lexington Christian Academy 
3. Owensboro Catholic 
4. Mayfield 

Class 3A
1. Christian Academy-Louisville
2. Lexington Catholic 
3. Central 

Class 4A
1. Boyle County 
2. Corbin 
3. Covington Catholic 
4. Paducah Tilghman 
5. Franklin County 

Class 5A
1. Bowling Green 
2. Scott County  
3. Highlands 
4. South Warren 
5. Owensboro  
6. Cooper 

Class 6A
1. Saint Xavier
2. Frederick Douglass
3. Male 
4. Trinity 
5. Manual 

'Title Town' Tussle Meets The Hype

The chance they wouldn't deliver was slim. The talent, too abundant. The nerves, too steady. The stage beckoned and they heeded the call. They, of course, referring to the headline makers at Boyle County and Lexington Christian Academy.

No one inspires more captions or pulls a crowd this year like Cutter Boley. The future Wildcat's heights are hard to reach, both literally and figuratively. He stands a minimum 6'5" and delivers spirals no other quarterback in the state can equal. But if there's a chink in the armor, it's his nagging propensity to turn the ball over.

We saw the highs and lows of his arm talent early on with his first two pass attempts. His first was a forty yard rope, placed where only his receiver could catch it. The combination of accuracy and velocity that emphasizes why he's such a coveted prospect. The second pass killed a promising opening drive as he sailed a throw that was tipped and picked.

In the five losses Boley has suffered at LCA, he's thrown nearly as many interceptions (10) as touchdowns (11).

When he was on target, real estate was coming in bunches. He finished with 406 yards, his fourth career game of 400+, but it was a 50/50 split on touchdowns and interceptions (3 apiece).

Going through the threads from the Highlands/CovCath rivalry it reads to me like there are a lot of Highlands folks who are unhappy with the coaching and culture of the Highlands football team. At least a lot of the Highands folks on here seem to feel that way, anyway. Comments about player attitudes and behavior, a mess of personal fouls on Friday including one that was apparently called on Sphire himself, player discipline on the field.

I've always heard it takes a new coach 3 years to get his system in place. This is year 3 for Bob Sphire at Highlands. Is his system in place?

Obviously the natives are restless after losing to Cov. But is this year do or die for Sphire with the Bluebirds? What is the bare minimum for Highlands fans to feel like he's done "enough" to make them happy come the end of this season? Is his seat hot right now? With a former player as his AD, can his seat really even get all that hot?

Class 1A
1. Pikeville 
2. Raceland 
3. Campbellsville 

Class 2A
1. Beechwood 
2. Lexington Christian Academy 
3. Mayfield 
4. Owensboro Catholic 

Class 3A
1. Christian Academy-Louisville 
2. Lexington Catholic 
3. Central 
4. Bell County 
5. Lloyd Memorial 

Class 4A
1. Boyle County 
2. Corbin 
3. Covington Catholic 
4. Ashland 
5. Franklin County 
6. Paducah Tilghman 

Class 5A
1. Bowling Green 
2. Scott County  
3. Cooper 
4. Highlands 

Class 6A
1. Male 
2. Saint Xavier 
3. Frederick Douglass
4. Trinity