Any opinions on who may win this, or what frosh we should look out for?

 

I'd say the favorites are Holmes, NCC, Covington Catholic and Simon Kenton. Bottom half of the bracket is really loaded, so whom ever makes it out of it should be the favorite. Crazy things can happen, obviously. Last year, Holmes was the favorite, but got beaten by Highlands in the first round.

I'd say the favorites are Holmes, NCC, Covington Catholic and Simon Kenton. Bottom half of the bracket is really loaded, so whom ever makes it out of it should be the favorite. Crazy things can happen, obviously. Last year, Holmes was the favorite, but got beaten by Highlands in the first round.

 

Last year Holmes brought down Bolden - lost in the first round. NCC brought down Pangallo and didn't advance. Both teams had plenty of talent without the JV kids dropping down.

 

 

The teams that advance are the talented teams that play together all year all season.

Mr Zerhusen has added the Brackets to the CovCath web site.

 

Use this link to view the schedule

 

The brackets will be up dated after each day's action is over with!

2013 FRESHMAN REGIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

SITE OF TOURNAMENT: All games will be played at Covington Catholic High School

 

DATES OF TOURNAMENT: February 2^nd (1^st Round Games)

February 4^th (1^st & 2nd Round Games)

February 6^th (2nd Round Games)

February 9^th (Semi-Finals)

February 11^th (Finals)

 

PARKING: All parking should be in front of school and gym. No parking behind the school by the football field. Gates will probably be locked by the end of the day. Busses may park against the wall to side of gym or at the extreme end of parking lot.

 

ADMISSION: All tickets will be sold at the door. Adults $4.00

Students $2.00

 

PLAYER ADMISSION: Only those listed on the eligibility sheet.

Cheerleaders will be admitted on the night that their team plays in their uniforms. Statisticians & Managers should be identified by the coach upon entry. All players will be charged a student fee on the night they do not play. Players selected to the All-tournament team will be admitted for free on the final night.

 

ACCEPTED PASSES: KHSAA Coaches Pass, Superintendent/Principal Passes;

NO FACULTY, BOOSTER, NKAC OR SCHOOL BOARD PASSES.

 

HOME TEAM: Top team in bracket will be the home team on the scoreboard. Home team wears white, unless coach notifies tournament official and other team 48 hours before the game. Covington Catholic will use their locker room. Home team will warm up opposite their bench in the first half. The Home team will sit on bench in front of scorer’s table.

 

ELIGIBILITY: Anyone who is a freshman or younger in class, and has not turned 16 years of age before August 1, 2012 (born after August 1, 1996).

 

SIGNS & NOISEMAKERS: Signs are permitted in the gym if placed on the wall and not moved around the gym. Signs may not be obscene or degrading. Noisemakers are OK if they are not used as an advantage to disturb the other team.

 

CHEERLEADERS & PEP BANDS: Permitted to play before/after game and during timeouts and at quarters/halftime. Cheerleaders will be introduced at halftime & are invited to dance and/or cheer for no more than 3 minutes per school.

 

CHAMPIONSHIP & RUNNER-UP TROPHY: All-tournament trophies voted by the coaches.

Where are they now?

 

Tanner White- Ryle

Burt Pouncy- Holy Cross

Dasean Peterson- not playing

Travis Pavy- out for season with torn Achilles

Donovan McCoy- not playing

Brandon Hale- not playing ???

Blake Maines- not playing????

 

Maines was cut this year along with Price WHO was another decent Conner Frosh at the time.

 

Pavy was another stud from 6th-8th grade then he got big for football and was never the same.

Cov Cath has done a great job running the tourney, Jack K did a great job and was a pleasure to work with Steve S, Jim G, Steve F, are 1st class people to work with and fun to be around. Wish the J.V. tourney could work as well.

Goes to show if you work hard you can improve, if you don't your gone. Seen alot of freshman not improve because of one reason or another. Give props to the ones that stick with it.

The teams that advance are the talented teams that play together all year all season.

:thumb:

See my post #10 and my post #15 about the smaller schools!

 

Sorry TOG, this doesn't hold water....the small school Freshman are not involved in the All A and when you look at the listings there are a number of "A" schools that participate in both the Freshman Regional and A tourneys. (St Henry, NCC, Ludlow, Holy Cross) The Freshman Regional is a much more of an exclusive invitational tourney than a true regional contest. The games have typically been run by the three mentioned in the thread, officials are hand picked rather than rotationally assigned by region. This is a great tournament that has been going on for a long time and nothing bad to say, but it is definitely a freshman invitational all the way around.

Maines was cut this year along with Price WHO was another decent Conner Frosh at the time.

 

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Actually, Maines was cut before his junior season and Price quit during his junior season.

ELIGIBILITY: Anyone who is a freshman or younger in class, and has not turned 16 years of age before August 1, 2012 (born after August 1, 1996).

 

16 years old and still a freshman? What's the world coming too?

ELIGIBILITY: Anyone who is a freshman or younger in class, and has not turned 16 years of age before August 1, 2012 (born after August 1, 1996).

 

16 years old and still a freshman? What's the world coming too?

 

All to popular anymore. One team in the tourney last year had a kid drive to the game. Now there is talk on here about how good the kid is for a sophomore and yet he is already 17 or darn close to it.

Sorry TOG, this doesn't hold water....the small school Freshman are not involved in the All A and when you look at the listings there are a number of "A" schools that participate in both the Freshman Regional and A tourneys. (St Henry, NCC, Ludlow, Holy Cross) The Freshman Regional is a much more of an exclusive invitational tourney than a true regional contest. The games have typically been run by the three mentioned in the thread, officials are hand picked rather than rotationally assigned by region. This is a great tournament that has been going on for a long time and nothing bad to say, but it is definitely a freshman invitational all the way around.

 

 

I have been told the small schools held there own Freshmen tourney!

 

Speaking of not calling it a Regional tourney because some school aren't playing, then do you believe that the Ninth Region Tourney shouldn't be call a regional because Cov Latin hasn't been playing in it for years?

I am not aware of any small school Freshman tournament in NKY. I do not want to confuse "Regional" with the KHSAA alignments of a Region (8,9,10,etc...) as much as a geographic regional invitational, for Freshman. As someone mentioned, it seems to be limited by the use of only 1 gym and a small group that manages the invites to teams. A previous post mentioned that some schools kept their "commitments" to the tournament and that's why they still participated. IMO that implies that the schools who may not get invited did not keep their commitments ?

 

As far as a "Regional" tournament, no school is required to participate in post season play within their districts or regions and in some sports "opt out" because of lack of ability to compete. (Happens more in football than basketball and is declared prior to scheduling. The tournament is still a regional tournament, with teams from the local area. This is a great tournament, but if expanded could be an even better event. It sounds as if there are some schools that might like to be involved if the tournament was expanded.....anyone out there that might float this idea to the organizers ??????

I am not aware of any small school Freshman tournament in NKY. I do not want to confuse "Regional" with the KHSAA alignments of a Region (8,9,10,etc...) as much as a geographic regional invitational, for Freshman. As someone mentioned, it seems to be limited by the use of only 1 gym and a small group that manages the invites to teams. A previous post mentioned that some schools kept their "commitments" to the tournament and that's why they still participated. IMO that implies that the schools who may not get invited did not keep their commitments ?

 

As far as a "Regional" tournament, no school is required to participate in post season play within their districts or regions and in some sports "opt out" because of lack of ability to compete. (Happens more in football than basketball and is declared prior to scheduling. The tournament is still a regional tournament, with teams from the local area. This is a great tournament, but if expanded could be an even better event. It sounds as if there are some schools that might like to be involved if the tournament was expanded.....anyone out there that might float this idea to the organizers ??????

 

My post #10

The Freshman Regional Tournament originally began in the early 1960’s. Some of the hosts of the tournament were Ockerman Junior High School, Newport Catholic (now NCC), and Conner High School. The tournament moved to Covington Catholic in 1970, and has remained since that time.

In the early years at Covington Catholic there was a twenty team field, and the tournament would be played over three consecutive weeks. After a few years with the large field, the single ‘A’ schools decided to have their own tournament.

 

Miller post #19

 

The small schools opted out in the very late 90's when they invented their own small school tournament, which I thought was a good idea since it gave them an opportunity to end the year on a win. The small school tourney hasn't been played in a few years, and also had been played sparingly since 2002.

 

So what teams do you know that's want to enter?