Guy on the radio of the Madison Central/Henry Clay game just said officials are expecting to turn away 2,000 people. Is that true?

 

Can't imagine. Maybe if the game was at Bellarmine and there wasn't a UofL game going on at the same time.

Can't imagine. Maybe if the game was at Bellarmine and there wasn't a UofL game going on at the same time.

 

 

I was thinking the CKY guys might not know what they speak of.

Any chance they are selling tickets at the door? I'm thinking about showing up around 1 maybe a little before and seeing if I have any luck.

Any chance they are selling tickets at the door? I'm thinking about showing up around 1 maybe a little before and seeing if I have any luck.

 

Yes

There were no advance sales (at least at Trinity) so I guess all tix will be sold at the door.

Any chance they are selling tickets at the door? I'm thinking about showing up around 1 maybe a little before and seeing if I have any luck.

 

 

If you get there at 1pm you should be good,

The line is already getting formidable.

 

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I believe this weather is worse than state football finals. Thankfully this is indoors.

Where can I get the broadcast?

Just for fun, here are the last 21 Trinity/Ballard results, representing the time since Mike Szabo took over as coach of the Shamrocks:

 

1/19/13 - Trinity 53 Ballard 52 - LIT Championship

3/1/12 - Trinity 58 Ballard 55 - 7th Region Semifinal

2/23/11 - Ballard 73 Trinity 62 - 27th District Semifinal

1/15/11 - Ballard 69 Trinity 48 - LIT Semifinal

12/15/10 - Ballard 74 Trinity 63

2/26/10 - Ballard 72 Trinity 65 - 27th District Championship

1/16/10 - Trinity 69 Ballard 63 - LIT Semifinal

12/15/09 - Ballard 56 Trinity 53

2/27/09 - Ballard 84 Trinity 49 - 27th District Championship

1/9/09 - Ballard 76 Trinity 49

1/11/08 - Trinity 63 Ballard 60

3/2/07 - Ballard 65 Trinity 51 - 27th District Championship

1/30/07 - Ballard 84 Trinity 70

3/3/06 - Ballard 46 Trinity 34 - 27th District Championship

1/31/06 - Ballard 53 Trinity 35

3/10/05 - Ballard 55 Trinity 54 - 7th Region Semifinal

2/11/05 - Ballard 53 Trinity 44

2/13/04 - Ballard 68 Trinity 62

3/11/03 - Ballard 75 Trinity 69 - 7th Region Quarterfinal

2/14/03 - Ballard 70 Trinity 59

2/8/02 - Ballard 60 Trinity 48

 

Even in Trinity's Sweet 16 year of 2004, the Rocks still took a regular season loss to Ballard. That one-point loss the following year in the regional semifinals was a tough one. To win the school's first ever state championship last year was amazing. To do it by beating Ballard along the way was outstanding.

 

Ballard is still 17-4 against Trinity since Mike Szabo began coaching the Shamrocks, but it's been nice to see Trinity pull back into this thing lately. There was always a good crowd, but until recently it was VERY sparingly that Trinity could pull out a victory against East Louisville's basketball powerhouse. When I was at Trinity (Szabo's first year was my last as a student), we had a nice system going: Trinity would handily win the football game then Ballard would handily win the basketball game, then the baseball game was always an absolute MONSTER. Some great baseball between Ballard and Trinity over the years. As a Trinity alumnus and supporter, I like this new system much better.

 

This is a rivalry, no doubt about it. It stretches across all sports. Lots of us grew up in the same neighborhoods of the far East End. When I was going off to Trinity after 8th grade, I had several friends go to Ballard. My brother swears to this day that beating Ballard brought him more joy than beating St. X ever did. My college roommate, a Ballard graduate, has a shirt that he wears to this day that reads "Friends Don't Let Friends Go To Trinity."

 

Go Shamrocks.

 

Beat Ballard.

 

Having gone to grade school in Germantown I must say I can't come close to feeling the same about it. Grew up in St. Matthews but went to St. Therese then St. Rose, only a handful of Shamrocks, if that, in the schools then. To make matters worse it was during Trinity's longest drought since we won our first title. Ballard will always play second fiddle to me on that one.