Former Buckhorn basketball and baseball player, Scott Blank passed away this evening (Thursday July 25, 2013) after him and His brother Andy were in a bad accident, both were flown out to UK where Scotty didn't make it. Scotty and Andy played basketball with former Buckhorn star and current UVA-Wise basketball player, Matt Day, along with Tate and Trey Gay, Ryan Couch, Trevor Easterling, Corey Hoskins and few others. These players were on the 2011/12 team that upset region favorite Perry County Central in the first round of the district tournament. They were seniors.

 

RIP Scotty!!

 

 

 

 

Very sad to hear this. Prayers to his family and the community.

Very sad news. I'm certain I have seen them play as my son's school played Buckhorn in that timeframe. Prayers sent to their family and friends.

Prayers and angels for the family and friends.

Thoughts and prayers sent to this young man's family. Best wishes to his brother on a full recovery. Truly awful.

Praying for his family and the community.

Sad news. My condolences to the family during this difficult time.

 

I had an advisor at UK who grew up in the Buckhorn area whose last name was Blank, I'm guessing that they are probably related if you go back far enough. I always remembered thinking it was sort of a small world that she'd be one of my advisors in Lexington considering I grew up in Oneida.

Perry County, Ky. Their basketball coach called them people he wanted to lead.

"Just the kind of kids as a coach you hope that you get to coach and the kind of kids that you know are going to go on and help other people," said John Noble, Scott and Andrew Blank's basketball coach at Buckhorn School.

Scott Noble died from injuries he suffered in a single-vehicle car crash Thursday night. His brother, Andrew remains hospitalized at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.

But they are not the only ones in Lexington. Noble is there too, with many other friends offering support.

"You know, we had a room full of people down here at the hospital last night," Noble said. "And had people constantly calling and texting and updating statuses on Facebook."

At the church where the brothers' father is youth pastor, the community prays, and will be supporting the family emotionally.

"Right now our church is pretty well heartbroken," said its pastor, Anthony Mullins. "We've lost one of our members, our youth pastor's son, just devastating. It's kind of like a bad dream we hope we all could wake up from."

He also says he will eventually need to deal with people asking "why".

"I know our youth is going to have a lot of questions," he said. "There's going to be a lot of 'why did this happen?' and we really don't have the answer for that, but we're leaning on Jesus and asking him to comfort us."

 

 

 

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