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Final

 

SW shadowed Woods tight so Stearns ripped SW for 21 the first half making mid-range jumpers (ended up with 29 for game) and WC led 40-28 at the end of the half. SW had a brief flurry early in the third, but then starting late in that quarter Woods went to work and since SW choose to play him tight on the perimeter he dribbled, drove and drew fouls ending up scoring 30 points as SW couldn't catch up for WC making their free throws.

 

At this point it doesn't much matter who has to play McCreary County (they'll likely be tied and have to flip for the bye) because the District is at Wayne and SW certainly can't be happy about having to go back there.

Stearns is my favorite player on that Wayne team and maybe my favorite player in the region. Just a terrific player and doesn't always get mentioned. The region has several good teams but if you want to win it, you're going to have to contend with Wayne County at some point along the way.

At the beginning of the season I was very concerned about losing Jason Perkins to graduation because he was the glue guy for the team, but it is now appearing that each WC player is stepping up their game, broadening their contributions and skills which is making it more difficult for opponents to beat them by simply choosing one or two players on which to focus most of their attention. Woods, Blevins and Stearns can play with anyone in the Region while Gillespie has made himself into a much more versatile contributor (& intimidator) and the freshman Baker shows signs of being a force at times. Plus WC is now developing some depth off the bench which will be a huge help down the stretch. The Cards have a shot at achieving something only one other 12th Region team has ever achieved - winning three Regional Titles in a row (and four in five years). The great Monticello teams of 1958-59-60 were the first & thus far only team to win three in a row.

Statement win by Wayne County for sure. I've heard good things about Southwestern, so color me impressed.

Ouch.

This one was almost mirror image of the game earlier at sw. wayne looked out of sinc and shot poorly for them and lost big. This one sw looked out of sinc and shot poorly and lost big.

To be honest it felt like Wayne won by alot more. I looked up in the 3rd and looked at my buddy and said we are only down 9 feels like 25

Ah, the 12th region this year...

After reading some facebook posts it seems the rivalry only got hotter after tonight.....

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[TD=colspan: 2, align: left]Southwestern 65[/TD]

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[TD=colspan: 2, align: left]Southwestern (17-6) -- Gover 9, Isaacs 10, Cormer 11, Clark 2, Butt 4, Fitzgerald 15, Gaskin 12.[/TD]

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[TD=colspan: 2, align: left]Wayne Co. (16-5) -- Woods 30, Blevins 16, Stearns 29, Gillespie 4, Baker 2.[/TD]

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This was kinda odd game to watch for SW. They never ran anything offensively all nite. I am sure coach wright just didnt want too run much. Mostly all one on one and wayne shot it alot better than SW did last night. Issacs was shooting and playing well and picked up his 2nd foul early in the first Q.

The last couple of games I've watched SW play I felt Coach Wright was doing a whole lot of ranting at officials & players and not much actual coaching. I don't know if ky playermaker was insinuating that the coach was "holding back" on running offensive or defensive schemes to avoid allowing his opposition to better learn how to play SW, but maybe that's what he's doing. if so, I question the end result of last night's contest on his players.

He must have been holding back several games lately.

lol just my take on watching this game. I am around the program and do know we been running lots of sets in practice none was run in the game