Doss was Senior heavy last season, and swept through the 6th Region. Do they have enough talent returning (considering that they've already lost a key transfer to Moore) to make another run? Will Bullitt East’s seniors, led by Tyler Sharpe, carry them to the crown? Or is the young and talented Fern Creek squad have enough experience to win when it counts? Is this their year, or are they still a year away? How does Butler respond with coach K.C. Goodin now at the helm? And what looks to a down year with an always competitive PRP team, does coach Mabry have enough talent returning to be a competitor for the title? Desales lost Shelman. Do they have enough to repeat their success from last season? Or will Moore or Fairdale make a run for it this season?

 

Who do you see being the top teams and players in the 6th Region for 2015-16?

Bullitt East should be the favorite.

 

Doss will be fine. Look for a big year from Jaylon Hall. He could very easily have D1 offers by the time we get through July.

 

Butler will be a year or two away but KC will have them rolling before most people expect.

 

Fern Creek will be improved but I expect them to be more of a factor when that 2018 group is juniors.

Ball Coach did a great job on detailing this 6th region as well. As Q said the favorite on paper clearly has to be Bullitt East with 4 really good starters returning and other contributors as well. The rest of the region could change drastically based on transfers and which young kids end up going where. Until school opens in August nothing is set, but June could indicate where some roster additions will indeed change things around for how good certain schools may be. Last year there was really about 5 teams that separated from the pack with Doss, BE, PRP, and DeSales the Top 4 and Fern Creek looming right behind them.

 

DeSales and Doss lose a bunch, but Doss may be more prepared to fill in with varsity bench contributors when DeSales seems to be in rebuilding mold. PRP is not the PRP of old in terms of talent, but they have their same coaching staff and they always have a surprise transfer or two so at least expect them to be in the running. If Fern Creek can replace their departing big center, they cannot help to become much better with a season of experience from their elite freshmen class.

 

I pick the three at the top to be BE, Doss, and Fern Creek with Fairdale as the darkhorse. However, much could change based on new roster additions for many other teams like PRP and Moore.

PRP will be adding transfers you can bet on that. Dont ever count them out. When they are down a little bit they will get players. Chris Drabo from Iroquois has already enrolled there. Expect more.

PRP will be adding transfers you can bet on that. Dont ever count them out. When they are down a little bit they will get players. Chris Drabo from Iroquois has already enrolled there. Expect more.

 

So Drabo is on school #3 after beginning his career at Male, then Iroquois, and now PRP? I think he had almost landed at Western HS last year at this time as well before eventually settling in at Iroquois.

Any thoughts on the top players in the region returning? Who ya got.....?

Any thoughts on the top players in the region returning? Who ya got.....?

 

Tyler Sharpe, Jared Farris, Brandon Klefot and Jared Osborne at Bullitt East

 

Jaylon Hall at Doss

 

Ahmad Price and Tre Hill at Fern Creek.

Tyler Sharpe, Jared Farris, Brandon Klefot and Jared Osborne at Bullitt East

 

Jaylon Hall at Doss

 

Ahmad Price and Tre Hill at Fern Creek.

 

Not many surprise picks from those being some of the top players who already have proven their abilities in varsity games, but if you call out four players from BE and leave off Bailey Rakes there is some bias going on or a huge oversight. I have watched Bailey Rakes and some may argue as their PG he makes the team go and he averaged close to double figures while being their best on ball defender. You have seen Osborne up close so he may very well break out to become one of the Top Players, but in no way can Bailey not be mentioned if you list Osborne on potential as Rakes already has proven he deserves that designation from game performance.

 

You also have to add Delvonte McCloud to the Doss list as he is a physical player with nice size that simply has untapped potential that could propel him into being a 6th region player of the year in the future if he reaches that potential.

 

You should add Tony Washington from Fern Creek who was the leading scorer from last season who returns as a senior who is one of the best shooters in the 6th region. Anthony Wales was the third freshmen starter for Fern Creek who like Price & Hill averaged close to 10/game in their first season of varsity.

 

Glenn Queen from Fairdale will be a player talked about for several seasons with great scoring punch. Tre' Richardson returns and will be one of the best players in the region as well from Fairdale.

 

Others:

Jaxson Burgess- DeSales

Brandon Cranford & Hunter Stevenson- PRP

Chase Craddock & Cameron Dukes- Bullitt Central

Donquel Andrews- Southern

Austin Wise & Jaquay Wales- Butler

Marquese Bolden- Iroquois

Eric George- Valley

Keonte Smith & Ramon Collins- Moore

Best incoming freshmen likely to end up in the 6th is Justin Weaver

Not many surprise picks from those being some of the top players who already have proven their abilities in varsity games, but if you call out four players from BE and leave off Bailey Rakes there is some bias going on or a huge oversight. I have watched Bailey Rakes and some may argue as their PG he makes the team go and he averaged close to double figures while being their best on ball defender. You have seen Osborne up close so he may very well break out to become one of the Top Players, but in no way can Bailey not be mentioned if you list Osborne on potential as Rakes already has proven he deserves that designation from game performance.

 

You also have to add Delvonte McCloud to the Doss list as he is a physical player with nice size that simply has untapped potential that could propel him into being a 6th region player of the year in the future if he reaches that potential.

 

You should add Tony Washington from Fern Creek who was the leading scorer from last season who returns as a senior who is one of the best shooters in the 6th region. Anthony Wales was the third freshmen starter for Fern Creek who like Price & Hill averaged close to 10/game in their first season of varsity.

 

Glenn Queen from Fairdale will be a player talked about for several seasons with great scoring punch. Tre' Richardson returns and will be one of the best players in the region as well from Fairdale.

 

Others:

Jaxson Burgess- DeSales

Brandon Cranford & Hunter Stevenson- PRP

Chase Craddock & Cameron Dukes- Bullitt Central

Donquel Andrews- Southern

Austin Wise & Jaquay Wales- Butler

Marquese Bolden- Iroquois

Eric George- Valley

Keonte Smith & Ramon Collins- Moore

Best incoming freshmen likely to end up in the 6th is Justin Weaver

 

Admittedly I know very little about the 6th outside of a couple of teams. I do think that Bullitt East's best lineup next year will be with Farris at the 5, Klefot 4, Rakes, Sharpe and Osborne as a 3 guard backcourt. It was not my intention to ignore Rakes.

 

The 6th is your area of expertise and I yield to you on these matters. I just threw my opinion out there.

Admittedly I know very little about the 6th outside of a couple of teams. I do think that Bullitt East's best lineup next year will be with Farris at the 5, Klefot 4, Rakes, Sharpe and Osborne as a 3 guard backcourt. It was not my intention to ignore Rakes.

 

The 6th is your area of expertise and I yield to you on these matters. I just threw my opinion out there.

 

We can agree that a team that has a starting lineup worthy of mention as Top Players should easily be going into the season as the favorite as I too believe BE should be. Even though Doss lost a lot of seniors they also have some really good players with experience like Hall & McCloud with others. I do feel losing Collins will hurt them. Fern Creek has plenty of back court talent in Price, Hill, Wales, & Washington, but the inside will need some players to step up.

 

The unknown is how PRP reloads and with whom they have transfer in. The kids there returning will not be enough. My surprise two teams are Fairdale with the Queen & Richardson duo along with Moore who could also benefit from the transfer season and new players. This should also be the best Valley team in recent years and they should continue to get better with the Coach they brought in last year keeping talent from the area in the school.

Jtown interviewed yesterday, heard it was 4-5 people, anyone have any idea who they are going with? Could they be in the mix? or Re-build mode?

Jtown interviewed yesterday, heard it was 4-5 people, anyone have any idea who they are going with? Could they be in the mix? or Re-build mode?

 

Major rebuild. Brandon Johnson departs and was probably about 40-50% of their scoring and it was because he needed to be. Not for sure, but freshmen and JV teams did not seem to have enough firepower to add much to the returning players either.

With Tyler Sharpe, Jared Farris, Brandon Klefot, Bailey Rakes, and the Ezell brothers, Bullitt East will be the favorites coming into next season. The next best could come out of the same Disrtrict with Fern Creek returning most of it's young team, with high skilled talent. After that Doss, Fairdale, PRP, and maybe even Moore making a little noise. You cannot leave Tony Washington (Fern Creek) off this regional watch, also a player that has not been mentioned that has game, is Jared Free (North Bullitt) he has a little swagger along with his skill set!

I've seen them play a couple of times this summer, and (wait for it...) Valley high school will surprise a bunch of people in the 6th this year. You heard it here first. will be top 4-5 in the region.