7th Grade: Northern Pulaski 36 Bowling Green 0

[PurplePride92]

Final in the championship game.

[PurplePride92]

KYMSFA 7th Grade Championship Game

[Jumper_Dad]

Congrats to the baby Maroons!!!

[WhoYaWith]

Nice win for NP!

[Purple88]

Congrats to NPulaski, their players were mostly a head taller player for player. Good running back and line. Also congrats to my Little Purples; very good accomplishment making it to the final game. Will prepare you well for next season!

[LFTIGER]

Where do these kids come from?? I mean, really?? Not fair by any stretch and frankly dangerous. Someone was looking down on us I guess when we were ROBBED in the SF game with BG. Should have been 6 or 8-0 alright but the other way. But I'm glad we didn't need to tussle with those NP guys. They were bigger than several Frosh teams we have played this year. Geez.

[Wildcat18]

The good part is 3 or 4 of Northern starters are 6th graders. I've seen much bigger teams in the past. The hardest hitter for Northern (#94) was the shortest kid on the field. Size really didn't have an effect on the game outside of the intimidation factor. PCYFL program is second to none. That's where it starts.

[LFTIGER]

Have to say, would have loved for our twins to have played yours!! Definitely wouldn't have been 36-0!! Had won last 35 games and refs STOLE one against BG!! Everyone saw who was better team!!

 

Maybe we will get y'all in basketball. This crew was runner up to Meece in 6th grade last year.

[Wildcat18]

The problem with the championships is that region 4 is LOADED with a capital L. The alignment causes all the top teams to battle to come out of one region. The best 7th grade teams I saw this year were Northern, Corbin, Meece, Whitley, and I would probably count Johnson and Knox. I would put a lot on the line that the BG's, CAL's, Crosby's wouldn't come within 2-3 scores of those teams.

 

I'm not taking anything away from CAL. They're a good team. We had our worst officiated games at home this year believe it or not, so I'm used to all that fun stuff. Good calls or bad calls, the kids have to be taught to keep their composure and from what I heard about that situation with BG, they didn't.

[LFTIGER]

Granted. But... Kind of a perfect storm. We let them play both levels due to how special the 7th graders were and their need on 8th grade squad. #36 had already played every play for 7 qtrs and #3 all time on D for 8th grade.

 

Then #3 took a good shot and a little woozy, ref loses his mind, we lose game then both kids lost it. In retrospect not sure if 4 games in 2 days would have been tenable. But we tried. I shudder to think what would have happened had we won BG game.

 

Both would have been in a heap and would have killed themselves trying to beat NP and we wouldn't have really had a legitimate shot. Got to give them credit for 24 games and their "never quit" attitude.

[jericho]

Its called holdbacks.

 

Not saying its a bad thing, but most of the NP kids should be in HS and some of them are older than HS sophs.

[Wildcat18]

Northern's 7th grade team has players who are older than high school sophomores? That's a laughable and ignorant statement. You're right, holding back is not a bad thing. Kids hold back at most schools. Holding back is no more of an advantage as private schools allowing enrollment by anyone outside of district.

[Nathaniel Bryan]

Northern's 7th grade team has players who are older than high school sophomores? That's a laughable and ignorant statement. You're right, holding back is not a bad thing. Kids hold back at most schools. Holding back is no more of an advantage as private schools allowing enrollment by anyone outside of district.

 

Except PUBLIC schools allow out-of-district enrollment, too.

 

LaRue County's last D-I boys' basketball player lived in Hart County.

Central Hardin girls' hoops all-time leading rebounder lived in Meade County.

Elizabethtown girls' basketball team has had players from New Haven (Nelson County) and Hodgenville (LaRue County).

 

LaRue, Central Hardin and Elizabethtown are PUBLIC, by the way.

[Wildcat18]

Except PUBLIC schools allow out-of-district enrollment, too.

 

LaRue County's last D-I boys' basketball player lived in Hart County.

Central Hardin girls' hoops all-time leading rebounder lived in Meade County.

Elizabethtown girls' basketball team has had players from New Haven (Nelson County) and Hodgenville (LaRue County).

 

LaRue, Central Hardin and Elizabethtown are PUBLIC, by the way.

 

I guess we're just not as up-to-date on our recruiting tactics as the other schools you mentioned. You go to school in the district where your address falls where I come from.

 

You can ask 3 players on the same Louisville middle school team where they're going to high school and you'll have 3 different answers. That's crazy to me.

[Nathaniel Bryan]

I guess we're just not as up-to-date on our recruiting tactics as the other schools you mentioned. You go to school in the district where your address falls where I come from.

 

You can ask 3 players on the same Louisville middle school team where they're going to high school and you'll have 3 different answers. That's crazy to me.

 

It can be, but Louisville has OPEN enrollment (hint: Michael Bush did NOT live next to Male).

Yes Trinity and X get kids from outside the county, but Male and Ballard and Manual can also pull from the state's most populated area with little regard to neighborhood.

 

I'm public school born and raised and never attended a private.

 

But there are several public school districts that are open (see the dozen or so JCPS schools in Louisville, Lexington's five public high schools are open) or allow out of district (see Elizabethtown) kids to go there.

 

Fact is public schools themselves are NOT on a level playing field. Never have been. Never will be. Each school district decides its own borders.

 

As far as holdbacks/repeating a grade though, that is more likely in the public sector.

 

As far as "where your address falls" ... kids are not indentured servants based on where their parents happen to decide to live (or could/can afford to live).

 

Another fun fact: KHSAA does NOT care where you live, only where you establish initial eligibility. So kids can live in Hart but enroll/play at LaRue if they never play varsity for Hart. And vice versa.

 

The girl who plays basketball at E'town -- but lives in LaRue -- never attended LaRue in high school. Thus her address don't mean jack.