Early Depatures from the Post Season

[Yellow Card]

I looked through some District scores and did not see many "unexpected" results other than in District 17.

 

Central Hardin beat John Hardin 5-4 in OT to move onto the District Finals. John Hardin was 17-2-2 and ranked #12 entering last nights match.

 

Anyone others I missed?

[Sir!]

Many of the Hardin County (and E-town) boys play for Atletico Flames. The U17 AF team that won KY Presidents Cup for the past several years was coached by Central Hardin coach Justin Maddock. Suffice it to say they all know each other well. That was probably a heck of a game.

[warbeagle]

Central Hardin and John Hardin had split games during the season, so I am not surprised that this happened. Hate to see Andrew Minnis crash out this early, he can flat out score.

[Yellow Card]

Yep, they split during the regular season but I thought JH was the #1 seed, this was my basis for labeling it as "unexpected". They do have a tough district, I think the top 4 teams in Region 5 are in the 17th District. Knowing this is the case, I wonder if they would have benefited from playing a tougher schedule during the regular season.

 

Your right, Andrew can flat out score, it also helps that this team has a handful of offensive players that can score. I wonder if there are any other teams that can say they have 5 players who reached double digits in goals this season.

[Sir!]

I wonder if there are any other teams that can say they have 5 players who reached double digits in goals this season.

 

I can think of a couple:

Louisville Collegiate (KY-2)

Hopkinsville (KY-24)

South Laurel (KY-44)

 

How teams with no-one in double digits to date? These three might surprise:

 

St X

Trinity

Lafayette

[Option Right]

In the 39th District: Paris (6-11-3) went in as the No.4 seed and upset top seed Bourbon County. The Greyhounds will be heading to the region for the first time since the late 90's!

[gameplayedright]

I can think of a couple:

Louisville Collegiate (KY-2)

Hopkinsville (KY-24)

South Laurel (KY-44)

 

How teams with no-one in double digits to date? These three might surprise:

 

St X

Trinity

Lafayette

 

 

No surprised at all when you look at their strength of schedules.

 

John Hardin: SoS 228

Louisville Collegiate: SoS 195

Hopkinsville SoS: 232

South Laurel SoS: 526

 

St X: SoS 53

Trinity: SoS 38

Lafayette: SoS 13

[Sir!]

No surprised at all when you look at their strength of schedules.

 

John Hardin: SoS 228

Louisville Collegiate: SoS 195

Hopkinsville SoS: 232

South Laurel SoS: 526

 

St X: SoS 53Hu

Trinity: SoS 38

Lafayette: SoS 13

 

No doubt. And teams are built differently. Allocation of scoring is just interesting. Oldham County has SoS 19 and has a single player who clearly stands out in scoring (Jeff Thomas with 24). I was just surprised that the three top 10 teams I flagged had no-one yet in double digits.

[gameplayedright]

No doubt. And teams are built differently. Allocation of scoring is just interesting. Oldham County has SoS 19 and has a single player who clearly stands out in scoring (Jeff Thomas with 24). I was just surprised that the three top 10 teams I flagged had no-one yet in double digits.

 

I totally agree, teams are built differently. Good coaches build their teams to take advantage of their players strengths. Mr Thomas is a pretty good player to build around.

A closer look at Jeff Thomas's stats and I came away even more impressed then just the 24 goals scored while playing against a SoS 19. Just a few notes on him.

He has some big goals (I forget what you (Sir!) called them) "important goals" gets us close.

 

 

* He scored all 4 goals in a 4-3 win over Castle, IN.

* He scored both goals in a 2-1 win over N Oldham.

* He scored the lone goal in a 1-1 tie with S Oldham, Oldham wins in PKs.

* He scored 2 goals in a 3-1 win over Simon Kenton.

* He scored the lone Oldham goal in a 3-1 loss to a very defensive tough Trinity team.

* He scored only 3 goals in their lone 10-0 win. (no padding the stat sheet)

* Has played in 20 of their 22 games so far.

 

FYI: I am not related nor do I even know this kid. But looking at some of his stats he is impressive and in my book should be on the short list for KY POY. The players that play and produce on a consistent basis against the best teams and produce when the game in on the line are the real quality players in my book.

[Yellow Card]

GPR... I know who Jeff Thomas is and have seen him play on multiple occasions the past couple of years, he is a quality player and also seems to be a pretty good kid as well.

 

In terms of POY, if this award is for seniors, he will have to wait until next year.

[warbeagle]

As for player of the year in the Louisville area, he will be up against Haji from Collegiate who is pretty awesome. Fast and he can play. 40+ goals, however their schedule is a bit weak. He is a UofL commit and skipping his senior year at Collegiate.

 

Cameron Smith is a big defender from Trinity. Good in the air and on set pieces. 4 year varsity player(79-8-6). Also a UofL commit. He dominates games from the back.

 

Of the players that I have seen this year those two plus Andrew Minnis above really impressed me. I saw Thomas play once, but wasn't aware of him.

 

I also thought the keeper from KCD is very good. Cole Gallagher. However going 8-11 and giving up 2.0 goals a game isn't an impressive stat line. He is SOLID. Not sure where they would be without him.

 

What about in Northern KY, Lexington, BG,.. perhaps this needs a thread of its own

[gameplayedright]

Thanks for the additional information YC and warbeagle. And I wasn't aware KY POY of the year was for seniors only.

 

So we're off... to the infamous list of the top 10, oh I mean top 100 players. Typically this is a top 10 (sorry, top 100) best players thread in NKY. But since warbeagle has so graciously included Louisville, Lexington, BG, plus I can see this becoming the top 1000.

Just one rule, you can only nominate 11 from your own team.

[Sir!]

GPR... I know who Jeff Thomas is and have seen him play on multiple occasions the past couple of years, he is a quality player and also seems to be a pretty good kid as well.

 

In terms of POY, if this award is for seniors, he will have to wait until next year.

 

Sam Stockton (Trinity) was the KY Gatorade POY in both his Junior (2013) and Senior (2014) years. I guess there are probably multiple POY awards.

[justwondering1]

Can we not include the whole state? A look at khsaa stats shows there are several players from far Western KY.

[Yellow Card]

Can we not include the whole state? A look at khsaa stats shows there are several players from far Western KY.

 

I'm all for including the west, as long as we cap it at top 1,200.