Cooper 51 Covington Catholic 38 (9th Region Championship)

[Tiger1]

Congrats to Cooper and to Coach Sullivan.

[Big Fundamental]

Congrats to Cooper! Team and coach is very good. They locked down on D after the first quarter and weather the storm. Good luck to them at state!!

 

CVH had no help tonight. He tried to force them back into it, but CJ, nor Ruthsatz, nor Mayer, nor Walters could run with him tonight. Mayer battled, yes, solid numbers, but not a legit factor.

 

Kunkel was the best player on the floor tonight. He wanted it badly and took all his adrenaline to the bucket! He seemed to want to prove something.

 

Good luck to both in making the finals of the 9th, and now hopefully Cooper can make a good run for NKY.

[Content1]

Thanks for all your efforts @Lawnboy13

 

This... you were a beast LB during the tourney...THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME & EFFORT! It was greatly appreciated!!!

 

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[Mack The Knife]

Cooper plays Thursday at 8:00 against Daviess County or Meade County.

[SECRules]

Congrats to the Jags!

 

Kunkel is a stud and was clearly the best player on the court. Maybe Indiana, Iowa, Xavier, and the others that have supposedly visited Park Hills should make a trip to Union!

 

Ruthsatz clearly got out coached by Sully. Great game plan by the Jags!

 

Jags broke CCH's back in the 3rd quarter. CCH started the quarter up 5 and ended it down 5.

 

CCH didn't know what to do against Cooper's 1 3 1 defense. They threw the ball into the top defender 5 times in a row.

 

Not sure why Jake Walter passed up 9 (I counted) one foot jump shots / dunks. He should have had 20 points. I'm baffled!

 

Everyone says how deep CCH is but I only saw 6 kids play.

 

Cooper will represent well at Rupp!!

[Samcro]

Congrtulations Cooper - represent the 9th well in Lexington.

 

Also, congratulations to Cole Von Handorf on an outstanding career at Covington Catholic.

[coachlee]

Congrtulations Cooper - represent the 9th well in Lexington.

 

Also, congratulations to Cole Von Handorf on an outstanding career at Covington Catholic.

 

CVH was a mainstay for the past 4 seasons in KY basketball. Great player and always left it out on the floor. Glad to hear he played well in his final HS game. He deserved to walk out like that, but I know he would have traded it for another trip to Rupp. True team guy!

[Bengal Maniac]

Interesting game to say the least. Really impressed the the Jags stayed with their game plan after getting down 11-1. The Jags were really jittery the first 5 minutes, then they took control of the game by controlling the tempo.

 

CVH really kept the Colonels in the game with three straight treys to begin the 3rd. Coach Sullivan called a TO after the 3rd one and I thought he'd get out of the zone. He stayed with it and that was brilliant. They came out on CVH and the rest of the Colonels were off. AJ Mayer also played well especially in the hustle category and offensive rebounds. Other than that CCH showed nothing.

 

The Jags stayed the course and Kunkel got warmed up after forcing a few things early with the rest of them. The Jags must have deflected and got their hands on dozen passes. They made nothing easy for the Colonels. All the starters payed really well, I mean really well. Although Kunkel was very good, he was not the whole show by a long shot. I felt Runion hit key shots throughout.

 

This is a team that can win it all. The only thing I see hurting them is they only played 6 kids primarily. I don't know if that is normal, but depth counts in the state tourney. They will be tough to beat.

 

Congrats!!

[colonel-fan]

Congrats to the Jags, the better team tonight. Does anybody have the spin move in the lane by Kunkel on video? That was a thing of beauty.

[bjknku02]

It is fun to watch Sully coach. Those kids would run through a wall for him. The way he interacts with them is awesome. He has it and that is why he is the best coach in the 9th region, possibly the state!

[Bengal Maniac]

Huge crowd. My guess in the 7-8K range.

[FeelingGood]

Congrats to the Jags. Way to be patient and then take it to them when they wavered.

 

I have to say I very much liked how the 16th refs let the kids play. I thought it was a physical game but both teams played very clean. The moment S McNeil missed the 10 footer and basically grabbed it out of the CCH kids hands and scored, I just had that feeling.

 

Good luck at Rupp and I know you will represent the 9th proudly.

[Bengal Maniac]

Congrats to the Jags. Way to be patient and then take it to them when they wavered.

 

I have to say I very much liked how the 16th refs let the kids play. I thought it was a physical game but both teams played very clean. The moment S McNeil missed the 10 footer and basically grabbed it out of the CCH kids hands and scored, I just had that feeling.

 

Good luck at Rupp and I know you will represent the 9th proudly.

 

Big play and I still am not sure how he did that.

[Hellbird]

Got my tickets for their Thur game next week

[Clyde]

Huge crowd. My guess in the 7-8K range.

 

Had to be a record crowd.