Class 1A

 

Beechwood battled valiantly against a ranked Class 6A Simon Kenton, but the Tigers eventually fell. Despite the defeat the Tigers remain at the top of the rankings heading into a showdown with District foe Bellevue. Hazard got a little more than many expected from rival Pikeville but the Bulldogs came away with the huge District win, and look to essentially clinch the Title this week against upstart Phelps. Kentucky Country Day will have their own big clash as they travel to Louisville Holy Cross. The only undefeated team left in Class 1A is Ludlow, and the Panthers hope to keep that streak alive against Dayton. Paris looked sharp against Bracken County and will look to string together another big District win against Nicholas County.

 

1. Beechwood at Bellevue (10/5)

2. Kentucky Country Day at #7 Louisville Holy Cross

3. Hazard vs. Phelps

4. Paintsville at Fairview

5. Raceland -- OPEN

6. Ludlow at Dayton

7. Louisville Holy Cross vs. #2 Kentucky Country Day

8. Paris at Nicholas County

9. Pikeville at 4A Calloway County

10. Williamsburg at Harlan

Should Paintsville be higher? That's probably the main point of discussion.

 

Where should Pikeville be ranked? They have played a very tough schedule and hung in there with #3 Hazard.

 

Should Russellville and Frankfort be in the top 10 instead of someone else?

Here is the media poll for 1A

 

1. Paintsville. 5-1

 

160

 

 

2. Beechwood 4-2

 

141

 

 

3. Hazard. 4-1

 

135

 

 

4. Kentucky Country Day. 5-1

 

121

 

 

5. Ludlow. 6-0

 

110

 

 

6. Russellville 5-2

 

65

 

 

7. Raceland 4-3

 

64

 

 

8. Paris 5-1

 

53

 

 

9. Louisville Holy Cross. 3-3

 

24

 

 

10. Pikeville 1-4

 

20

 

 

Others receiving votes: Williamsburg 14, Bracken County 12, Frankfort 7, Lynn Camp 5, Harlan 3, Bellevue 1.

I think this sounds right.

I would flip flop Hazard and Paintsville in the Bluegrass Preps Poll.

I would flip flop Hazard and Paintsville in the Bluegrass Preps Poll.

 

Same, although I think they play each other next week so it should work itself out.

Can't wait for Ludlow Paris in a couple weeks

Beechwood has 2 losses against great competition... Paintsville has 1 loss against a very good Hurricane team. Hurricane has beaten GW, South Charleston and Spring Valley. They played within 2 TDs of Huntington first game of season, Huntington has been ranked in top 3 in WV all season. Comparing scores it would be hard to say LCA is better than Paintsville, so I cannot see any justification for KCD being ranked above Paintsville. The Somerset scores make me question how large that gap between west/east actually is? Based on Raceland and Hazard's(Losing 34 during game affects outcome) performance vs Somerset I am not sure if there is a gap at all? Raceland is solid as always and appear to be hitting their stride! Reading the posts on the BW/SK thread it appears that BW is not a well oiled machine at this point. Hazard has yet to find their stride after the injury to the RB. Pikeville looked much improved last week. Lots of questions to be answered in the next 2-3 weeks. Really anxious to see what Ludlow/KCD can put together down the stretch?

 

My opinion, pretty obvious based on the AP poll that these rankings need shook up based on the top 10's actual body of work.

Beechwood has 2 losses against great competition... Paintsville has 1 loss against a very good Hurricane team. Hurricane has beaten GW, South Charleston and Spring Valley. They played within 2 TDs of Huntington first game of season, Huntington has been ranked in top 3 in WV all season. Comparing scores it would be hard to say LCA is better than Paintsville, so I cannot see any justification for KCD being ranked above Paintsville. The Somerset scores make me question how large that gap between west/east actually is? Based on Raceland and Hazard's(Losing 34 during game affects outcome) performance vs Somerset I am not sure if there is a gap at all? Raceland is solid as always and appear to be hitting their stride! Reading the posts on the BW/SK thread it appears that BW is not a well oiled machine at this point. Hazard has yet to find their stride after the injury to the RB. Pikeville looked much improved last week. Lots of questions to be answered in the next 2-3 weeks. Really anxious to see what Ludlow/KCD can put together down the stretch?

 

My opinion, pretty obvious based on the AP poll that these rankings need shook up based on the top 10's actual body of work.

 

 

Hurricane is 4-1 on the season with wins over Winfield,Woodrow Wilson,Paintsville and Spring Valley. Their only loss is to Cabell Midland. They have Capital this week and Huntington next week.

Yep you are correct, glanced at the wrong maxpreps scoreboard. Point was/is Hurricane is a solid team. Spring Valley has some D1 players, they crushed 4A Ashland, Hurricane beat them 41-21

Per calpreps.com:

 

Beechwood strength of schedule is 25.6

 

Paintsville strength of schedule is -4.9

 

Beechwood has played three opponents that are significantly more difficult than anyone Paintsville has played and one opponent comparable to Hurricane (Somerset - who Beechwood beat).

 

It is pretty clear cut at this point that Beechwood should be ranked number 1.

Top 10 Wins by 1A teams:

 

1. Beechwood over Corbin 36-29

2. Beechwood over Somerset 7-0

3. Kentucky Country Day over Walton Verona 21-20

4. Hazard over Harlan County 17-6

5. Beechwood over Lloyd 35-14

6. Raceland over Greenup County 24-0

7. (Tie) Paintsville over Pikeville 28-0

.........Hazard over Pikeville 38-26

9. (Tie) Paintsville over Williamsburg 53-21

......... Ludlow over Williamsburg 39-28

What district and teams does the Ludlow/Beechwood district play in the playoffs the first few rounds?

What district and teams does the Ludlow/Beechwood district play in the playoffs the first few rounds?

 

1 seed gets a bye. Whoever is 2 will play either KCD/Louisville Holy Cross/Frankfort.

1 seed gets a bye. Whoever is 2 will play either KCD/Louisville Holy Cross/Frankfort.

 

Wow that's two pretty good districts meeting.