Final from Georgetown. A good game to start the season. 

Great showing for Ashland considering they are down 3 starters to start the season. Should be another great year for the Tomcats!!

 

Wow.  Postseason level basketball on opening night.  I saw the earlier post about Ashland not having 3 starters, does Great Crossing have any football players playing basketball?  

30 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

Wow.  Postseason level basketball on opening night.  I saw the earlier post about Ashland not having 3 starters, does Great Crossing have any football players playing basketball?  

I think Ashland actually has two out due to injuries the other one was a transfer who has been ruled ineligible by the KHSAA. I am sure they will appeal.

Congratulations to Great Crossing on the win and to both teams on a great, entertaining game. Always liked great Crossing's program. Every time Great Crossing and Ashland play it always has to be on a night I am unable to attend. ? 

It has to be a confidence booster for Ashland missing some key players, and in another way for Great Crossing. They certainly got a boost making the big plays late (As seen above) that #1 teams need to make to win against a tough, eager challenger coming in. Great Crossing reminds me an awful lot of the Louisville Ballard teams that had Maker Bar, Gabe Sisk, the bunch that reached the final four of the state tournament in 2021. Fun to watch and have a lot of speed and length that will give their opponents problems.

Ashland had a great showing as well. On the road against a final four team from last season that returns several key players. They play nicely as a team and Zander Carter made some nice defensive plays at times with the challenge of guarding the taller Moreno (although Ashland switched up to a zone defense multiple times in the game) and also scoring plenty himself. Even with the talent returning, Ashland has some new players they are looking to get fully integrated and this was good challenge for them to start out with. 

Both Great Crossing and Ashland have loaded schedules this season, taking on tough opponents that are both in and out of state. Excited to get basketball season going!

Impressed that Ashland was able to keep this one this close.