5th Region: Week 5

[5thregionbasketball]

Week 5 brings in a new calendar year. How many games will get played in this first full week of the new year remains undecided as every game in the 5^th region on Monday, January 6^th has been cancelled.

Green County remains the number one team in the region. They will travel to Caverna at some point this week, (originally on Monday, now scheduled for Tuesday) for an All A first round matchup and also district game. The last time those two teams played, they had the unfortunate incident that led to both teams having players suspended. The winner of that game will play Washington County in the semi-finals. The semi-finals and finals will be played at Washington County.

Congratulations to Larue County, who moves up a spot to #2 in the rankings this week. They repeated as 2A sectional champions with wins over Lincoln County and Russell County. They will now play in the 2A state tournament a little later this month.

Adair County drops a spot, as they lose to Russell County in the 2A sectional. That loss to me is somewhat unexplainable. I have heard that they were dealing with sickness from players and coaches, but Loy had 24 and Cochran had 16 points respectively, so I’m just not sure what happened there.

North Hardin got a nice win over district foe Central Hardin. North is firmly in control of the 17^th district right now. Central Hardin drops several spots this week as they have lost 3 in a row.

Here’s the rankings for Week 5:

1. Green County (11-1) Results this Week: Lexington Catholic 76-66. Franklin-Simpson 79-49
Games this week: at Caverna (All A Tournament)

2. Larue County (11-4) Results this Week: Fredrick Douglas 59-72, Manual 57-64, Lincoln County 62-46, Russell County 83-68  
Games this week: at Bullitt East, at Breckinridge County

3. Adair County (8-4) Results this Week: Russell County 64-66  
Games this week: Glasgow, Owensboro

4. Taylor County (11-3) Results this Week: Anderson County 46-41, Glasgow 84-71        
Games this week: Louisville Central

5. North Hardin (7-4) Results this Week: Central Hardin 69-57   
Games this week: Elizabethtown (postponed), at Franklin-Simpson

6. Bardstown (7-2) Results this Week: No Games
Games this week: Collins

7. Central Hardin (10-5) Results this Week: Holy Cross (Covington) 56-71, North Hardin 57-69, McCracken County 54-61  
Games this week: Elizabethtown

8. Marion County (10-5) Results this Week: Shawnee 61-66, Francis Parker 74-37
Games this Week: No Games

9. Caverna (6-7) Results this Week: John Hardin 75-38   
Games this week: Green County (All A Tournament), at Hart County

10. Bethlehem (7-5) Results this Week: Nelson County 65-40
Games this Week: Fort Knox (All A Tournament)

11. Washington County (5-6) Results this Week: Garrard County 55-61, Thomas Nelson 67-62, Nelson County 59-50  
Games this Week: All A Tournament (Winner of Green/Caverna)

12. Thomas Nelson (6-8) Results this Week: Madisonville North Hopkins 43-29, Washington County62-67, Meade County 74-90   
Games this week: Highland Latin, Nelson County

13. Hart County (4-7) Results this Week: Warren East 64-71
Games this week: Bluegrass Blazers (Homeschool), Caverna

14. Elizabethtown (3-9) Results this Week: No Games      
Games this week: at North Hardin (postponed), Greenwood, at Central Hardin

15. Nelson County (1-11) Results this Week: Marquette Catholic 72-58, Seckman Senior 28-75, Bethlehem 40-65, Washington County 50-59
Games this week: at Thomas Nelson

16. Campbellsville (1-8) Results this Week: No Games
Games this Week: All A Tournament (Winner of Bethlehem/Fort Knox)

17. John Hardin (1-13) Results this Week: Caverna 38-75 
Games this Week: Meade County

18. Fort Knox (0-9) Results this Week: Eminence 50-66    
Games this week: at Bethlehem (All A Tournament)

[mcpapa]

Green squeaks by Caverna 51-49 tonight on the road.  Caverna is no pushover this season. 

[5thregionbasketball]

11 hours ago, mcpapa said:

Green squeaks by Caverna 51-49 tonight on the road.  Caverna is no pushover this season. 

Agree, they're drop in rankings right now, is a combination of a few losses without some players and also other teams winning. They were in my pre-season top 5 and I expect by end of season, they'll be right back there. 

[mcpapa]

1 hour ago, 5thregionbasketball said:

Agree, they're drop in rankings right now, is a combination of a few losses without some players and also other teams winning. They were in my pre-season top 5 and I expect by end of season, they'll be right back there. 

And from what I can tell, they’re mostly juniors. 

[Big East Zebra]

Great job 5thregionbasketball.  Looks good to me.