I had a feeling of nostalgia recently when looking over a list of past winners and runners-up of boys and girls basketball in the 10th region and thought of all those public schools now lost to consolidation. The consolidated county schools have dominated basketball in the tenth region (and I suppose elsewhere in most of rural Kentucky) since the mid 1960's. But before then there were serveral boys championships won by Brooksville, Cynthiana, Paris and Maysville. Even after the consolidations of the 1950s and 1960s, Maysville and Paris frequently made it to the regional championships and both sent boys teams to the Sweet Sixteen in the 1970s and 1980s. Since girls basketball was revived in the mid 1970s Paris has won five regional titles and its last boys regional title was in 1970. Looking over the list of small schools in the region who compete for the All-A Classic championship, the only public schools which remain independent of a consolidated county system appear to be Paris and Augusta (traditional 10th region schools) and Silver Grove in Campbell County. As a fan of 10th region basketball for the past forty years, I would miss the participation of Paris and Augusta if they were lost in the way I miss Maysville but cannot help but wonder how consolidation, particularly of Paris and Bourbon County, would impact basketball in the region. I have children at Paris and a daughter who now plays middle school basketball and enjoy seeing her in a Lady Hounds uniform. It surprises me that tiny Paris is still there, but for sure the Lady Hounds remain competitive in the region. Here is to the memory of all the schools lost to consolidation.

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I had a feeling of nostalgia recently when looking over a list of past winners and runners-up of boys and girls basketball in the 10th region and thought of all those public schools now lost to consolidation. The consolidated county schools have dominated basketball in the tenth region (and I suppose elsewhere in most of rural Kentucky) since the mid 1960's. But before then there were serveral boys championships won by Brooksville, Cynthiana, Paris and Maysville. Even after the consolidations of the 1950s and 1960s, Maysville and Paris frequently made it to the regional championships and both sent boys teams to the Sweet Sixteen in the 1970s and 1980s. Since girls basketball was revived in the mid 1970s Paris has won five regional titles and its last boys regional title was in 1970. Looking over the list of small schools in the region who compete for the All-A Classic championship, the only public schools which remain independent of a consolidated county system appear to be Paris and Augusta (traditional 10th region schools) and Silver Grove in Campbell County. As a fan of 10th region basketball for the past forty years, I would miss the participation of Paris and Augusta if they were lost in the way I miss Maysville but cannot help but wonder how consolidation, particularly of Paris and Bourbon County, would impact basketball in the region. I have children at Paris and a daughter who now plays middle school basketball and enjoy seeing her in a Lady Hounds uniform. It surprises me that tiny Paris is still there, but for sure the Lady Hounds remain competitive in the region. Here is to the memory of all the schools lost to consolidation.

 

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