Owensboro - Cliff Hagan

Thats cool I had no idea Hagan played at Owensboro

Bill Kelsch and Brian Kirk at Augusta....

Bill had 2 sons that werent bad either *wink*

Elkhorn City - Todd "Hef" Conley

Allen Central - Jeremy Hall

Paintsville - J.R. VanHoose

Pike Central - Jamie Hamilton

Belfry - J.J. Hylton

Wayland - King Kelly Coleman

Flat Gap -Charlie Osbourne

Phelps - Ervin Stepp

Evarts- Hershal Hicks

Harlan- Wallace Jones

Cawood- Phil Cox/Nick Sanford

Cumberland- Garret Gregory

Corbin-Frank Selvey

Middlesboro-Lawrance Buell

Oneida Baptist- Ben Franklin

Clay County-Ritchy Farmer

Lynch- Forest Pearson

Eric Ely was tough too.

 

He was a good player, but did not excel playing for Coach Whitaker. He did better in college than in high school.

Evarts- Hershal Hicks

Harlan- Wallace Jones

Cawood- Phil Cox/Nick Sanford

Cumberland- Garret Gregory

Corbin-Frank Selvey

Middlesboro-Lawrance Buell

Oneida Baptist- Ben Franklin

Clay County-Ritchy Farmer

Lynch- Forest Pearson

What about Paul "Showtime" Gaffney?Harlem Globetrotter.

He was a good player, but did not excel playing for Coach Whitaker. He did better in college than in high school.

Yeah your right, he had a heck of a career at King College. I guess in HS, although he did put up great stats, he was looked upon as more of a project with alot of potential. At the college level he worked hard and lived up to that potential for the most part. King is a pretty highly respected NAIA program but out of HS he had some DI offers. I think he had an offer to play at Army as well as some other mid-majors. He was just a naturally big strong kid. He was a very intelligiant kid as well.

Raceland = Ron Duncan, Holly Heaberlin, Dave McBrayer, Troy Shelton

Boyd County = Phil Pratt, Davey Wooten,

Russell = Rick Hensley, Dave Branham, Tom Roberts, Jack Savage

What about Paul "Showtime" Gaffney?Harlem Globetrotter.

Gafney was not a great high school player. He was a fairly good high school player. He had two or three teammates on his high school team his junior year at Cumberland that were better. His senior year, Cumberland was terrible.

 

Gregory had an absolutly fantastic career at Cumberland College. He was good enough to go mid level D1 (OVC).

Raceland : Ron Duncan (best all time), Hollie Heaberlin, Jeff Watkins, Bob Trimble, Chris Vandergriff, Bob Owsley, Dave McBrayer

 

Fairview : Don Rigsby, Jeff Hall

 

Russell : Tom Roberts, Rick Hensley, Jack Savage.

 

Greenup Co. : Steve Scaggs (awesome b.b. player)

 

Elliot Co. : Rocky Adkins ....and probably any one of two or three of the current Elliot players.

 

(I know that I named more than one but the ones I listed are imo the best at the paticular schools that I have seen)

For the Fairview or 16th region fans "IF" Don Rigsby could have stayed healthy would you have put him up there with Jeff ?

Absolutely, I really would put him a little above Jeff even with him (Don) not being healthy. Rigsby was just an awesome basketball player for the Eagles.

Augusta-Bill Kelsch

Carroll County - Dave Miller and Marc Mumphrey - Miller gets the slight nod because he took his team to state

 

Pam Browning - She was as good as any guy in H.S., and is in the UK hall of fame, and played in the pros

Gafney was not a great high school player. He was a fairly good high school player. He had two or three teammates on his high school team his junior year at Cumberland that were better. His senior year, Cumberland was terrible.

 

Gregory had an absolutly fantastic career at Cumberland College. He was good enough to go mid level D1 (OVC).

 

 

Gaffney may not be in the top 10 at Cumberland, even though he did great things after high school.

 

I'd have picked Lewis Morris, or maybe Larry Cockrel from the early 1970s.