Bleachercreature

That's great news BHS Fan! Good for the girls, and Go Tigers!

The guy wiping stuff from another guys beard is plain wong!

Ding! Well said.

Karl Malone wasn't to shabby of a La Tech Bulldog either, ah yes this is a Bulldog thread after all, Go Dawgs! Holmes that is.

From Cincinati Enquirer, top local prep players of all time. 8. TOM THACKER, COVINGTON WILLIAM GRANT (1959) Tom Thacker pitched and played first base for his Catholic Youth Organization team in Covington. And had the option been there to pursue baseball in the 1950s, it's possible Thacker never might have picked up a basketball. "I was a baseball player at heart," he said. "I just couldn't find a good baseball team that I could further my skills with." One sport's loss was another's gain. Thacker became a star basketball player for William Grant - a predominantly black high school in Covington that closed in 1965 - and later would play on UC's 1961 and 1962 national championship teams and win pro championships with the Celtics in 1968 and the Pacers in 1971. "At one time, I played all three positions - center, guard and forward," said Thacker, who averaged 31.7 points a game as a junior and 33.8 as a senior for Grant. "As a 6-2, skinny little kid, I learned how to dribble the ball with my right and left hands to get away from guys. "I was so skinny that when I'd run in there to shoot a layup, they'd just knock me on my butt. So I had to learn how to shoot a jump shot." He dressed with Grant's varsity team as an eighth-grader at Our Savior. As a freshman, Thacker made the all-tournament team at the Kentucky High School Athletic League's 1956 state tournament. The league was the state association for black schools prior to desegregation. As a junior in 1957-58 and senior in 1958-59, he helped Grant reach the KHSAA's Sweet Sixteen. Grant finished the 1957-58 season with a 26-5 record after losing to Hazard 87-49 in the first round at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington. "We had some complications in terms of bad officiating down there at the state tournament," Thacker said. "They didn't understand some of the moves the black players had. ... We did a lot of spinning and twisting and turning, between our legs and around our back. They called several traveling violations on us. Consequently, that changed the whole complexion of the game." In the 1959 tournament, Grant beat Pikeville 72-67 before losing 85-84 to Olive Hill in the second round. Grant finished the season with a 31-7 record. Thacker scored 36 points against Olive Hill and was named to the all-tournament team, and he also was a finalist in Kentucky's Mr. Basketball voting. The KHSAA inducted him into its hall of fame in 1995.

Last night they kept announcing at approximately 5:30, right after they kept telling everyone to beat it, after the first game. Maybe next year you'll be able to catch 2 games for the price of 1?

Truer words have never been spoken.

Here is a link to an interesting article on this topic, forwarded by a Hoosier. http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2007/11/11/sports/top_sports/doc8e3f7450f4ae68398625738e004f9ca6.txt

So far so good, the sun shines bright on our Old Kentucky Home, time to lace em up a go again!

Could have called Goal tending too? The refs missed it twice!!!!

I can't see the officials from the 16th making it here unless their dogs are well trained and can navigate the steep slopes on the Double AA?

Well said, and they did.

Or nice game NDA, good defense would work too? Gallant effort Dayton on your first regional appearence? The girls from Dayton while this time overmatched, and the luck of the draw discussion beaten into the ground, will always be able to tell their family friends and kids one day that I was part of the first Dayton Girls basketball team to make it to a regional, and by then the score or point totals won't matter a lick!

I am told it is up to the local AD's board. This year the 9th and the 16th are swapping but this doesn't occur every year, as the zebra's in the 9th stayed home last year. I'm also told that the folks in stripes or association prefers to trade regions but that this doesn't occur all the time.

From the 16th.

Congrats to both schools, good season Highlands, see you down the road Cougars...

Well said!

I do think it's a very hard region to call.... NDA vs. Highlands. NDA wins. Coach Darpel has done a great job getting these girls in tournament condition. They are not the same team that Highlands beat earlier in the season.

She does, again trust me!!!

Agreed CT! What were they hawking buttery popcorn, piping hot pizza and delicious hot dogs at the Cougar Stand?

The girls were probably somewhere last night working hard to eclipse the 8.1 million in scholorships awarded to the Class of 2007?

Thanks, that's the first time I've guessed right this year, nice win for Boone at Conner, I was ragging on me not you, beleive me. It's going to be fun at Ryle next week.

Sweet!

Cheering sections don't win District Championships, sometimes Defense does? The perfect cheer for the Pandas tonight was defense. Way to go girls!

First time I was right today?