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She is having another great season, last night she became the first player from Hopkins County Central to hit for the cycle. She went 5-5 on the night. Over the last one and a half seasons she is hitting .540 with 14 homeruns, 59 rbi's, and 43 stolen bases. She has signed with the University of Louisville. Congrats Jordan.

The Trophy that the Earlington Yellowjackets won still sits in the trophy case at Earlington Elementary School. Which was the old high school. It has 4 framed pictures around it showing the last 5 seconds of the championship game. Yes, that trophy is special and its huge!

Maybe I missed it but I was looking for thoughts about no program at the tournament. I am one of those guys who likes to collect them and refer back to them later on. Didn't really like it when they took out a lot of the extras a couple years back. Such as the "shots heard around the state" section. Look at this tournament this year, in 5 years I would like to read about it again while sitting in rupp between games. I understand they cost money. Raise the price. Or better yet, I would like for the khsaa to have a preorder system in place. Order it online. The commish says this generation doesn't want programs. The people I was sitting around wanted a program. One guy, sitting right behind me, did go print if off and said even the ads were available to print off and then laughed. I cant see any business supporting this idea. I would like to think that the people from Madison Central would have liked to bought a program also. I understand the khsaa says they are losing money on programs. An online opportunity should be considered to at least "see" if it works. This year we took a look at an extra day and we are seeing it might work. I'm not for sure the cost for renting rupp, if that is what they do, but it had to go up for an extra day? Hopefully someone knows the answers to the concerns. I'm not sold on the extra day making for a better attendance figure. Having Madison Central make it to the finals certainly sold a lot of tickets.

Opening Round 1 Madison Central 1 PRP 1 Ohio County 1 Hopkinsville 1 Montgomery County 1 John Hardin 1 Ballard 1 KCC 2 PRP 2 Hopkinsville 2 Montgomery County 2 Ballard 3 PRP 3 Ballard 5 Ballard 141

Big shout out to Trigg County who packed the house to cheer on their Wildcats.

Congrats to Matt Beshear, Madisonville first year head coach, on a tremendous game plan. When playing a top ranked team in the state you only hope you have a chance to win at the end and they had that chance. Eaves did have some deep 3's but the last one he shot was right in "The Scribes" face. Hopkinsville never looked rattled though, they have played a legit schedule and I still expect them to win tonight.

Stepscalled will be there and will be recognized during every ballgame. LOL

You probably have this stat; how many block shots did Hopkinsville have?

Webster County will try to slow down the game with the Tigers but I don't see them being very successful. Madisonville should have no problem with Lyon County either. Hopkinsville and Madisonville might be an interesting matchup if the Tigers are not hitting from the outside. Madisonville can run with them, but they cannot score like the Tigers can. Hopkinsville should prevail from the top bracket into the finals. Tuesday night's games should be the better two opening round games. Trigg has beaten Caldwell twice on the season, but Caldwell has shown steps of improvement the last two weeks of the season and gave Madisonville a great district final. If a district winner gets upset, this would be the one I would guess to be the one. Henderson County vs. Christian County has the potential to be a good game also, but they have met already and Henderson won easily. Christian County could catch Henderson looking ahead but I don't think that will happen. I am taking Trigg County and Henderson County to advance and then Henderson County will advance to the finals to face Hopkinsville. Saturday night's championship game should be a good one. But I am expecting Hopkinsville to return to the sweet 16.

Livingston Central is closer to many of the teams in Region 1 as opposed to Region 2. I really thought they would be moved. Of course when you move them, someone has to be moved into Region 2. Years ago, Todd County Central was in Region 2, thought they might return, especially since Hwy 68 is now a 4 lane hwy. Guess they just didn't want to upset many people.

With severe weather being predicted tonight in western kentucky, several games have been cancelled. (Or Postponed) This is what I am aware of already. Feel free to add any others. Madisonville at UHA Crittenden County at Hopkins County Central Owensboro Catholic at Webster County

7 Union County 5 Breckinridge County 3 Bowling Green 2 Lone Oak 1 Marshall County TB - Breckinridge Co.

Hopkins County Central has hired Marshall Enoch, former coach at McLean County. He has a tough challenge as HCC has only won 1 game over the past two years. But he is up for the challenge. Wish him and the Storm luck.

1 Bardstown 1 UHA 1 Butler Co. 1 Bishop Brossart 1 Holy Cross 1 NCC 1 KCC 1 Middlesboro 2 UHA 2 Bishop Brossart 2 NCC 2 KCC 3 UHA 3 NCC 5 NCC Tiebreaker - 107

7 Hopkinsville 5 Heath 3 Bowling Green 2 St Mary 1 Muhlenberg County TB- Bowling Green

7 Union Co. 5 Franklin Simpson 3 Bowling Green 2 Daviess Co. 1 Madisonville TB-Madisonville

Simple answer, they are to provide the transportation. In our society today, you do this because as soon as a parent takes their kid to a game, then they have a wreck, then you have the lawsuit. It sounds silly but this is where we are today in public school systems. As far as the parents saying; "we will just go anyway" "They cant tell us what we can do". True, but they can fire the coach. And I have seen that happen, no more than 3 years ago. They made a decision, I have no problem with the decision. It probably was a popular one, but they lived with it. But as you can see, when you read all these comments, why we have problems in the system.

Couple of questions? What time would the bus have to leave to get there? What time would a 17 year old have to be at the school to make sure he caught the bus? If their back roads are anything like ours, I completely understand the school boards decision.

"Great" is a powerful word. I'm not sold on great yet. Should win this one easily though. Let us see how they do away from home against some other "great" teams.

Very good report. Hopkinsville is at the top. Henderson and Christian are also the top 2 contenders. Would have to put Union County higher though and move Webster down. After that I'm not for sure if there is that much difference between the rest. And it is nice to see Fort Campbell has gotten things turned around some. Also, Webster County is hosting a holiday tournament in Dixon.

7 Murray 5 Cumberland 3Bryan Station 2 Taylor co 1 Warren East Warren East

Madisonville won the regular season match up late in the game. Nearly the last play of the game. 13-9 I believe. Owensboro will be a tougher match at Owensboro. It will be one of the better games.

I know a certain radio announcer that was tossed once. LOL

4 minutes left in first half, Madisonville leads 14-0.

Just glad to see Hopkinsville back in the playoffs and also showing some improvement on the field. WC will not have a problem here, but the Tigers are working their way back and am looking for them to have a winning season next year.