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I was kind of surprised some thought this was an upset. Since the 2nd half of the Male game, Eastern has been in a real tailspin. Pre-season most thought Ballard would finish at the rear of a very tough district. Coach Jackson should be in the running for 6-A COY if the Bruins keep up the strong play. We (Western) go out to Ballard for the regular season finale. Hoping for a dry night as both teams have some serious speed, which should make a great game for the fans to see.

Western at Valley for the District title in 2 weeks.

1.Bethlehem 2.North Oldham 3.Male 5.Danville 7.DuPont Manual TB Danville

Regional Championship Predictions: 1. ACS at Lone Oak 2. Marion Co. vs. Western 3. Lex. Cath. at Boyle Co. 4. Lawrence Co. at Bell Co.

Western: O. Wilson 6-11 190 yards 3 TD 0 INT / 7 rushes 99 yards 2 TD D. Turner 19 carries 142 yards 2 TD C. Ricketts 3 catches 85 yards 2 TD L. Melvin 3 interceptions (7 for the season) Fairdale B. Vincent 12-21 313 yards 3 TD 3 INT

Final.

7. St. Xavier 5. Fern Creek 3. Jeffersontown 2. Harrison Co 1. Gallatin Co Fern Creek

And I apologize to Gary, I know your last name is Weiter, double typo above.:ohbrother:

Doss lost all it's offensive skill players from last year's team and it's defense looked very shaky vs. Butler. JH 44 - Doss 6

We (Western) dealt them their first loss last weekend, in a tough hard-hitting game. J-Town runs a spread offense (with no TE's) with a decent QB (#17) and several good RB's (#'s 2, 4 & 28). O-Line is not very big as O-Lines go, but Coach Weider is a line coach, so they are very technique sound. #5 is a very good WR, big play potential. They were about 50-50 run/pass in our game. J-Town runs mostly a 3-4 (or 5-2), although we saw an even front some last week. They use very small, quick defensive linemen and solid LB's. Their DB's play lock man all over the field. As long as Coach Weider and staff are at J-Town, look for them to keep improving. I'd make them the district favorite this year. If Morrow shared the hoopers, they would be even better.

7. Southern 5. John Hardin 3. Shelby Co. 2. Manual 1. Trimble Co. Southern

Right on some guy. This week we play the "Shively Bowl" vs. a resurgent Butler team. Butler is less than 3 miles from Western and about half of our players live in the neighborhood right across the street from Butler. So I expect a amped game Friday.

Yeah Mike. It was especially painful watching the game on film the next day. We had three different chances (with the ball inside LBS's 20) to go up 17-0 in the 2nd quarter and didn't. Also we took a sack with 8 seconds left in the half in 2nd down at the LBS four, keeping us from improving on our 10-7 lead at the time. That was a back-breaker. LBS came out and dominated the LOS in the second half as we ran out of gas a little. Not to make excuses, but we had 4 starters not make the trip due to the flu and our best RB (who had 177 yards on 19 carries last night) sat out serving an in-school suspension. Jeffersontown is a good football team. We had our hands full up until the very end of the game. They just ran up and down the field, but we turned them away a couple times down close. We do have a lot of speed and talent, but it's going to take us to gel as a group, mature as a TEAM and stop all the silly little mistakes before we make plans to go very far in the playoffs. But if we can do those things, we're certainly talented enough to make it to December.

7 John Hardin 5 Christian Academy 3 Fern Creek 2 Scott Co. 1 Spencer Co. Fern Creek

We just can't seem to finish. That and we're just not mature as a football team. Taking a sack with 8 seconds left up 10-7 in the half inside the LBS 5 was really a back-breaker for us. I thought we did a good job changing defenses and keeping McCaden bottled up in the 1st half, he only had one long run, but it set up their lone 1st half TD. He and Arnett both wore us down in the 2nd half. And again just like Male, LBS was better physically up front and got our D got a little tired in the 2nd half. Offensively we couldn't sustain anything that kept the defense off the field for any period of time. IF we can "grow up" before the playoffs start I think we can make a deep run in 4-A.

7.Seneca 5.Male 3.Cincinnati St. Xavier 2.Cincinnati Elder 1.Bullitt East Elder

7 Central Hardin 5 Oldham Co. 3 South Oldham 2 Seneca 1 Kentucky Country Day 1st Tiebreaker: Kentucky Country Day

Twice in the past two seasons I've heard one of our opponent's captains yell to their bench after the coin toss: "What does defer mean".

Yeah Centre - ALL teams/student bodies have their knuckleheads. But hey, they're only kids.

I traded films with a Male coach this morning. He told me this went back to last year's game in which Eastern beat Male. Also one of Male's #1 RB's scored a TD with 14 seconds left in a 34-18 game might have helped stir the pot.

7 Manual 5 Male 3 Bullitt East 2 Nelson Co. 1 Carroll Co. 1st Tiebreaker: Male

I'm on the Western staff and I was not surprised. DeSales has 24 seniors on a team that barely dresses 50 players. They have been one win from the 2-A title game two times in the past four years. If anything I was surprised how bad our kids played. They got the best of us up front on both sides of the ball and our QB showed the game rust of not playing in essentially two seasons. I'm thinking DeSales will make another deep run in 2-A. The 10 starters on both sides of the ball was before several seniors (3 were 2-way starters) recently made choices to not be part of our team this year. As far as biggest surprise, I'd have to go with Holy Cross winning so easily.

One of the local (Louisville) Sports reported it as 61-12 Fairdale.

Central got unexpedly throttled by a DaMarcus Smith-less Seneca team.

7 Highlands 5 Central 3 Western 2 Ballard 1 Henry Co 1st Tiebreaker: Highlands