Bluedog

Basketball kids playing football is not the killer. The success of football hurts basketball because basketball gets the football players for 4 practices before their first basketball game. Listerman is definitely changing the culture around HHS.

Beau would play and possibly start in time. Griff on the other hand would definitely not start and could possibly not play much. You have to remember that neither of these kids have played organized ball since 8th grade.

The 8th region was very strong this year with several seniors. Parker Harris chipped in for birdie on the 18th hole to shoot 69 to win his third straight region individual title. Tyler Lippert barely missed a birdie putt on 18 to tie for a playoff opportunity. Drew McDonald birdied 3 out of his 4 last holes to shoot 72 and qualify for state. Cody Kellam played solid golf to shoot 72. When someone shoots 73, Jacob Vrolik of Grant County, and does not qualify, this is some vey strong competition. Seiors in this region are Harris, McDonald, Kellam and 2 from Bourbon are Crossfield and Trelobs. In the 7th region, Ryle rolls to a win led by Austin Squires. They have 4 seniors, Squires, Gamm, Poore and Adams. Paul Huber from Cov Cath shot a 80 and is also a senior.

It has always been my understanding that once the ball touches the backboard it can not be blocked. Doesn't matter if the ball is still going up or not.

I agree. The way Holmes was shooting free throws, Hatton should have taken the ball to the basket and he may have gotten a and 1. Especially on the 3 he shot before the last one. I can't believe Holmes missed as many free throws as they did. At 1 time they missed 8 in a row. If Holmes doesn't make their free throws they will not beat CCH.

Free throws. If Holmes shoots free throws like they did yesterday, I don't see them winning. And if Cov Cath is up late in the game and Holmes sends Ruthsatz to the line, CCH wins. You have to make free throws at the end, and I give a slight edge to CCH.

I don't think they will be as good. Weyer prefers to play the 3 instead of the 4 and losing Moeves really hurts them. Having 3 bigs is quite a bit different than having 2 bigs. Don't get me wrong, they will still be good, but not as good.

Pangallo was slightly spinning and not square when Ruthsatz jumped into him. If Pangallo had jumped straight up and stayed square to him with hands up, then no call.

Couple of corrections and add ons Todd Ramey 6'1" Bo Hoge 6' and now 207 lbs Griffin Urlage 6'4" and 220 lbs Jenson Feggins 6'3" 220 lbs, strong, quick and started several games last year Any one know where Lane Herrett is? He played half the season as a freshman, then left for Cov Cath and now has left there.

Q was right. The game was not decided until midway of the 4th quarter.

New Cath played well. Highlands just couldn't handle their height inside. First possession of the game NC has 2 offensive rebounds off 2 missed shots and finally made the third. NC doesn't have any glaring weeknesses. HHS played hard and battled to the end. Good news for HHS is they can't draw NC. Good luck to both teams in the region.

I was wondering for 2 of Highlands games where Coach Krauss was, and found out he was scouting Newport. He really knows his basketball and he is in Listerman's ear the whole game. HHS doesn't have to win tomorrow night, they just have to able to hang with them to get enough confidence going into the Region. They need to be within 10 going into the 4th quarter. New Cath is tough.

Agree with Stinky Boy II, Harris played his worst game of the year against Newport the first time they played. He got into foul trouble that game and played the fewest minutes of any game all year. Team played the most complete game of the year. Their were a few mistakes late in the game and a few bad shots at the very end when the clock was on their side that they will need to clean up. Everyone contributed. Besides Harris, Weyer, Buten, Houliston and Cain all made 3 pointers. And several came at important times in the game. Got to give it to Snapp. The kid can shoot. He made some bombs. One of his shots had to be from 30 feet out. He needs to get some meat on those bones to help fend off the double teams which will be coming the next 2 years.

Well done. When does the Regional Draw come out? Not a single kid from Highlands even made honorable mention.

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NCC played a very good basketball game. They couldn't miss coming out of the gate. HHS showed a lot of rust not playing for 10 days. For NCC, McDonald showed he is much quicker this year than last year and Weyer has increased his range. HHS just couldn't make any shots early and had quite a few good looks. NCC swatted several shots in the first quarter and that made it harder for HHS to score. Highlands not only gives up about 4 inches per man on the floor, they give up probably 20 - 30 pounds per man as well. To start the game Houliston is on McDonald giving up 6 inches and Hergott is on Weyer giving up 6 inches. I give credit to Listermann for trying something new, coming out of the gate shooting. Just couldn't get the ball to go in the hoop.

Of the varsity players who played last night, Buten is the only basketball only, and the only varsity player that has basketball as their first sport.

HHS has only had 15 practices with their whole team since the football season ended. Most schools have had almost their entire team 7 weeks before their season started. HHS only had 4 practices. They have not worked hardly any on their press offense. CCH's press just ate them alive and their trapping defense was solid in the half court. HHS's most deliberate game of he year was their best game of the year. Their 3 point percentage says they need to get good shots.

CCH played a very good basketball game and the players are to be commended. Shuh cleaned up anything that got close to the goal and number 42 was a beast around the basket. However the coach still had his son in the game when all the other starters were pulled with 4 minutes to go in the game. And he was still pressing the whole game. This was classless! I guess his son only had 10 points and he was trying to get him some more points even as Listerman had pulled all his starters.

Of the top 8 players, 5 of them are football players. And you could have as many as 6 football players seeing action tonight. As of yesterday, there still isn't a set lineup and there will be either 2 or 3 football players to start. Needless to say, this team will look a lot different in January and February than it does now.

After the Cov Cath game I told my son that I hoped the late hits and taunting would come back to haunt Highlands and it did. There is no place in the game for this kind of behavior. Congrats to Collins, they played a good game. I guess next year the Highlands kids won't think this is automatic.

I also like their uniforms. It is an actually a rule that any HHS sports team can not wear black uniforms.

Birds up 36 - 0. Going to be running clock in the first half.

Drew is definitely one of the three best in the region with Bolden and Hatton. It will be interesting to see if they pound the ball into him. When NCC lost to Holmes in the region last year, they dominated when they went to Drew. I have hard that NC is going to run more this year. That will be interesting to see also. One drawback Drew has is he is not very fast. Everything else he is stellar.

I'm thinking Male is going to win. When was the last time a non-Louisville school won the state in the top division?