"old"shooter

Good crew. I assume Bob Kouns will be at Ashland.

Fairview won the first meeting by 11. However, RH was without Mike Terry and the game was played at Fairview. Should be a good game matching the two best teams in the district with the coveted #1 seed at stake. Who will be officiating besides Rex?

I'm sure Ashland would be quite happy to reschedule the game for next year.

Can we assume that the Ashland-Elliott County game will not be rescheduled? I'm sure Ashland would prefer this solution.

Fortunately the game is at Summit.

Good come back from the all "A". No let down this year. Good luck the rest of the season.

Is there any truth to the rumor that all of Ashland's staff is in church praying for a blizzard this afternoon?:scared:

Ashland cannot beat EC. We all know that. Therefore, EC will win. By how much? That will be up to EC. Will they still be pouting about their Class A performance or will they rise to the occasion? It is entirely up to them. If they play hard, they can pretty much name the score. If they brood, who knows? Good teams bounce back and do so with authority. We'll learn a lot about EC tonight.

Elliott County probably lost its chance to win a state championship. It is very unlikely that they can survive the lower bracket at Rupp Arena.

Final.

I am for EC. However, I have to admit, having been there for the BBC, that Southside, Pickering, and Myrtle Beach were three of the weaker teams in the event. EC, by losing its opening game to what turned out to be a "second tier" team in the BBC, avoided all the top teams. Southside and MB were in-state host teams and Pickering was from Canada (not exactly a hotbed for hs basketball even with their big record against other Canadian schools).

I talked with the RH coach and you are technically correct. He said it was actually a 4th grade tournament in which he played 3rd graders against your 4th graders. He had no complaint since that is just the way it worked out. I was confusing that period with an earlier period when your boys got "bushwhacked" by being forced to play RH (using a factitious team name, I believe) in a Russell tournament. There has been so much cloak and dagger activity since 2001 that it is difficult to keep the "activities" straight. However, I'll bet we can agree that your official policy is to forbid your elementary teams from playing RH. Surely, you can't deny that? But, this thread deals with Ashland and Boyd County and their perceived loss of stature and not elementary "practices". So, to tie all this together, I'll just say that Ashland needs to take a serious look at its feeder system. You get better by playing the better teams.

Is the GRC-Ashland game still on? I doubt GRC will want to cancel it.

Even the finest of chefs cannot produce a fine meal if he has very little in ingredients in his kitchen with even less ready for delivery in the foreseeable future. Could that be the real problem for Chef Buddy?

Really? Care to elaborate on Hager's side of the primary issue? Did they and do they dodge RH or not? Or possibly, instead of the "trick" in the tournament scenerio which did happen but possibly may have been a different year, did they lose during that "streak" to RH but afterward declare it a practice game so they wouldn't have to count it? Be honest and forget the spin.

A couple of years ago, there was a big and impressive article in the newspaper about Hager's Sixth Grade team winning over 50 games in a row in their years at Hager. It sounded great until I was told that the record was built by beating Ashland's other elementary teams and not by beating the best in the area. I also believe that that same Hager team was sort of "tricked" into playing Rose Hill in a tournament, possibly at Russell (I do know that Ashland's elementary teams are forbidden from playing Rose Hill even in charitable tournaments). Needless to say, Rose Hill cleaned the undefeated Hager team by a rather big margin. Assuming all this is true, it serves as a good example of why Ashland struggles at most all levels in basketball. You can't continually hide.

Opening Round Paris NCC Owensboro Catholic Lexington Christian Caldwell Co. Gallatin Co. Elliott Co. Ballard Memorial Semi-finals Paris LCA Caldwell Co. Elliott Co. Finals LCA Elliott Co. Champion LCA tb-142

Congratulations to the Lady Lions. Coach Romer and Cantrell have really turned the program around. Back to back All "A" Regional Championships. Good luck at Richmond.

Congratulations to the Lady Rams.

5pt- Christian Academy-Louisville 3pt- Lafayette 3pt- Henry Clay 1pt- Central Hardin 1pt- Powell County 1pt- Lexington Catholic 1pt- Pike County Central 1pt- Madison Southern 1pt- Doss 1pt- George Rogers Clark tb- 123

Emily Queen- Rose Hill Laura Terry- Rose Hill Kayla Faulkner- Rose Hill

The shot was clearly as good as was Skagg's game-ending 3 pointer. Stange thing is the latter counted and the former didn't. I guess that must be a part of the homecourt advantage over there.

Rose Hill lost 11 of its players from last year- 2 to graduation and the others to various "relocations". They are extremely young and will have their best teams in the next few years. Playing well this season is actually a bonus. Someone posted that Ashland's guards didn't play well. DeLaney was held to 6 shots from the field and only hit 1 of them. The reason was that Johnny Bush almost completely shut him down. If the game awarded an MVP, it would have gone to Bush.

Congratulations to the Lady Lions. I did pick Elliott to win. Good luck on Thursday.

I think that this will be another close game. Elliott is coming off a big win Sat. against Bryan Station. I think that Coach Romer will have the Lady Lions ready to play this game.