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I like Madisonville in a close one, but these rivalry games are usually pretty unpredictable.

Caldwell's Barnes was 10-21 for 106.

Central's Powell was 20 of 33 for 257.

Caldwell's offensive line looked pathetic, to be polite about it. The knock going in on Hopkins Central was that they couldn't block anybody. Hopkins Central is definitely improved, but I think Caldwell would have made a lot of teams look pretty good Saturday night.

Hopkins Central manhandled Caldwell up front and won in a game that was more lopsided than the final score might suggest.

Hopkins Central ran 80 plays, had 545 total yards, 29 first downs and held the ball for 32:14 of the contest.

Still, Caldwell was within 14-7 at halftime, and it could have been 7-7. Caldwell fumbled deep in its own end with less than a minute left in the half and Hopkins Central capitalized.

After falling behind by four TDs, Caldwell got back to within 34-21 in the fourth quarter. But a 15-play, 6-minute drive, capped by a 20-yard TD pass on 4th-and-16, enabled the Storm to put the game away.

Caldwell was thoroughly whipped up front.

Caldwell finished the night with just four first downs, 125 yards (only 19 rushing).

Rollins' absence would certainly make a difference. I'm still a little surprised that Webster couldn't generate a little more offense.

BTW, congrats to Webster on the win.

Does anyone know how the Rollins kid looked for Webster? I thought he would run wild against Reidland.

I thought Webster would win this one easily.

You're right, Scribe. I sure don't see Reidland getting Trigg, Caldwell, Murray or Heath.

This game was about as close as I expected it to be.

Union's still young and, overall, not very quick. Lone Oak was not a good way for the Braves to open. Robinson is going to put up huge numbers this season for the Flash.

How many passing yards will Lone Oak and Caldwell combine for next week?

The absolutely, positively worst lighting in this hemisphere has to be Webster County.

I think they're old tennis court lights or something. My back yard is better lit than Webster's field.

I've actually heard receivers say they lost the ball in the darkness.

I think if everyone pulled their cars up around the field and left their headlights on it would be an improvement.

Watching Caldwell County score 25 points in the fourth quarter to beat a very good Danville team 38-28 in the 1998 Class 2A state championship was certainly unusual in my eyes.

But the strangest thing I saw was in a game earlier that season. Hopkins Central had Caldwell down 20-19 and was trying to run out the clock. The Storm was well into Caldwell territory and had a fourth down with about 15 seconds to play. In an effort to kill the clock, the Hopkins Central quarterback actually ran backward down the field. But Caldwell caught him around the 23 or 24 yard line and tackled him with two seconds left. With the clock stopped on change of possession, the Tigers ran their field goal team out and kicked a 41-yard field goal on the final play to win 22-20.

That was a week after Caldwell had lost at Marshall County in the second game of the season. If the Tigers had lost to Hopkins Central who knows which way the season would have turned. Instead it started a 13-game winning streak.

From what I heard, the teams went to camp at Troy together and it wasn't even close, Caldwell was the better team.

Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean a whole lot when they start playing for real.

Caldwell by 12.

Caldwell's starters outscored Henderson two touchdowns to none.

Henderson's first unit got a long run against Caldwell's JV to set up a short TD run. Henderson reserves scored against Caldwell reserves on the last play of the scrimmage.

Caldwell TDs came on a 9-yard run by Marcus Wimbleduff and a 12-yard pass from Will Barnes to Jake Pepper. Pepper also had a 69-yard punt, kicked off well and does a good job placekicking.

Caldwell lost 2 huge DTs from last year that will be difficult to replace. The Tigers aren't very big this year, but they do have a little quickness. Offensively, the spread offense is going to produce big receiving numbers for somebody. Defensively, Caldwell gets to the ball pretty well, but may struggle to stop the run up the middle (never a good thing).

Again, the error in the "just don't go" theory is that we should be encouraging more people to be involved in prep sports not giving them another reason to stay home and watch Louisville play on TV Friday night.

I think all schools charge too much for regular season games. Then everyone acts stupified as to why many high school sporting events are held in front of 20-25 people.

Football is fortunate that it is still a pretty big draw on the high school level. Most other sports are not draws, with limited exceptions. I would hate to see football end up like that because schools got a little too greedy.

Perhaps some schools can charge for everything little thing and get away with it. I'm betting most schools can't.

If little Class 2A Caldwell County can hold a scrimmage, feed both teams and not charge anybody to get in, exactly why do schools like Trinity and Marshall County need to charge?

Caldwell County is not charging for its scrimmage Thursday against Henderson County.

I think charging for a scrimmage, unless you're raising money for charity or another good cause, is bush league.

What's next? A season pass so we can watch the teams practice? Should I fork over $5 the next time I ask a coach how their team is looking?

A lot of people already give a lot of money to their local schools. I see no reason to try to squeeze out every red cent. Make your money at the concession stand if you have to.

Charging for every little thing is just going to turn more and more people away from high school sports. We need to be doing everything possible to encourage more people to attend.

How strange it is to see Ft. Campbell in a district that doesn't include Trigg County and Caldwell County.

The way things are broken down this season, Ft. Campbell is not even in the same region.

This realignment stuff is taking some getting used to.

No Ft. Campbell even on the Caldwell schedule? Did I mention it seems strange?

OTOH, Ft. Campbell should provide a good counter to OCath in District 2.

He's leaving some talent at Caldwell, although most of it is young. The Lady Tigers are expected to have only one senior and no juniors this year. But three sophomores have started since midway through their eighth grade seasons.

Of course, at Tilghman there are a lot more athletes to choose from, and the money is undoubtedly better.

As a Caldwell Countian, I hate to lose him. But, with his abilities, it was only a matter of time.

Josh Barnett is leaving the Caldwell County Lady Tigers to take over the Paducah Tilghman girls program.

Josh did an outstanding job at Caldwell. He should keep Tilghman in the 1st Region chase.

Barnett was named 2nd Region Coach of the Year this past season and coached the regional Player of the Year, Melly Heaton.

Crittenden County plays Glasgow at 6 p.m. in the first game of the Trice Hughes Bowl Aug. 31 at Caldwell County.

Easy to understand why that's not on there, since the teams in this bowl have changed about 50 million times.

My experience has been that games are better officiated with two refs. When there are three, refs are hesitant to call anything unless it's right in front of them. Anything else was "not in my zone."

I think the shot clock would be hard to implement in high school.

I've seen too many schools have difficulty just running the regular clock and keep the score right.

The one rule change I'd like to see is the 10-second backcourt count. I've never understood why you get an additional 10 seconds if the ball gets knocked out of bounds or you call a timeout. I think the count should pick back up where it left off. Only the NBA (with its 8 second count) gets this call right (never thought I'd say that).

I'm still worn out from the other thread :lol: :lol: :lol: but I would like to try to make a couple of points.

For one, no one is wanting to take anything away from the larger schools or diminish the Sweet 16. Some of us just think that a more equitable system could be put into place that's more fair for everybody. Whether that's two classes, three, four or six we could debate all day.

Second, many who want to keep one class use the rationale that a small school will eventually make another run at state. I don't doubt that either. But that's like lumping every small school in the state into one "small school" team. I doubt Ballard Memorial got much of a thrill out of June Buchanan making the state tournament any more than a large school like Henderson County is tickled to see Scott County make it.

Third, there's a lot of talk from some about how the small schools love the challenge of playing the big schools. However, I've talked to lots of people at lots of small schools and that's not the response I get. Many consider the situation hopeless, which is a sorry state indeed.

Now I'm tired again...

Girls basketball is fairly new to this state against the boys side of the coin. To see so many small private schools win the girls side, then if they dont the big schools are the runners up. How can a 2A girls team ever, ever have a chance. Even if you have a great team and get out of the region by beaten two 4 A schools and two 3 A schools, then you get to state and have to face both private and 4A schools what are the chances for any small public team to win 9 games against that competition???

 

Does any one else have a logical answer (2 games district, 3 games regiong, 4 games state)? Or should there be another option for these kids?

The option many are choosing is to not play. Numbers are down in a lot of smaller programs. Granted, some schools never had 30 kids out for basketball, but I've seen scorebooks this year with only 8-10 kids listed, and some of those are middle schoolers.

Very open-minded opinion.".

Thank you.

If you had seen the "recruitment" done by the private schools in the western end of the state that I have, you'd probably feel the same way.

With UVH the recruiting was proven and the KHSAA banned the importing of foreign students. Don't use this isolated incident to group all private schols.

As far as I'm concerned, all private schools "recruit" all their students, in some form or fashion, including UHA. That gives them a source from which to draw players that public schools don't have. Therefore, unfair advantage for private schools.

And don't begin to feed me the recruiting bit. maybe they have better feeder systems where really qualified and dedicated parents do a great job teaching grade schoolers the basics.

At one time, University Heights' "feeder system" was called the planet Earth.

Count me among those that think private schools should be grouped with the largest schools or put into a classification of their own.