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Game preview from amnews.com: Prep Football: Boyle braced for tougher second game against Warren Central - centralkynews.com

Game preview from amnews.com: Prep Football: Mercer, Danville look for improvement in first meeting since 1998 - centralkynews.com

Game preview from amnews.com: Prep Football: Lincoln County has to rebound against solid Bourbon County team - centralkynews.com

I also was told this, but not until a couple days ago.

I was also told JV, for what it's worth, and by a BC coach. Sorry, I did not have any details to add.

Correct. Tied in with their game last week in the Death Valley Bowl, it makes Boyle-Lincoln a home-and-home series for two years. Also, Larry French and John Hodge didn't want to go head to head. Bourbon plays Warren Central in 2014 at Boyle.

Final from Monday.

Photo: Danville captains Olyjawan Ford (34), Jacobie Harris (52), Nolan Spann (18) and Trevon Sandifer (74) head to midfield with coach Clay Clevenger for the pregame captains' meeting prior to their season opener Saturday at Campbellsville University. The Admirals wore Campbellsville junior varsity jerseys for their first game under Clevenger. ============================================ It was the kind of thing that can make coaches crazy, and the kind of thing Clay Clevenger surely did not need before his first game as coach at Danville. Coaches try to make sure every detail is covered before their teams take the field so they can focus on the task at hand, and Clevenger is probably as detail-oriented as the next coach. But when he sent the Admirals onto the field at Campbellsville University on Saturday night for their season opener, only to find that the Admirals’ opponents were wearing the same color jerseys, he might have thought it was a bad sign. But if that’s the worst thing that happens to Clevenger and his team this season, it should be a pretty good year at Danville. Exactly what kind of year it is going to be has been the subject of much discussion in Danville since Clevenger was hired in February to replace Sam Harp, who led the Admirals for 25 years to take the head coaching job at Lebanon (Tenn.) That’s no knock on Clevenger, a 1996 Danville graduate who returned home with solid credentials after going 45-27 in six years at Henderson County following stints as an assistant coach at Lincoln County and the University of the Cumberlands. Rather, it was a question about where the program is headed and whether the Admirals could return to a time when they regularly competed for championships. It’s too early to write a definitive answer, but one game into the Clevenger era, it’s clear he’s trying to take the program in only one direction: forward. “Do you want to go back, or do you want to keep moving forward?” Clevenger asked the Admirals in the moments after they defeated Franklin-Simpson 25-7. Of course, you know how the players responded. After months of early-morning workouts and fierce practices and perhaps wondering more than once if their new coach had lost his mind, their efforts were rewarded with a season-opening win. Clevenger said his final instructions to his players in his pregame speech were to encourage them to have fun. “They don’t get these nights back. Take advantage of them, play with a sense of heart and urgency and have fun,” he said. It was certainly a fun night for the Admirals and for Clevenger, who was in the fifth grade when Harp’s first Danville team lost its first three games to Bryan Station, St. Xavier and Lincoln in 1988. And if the Admirals had lost Saturday, there was a very real possibility that could happen again, with games against Mercer County and Boyle County following Franklin-Simpson on the schedule. The Admirals weren’t without mistakes in their opener. There were 11 penalties, two blocked kicks and a few times in which their defense had trouble getting off the field on third down. But they executed long touchdown drives in the second and third quarters and stopped one by Franklin-Simpson in the final minute of the first half as they built a 13-0 lead. They kept the Wildcats out of the end zone until the fourth quarter, then forced two turnovers that allowed them to put the game on ice. Freshman Zack Dampier showed poise in his first start at quarterback, a balanced running game didn’t break any big plays but did its job, and the line play that had been perhaps the team’s biggest question mark proved adequate to the task. And Danville got the job done wearing somebody else’s jerseys. Officials at Campbellsville worked quickly to fix the mix-up, as they gathered jerseys from the school’s junior varsity team that the Admirals changed into minutes before kickoff. The white-and-maroon jerseys didn’t match Danville’s traditional silver helmets and pants, but that was forgotten once the action started. Clothes don’t make the man in football, after all, and no one grades the winners on style points.

A weekly notebook focusing on Boyle County, Danville and Mercer County, with occasional info on other teams in central Kentucky's Wilderness Trace area: LOOKING BACK Boyle County 41, Lincoln County 0 Josiah Robbins was responsible for 210 of Boyle’s 312 yards, completing all five of his passes for 95 yards and one touchdown and rushing for 115 yards and two TDs to help the Rebels hand Lincoln its seventh loss in eight years in its PBK Bank/WPBK-FM Death Valley Bowl. Aiden Stewart rushed for one touchdown and returned an interception for another for the Rebels, who led 27-0 after one quarter and had all of their points on the board before the midpoint of the second period. The teams will meet again next year in Boyle’s Stuart Powell Ford Bowl. Danville 25, Franklin-Simpson 7 Zack Dampier threw for one touchdown and ran for another and Danville’s defense created two turnovers to clinch a win in Clay Clevenger’s debut as the Admirals’ coach in the Forcht Bank Bowl at Campbellsville. Trailing 13-7 midway through the fourth quarter, Franklin-Simpson had a chance to tie or take the lead after stopping Danville on downs before Jacobie Harris forced a fumble that Stephen Ray returned 47 yards for a touchdown and Ray Bradshaw intercepted a pass that led to a rushing touchdown by Jawan Grey. Mercer County 48, Allen County-Scottsville 20 Drew Davis threw for 194 yards and three touchdowns as Mercer rolled in the Rafferty’s Bowl at Bowling Green for its second straight season-opening win over Allen. Chris Crawley-Goodman had 206 all-purpose yards and three touchdowns and Layne Peavler had two touchdowns — the first on a 72-yard catch-and-run on the first play of the game — for the Titans, who defeated the Patriots 33-20 in Boyle County’s bowl last year. Garrard County 23, Casey County 0 Garrard’s defense forced nine turnovers as the Golden Lions blanked Casey in their Hall of Fame Bowl. Noah Williams rushed for 100 yards and had two 1-yard touchdown runs for the Lions. Wyatt Bishop had 100 yards rushing for the Rebels. The two teams will meet again next year in the same game at Garrard. LOOKING AHEAD Mercer County at Danville, 6 p.m. Friday The Titans and Admirals face off for the first time in 15 years in the first game of Danville’s Bob Allen Pigskin Classic, where Mercer is making its first appearance. Danville dealt Mercer 12 straight losses from 1987-98 when both teams were in the same Class AA district, and the closest of those games was decided by 27 points. Danville has a five-game winning streak in its own bowl. Warren Central at Boyle County, 8:30 p.m. The Dragons and Rebels meet for only the second time when Warren Central visits Boyle’s Stuart Powell Ford Bowl. Boyle won the previous meeting five years ago, beating Warren Central 49-13 in a bowl at Bowling Green. Warren Central committed six turnovers in its season opener, a 27-13 loss to Madisonville-North Hopkins in a bowl at Greenwood. Boyle is 2-0 in its bowl, beating Allen County-Scottsville in 2011 and Collins in ’12. Other Games Bourbon County vs. Lincoln County at Boyle County, 6 p.m.: Lincoln faces another tough test in the opener at Boyle’s bowl. Glasgow vs. Garrard County at Danville, 8:30 p.m.: Garrard faces Glasgow for the first time since 2005 as it looks to end its losing streak in Danville’s bowl, where it lost to Danville in 2011 and Anderson County in ’12. Taylor County at Casey County, 7:30 p.m.: Casey will try to avenge a 28-point loss at Taylor last year. RATING THE TRACE 1. Boyle County 2. Mercer County 3. Danville 4. Garrard County 5. Lincoln County 6. Casey County

This is game 1 of the Bob Allen Pigskin Classic at Danville. (Mercer will also appear in this bowl in 2014). Both teams are 1-0 after Mercer defeated Allen County-Scottsville and Danville defeated Franklin-Simpson. This is the first meeting between these schools from neighboring counties since 1998, the last year they occupied the same Class AA district. Danville won that game 48-0, and the Admirals won 12 straight meetings with what were then the Scotties from 1987-98 while they were in the same district.

This is game 1 of the Stuart Powell Ford Bowl at Boyle County. (Each team will appear in this bowl in 2013 and '14). Bourbon is 1-0 following a win over Montgomery County; Lincoln is 0-1 after a loss to Boyle. The teams last met in 2001 in Lincoln's Death Valley Bowl, where Bourbon won 40-28.

Danville freshman QB Zack Dampier (1 passing td, 1 rushing 1d) and F-S senior RB Chris Holman (about 100 rushing yards) were named game MVPs.

Final from the Death Valley Bowl at Lincoln County. Game MVPs: Evan Kerr, LB, Bullitt East; Jalen Washington, RB-QB-DB, Frankfort.

Final from the Death Valley Bowl. MVPs are Josiah Robbins of Boyle (2 rushing tds, 1 passing td ), Dalton Godbey of Lincoln (backup qb )

They make it pretty clear where the votes come from in the first paragraph of the story: The coaches who aren't voting probably aren't embarassed, because as PurplePride said, they just don't care.

If you ask the coaches to vote, then once those coaches realize you're going to change the results anyway, the number of coaches voting would drop from 110 to something closer to 10. It's hard enough to get them to participate as it is, and they'd have no reason to if they didn't think their votes counted or were being taken seriously.

If the list is flawed, you can only hold accountable the people casting the ballots, not the ones counting them. If there were 110 votes, that's barely half the total number of coaches statewide. You're never going to get them all, but given that this is the only all-state team for which coaches can vote, the number of those who participate should certainly be higher. As long as it isn't, you can't help but have some deserving players omitted.

I'm sure the AD didn't mind at all.

7 Bowling Green 5 Mayfield 3 NewCath 2 Trinity 1 Central TB: NewCath

1A: Mayfield 3A: Central 4A: Highlands 2A: NewCath 5A: Bowling Green 6A: Trinity TB: 24 points

The one time I visited there we parked in a decent-sized church parking lot on 15th Street that is right across the street from the visitors' grandstand. Folks from the church were welcoming to the football crowd, and we were just steps away from the gate.

5 Cooper 3 Warren East 3 Mayfield 1 Bowling Green 1 PRP 1 Central 1 Belfry 1 NewCath 1 Caldwell 1 Fairview TB: 35 points

7 Central 5 NewCath 3 PRP 2 Fairview 1 Belfry TB: NewCath

7 Frankfort 5 LexCath 3 Murray 2 Cooper 1 Central TB: Cooper

5 LexCath 3 Monroe 3 Collins 1 Cooper 1 Somerset 1 Frankfort 1 Central 1 Warren East 1 Butler 1 Highlands TB: 24 points