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What positions do these two play?

Pretty sure Al Baker was at UK, but I don't know anything about his career.

Didn't Shawn Robbins go somewhere in Texas???

Thanks Old Rambler. This sounds like a great idea for Russell, I personally wasn't a big fan of playing on the old field but this should help it tremendously.

Is this "crumb rubber" thing like a regular grass field but with small bits of rubber in it???

This is great news! I have the utmost respect for these young men.

Carter is a very athletic and fast kid, but IMO he needs to learn to stop dancing and running east-west and learn to just hit the hole and get 2 or 3 instead of trying for the homerun everytime. Once he learns this I think he can be a very good running back for Ashland.

Didn't Whiting commit to Ohio State already??

^ Thats great news!:thumb:

Ashlands Matt Thomas has visited Gardner Webb and was offered a partial by EKU. Not sure where else he's looking at though.

Ohio Wesleyan, Wooster, Wittenberg are the names i have heard. I'm pretty sure there are a few more but i can't think of them off the top of my head.

This is great news for a very talented young man, not only on the sports fields but apparently he is very gifted in the classroom too. good luck to you richie!!

Caleb Rigsby is getting a lot of DIII interest from many schools in Ohio from what I've heard.

Matt played DE in high school, he was turned into a LB at Centre.

Hart was up for the job last time too, heard he got stiffed somehow??? Anybody know the details of that?

But it wasn't just OJ, you also had Marcus Thomas, Marcus Dawson, Mark King and a few others who contributed big time. As a 7th and 8th grader which is when he played in the 16th region, OJ was not the best player to play in the 16th in the last 25 years.

That is IMO what basketball should be about, teamwork and defense.

OJ only played in the 16th for a short while and doesn't have the best stats the 16th has ever seen, he did his best stuff long after he left this region. If you want to count the things he did AFTER he left then yes probably OJ but not WHILE he was here.

Tony Love-Ashland

"I gets no respect"

I love Ashlands Putnam Stadium! The horseshoe style with the stands right on top of the sidelines, and the history in it. Russells "Hank" is #2 in my book, and when these 2 teams play eachother expect either stadium to be packed to the brim, 10,000+ is some instances.

What about the QB from Clay County?

Thomas originally went to Ashland public schools, Poage Elementary, why not go back home? And he lives maybe 400yds from Ashland High School.

Honestly I'm not sure its so much the inexperience as it is lack of talent and lack of team leadership. This years senior class is honestly pretty pitiful other than Matt Thomas. Every year we have had a quality senior class and quality captains who know how to lead, know how to win, and know what it takes to win and make everyone else follow their lead. Bonner, Mcdavid, Gallagher, Davis, Holbrook, Brislin, Reliford, Gurule, Robinette, Hensley, Clark are all quality leaders who have been through the fire. Our captains this year and our seniors are not leaders.

Ashland is inexperienced because they lost 20 starters from the year before. When you return only 2 starters on your entire team you're definitely going to be inexperienced and it takes a lot of time to get experience and get used to the speed of the game if you haven't been exposed to it before. It's not the coaches fault that they lost so many good players, they are running tough practices and have been hit by the injury bug pretty badly too.