All Play No Work

Nail-biter with Brossart winning by 2.

NewCath 48 Conner 44

Connor scored the first 9 points of the game and then widened that lead to 27-13 at the half.

Somehow NewCath rallied in the fourth period behind Geisler and Doyle despite only using 6 players and facing a full court press the entire game. Took the lead with 1:22 left.

Conner has a decent team. Good pressing team as they pressed NewCath into turnovers the entire game and NewCath never pressed. They go fairly deep. No real size but they rebound fairly well.

NewCath has two scoring options basically and some role players. They don't handle the ball real well but rebound okay. If Cain and/or Kelly join after football is over they should be a little deeper and a little better.

Does Coach teach English up on the hill?

Advanced Placement English which obviously is not for all.

Correct...Some will opt out. Either they think they are too good and a waste of time or vice versa.

I just think none of the good teams will want to commit to the games and the time span. That's prime time to play in tourneys against other good Louisville, NKY, and Ohio teams.

What is the record for most 3's in Nky?

I think the NCC record is 11 or 12 threes when Dawn dropped 55 on Beechwood in the All-A.

How does this NCC team compare with the past two state title teams?

2005 was speed on offense and defense and fairly deep.

2006 was size on the lines and at QB.

2007 is speed and depth and special teams. Maybe faster on offense than 2005, not as big as 2006.

This will be the worst thing to happen to Hawaii since Greg Brady hit his head on a rock.

Georgia 62

Hawaii 28

I'm going to guess that some of the NKY and Louisville schools that are eligible for the All-A will not play in it.

I don't think it will be that close.

This will be a better game in January if they meet again in the All-A. Right now NCC has no size. Wins will be tough to come by until after Christmas.

Some great games this year:

Bellevue holding off Newport by getting turnover after turnover clinging to a 13-7 lead.

Dayton beating Holmes on a long punt return that set up the TD and then getting a two point conversion on a botched PAT to win 21-19.

Dayton beating Lynn Camp 20-15 when Lynn Camp drives to the one foot line on 4th and goal.

Ryle beating NewCath by intercepting a pass in the endzone on 4th and goal with seconds left.

NewCath beating Campbell County in OT after taking the tying FG off the board and accepting a penalty.

Dayton beating Beelvue in the regular season in a great atmosphere and then Bellevue beating Dayton in the playoffs.

NewCath beating Beechwood in a wild 4th quarter that saw Beechwood come back from being down 31-14 to make it 31-28 only to have NCC score 10 more in the last two minutes.

Thanks to Bluto for the info on LCA's record. After seeing LCA play at Loyd and now being aware of what they have done this year elseware, I am convinced their fate is sealed. I don't believe they have played a team yet that is anyware close to having the talent of Beechwood. They allowed almost 50 points to Corbin, Breathitt & Hazard. Granted they came back and defeated Hazard, but in the scope of things "It is what It is", their D can not deal with a team that has any kind of above average offense. Now they have to take on the best offense they have ever seen and the best D they have ever seen. On top of that, Beechwood is peaking and our team focused and angry about what transpired the last time we met. Those chants by LCA's fans and team members of "Over Rated - Over Rated" will come back to haunt them. It's just more fuel for the fire !

 

I look for the game to be semi-close until mid-2nd quarter. Then as LCA's D will collapse. Their bodies will be hurting from harder hitting than they have experienced to date, their minds will be racing because they they won't know where we will will hit them next, they will be confused and dazed by all of the weapons Beechwood has. By mid-3rd quarter their spirit will be broken and Beechwood will cruise to another State Title.

 

Go Big Red !!!!

I don't know about using the Lloyd games for decision-making.

Didn't LCA score the first 30 something points of the game versus Lloyd? And then somebody (maybe the QB) got hurt?

And didn't Beechwood kind of bore us with the 20-0 win over Lloyd that was 10-0 forever?

I'd instead point to Beechwood coming back and beating Dixie, or coming back from the dead against NewCath to make it a game, or beating Prestonburg on the road, or routing Dayton and Frankfort as their signature games.

As for LCA I'd sight the turnarounds against Hazard, and hope the somewhat inconsistancy shown throughout the year does not come back in the title game.

Very possible NCC could be way under .500 in the first brutal part of the schedule. Possible that a win does not come until after Christmas.

Several of your points have addressed many times on here.

 

 

5. Many schools in this state have issues with the level playing field and it is nothing about T and X. T and X supporters just like to think it is all about them. Seriously, for the XX number of schools in 6A football it might be T and X. But Prop 20 received over 190 votes. I am pretty sure that there is NOT 190 schools in 6A or at that time 4A football.

 

Not trying to destroy anyone. Simply create a system, LIKE THE CLASS SYSTEMS IN FOOTBALL that puts schools competing against like schools.

How many of that 190 would vote for any kind of classification in basketball (other than private/public)?

How many in softball, baseball, volleyball, soccer?

If 190 are saying we don't like things the way they are because the playing field is not level, would they accept 4 classes in soccer, 8 in basketball, 6 in baseball as was done in football?

If yes, then the schools have the power to get it done. If no, then it isn't about schools competing against like-schools.

From the start of the season, Fort Campbell High School’s football team has been focused on one thing and one thing only — winning a state championship ring.

After traveling more than two hours to Metcalfe County Friday night, the Falcons are now just one win away from reaching their goal following a 24-15 Class 2-A semifinal victory over the Hornets.

“Every year we make a slogan. This year it was ‘For the ring,’” Falcons’ senior quarterback C.J. Croft said. “We haven’t broke it down on ‘For the ring’ all the season, but now we finally get that chance.”

http://www.kentuckynewera.com/articles/2007/12/01/sports/free/doc4751081b5b19b551618736.txt

3-0 on a last second Bengals FG.

Several Beechwood game video highlights.

The NewCath / Beechwood game is the entire first quarter.

http://www.local12.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=21905@video.wkrc.com&navCatId=90

20-0 St. X with 6:37 to go in 3rd.

# Player Grade Height Weight Offense Defense

2 Richie Williams 12 5' 3 138 WR DB

3 Matt Rigdon 10 6' 0 155 QB DB

4 Tommy Bankemper 12 6' 1 209 RB LB

5 Alex Downton 11 6' 1 160 WR DB

6 David Spence 11 5' 10 173 WR DB

8 Jeff Buckhout 12 5' 10 192 OL DL

10 Kody Klug 10 5' 8 132 WR DB

11 Corey Schuler 10 5' 9 145 WR DB

12 Ryan Amelung 12 5' 9 173 RB DB

13 Cody Elliott 12 6' 1 165 QB DB

17 Nathan Cahill 12 5' 9 182 WR DB

18 Ty Youtsey 10 5' 1O 142 WR DB

19 Cullen Burke 11 5' 11 185 K DB

23 Joe Daniels 11 6'3 208 WR DB

24 Jacob Maus 10 5' 10 174 RB LB

25 Nick Hibbard 11 5' 11 151 WR DB

26 Drew Davis 12 6' 3 238 FB DL

27 Brady Slusher 11 6' 2 212 TE LB

30 Peter Bradley 11 5' 10 150 WR DB

31 Kevin Kelly 11 5' 10 145 WR DB

32 Grant Peach 11 5' 9 125 WR DB

34 Kyle Daniels 10 5' 10 191 FB LB

35 Joe Colosimo 10 5' 10 190 RB LB

42 Jared Keith 12 5' 10 192 FB LB

44 Neico Teipel 11 6' 2 206 RB LB

47 Stuart Jackson 12 6'4 195 TE DE

50 Joe Goetz 11 6' 0 230 OL DL

51 Jake Besse 12 6' 6 195 OL DE

52 Chris Hoffman 12 6'3 265 OL DL

54 Alex Morehead 12 6' 2 207 OL LB

55 Ron Kenning 11 5' 9 204 OL LB

56 Dominic Mainello 11 6' 5 257 OL DE

57 Michael Porco 10 6' 1 200 OL LB

58 Zack Burns 12 6' 1 242 OL DL

59 Patrick Kazen 12 6' 0 245 OL DL

61 David Hood 11 6' 1 195 OL DL

66 Matthew Schultz 11 5' 8 231 OL DL

67 Kory Bailey 12 6' 3 278 OL DL

72 Zack Sweeney 12 5' 8 162 OL DL

75 Jake Maricle 10 6' 0 212 OL DL

77 Matt Miller 11 6' 4 258 OL DL

78 Evan Proffitt 11 5' 8 192 OL DL

88 Tyler Winch 11 189 TE DE

NewCath Roster

Player Grade Height Weight

5 Pat Collopy 12 5'9 173 RB E

7 Aaron Hitzfield 11 5'10 155 WR DB

9 Jake Lohr 11 6'1 175 QB LB

10 Ben Parr 11 6'1 175 QB DB

12 Burke Beiting 12 6'3 185 WR DB

15 Wes Diehl 12 5'10 165 WR LB

16 Nate Rawe 11 5'7 135 WR DB

17 Chris Grosser 11 5'11 175 K K

18 Vinny Ciafardini 12 5'10 160 WR DB

20 Rob Kues 11 6'1 160 QB DB

21 Matt Eviston 11 6'0 150 WR DB

23 Alex Pangallo 12 5'11 175 WR DB

24 Mark Kelly 11 5'10 175 RB DB

25 Matt Ritter 12 5'11 165 WR DB

27 Mitch Buller 12 6'1 175 K K

28 Nick Westcott 11 5'7 165 WR DB

29 Devin Brinkman 11 6'0 168 RB LB

31 Ryan Brueggen 12 6'1 165 WR DB

32 Mike McGarr 12 6'1 175 TE LB

33 Greg Willett 11 6'0 190 FB LB

34 Mike Smith 10 5'9 165 WR DB

35 Austin Siemer 10 5'11 150 WR DB

36 Clint Nessler 12 5'10 160 WR DB

37 John Pabst 12 6'1 195 FB LB

40 Bob Estes 11 5'9 165 WR DB

42 Nick Franzen 12 6'0 203 FB LB

43 John Brennan 12 6'3 190 TE E

44 Logan Ferrara 11 5'10 170 RB LB

45 Justin Jones 11 6'3 180 WR LB

47 Brian Wrobleski 12 6'0 165 WR DB

50 Joe Burks 10 5'10 195 G LB

52 Sean Doyle 12 5'10 180 G T

56 Steve Eviston 12 6'0 265 T T

57 Brad Futscher 11 6'2 235 G T

58 Kyle Biggs 12 5'10 230 G T

59 Eric Wedding 12 6'0 215 G T

60 Joe Brennan 10 5'11 190 G E

62 Josh Schmitt 12 6'2 225 T T

63 Jake Kiernan 11 6'4 307 T T

64 Zack Grosser 11 5'11 190 C T

65 Jake Smith 10 6'1 218 C E

66 Ryan Kruer 12 5'11 240 G T

67 Ben Gerrein 11 5'11 205 T T

68 Mike Leopold 10 6'0 215 T T

70 Zach Russell 10 5'6 172 G T

71 Adam Ulbricht 10 6'0 175 T T

72 Chris Flaherty 12 5'9 205 G T

73 Brian Reardon 12 6'2 205 T E

74 Paul Eviston 10 5'10 220 C T

75 Steffen Roll 11 6'3 215 G T

77 John Keating 12 6'1 245 G T

78 Garret Brown 10 5'10 215 G T

79 Joe Cox 11 6'4 240 T T

82 Mario Escalante 11 6'3 170 WR DB

84 Stephen Young 11 5'11 170 TE E

85 Matthew Johnson 11 6'0 200 TE LB

76 Dustin Giesler 12 6'5 215 T E

St. X FG on last play of half.

17-0 St. X leads.

St. X up 14-0 late in the first half on a snowy, windy field.

FORT CAMPBELL CAPSULE

Head Coach: Shawn Berner, sixth year, 48-13 at Fort Campbell (48-13 career)

Returning Starters: 14

Starters Lost: 8

Fort Campbell will win region if: The Falcons can get through a brutal first-half of the season. Fort Campbell takes on just about every class this season as Kentucky moves from a four-class system to six. But the true test will be on back-to-back Friday's when Berner's crew faces Owensboro Catholic (a district matchup) and Trigg County (a region battle) in late October.

Coach's Comment: "I don't think we over-scheduled ourselves. Each one of our first four or five games will be extremely challenging but we want that challenge. I feel that if we can make it through until districts, we'll have a great shot at going a long way."

What You Should Know:Fort Campbell will have to adjust to playing a seven-game district schedule to playing a three-game district slate which makes the Falcons have to schedule tougher non-district opponents like Trigg County, Paducah Tilghman and Graves County.

FORT CAMPBELL ROSTER

No. Name Ht. Wt. Pos. Gr.

1 Antonio Andrews 5-8 155 QB DB 10

2 Dexter Durrante 6-1 185 RB F/S 12

3 C.J. Croft 6-1 185 QB DB 12

4 Chris Allen 5-10 180 WR LB 10

5 Corey Tucker 5-9 170 RB LB 12

6 Allan Johnson 5-11 155 WR DB 10

7 Sean Tighe 5-10 150 WR LB 12

8 M. Henderson 6-0 175 RB LB 12

9 Allan R. Johnson 5-11 160 WR DB 12

10 Joel Ortiz 5-10 170 RB DB 12

11 Jordan Fraley 5-11 170 WR LB 12

12 Olan Andrews 5-10 165 WR DB 12

13 R.J. Lewis 6-2 170 WR DB 12

15 Tre Powell 5-8 145 RB DB 9

16 Luke Reynolds 5-9 150 QB LB 9

22 Raquan Durrante 6-1 180 WR DB 11

23 Lorenzo Hines 6-2 165 WR DB 12

24 Breon Moreno 5-8 155 RB DB 10

26 Ian Desilva 6-1 175 WR DB 12

28 Troy Turner 5-10 185 RB LB 10

30 Jesse Naputi 5-11 185 RB LB 12

32 Martinex Davis 5-8 145 RB DB 10

34 Derrious Brown 5-8 155 WR DB 10

35 T.J. Bags 5-8 145 RB DB 10

36 Darian Jones 5-10 155 WR DB 10

38 Kyle Sobocinski 5-8 140 RB LB 10

44 Christian Walls 5-7 150 RB LB 11

50 Josh McWherter 6-2 215 OL LB 12

52 Casey Miller 5-11 220 OL DL 10

53 Terry Zintz 5-11 175 OL LB 10

54 T.J. Hart 5-11 180 OL LB 11

55 Doug Cooper 5-10 180 OL DL 10

56 Ren Dowden 5-11 250 OL DL 12

57 Josh Carter 6-2 220 OL LB 11

58 Kyle Clements 5-10 200 OL DL 9

60 Chris Jay 5-11 240 OL DL 12

64 Jared McQueer 6-0 210 OL DL 10

65 Zach Rinestine 6-2 290 C DL 12

66 Bradley Clark 6-0 210 OL DL 11

67 Devon Wells 5-8 180 OL DL 11

68 Colin Belecha 5-8 205 OL DL 10

72 MacAuthur Moser 6-1 230 OL DL 10

74 Colton Work 5-7 190 OL DL 10

75 Miguel Baschulte 5-10 180 OL DL 10

76 Anthony Topps 6-3 255 OL DL 10

78 Ryan Dowden 5-11 250 OL DL 12

79 Stayce Whipple 6-1 185 OL DL 11

IMO it is between Ludlow and NCC for the All "A" crown in the 9th region this year. Atleast them two have to be considered the favorites...

That's accurate. Both teams lost 1 key player, so someone will have to step up. Although the All-A is an emotional roller-coaster. NCC almost got bounced by St. Henry last year and then peaked. Bellevue got all jacked up for Ludlow last year, and then had no gas left for the final against NCC.

Only receiver I've ever seen that didn't really need to be open to catch the ball. Kind of doesn't matter if he is wide open or covered by 3 guys, just throw it and he'll catch it.