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Congrats Shane, I wish you the best of luck at Wake, what a great choice. Kudos

Congrats to Cov Cath from here in Johnson County, your playoff run left no doubt who the best team in 3A was this season. And thanks to Birdsfan for posting the updates.

I thought that too, but the existing classification does take it into account to some extent. For all male schools, they simply double the male enrollment and count that as the total enrollment. If you look at the current alignments and enrollments, one of the first columns on the spreadsheet is "Double," with an entry under it of "False" for most teams and "True" for all male schools. Then the total enrollment column simply becomes double the real enrollment. As others have posted, many of these schools that could be in lower classes play up to keep up traditional rivalries that might have been broken by the new classes, as well as other competitive reasons. e.g. CovCath could have been 4A but will move up to 5A, partially because Highlands moved up from 3A to 5A and they don't want to lose a district rivalry.

This Eagle fan agrees with BGGreen and Theoldguy that the best way to put an end to this nonsense is for JC to schedule Cov Cath in an open date next year (or better two, home and home). Maybe even a kickoff "bowl" game. Yes, the distance is something to consider, but we have to travel to Lexington and Woodford county for district games anyway, so the extra 40 minutes shouldn't be that bad. Win or lose, the Eagles will improve by playing championship quality opponents, and for whatever reason we have trouble finding quality non-district opponents closer to home. Maybe this unhealthy topic can give rise to a healthy rivalry...

Colonel-Fan, thanks for all the links and a very good analysis of the game. You even were kind enough to edit out the headline of this article: Colonels finish strong CovCath rolls past Paintsville 38-14, advances to title game Obviously, there is a sports headline editor who doesn't follow Kentucky HS football, Paintsville lost to Hazard two weeks ago. They could at least have said "Johnsonville." But I'm glad you (and therefore we) get coverage in a big paper like the Inquirer at all, so please don't think it's "sour grapes" from me. Cov Cath is a great program with great student and community support. Hopefully JC is now on the path to building that kind of program. Good luck to the Colonels (and especially their seniors in their last game) next week.

WYMT had Shawn with 221 on 20 carries (as against Ashland the first time and Rock, over 10 yards a carry) and Blake with 80 yards on 16 carries. Attendance, while great, was a little under last year's Apple Bowl, I think. CCH did bring 9 charter buses and overflowed into the endzone by their student section, there were people on the track all around the stadium but only "12 deep" (as Spike said on the radio) in the CCH endzone. Even most in the stands spent most of the game on their feet, but it will be great to have more seating and visitors on the opposite side next season.

That is truly the best news of the night!:thumb:

Thanks Yoter. In case you aren't the only one there in an Ashland letterman jacket, is your number on it? (and if so is it 53 or 00, the avatar or user name)? p.s. and now this thread has had more looks than the KHSAA scoreboard link, or any other that I can recall, and all without being shut down!

“Doctors told me that I would never walk again and I proved them wrong,” Fleming said. “I think if you trust in God, wonderful things will happen.” What a wonderful thing to learn at such an early age! Good luck to the Briarjumpers tonight!

As much as I love teams named Central that wear black and gold (or even yellow), I see BG's big game experience overcoming Central's home field advantage and athleticism. Good luck to both teams tonight, may both play their best game and the game be injury free!

The weather is sunny, cool this morning but predicted in the 60's by 5:00 pm. Chilly again this evening but probably not lower than 40's through the game. Field is still a little slippery inside the 20's, dry in the middle outside that due to good tarp work this rainy fall. I guess we'll see in warmups how he deals with grass and the conditions. Good luck to both kickers tonight:thumb: p.s. has anyone else noticed that this thread is lilkely by game time to be the most often viewed thread on BGP, close now to the Riherds scoreboard sticky at over 10,000 looks? I don't know how much respect either of these teams has outside their own programs and each other, but there sure seems to be a lot of interest!

Thanks for the links, Colonel-fan! Some new avatars may be born from these slides. Great shots of Ratliff, Griim and Taylor as well as the Ashland players.

I was going to get "offended," before I realized that this was just a topic beyond your experience. Yes, we do it before every game because GRASS doesn't come pre-marked, as the fields you have played on do. And the crayons that might work on turf don't do a thing for grass. We tried doing it after the game, but after much thought concluded it should be done before, for the referee's sake if no one elses. But if you want to think it's 'specially done for you, you are welcome to. Seriously, this is good news because the last few weeks the red zone at each end has been so wet that the markings weren't very visible by half time. Our field is bermuda grass and mostly brown now, so it won't be quite as colorful as you city slickers might expect, but the playing conditions should be good for both teams.

Mark is a class guy and sent a similar PM to me. I was serious about putting a brat on the grill for him, if that doesn't work out I'll bring him one of our good burgers Friday night. Safe trip to Eagleville to all the CCH entourage!

Seriously, the basics of defense have a lot to do with our regional championship. Rockcastle scored late on a long pass (despite 5 INTs I still thing our best pass defense is the blitz), but tonight was a great example of basic bend and don't break defense. Still, a whole lot of shootouts tonight, none more obvious than LexCath and Cov Cath, which is surprising.

Most impressive!

Congrats to Belfry from Johnson County, and good luck next week hosting your rematch with Russell!

Would the flip side of that coin be that our offense can't sleep because we're looking forward to putting 49 points on them as LexCath did? I don't mean that, of course, just pointing out that anyone foolish enough to believe the announcer's view of our defense's plight would also have to accept this as truth. We'll have to see if we can slip some good Johnsonville brats on the grill at the Nest next week to honor our visitors--I enjoy the German food whenever I am in N KY.

Just in from the game. Grim's stats are above, Dusty Milller gave a great effort, held to 127 yards on 27 carries. Any other night that would be good, (5 yards a carry)it just pales in comparison to Shawn. A great all around effort by the Eagles! Congrats to the Rock on a great season. Their players looked really down after the game and shouldn't be. You represented your school and district well, you just ran into a better team tonight. Congrats Eagles on your first ever regional championship!

The best thing about the regional championship is you only have to beat the opponent, whether they are a 3 time defending regional champ or a higher ranked undefeated home team, ONCE to win the championship! One team, one goal, one chance to accompish it. Go Eagles! Have a safe trip to Paintsville, Rock fans, look forward to seeing you tonight. Btw, all those predictions about a dry field--not much chance. The center of the field (between the 20s) was moderately dry before it went under the tarp with the rain. From the 20s in, especially on the side facing the shopping center parking lot, was muddy when it was covered and will be at gametime.

Congrats and good luck to this team from here in Johnson Co.! :thumb: It's tough to imagine being in their situation and they have overcome all obstacles so far.

61 points the first time on Clay, 39 the next. 47 on Harrison Co. Both of those playoff teams. 74 on Bourbon, 41 on LCC, 54 on Madison Southern, 48 on PCC. You call that struggling to score? I admit, it's not the same offense of a few years back. BUT....our QB had never played QB until this year and our HB Dusty Miller was injured in the first game last year and missed the rest of the season and he's not doing too bad this year if you haven't noticed. What does this mean?? Not much, besides the fact that we don't really struggle to put points up......but our opponents do. Geez, these numbers are Johnson Central like! :thumb: As I said earlier, JC is looking in the mirror at a team that puts up lots of points and doesn't give up many. Rock shut Bell out while only scoring 13. I think 13 is the losing score in this game, and hope JC's defense can hold Rock to that. Ashalnd was the only team to score more than 2 TDs on JC. We may find that both teams will have to test their passing games Friday night...

I couldn't agree with JC76 more. This should be a great game, a little bit like looking in the mirror. JC has shown its ability to make the big play when they had to last week. If we can stay close I look for such a play to decide the game in our favor late in the game. It's so sad that this will be the last win for either team this year.:cry: The Highlands fans have me convinced that they are the best team in the state (though somehow they were the #2 seed in their district), so any team that can beat them twice like CCH did must be the best team in the country;) I look forward to this clash of good running backs and good defenses at the Nest Friday. Here's hoping both teams play their best and are injury free, and that all the lucky bounces go to the Eagles--we may need them:thumb:

Congrats to the Tomcats on a super effort, and to the Eagles on advancing to the regional final. Each and every player should be able to hold their head high after this performance. This was just the kind of game Central needed to prepare for next week (though we fans didn't need it to be quite such a heartstopper). JC had to show some of its passing potential tonight to win this one, now that it is out of the bag let's hope they reallly reach it in practice and next week's game. thanks to the Ashland fans who posted the link to B97 as well. Hope all have a safe trip home, and we look forward to renewing the rivalry next year. We can officially call it a rivalry now, right?