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I hate to touch, let alone open, this can of worms, but why is it nobody ever says anything about how the 39th never hosts a baseball/softball regional?

Look, GRC puts on a great baseball regional and I'd be happy going back there every year, but just throwing this out there. Now, nobody in the 39th really has the facilities to host a regional, but when this was the other way around in basketball, you had 474,000 people acting like the only reason Mason County won was because it was at the Fieldhouse.

Where are the people who are so outraged that GRC pulled out a close one at home today? You know, they know all the dimensions of the park and probably even (ZOMG!) had more fans cheering for them.

Again, I can't stress enough that GRC is a GREAT venue for baseball, but just putting this out there for the folks who get all worked up over the basketball site and act like it in itself determines the champion.

Seven. Colonels got 2 in the top of the seventh.

From the article, Nike (tournament sponsor) is taking care of food and lodging. They're doing various fundraisers for the travel.

Pro - Yankees/Steelers

College - UK basketball

Looks like they've got them up on the Website now.

Is it on Broadway before you get to Rupp Arena or past it?

Before Rupp if you're coming in from the north. Right off Broadway onto 2nd, left on Bruce.

Parked there again today, though it was on the street because it's during school hours.

Don't have a bunch of time for directions because I'm posting from the game, but a quick glance on my way in tells me it's Harrison Elementary on Bruce Street. Google maps should be able to do the rest.

You get out, walk a couple hundred feet and people are charging $12.

Didn't think they could ever shoot again like they did in the regional final game and they didn't.

I know everybody would like to believe Mason County had to play way over its head to beat God's gift to basketball, aka Clark County, but let's be real here.

Mason County shot 40.4 percent (21/52) in the region final, an absolutely scorching pace there. Yeah, clearly they'll never shoot like that again.

For evening and Saturday games, I love that elementary school about a block away.

Of course me posting my favorite spot on BGP probably ensures it'll be filled the rest of the weekend.

On the Cards’ last possession Robbie Stenzel’s pass intended for Jaylen Daniel in the open court was deflected by Trevor Setty and the Royals recovered as time expired, sending the Mason County contingent into a frenzy.

I get Trever and Treg mixed up sometimes too. Big difference in stating the jersey was Zollo's when they had the jersey there and could look in the score book and see it was in fact Rogers.

So let me get this straight. Everybody mixes up players who are three years apart when one has been graduated for two years. When somebody who has never seen the team play mixes up jersey numbers, it's a "blatent [sic] lie."

Glad we cleared that up. Double standards are fun!

They didn't print the picture of the jersey because they knew it wasn't Zoll's. They blatenly lied.

I try to stay out of these things, especially when a thread gets off track as far as this one, but this statement and the crazy idea that somebody at the Ledger is trying to run some kind of smear campaign against Vinny Zollo is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.

I'm a sportswriter at the Ledger. I wrote the story for that game and pretty much every other Mason County game for the last three years. The writer of that article, while a very good writer and a former sports writer elsewhere, wasn't at the game and I doubt has ever seen this GRC team. And since I didn't see the original mistake and whether it was in the story or in the cutline on the picture, I couldn't tell you whose mistake it actually was. For all I know, they could have been given the wrong information to begin with.

To be fair, any number of people involved in the process could have simply come to me and asked who wears #44 for GRC or could have looked it up on the KHSAA website and we wouldn't have this problem. I don't know why that wasn't done if they weren't sure, but I can tell you with 100 percent certainty it was an honest mistake. As much as you'd apparently like to think that there's some conspiracy in Maysville of big powerful people trying to make Zollo look bad, I can assure you it's just a case of somebody who has no idea who Rogers or Zollo is and didn't take the time to ask.

And it doesn't get rerun in its entirety on the front page because that just isn't how it works. It's unfortunate an error was made, and the paper is more than happy to correct it, but nobody in the history of newspapers has ever done that, and nobody ever will.

Gotta admit this exchange back in October was pretty nice work on Fraysure's part.

I had been looking forward to seeing this as I knew the author( from Mason Co) was not going to rank the GRC Cards #1, even though when the state rankings come out GRC will most likely be in the top 5 of the state and Mason will not.

How can you rank Mason #1 in the region but GRC will be rated higher in the state rankings? Explain this to me?

This is the one, only and last thing I will say about this, because I feel very little need to defend my OPINION. First off, where I am from has no bearing on my prediction. I work in a profession where you have to be (and I pride myself on being) unbias, and this is no different. Secondly, as to state rankings (that in the grand scheme of things, mean very little) vs. where they will finish at the end of the season -- i.e. regional tournament -- I will quote directly from the article:

 

And even while the Cardinals may get more preseason pub and likely higher statewide rankings, the prediction here is that in a one-on-one matchup come late March, the Royals will succeed in making their third consecutive trip to Rupp Arena.

Home.

Top team on the bracket will be the home team in each game.

I would like to know the rebounding stats.

GRC led 42-37 overall and 14-11 on the offensive end.

There are some good things here, but I'm not in favor of first round games at the site of the district winner.

I had never thought of it this way until talking with a coach as a small school in the 10th a few years back, but for a lot of these schools their realistic goal (especially around here in the 39th) is just making it to the region. Instead of going to the Fieldhouse or the BOKC or Montgomery or whatever, you're just putting them on a bus to go somewhere and lose without ever really getting a chance to be part of the tournament.

For example this year, Bracken County made its first region tourney in 6 years. They lost, but they at least got to go be part of the tournament. I'm not in their shoes, but I have to think that's better than going to Scott, losing by 20 and watching all the district winners go to the Fieldhouse.

I am shocked by the final score, but how could anybody think Mason would win this game.

I don't know, but it could possibly be because they already beat Scott once this year.

According to WFTM radio, Clark County has notified Mason County that they are in fact making the trip to Maysville and this game will go on as scheduled as of the noon news report.

 

Therefore as of right now, I will make another prediction: Looks like there will be basketball action at the HCA Fieldhouse tonight.

Awesome.

Just an observation from somebody who just moved into the area in the last few years, but it seems like all too often everybody around here wants to freak out and drop everything in their lives because there might be a couple flurries. Much respect to Clark for making the trip when others who I won't name have made some pretty bad judgement calls this year, imo.

Thought this one was at the Fieldhouse. Didn't they play at Henry Clay last year?

It appears they've fixed the problem.

I compile stats for our local teams and occasionally use the Enquirer site for some of them. I noticed the same thing when working on stats last week.

What has happened is that at a certain point, the new additions stopped adding onto the total. For example with Thelan, the 258 points was his total through 12 games. Despite having full stats put on the site for the last five games, they didn't add on to the total. Yet are still dividing by 17 games for stats through only 12.

It's the same way for the team whose stats I get from there. To get the real averages, you have to find which game the Enquirer's program stopped adding their stats and do the rest of the math yourself. Annoying that it's been this way for more than a week and nobody seems to have noticed.

Sounds like a great game. I saw both of the teams play in the AIT and it was a difference of 2 halves in that game. With Mason up by 17 at the half; Ashland came out on fire in the 3rd and was up one after 3 quarters. And mason pulled it out in the end. Some posters on here thought Mason got hommered in tht game. Quess it was not as bad as some thought.

I had a long reply typed out about that game and thought better of it. I'll just say as somebody who sees 50+ games a year, that one contained the worst officiated quarter I've ever seen.

Mason County is simply not good enough to take 12 minutes off every game and not have a dogfight on their hands.

Truer words have never been spoken.

A lot like the first game with one team struggling for the first half, but dominating the 3rd quarter. Mason only had six points through the first 12:30 of the game, but opened the second half on a 16-2 run.

Like mcpapa said, Setty missed a good chunk of this one. Didn't score until :15 to go in the third but ended up with 10 points and 11 boards.

WoW.

Just flat out didn't see this one coming at all.

Rheuben Blueford - Mason Co.

This kid has come out of nowhere and is playing extremely well.

This.

Walsh played 25 minutes, didn't score, had five boards.

For Mason, Black and Harris are still hurt, and Manship has left the team. And not sure on any timetable but Neal Pawsat dressed and participated in warmups tonight.