Kentucky high-school football kicks off at 5 p.m. Central today! Lexington's Herald-Leader says the top teams in the state are Mayfield (Class A), Fort Campbell (2A), Mason County (3A), Boyle County (4A), Fort Thomas Highlands (5A) and Louisville Saint Xavier (6A).
WPSD says Mayfield is loaded despite having to replace its all-time leading rusher and receiver.
The Leaf-Chronicle of Clarksville, Tenn., looks at Fort Campbell, winner of three straight state championships and 29 of its last 30 games.
Matt Montavon of Maysville's Ledger Independent examines Mason County's 2009 opener against Danville and how an early huge play by linebacker Josh Harris set off a shocking route. The 3A power opens against Danville again this season.
Jody Demling of The Courier-Journal identifies Boyle County linebacker Lamar Dawson as the state's best football prospect.
Sam Elliott of the Kentucky Post writes, "There is space waiting on the Highlands High School scoreboard for the Bluebirds to win another football state championship." (And an accompanying photograph proves he is correct.)
Wikipedia says Saint Xavier is the only high school to have won state championships in every KHSAA-sanctioned sport for boys and that last fall it accomplished the "unprecedented feat" of winning titles in all four boys team sports (cross country, football, golf and soccer).
Danville has won at home, 21-14, against 3A-favorite Mason County, which means Sam Harp has become the sixth man to amass 600 high-school-football coaching victories in Kentucky.
ReplyDeleteMurray has just won at Madisonville-North Hopkins, 7-0. The Maroons lost 21-6 in its opener against the Tigers last season.
ReplyDeleteHere's a great place to keep up with live scores from around the state on Friday nights: http://radiotime.com/station/s_29391/NewsTalk_1230.aspx.
ReplyDeleteOh, my, Tilghman has lost at Hopkinsville, 34-20, in a game that it once led, 20-7.
ReplyDeleteHopkinsville was 3-7 last season; Tilghman won the 5A state title. It must be remembered, however, that the Blue Tornado actually started the season 3-6 before closing with six straight victories.
ReplyDeleteWhat's going on in Paris? Blanton Collier coached there. Bill Arnsparger played there. Winless last season, Paris opened with a 64-6 loss to Kentucky Country Day.
ReplyDeleteMarshall County, 1-9 last season, has opened with a 50-16 loss to Class A stud Mayfield.
ReplyDeleteFranklin and Russellville are separated by just 21 narrow, farm-lined miles along Ky. 100, and games between the two local high schools almost always pit cousins and sometimes brothers or sisters against one another. Franklin-Simpson has taken the latest renewal of the football rivalry, 42-7, at Russellville.
ReplyDeleteWebster County, winless in 2009, has won at Heath, 22-14.
ReplyDeleteWhy am I alive?
Fort Thomas Highlands, 5A's favorite, has beaten Louisville DuPont Manual, 6A Saint Xavier's top district challenger, 45-14.
ReplyDeleteThe Skyline Chili Crosstown Showdown at the University of Cincinnati has gone to 2A Newport Central Catholic, 35-28, over 5A Dixie Heights.
ReplyDeleteClass 4A's favorite, Boyle County, has won 36-29, at Johnson Central, a 5A power.
ReplyDeleteSt. X, defending 6A champ, does not play tonight.
ReplyDeleteThe radio show that announces scores from around Kentucky just pronounced Evansville's Mater Dei as "maitre d'." Union County, which won Tilghman's 3A district last season, traveled east on U.S. 60 and north across the U.S. 41 bridge tonight to lose, 42-7, to Mater Dei (that's Latin for "mother of God") at my favorite high-school-football stadium anywhere, the Reitz Bowl. Evansville Reitz, meanwhile, traveled south across the bridge to beat 6A Henderson County, 34-27.
ReplyDeleteThat's it for our live coverage tonight. Rachel and I are going to watch a movie.
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