One and done: Girls' round of 128

Among the big news from Day 1 of the girls' tournaments was the defeat of Anderson County, Owensboro Catholic, Whitley County and Winchester George Rogers Clark. Fourteen of the regions (listed here in order of how the winners will be bracketed in the 2012 Houchens Industries/KHSAA Girls' Sweet Sixteen® State Basketball Tournament) are back in action today.

Fourth Region, at Western Kentucky University's E.A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green--Last year's finalists, champ Bowling Green and Monroe County, play their quarterfinal games tonight.

Sixth Region, at Atherton High School and Bellarmine University's Knights Hall in Louisville--The semifinalists--Louisville Mercy, Louisville Holy Cross, Louisville Butler and Bullitt East--take tonight off and then move over to Bellarmine for the remainder of their tournament.

Ninth Region, at Northern Kentucky University's Bank of Kentucky Center in Highland Heights--Boone County eliminated the 2011 champs, Newport Central Catholic, last night.

11th Region, at Eastern Kentucky University's Alumni Coliseum in Richmond--Scott County, the regional runnerup last season, fell last night to Lexington Paul Laurence Dunbar. The 2011 champ, Richmond Madison Central, has a quarter with Lexington Catholic tonight.

Seventh Region, at Bellarmine's Knights Hall--As in the Sixth, the semifinalists--Louisville Sacred Heart, Assumption, Manual and Christian Academy--are idle until Thursday.

14th Region, at Breathitt County High School in Jackson--2011 runnerup Leslie County went down to Whitesburg Letcher County Central last night, and the champs, Perry County Central, face Jackson City, which is not (exactly) the home team.

Third Region, at Owensboro Sportcenter--Avenging last year's title-game loss, Grayson County last night eliminated defending champ Owensboro Catholic, 60-43. Regions 1, 2 and 3 will each be sending different representatives to this year's Sweet Sixteen in Bowling Green.

10th Region, at Campbell County Middle School in Alexandria--The 2011 regional runnerup, George Rogers Clark, fell to Campbell County, who were probably all old-school jazzed playing at their old junior high. The region's top two teams in yesterday's new Courier-Journal Litkenhous ratings, defending champ Montgomery County and Alexandria Bishop Brossart, meet in this evening's first quarterfinal.

Second Region, at Christian County High School in Hopkinsville--Livingston alive! Meanwhile, the region's top-rated teams, Hoptown and mad Henderson County, play in separate quarters tonight.

First Region, at Murray State University's CFSB Center--Lone Oak appears to be known for going into late-game stalls. Meanwhile, Barlow Ballard Memorial plays Paducah Tilghman, the region's top-rated team, in the second quarter tonight. The teams split their two regular-season games, and the Lady Bombers, coached by Billie Prince Jr. (just a fantastic western Kentucky name), have to be a little hungry after being knocked out in last year's regional semis after leading Murray by 15 in that game.

Fifth Region, at Central Hardin High School in Elizabethtown--Not much separation among these teams in the ratings, so it would be hard to consider any result in this region to be an upset other than Washington County over Etown tonight or anyone over Marion County. After last night's 73-50 whipping of Hart County, the Lady Knights are now 29-4--with the losses coming to two teams from California, one from Ohio and consensus Kentucky No. 1 Manual. Meanwhile, this just in from the Adair County Pep Club ...

Eighth Region, at Anderson County High School in Lawrenceburg--The home team was knocked out by Independence Simon Kenton last night, and the 2011 champ, Walton-Verona, plays tonight against a first-time opponent of this season, Shelbyville Martha Layne Collins.

15th Region, at Pikeville's East Kentucky Exposition Center--This is another region that will be sending a different representative to Bowling Green. Last year's regional runnerup, Betsy Layne, which shot 69.2 percent on three-pointers in last week's 58th District championship, gets just a hair more love in the Litkenhous than its quarterfinal opponent tonight, Pikeville.

16th Region, semifinals and final at Morehead State University's Johnson Arena--Top-rated Ashland Blazer, Rowan County, Lewis County and 2011 champ Boyd County have advanced to the semis and are now idle until Thursday.

12th Region, at Lincoln County High School in Stanford--No offense to the members of HP nation in Pulaski County, but I am so glad that the home team prevailed in its quarterfinal last night. This gives me an excuse to continue listening to Stanford's WPBK, which might well be my favorite radio station of all time. Within the same half hour yesterday morning, they played Ten Years After's "I'd Love to Change the World" and Ronnie Milsap's "Smoky Mountain Rain."

13th Region, at Corbin's The Arena--With Whitley County's elimination last night by London North Laurel, which was 8-24 in the regular season, it now appears Monday's other winner, Harlan County, is the only likely threat to ending Clay County's string of championship.