West Paducah Heath at Paducah Tilghman (No. 6 in the Associated Press poll for Class 3A)
Louisville Trinity (unanimous AP 6A No. 1) at Indianapolis (Ind.) Cathedral--Prime time for the Shamrocks!
Harlan County (AP 5A No. 8) at Barbourville Knox Central (AP 4A No. 5)--For the Black Bears and the Panthers, too.
Louisville Central (AP 3A No. 1) at Louisville Saint Xavier (AP 6A No. 2)--Wow. The visiting Yellowjackets are 5-0 for the first time since 1955, but they've never beaten the Tigers in 32 tries, reports Jason Frakes in The Co-Jo.
Covington Catholic (AP 4A No. 2) at Fort Thomas Highlands (unanimous AP 4A No. 1)
Somerset (AP 2A No. 2t) at Glasgow (AP 2A No. 7)--Are the Scotties awake?
Louisville Iroquois at Elizabethtown John Hardin (AP 5A No. 2)--Are the John Hardin Bulldogs this year "focused for the long haul"?
Wayne County (AP 3A No. 5) at Bell County (AP 3A No. 3)--Urges the Bell County Football Facebook administrator: "BELL COUNTY BOBCAT FANS. Be early to be at the tailgate party this Friday night we will be having a CAT WALK around 5:30."
Fort Campbell (AP 3A No. 9) at Trigg County--Opines the Fort Campbell Falcons Football Facebook administrator: "Trigg County is around the corner.....they haven't played any teams the caliber that our Falcons have!"
Fairview (AP A No. 3) at Greenup County
Allen Central at Williamsburg (AP A No. 5)
Lawrence County at Raceland-Worthington (AP A No. 6)
Breckinridge County at Louisville Kentucky Country Day (AP A No. 9)
Louisville Trinity (unanimous AP 6A No. 1) at Indianapolis (Ind.) Cathedral--Prime time for the Shamrocks!
Bowling Green (AP 5A No. 1) at Barren County and Bowling Green Warren Central (AP 5A No. 3) at Bowling Green Greenwood (AP 5A No. 7)--Its teams aren't likely to show up on ESPN2 any time soon, but Bowling Green has turned into quite a football town. The visiting Dragons in this matchup received one vote for No. 1 in Class 5A this week. That's the only vote that did not go to the No. 1 Bowling Green Purples. And then, ...
LaRue County at Bowling Green Warren East (AP 4A No. 10)-- ... there are the Raiders.
Franklin-Simpson at Russellville (AP A No. 8)--Wow. Jim Turner in The LoJo weighs in with great history on this great rivalry.
Covington Catholic (AP 4A No. 2) at Fort Thomas Highlands (unanimous AP 4A No. 1)
Lexington Christian (AP 2A No. 5) at Frankfort (AP A No. 2t)
Somerset (AP 2A No. 2t) at Glasgow (AP 2A No. 7)--Are the Scotties awake?
Fort Campbell (AP 3A No. 9) at Trigg County--Opines the Fort Campbell Falcons Football Facebook administrator: "Trigg County is around the corner.....they haven't played any teams the caliber that our Falcons have!"
Fort Knox at Louisville DeSales (AP 2A No. 9)--It's a good Friday for the home crowd either way.
Marshall County at Mayfield (AP A No. 1)
Fairview (AP A No. 3) at Greenup County
Allen Central at Williamsburg (AP A No. 5)
Lawrence County at Raceland-Worthington (AP A No. 6)
Elizabethtown at Fort Mitchell Beechwood (AP A No. 7)--Richard Skinner with The Cincinnati Enquirer writes that "Beechwood may be an uncharacteristic 1-3, but it’s still clearly the team to beat" in Class A, District 4. The Tigers, however, will likely be without their senior quarterback in this game.
Leslie County at Harlan (AP A No. 10)
Owensboro Catholic (AP 2A No. 1) at Butler County
Danville (AP 2A No. 2t) at Green County
Louisville Shawnee at Bardstown (AP 2A No. 6)
Newport Central Catholic (AP 2A No. 8) at Bishop Brossart
Caldwell County (AP 2A No. 10) at Barlow Ballard Memorial--The Tigers of Princeton crack the Class 2A poll.
Breathitt County (AP 3A No. 2) at Hazard (AP A No. 4)
Belfry (AP 3A No. 4) at Inez Sheldon Clark
Western Hills at Bourbon County (AP 3A No. 7)
Hart County at Monroe County (AP 3A No. 8)
Middlesboro at Morgan County (AP 3A No. 10)
Lexington Catholic (AP 4A No. 3) at Mercer County
Russell County (AP 4A No. 4) at Letcher County Central
Rowan County at Ashland Blazer (AP 4A No. 6)
Taylor County at Boyle County (AP 4A No. 7)
Paintsville Johnson Central (AP 4A No. 8) at Boyd County
Calloway County at Lone Oak (AP 4A No. 9)
Nicholasville West Jessamine at Franklin County (AP 5A No. 4)
Scott at Union Randall K. Cooper (AP 5A No. 5)
Christian County (AP 5A No. 6) at Hopkinsville
South Oldham at Hebron Conner (AP 5A No. 9)
Anderson County (AP 5A No. 10) at Montgomery County--The Bearcats inch into the Top 10.
Scott County (AP 6A No. 3) at Winchester George Rogers Clark
Louisville Eastern (AP 6A No. 7) at Louisville Male (AP 6A No. 5)
Independence Simon Kenton (AP 6A No. 6) at Union Larry A. Ryle
Meade County at Henderson County (AP 6A No. 8)--"A really good high school nose guard can open stuff up for everybody for else."
Louisville Butler (AP 6A No. 10) at Louisville Fairdale--Butler joins the Top 10 after failing to receive even a vote last week.
Paris at Campbellsville
Muhlenberg County at Hopkins County Central
Fulton City at Lake County (Tenn.)
Owensboro at Madisonville-North Hopkins
Crittenden County at Reidland
McLean County at Todd County Central
Murray (AP 2A No. 4), Louisville Pleasure Ridge Park (AP 6A No. 4) and Louisville Ballard (AP 6A No. 9) are idle.
Previous reports:
I hate to go all Keith Olbermann here, but the paragraph spacing in Blogger's new interface is a just maddening.
ReplyDeleteI just hate the fact that stuff like Blogger and Vimeo seem to be getting worse and not better in my dealings with them. When I'm doing my entries now in Blogger I almost exclusively use the HTML interface.
ReplyDeleteFor years people have loved to make fun of Microsoft for how they screw up the Office suite from one version to the next. Truth is when you want to incorporate new features and improve design it's really hard to keep everything functioning as it should and actually make it easier for your user base.
I wonder if Marshall County has ever beaten Mayfield. I bet they haven't.
ReplyDeleteFinal: Mayfield 44, Marshall County 7
DeleteReports Ann Beckett in The Marshall County Daily: "Mayfield now leads the all-time series of games against the Marshals 20-4 with the Marshals last win over the Cardinals coming in 2007 where they won at home 30-7."
DeleteCentral may or may not beat St. X, but they will be lifting the State 3A trophy in a few months.
ReplyDeleteFinal: St. X 27, Central 13
DeleteBob White reports in The C-J that Central rallied from 20-0 down to close to within seven, but ... the Yellowjackets are now 0-31-2 against St. X.
DeleteFort Campbell continues the trash talking wrt Trigg.
ReplyDeleteFinal: Fort Campbell 56, Trigg 40
DeleteGrant Stevens of The Morehead News on Rowan County's trip to Blazer: "(I)n order to win tonight, the green jerseys need to create havoc for the Tomcat offense, because a scoring match is something Rowan County needs to steer clear of."
ReplyDeleteFinal: Blazer 48, Rowan 0
DeleteBell County beat Wayne County big twice last year.
ReplyDeleteFinal: Bell County 21, Wayne County 7
DeleteIt took 21 years for someone to break the KHSAA record for passing yardage in a game, and then that someone--Nelson County's Nate Beasley--saw his record broken two weeks after that, Peter W. Zubaty reports in The Kentucky Standard.
ReplyDeleteFranklin-Simpson is 1-4 with all four of its losses coming to currently ranked opponents, notes Brian Davis in the Franklin Favorite.
ReplyDeleteFinal: Russellville 26, Franklin-Simpson 14
DeleteGreen County's coach, Mike Griffiths, to Larry Vaught with The Advocate-Messenger: “I think Danville has the best high school team I have seen in a while at this level (Class AA)."
ReplyDeleteFinal: Danville 42, Green County 26
DeleteHome-standing Boyle County is ranked, but it is visiting Taylor County that is unbeaten while the Rebels come into tonight's game 2-3.
ReplyDeleteFinal: Boyle County 53, Taylor County 0
DeletePer Elizabethtown's News-Enterprise:
ReplyDelete-- Warren East, 38-7 winner over LaRue County on Friday, has a star runner who was a former starter for Warren Central.
-- DeSales scored on a 70-yard run on the game's first play from scrimmage and then raced off to a 49-13 win over Fort Knox.
-- John Hardin has won 37 straight in the regular season, including 48-0 over Iroquois on Friday.
Simon Kenton 20, Ryle 0 ... at Ryle's homecoming.
ReplyDeleteFinal: Henderson County 16, Meade County 8
ReplyDeleteBut don't get too excited Hens fans. Writes Kevin Patton of The Gleaner: "Because turnovers are still a major issue six games into the season, it doesn’t look like it’s going away. Even if the Colonels run the table in the regular season (which they should), the postseason won’t last long with either Eastern (4-1) or Ballard (3-2) as potential second-round playoff opponents."
Nice mountain win for Knox Central, 12-6, at home against Harlan County. John Middleton reports in The Harlan Daily Enterprise that the game's winning touchdown came on the opening possession of the second half, after Knox Central returned the kickoff to the Harlan County 26 and then converted a fourth-and-nine.
ReplyDelete24-21, Harlan over Leslie County, but the big winner is Donnell's Pharmacy, which gets a prominent plug in the local game story.
ReplyDeleteTrinity 24 at Indianapolis Cathedral 16: "Welcome to Trinity. That’s just the way it is.”
ReplyDeleteBased on the polls, there appears to have been two upsets around the state Friday night.
ReplyDeleteLouisville Eastern (No. 7 in Class 6A) won 35-21 over Louisville Male (No. 5), a game in which Eastern scored all of its points in the first half and then held off a Male rally with a late interception. That broke a Male four-game winning streak in the series.
Unranked Crestwood South Oldham, 63-57 over Hebron Conner (ranked ninth in Class 5A), must've been a lot of fun from beginning to end. The scoring line, as provided by Greg Waddell in The Oldham Era, is pretty amazing (South Oldham's score listed first):
0-7
7-7
7-15
14-15
14-22
14-28
21-28
21-35
28-35
35-35
42-35
49-35
49-43
49-50
56-50
56-57
63-57
Otherwise, favorites and mostly blowouts:
ReplyDeleteAnderson County 27, Montgomery County 8
Bardstown 51, Shawnee 7
Beechwood 37, Etown 12
Belfry 54, Sheldon Clark 6
Boone County 34, Dixie Heights 13
Bourbon County 66, Western Hills 8
Bowling Green 58, Barren County 0
Breathitt County 15, Hazard 7
Butler 57, Fairdale 7
Caldwell County 56, Ballard Memorial 20
Campbellsville 37, Paris 30
Christian County 63, Hoptown 14
Cooper 46, Scott 14
Crittenden 37, Reidland 0
Fairview 72, Greenup 0
Frankfort 43, Lexington Christian 14
Franklin County 42, West Jess 21
Graves County 42, Apollo 16
Highlands 35, CovCath 21
Johnson Central 37, Boyd County 6
KCD 46, Breckinridge County 8
Knox Central 12, Harlan County 6
Lake County (Tenn.) 52, Fulton City 12
Lexington Catholic 34, Mercer County 16
Lone Oak 54, Calloway County 7
Madisonville-North Hopkins 13, Owensboro 9
Monroe County 63, Hart County 18
Morgan County 28, Middlesboro 6
Muhlenberg County 28, Hopkins County Central 26
Nelson County 76, North Bullitt 36
Newport 47, Ludlow 8
NewCath 58, BishBros 0
Owensboro Catholic 45, Butler County 0
Tilghman 49, Heath 0
Raceland 54, Lawrence County 14
Russell County 59, Letcher County Central 14
Scott County 40, George Rogers Clark 6
Somerset 20, Glasgow 0
Todd 53, McLean 7
Warren Central 36, Greenwood 0
Williamsburg 54, Allen Central 6
Pretty excellent uniforms in Highlands-CovCath game. I always like when a team puts its name on the backs of its uniforms, as CovCath does.
ReplyDeleteSlide shows from Somerset-Glasgow and Bowling Green-Barren County.
ReplyDeleteChuck Jones of Elizabethtown's News-Enterprise is bullish on the local Bruins: "Central Hardin coach Mark Perry knew he had a young squad coming into the year, and it showed early. But the youthful Bruins appear to be on the right track after showing remarkable growth the last two weeks. After a 24-21 victory over North Hardin, the Bruins trailed early at Bullitt East only to rally to take a 21-17 lead. Bullitt East came back twice to take a lead in the fourth quarter, but Central Hardin answered each time to pull out a 35-31 win. That’s a sign of a team growing up."
ReplyDeleteGreenwood was averaging 43.6 points per game--13th best in the state--before being shut out by Warren Central on Friday night.
ReplyDeleteEdmonson County beat Logan County, 49-14, as a senior running back, Jacob Tobias, rushed for a school-record 360 yards and five touchdowns on 17 carries. The Daily News noted that Tobias also returned an interception 65 yards for a score.
ReplyDeleteGo Heath's western-Kentucky report.
ReplyDeleteNo Fort Campbell slide show this week: "Hey Falcon fans. I would like to apologize for not having pics from the Trigg County game, my wife and I were not able to get to the game this week to take any."
ReplyDeleteNip-and-tuck loss for the defending Class A champs at Hazard's Daniel Field.
ReplyDeleteAnother comeback win for Prestonsburg "at Josh Francis Field inside Blackcat Stadium."
Grayson County has ridden "The Crain Train" to a 6-0 start.
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