-- Week 1 roundup, western Kentucky results and the Lexington Herald-Leader's preseason rankings
-- quarterfinals and Go Heath's update
-- championship weekend and congratulations to Class A-champion Mayfield, 2A-champ Newport Central Catholic, 3A-champ Louisville Central, 4A-champ Fort Thomas Highlands, 5A-champ Bowling Green and 6A-champ Louisville Trinity
Finally, here are some pictures I snapped around Waggener High School in Louisville in the late afternoon of Friday, Oct. 5. My daughter and I were killing time while my wife attended a conference at a church in Saint Matthews, and we stumbled upon Waggener while tooling around the neighborhoods looking for a playground. Alas, there's an elementary school on the same property as the high school, so we found our (fantastic/5 stars/highly recommended) playground. Plus, the football Wildcats were knocking around in their uniforms, in anticipation of the Spencer County Bears' visit later that evening. We didn't stick around to see the game, but the 4-3 Bears went on to defeat the 1-5 Wildcats, 55-22. And then Waggener went on to finish 2-9 for the season with a first-round loss to Louisville Western in the 6A playoffs.
Better luck next year, Waggener Wildcats! My guess is that things will get rolling again along about Aug. 17, 2013, and I do hope and pray that we are all around to happily ring in the new season of Kentucky high-school football together then.
More postscripts:
ReplyDelete-- WKU's journalism department looks at the Bowling Green-Warren Central rivalry.
-- Louisville celebrates Trinity.
Powell County's varsity, middle and youth Pirates tie a bow on the season with ham dinners this weekend.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, at Fort Knox, Brandon Combs has decided to give it another go as coach but tells Josh Claywell of The News-Enterprise that he doesn't intend to completely give up other passions such as Strawberry Shortcake with Jubilee.
In 1998, the season before Paul Columbia became their head coach, the Winchester George Rogers Clark Cardinals lost all 10 of their games. In 2012, the season after Columbia left the team, GRC went 1-10. Here's what happened in between ...
ReplyDelete1999: 4-7
2000: 5-6
2001: 5-6
2002: 5-6
2003: 6-5
2004: 5-6
2005: 8-3
2006: 8-5
2007: 3-8
2008: 6-5-1
2009: 8-4-1
2010: 5-6
2011: 3-8
Also this.
Mark Brown, the only coach Elizabethtown John Hardin has ever known and the coach who led Nelson County to the 1996 Class 4A championship, is calling it quits--for now, he tells Chuck Jones of The News-Enterprise.
ReplyDeleteCovington Catholic quarterback Blake Bir was TriStateFootball.com's Kentucky Offensive Player of the Year (TSF.comKOPo12).
The Class 2A state champs have promoted their longtime defensive coordinator to head coach after Eddie Eviston moved on to Georgetown College.
ReplyDeleteThe coach of Lexington Christian's 2009 Class A-champion squad, Paul Rains, has returned to Lexington as the new coach at Dunbar.
ReplyDeleteFort Thomas Matters is reporting that Ohio State coach Urban Meyer is hanging out at Highlands today. I don't blame him; they're having spaghetti for lunch today.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, it's a good thing for Arkansas State that this kid from Owensboro never made a visit to WKU, because there's no way on Earth that any human being who has ever actually been to Jonesboro, Ark., and then to Bowling Green, Ky., would choose to return to the former. Check out Jonesboro's "Funland" Park amusement park. OK, now check out Bowling Green's Beech Bend.
Here's the Fort Thomas Matters post about Urban Meyer.
Delete"Mr. Football," Trinity's James Quick, is going to U of L.
ReplyDeleteUK had a big day today (Frankfort's Ryan Timmons) and might have another big one tomorrow (Trinity's Jason Hatcher) among in-state talent.
Meanwhile, I hope Mayfield's Jonathan Jackson ends up at WKU.
Well, heck.
DeleteTom Via @tomviathoughts
Per @JoeyFreaknFosko Jonathan Jackson of Mayfield, has narrowed list to #MurrayState and #EKU for football. #OVC
8:44 AM - 30 Jan 13
"Where the Herald-Leader’s 2012 Class of the Commonwealth is going to college," per excellent Mike Fields.
ReplyDeleteReflection on National Signing Day, per also excellent John Herndon: "Would sure be nice if everyone got as excited over their local high school team as they do about where a high school senior goes to college."
It would also be nice if we didn't know that Central, Highlands, and Trinity were going to win state championships every year.
DeleteThe Gleaner reports that Henderson County High coach Clay Clevenger is leaving to take over at his alma mater, Danville, where Sam Harp resigned in December.
ReplyDeleteFort Campbell High, too, has a new head coach. WKDZ reports that ex-assistant Anthony Butler will replace hugely successful Shawn Berner.
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