Twelve teams are in Bowling Green, and we will get six state football champions over the next two days. Here are the match-ups:
Friday, December 6:
Class 1A: Mayfield (13-1) v. Williamsburg (11-2)
Class 3A: Wayne Co. (14-0) v. Belfry (13-1)
Class 6A: Meade Co. (12-2) v. Scott Co. (14-0)
Saturday, December 7:
Class 2A: Lou. DeSales (13-1) v. Newport Cent. Catholic (10-4)
Class 4A: Shelbyville Collins (12-2) v. Ft. Thomas Highlands (13-1)
Class 5A: Bowling Green (13-0) v. Pulaski Co. (14-0)
Interesting. A lot of radio stations do "birthday clubs," where they read the names of folks celebrating a birthday that day. I don't know that I've ever heard one that does it the way Mayfield's WYMC does it--they organize the birthdays by church congregation. So, for example, at this moment, they're reading the birthdays being celebrated today among the Saint Jerome Church family in Fancy Farm. And now here's a late report from the Farmington Church of Christ ...
ReplyDeleteNow WYMC is doing school closings--pretty much all of them are because of snow and ice (falling in Madisonville, in fact). But I think they games in Bowling Green are still on for now.
ReplyDeletePractice for the 5A-defending-champion Purples of BGHS is:
ReplyDeleteKevin Wallace @kwallacebg
Starters on OFF, DEF, SP TEAMS, and primary backups should report to the fieldhouse at 9:30 AM. Share the info with your teammates.
7:51 AM - 6 Dec 13
This weekend's schedule:
ReplyDelete-- Class A at 11 a.m. Central, 3A at 3 p.m. and 6A at 7 p.m. today
-- Class 2A at 11 a.m., 4A at 3 p.m. and 5A at 7 p.m. tomorrow
Now we have WYMC's drive-time show. One of the three hosts says everybody around Mayfield is talking about three things this morning: the weather, Mayfield football (as far as WYMC knows, too, today's game is still on) and Nelson Mandela's death.
ReplyDeleteI know this is not going to be received well by everyone out there in HP Nation, but I freaking love the David Bowie/Bing Crosby "Little Drummer Boy" performance.
ReplyDeleteOK, now the WYMC people are going to talk about NBC's live performance of The Sound of Music ... this is going to be a takeout ...
Well, stand by for their review ... they've gotten derailed in comparing this to the remakes of Walking Tall ...
ReplyDeleteI phoned my mom (a huge, huge Julie Andrews fan) at 9:07 Central last night to check to make sure she's OK with the ice and stuff. I could tell she was distracted on the phone, so I figured that meant there was some college-basketball game on. No, she was watching NBC's live Sound of Music. She didn't think it was very good. (Shocker.) Didn't that thing start at 7 Central? So, she had sat there in her apartment for 2 hours, 7 minutes gleefully and mercilessly clobbering poor Carrie Underwood in her head. She was all fired up by the time I talked to her.
ReplyDeleteWe saw about a million previews for this show during the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, and we didn't have the heart to sit through it.
DeleteWe gave up on the Macy's parade this year and instead watched the McDonald's parade from Chicago. It was a nice change.
DeleteWYMC's review is actually generally positive. Carrie Underwood's performance pleasantly surprised one of the hosts (a man), and one of the others (a woman) thought the bit that she saw was "OK" but didn't hold her interest.
ReplyDeleteTrivia time on WYMC! What rock group's only non-bearded member is named Frank Beard?
ReplyDeleteHost guesses: Alabama? The Eagles? The Rolling Stones?
Nope.
ZZ Top?
DeleteYes.
DeleteYEAHH!!!
DeleteOh, man ... Merle Haggard's "If We Make It Through December" ... this one gets me every time.
ReplyDeleteOK, WYMC's pregame show is almost over, and we're minutes away from kickoff in Bowling Green. The KHSAA tinkered with the schedule because of the weather, but the Class A game is still scheduled for 11 a.m. Central.
ReplyDeleteAnd, that quickly, Williamsburg is in trouble against Mayfield. With 11 minutes to go, the Cardinals are taking over at the 2 after blocking a Williamsburg punt.
ReplyDeleteTouchdown, Mayfield.
WYMC is already doing the thing where they name a bunch of the players in on a successful play. I seem to remember their doing this in state championships before--I think they want to make sure each kid gets mentioned at least once for family who might be recording the broadcast back home.
ReplyDeleteNow WYMC is making fun of Bobby Petrino. "Oh, that's right--he rides motorcyles up here now, doesn't he?"
ReplyDeleteHeady times for the Mayfield crowd.
The cold and wet appear to have kept away most everyone in Mayfield and Williamsburg.
ReplyDeleteMayfield, 14-0, with 9:50 minutes to go in the first quarter.
ReplyDeleteLatest score is a long pass to a kid who, per WPSD, had a hole in his lung earlier this season.
91-yard touchdown run for the Cardinals, and now it's 28-0 with 3:34 to play in the first quarter.
ReplyDeleteWilliamsburg fumbles kickoff return--but recovers at its 7.
ReplyDeleteWYMC has referred to Williamsburg as the "Pirates" and now most recently the "Bumble Bees." Apparently, somewhere in WKU's Smith Stadium, they were listed as the "Raiders." They are, in fact, the "Yellow Jackets" (or "Lady Jackets").
ReplyDeleteWYMC is now asking listeners to email them.
ReplyDeleteDown 35-0 late after one quarter, Williamsburg will have a third-and-9 amid what has been its first substantial drive of the game. One of the WYMC announcers is mad at the other that the second guy started talking about the possibility of a running clock. "You jinxed them," says the first.
ReplyDeleteWYMC's live stream from Bowling Green appears to have failed.
ReplyDeleteHere's a little about the home of the Yellow Jackets: "The Williamsburg Independent School District and Williamsburg City Schools was formed in 1909. Our school setting is unique with one building that house grades K-12. Presently, the district enrollment is over 800 students (grades PK-12)."
ReplyDeleteThis break in WYMC's stream gives us the opportunity to get the 411 on the various Walking Tall sequels and remakes.
ReplyDeleteOK, WYMC back, and it's still 35-0, so Williamsburg did not score--the Yellow Jackets do have the ball back, however.
ReplyDeleteThis is the one day of the year that I'm really proud of Mayfield. GO, CARDINALS!
ReplyDeleteI had to go to Mayfield for a funeral one Friday afternoon this fall. I drove by the old downtown high school, which is now a middle school, and saw the middle-school team practicing about 90 minutes before the high-school team would be kicking off at War Memorial Stadium. Now I don't know--maybe that would be standard for every middle-school football team in the state, to be practicing late on a Friday afternoon. But I thought it was interesting, anyway. There were parents sitting in lawn chairs in pickup trucks parked on the street along the field behind the school, watching the Mayfield Middle practice.
DeleteWell, it appears they won. I just got back to my desk, and Tommy James and the Shondells are singing on WYMC.
ReplyDeleteConfirmed: 42-0. Congratulations, Mayfield!
ReplyDeleteWow! 3-0! Belfry beats Wayne County for the 3A championship with a third-quarter field goal! Sorry I missed this game. Congratulations, Belfry!
ReplyDeleteThat's it for today in Bowling Green. The KHSAA shuffled this weekend's schedule because of the snow and ice across much of Kentucky today. Tomorrow, we're supposed to have the 2A championship at 11 a.m. Central,
ReplyDelete4A at 2 p.m. and 6A at 5 p.m. The 5A final is now set for 2 p.m. Sunday.
Once more, from pages 435 and 436 of Kentucky's WPA guide ...
ReplyDeleteBELFRY, 3.6 m. (668 alt., 410 pop.), one of the coal-mining communities that are strung out along Pond Creek for approximately 15 miles, is typical of the numerous half-abandoned mining towns of the area. They are unincorporated and, with their unpaved streets and unpainted buildings, come into view like blighted spots on the land. They have all the inconveniences and few, if any, of the comforts of modern towns of equal size, and none of the advantages of agricultural countryside. Small drab houses, most of them in need of repair, huddle close together along the deep valleys or stand undertainly on the mountain sides. Most of them are of boom-time flimsiness, with one thickness of board in the walls that rest on slender, often-tottering, posts, many are papered with newspapers and patched with cardboard to shut out draughts. ... Life in the coal-mining towns is meager and hard. The customary diet of the miner and his family consists chiefly of beans--and more beans--corn bread made without milk, and 'bulldog gravy,' a mixture of flour, water, and a little grease. In the summer those fortunate enough to find a small patch may grow a few vegetables, but for the most part they grow pumpkins. There is little or no milk available even for the children. As a result diseases of malnutrition are common. Leisure is abundant and money scarce. Brawls and an occasional shooting, a bit of penny- and nickel-gambling, all of them usually enlivened with moonshine, are the recreation of the men.
Of course, that was in 1939.
DeleteThe football field, at least, looks pretty nice now.
And here's Mike Fields of the Lexington Herald-Leader on Belfry's win.
ReplyDeleteAnd here's some WBKO footage of Wayne County's near-miss touchdown, the freshman's game-winning field goal and Belfry's game-clinching interception.
ReplyDeleteBack to Class A, here's Channel 6 on Mayfield's win yesterday.
ReplyDeleteAgain: 2A (11 a.m. Central, 4A (2 p.m.) and 6A (5 p.m.) today.
ReplyDeleteHere's a very good feature from Eric Crawford of WDRB about a DeSales player who lost his dad and uncle within a very short timeframe in 2011.
ReplyDeleteThe Twitter desk is eager to confirm multiple reports that Louisville's WKRD will be broadcasting today's Class 2A championship between DeSales and NewCatch, which is scheduled to start in 20 minutes.
ReplyDeleteCONFIRMED! Yes!
DeleteI'll bet not many folks around Princeton are dialing up the WKRD radio or KHSAA TV feed of this 2A championship.
ReplyDelete14-13, DeSales, and the Colts have first-and-10 at the NewCath 12 late in the second quarter ...
ReplyDelete3:55 until half, and now it's 21-13, DeSales.
ReplyDeleteAccording to a commercial on WKRD, the DeSales "brotherhood ... produces young men who stand up, stand out and stand proud."
ReplyDeleteHere's the game so far:
ReplyDelete-- DeSales touchdown on a 12-play drive,
-- NewCath touchdown on seven,
-- punt,
-- punt,
-- DeSales touchdown on six plays,
-- NewCath touchdown on four (but a missed PAT) and
-- DeSales touchdown on seven.
Defending-champ Thoroughbreds face fourth-and-7 at DeSales 12 ... appears NewCath will not be attempting a field goal (after the botched PAT earlier) ...
ReplyDeleteIncomplete ... so, DeSales takes over with 52 seconds left ... Colts running out half, and NewCath will be getting the ball at the start of the third quarter ... very good game ... 21-13, DeSales ... oh, fantastic, WKRD is promising "a special, special halftime guest!"
ReplyDeleteThe DeSales principal is on with the WKRD hosts at the moment. I wonder if this is the special, special guest. I was hoping for Joe Federspiel.
ReplyDeleteI love Joe Federspiel. Here's what it says about him on his 1975 Topps NFL card: "An All-Southeastern Conference linebacker selection at Kentucky, Joe was honored as South's best player vs. North in Miami Shrine Game. Also a participant in the Tampa All-American Bowl, he was hailed as a future All-Pro upon joining the Saints. A ferocious hitter."
ReplyDeleteNCC has won the 2A championship in two of the last three years. It also won A championships in 2005 and '06. And "Newport Catholic" won 2A in 1984.
ReplyDeleteDeSales has never won a state championship. The Colts were state runnerup in 1981 in 4A in 1981 and in 2009 in 2A.
The "Colt" is the symbol of the DeSales spirit. The Colt is a symbol of life and vitality. Within the Colt are the strains of future greatness - a greatness that must be conditioned by discipline, training, experience, freedom, responsibility and love.
ReplyDeleteLike the Colt, the men of DeSales are still young. We manifest the tensions, frustrations and idealism of youth. We thirst for success in all areas of endeavor, but primarily in the process of becoming mature, free and responsible Christian men.
That's really well done.
DeleteThe color commentator on today's WKRD broadcast is Greg Brohm, who was a really, really good wide receiver for U of L when Howard Schnellenberger was the coach there. He just reported that I-65 was clear after the Hart County line this morning and that the Smith Stadium crowd is dominated by Colts backers. "South Louisville is empty," he said earlier.
ReplyDeleteThe KHSAA video feed is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteDeSales stops NewCath on downs on the opening possession of the second half.
ReplyDeleteWow! And on first down, the Colts' Dylan Byrd takes a pitch left, weaves through NewCath defenders back into the middle of the field and then outruns everyone else. The touchdown run is 73 yards; the kick is good, and DeSales is now leading the defending state champs, 28-13.
ReplyDeleteNewCath returns the ensuing squibbed kickoff to the end zone, but a penalty negates the touchdown. And then DeSales forces a punt. The Colts--up 15 points--take over at their 43 with 6:43 to go in the third quarter.
ReplyDeleteNewport Central Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic secondary school operated by the Diocese of Covington. Our mission is received from the Gospel message of Jesus Christ: to form men and women for service, leadership, and evangelization in the Church and community. ...
ReplyDeleteNewport Central Catholic High School opened its doors in the fall of 1983 as a fitting tribute to the influence of two long-standing academic traditions in the history of Catholic education in the Diocese of Covington. The merger of Newport Catholic High School and Our Lady of Providence Academy reflects the influence and family tradition of more than 160 combined years of Catholic elementary and secondary education. ...
OK, nearing the end of the third quarter, DeSales has a fourth-and-goal at the NewCath 1 ...
ReplyDeleteTouchdown, Colts! 34-18.
ReplyDeleteKick no good. Forty-seven seconds to go in the third, 21-point lead for DeSales ... so, we're either about to have a first-ever state champion or an historic comeback in the 2A final.
ReplyDeleteJacob Yount @JacobYount53
ReplyDeleteHat to believe that out of all if the private schools in Louisville, that DeSales is the only one playing for a championship this year.
12:53 PM - 7 Dec 13
James Brown @Editorjbrown
ReplyDeleteFinal My Opinion. The 2A title game was played 3 weeks ago at Hank Royse Stadium. @GlasgowDogPound @GHS_Scotties @Hink_2014 @QuezTrigg
12:56 PM - 7 Dec 13
NewCath scores quickly but again misses the extra-point kick. The lead is back to 15 points with about nine minutes to play.
ReplyDeleteOh, my ... here we go ... NewCath has pulled to within 34-26 with 1:30 to play ... the Thoroughbreds complete a rollout pass of about 20 yards for a score, and this time the extra point is good ...
ReplyDeleteDeSales fields a ricochet-popup onside kick, splicing two NewCath defenders ... Colts take over at their 48 ... Thoroughbreds have their three timeouts ...
ReplyDeleteDeSales running; NewCath timeouting ...
ReplyDeleteRun to near the NewCath 25 ... measuring ... "if it's a first down, you can start celebrating in the south end," says WKRD ...
ReplyDeleteIt is! Congratulations, DeSales!
ReplyDelete4A: Fort Thomas Highlands and Shelbyville Martha Layne Collins. This is a rematch of a 47-0 Highlands victory for which Collins has been preparing for almost a full calendar year, reported Josh Cook in Shelbyville's Sentinel-News.
ReplyDeleteWith 33 seconds to play in the first half, Collins leads, 10-7. Collins opened the game with a 13-play, 92-yard drive for a touchdown, and then Highlands answered with an eight-play, 66-yard possession for a tying score. Since then, the defenses have dominated, but now both offenses are percolating again. The Titans ran a terrific-looking misdirection in which 10 players all went to the left but a fullback took a inconspicuous handoff into the emptied secondary for 38 yards. That play eventually led to a 25-yard field goal for the go-ahead score with 1:25 to go before intermission. And now the Bluebirds have passed, passed, passed their way down to the Collins 13. They have called timeout and face second-and-2 ...
ReplyDeleteOK, but just like that ... Collins throws the Highlands quarterback for a sack and recovers his fumble. The Titans run out the remainder of the clock, and Collins--completing its fourth season of varsity competition--leads Highlands--seeking its 24th state football championship--by 10-7 at the half in Bowling Green.
ReplyDeleteCorrection: Highlands is seeking its 23rd state football championship, which would move the Bluebirds ahead of Louisville Trinity for most in KHSAA history.
DeleteAfter Highlands and Trinity, currently tied at 22, the next-most championships is Saint Xavier's 12 and Beechwood's 11. With its win yesterday, Mayfield joined Danville at 10.
Now we've got silent video of a bunch of people walking onto the giant WKU red towel at midfield at L.T. Smith Stadium on the KHSAA TV broadcast. Maybe they're coming out for a big Punt, Pass & Kick competition!
ReplyDeleteNyah ... it's some kind of award or scholarship presentation or something.
ReplyDeleteDeSales High School @DeSales_Colts
ReplyDeleteColts busses due back at school in 40 minutes. Welcome your State Champions home! #WelcomeWagon
3:42 PM - 7 Dec 13
The KHSAA TV announcers rave about Bowling Green's hosting the state football championships. "They really open up their arms for us here," says one. "It's a beautiful town, and my wife loves coming here because she loves to shop and there are so many places to shop here," says the other.
ReplyDeleteThe second half is underway. The KHSAA TV reveals that Collins coach Jerry Lucas is the nephew of "the Jerry Lucas."
ReplyDeleteHighlands surges ahead, 14-10, at 9:23 to go in the third quarter as the Bluebirds assemble a nine-play, 64-yard touchdown drive to open the second half. The key play was a diving catch for 12 yards on fourth-and-10 from the Collins 25.
ReplyDeleteThe Titans punch back. A couple of long runs by the quarterback and now a 27-yard completion to the Highlands 4 gives Collins a first-and-goal with 6:27 to play in the third quarter ...
ReplyDeleteTouchdown, Collins. Kick good. 17-14, Titans, at 5:55 in the third.
ReplyDeleteAnd on the last play of the third quarter, Collins throws for a 10-yard touchdown. Highlands blocks the extra-point try, but the defending champs now face a 23-14 deficit going into the final 12 minutes.
ReplyDelete10:36 to go ... Highlands, which converted a fourth-and-10 earlier, throws for a touchdown on a third-and-30 from the Collins 34. The Bluebirds' extra point is good, and now the score is 23-21, Titans.
ReplyDeleteWow ... went away for just a couple of minutes, and both teams have scored touchdowns again. It's 30-28, Collins, with 8:24 to play. Wowwee!
ReplyDelete4:16 to play ... Highlands converts fourth-and-6 ...
ReplyDeleteHighlands converts third-and-11 to Collins 5 with 3:45 to play ...
ReplyDeleteOh, my, Collins did it! 37-34. I've got to catch up on this later. Amazing.
ReplyDeleteScott County won 6A last night, 21-14, over Meade. At the half this afternoon, defending-champ/No. 1/undefeated Bowling Green and No. 2/undefeated Pulaski County are tied at 14.
ReplyDeleteAlas, the Purples have surged to a 35-14 lead here in the second half. So, BGHS grad/C-J preps scribe Jason Frakes was right--Bowling Green and Scott County appear headed toward receiving the first invitations to the #KentuckyBowl.
ReplyDeletePulaski's uniforms have "PULASKI" in block letters across the back, above the numbers. That's pretty neat.
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