Saturday, November 22, 2014

Kentucky High-school Football, Round of Eight Wrap

It was a riveting night of high-school football around Kentucky on Friday night, and, indeed, it got off to great-looking start in Frankfort on Monday, where the Panthers practiced right on through the snow in anticipation of their trip to Fort Mitchell Beechwood for the Class A Region 2 final ...

Apparently, Corbin started prepping for the Class 3A Region 2 final even further back than that ...


These are heady times wherever football teams are still playing so late in November. For example, in Brandenburg, where 2013 state-runnerup Meade County was coming off a round-of-16 win over Scott County, the defending Class 6A champ ...



And, in Somerset, where the local paper got to talk up both teams in the Class 5A Region 4 final ...



Louisville Fairdale got set up early Friday morning for the Class 4A Region 2 final ...



I have not gotten to be apart of nearly enough team pictures in my life ...



At midday Friday, the Bourbon County Colonels were on the road to greater Flatwoods for their 3A Region 3 final ...



By late afternoon, the sign-makers at state-champ Bowling Green were ready for Graves County's arrival for the Class 5A Region 1 clash ...




Friday evening finally arrives, and we're nearing kickoff at Christian Academy-Louisvile for the Class 2A Region 2 final with defending-champ DeSales ...



And, about an hour later, we're about to get the party started in the Central time zone, too ...



First, let's get to the sad story of the night, from the 2A Region 1 final in Princeton ...













Meanwhile, over in the 5A Region 1 final at Bowling Green, the thrice-defending state champ ...



And, in Owensboro, we have a story developing, as Madisonville-North Hopkins is up, 21-6, at the half (but) ...



 From the 3A Region 2 final at Corbin ...



Still 7-0, Graves, at BG ...



Wow, from Corbin ...



Wait ... what?



Back in Owensboro, the Red Devils had ridden their end-of-first-half spark to pull even with Madisonville-North Hopkins, but now the Maroons surge back ahead ...



Minutes later, however, the Rash Stadium faithful thrills as their Red Devils answer with a quick touchdown and take their first lead with a two-point conversion ...







Meanwhile, in Bowling Green, it's getting late and the champs still trail Graves County by 7-0 ...







Final from Flatwoods, Russell over Bourbon County ...



Near final from Bowling Green ...




Final: Graves 7, Bowling Green 0 ...








And, back up in Owensboro, the Red Devils are completing an astounding comeback, stopping Madisonville-North Hopkins on a fourth-and-goal from the 1 with 4:38 to go, converting a fake punt (!) on fourth-and-6 from their own 6 (!) with 2 minutes to go and a 29-28 lead and then intercepting a late Maroons' throw ...



They share a field, but Newport Central Catholic's victory over Newport turned out to be one of three victories by road teams in the 2A regional finals. Friday's 2A winners: Murray, 47-28, at Caldwell County in Region 1; DeSales, 7-6, at CAL in 2; NewCath, 42-26, at Newport in 3, and Pikeville Shelby Valley, 20-14 in overtime (check out this video), over Prestonsburg.




Final from Lawrenceburg, in 5A Region 3: Union Randall K. Cooper 61, Anderson County 14 ...





In Class 4A Region 4, the final was 37-34, so, surely, Fort Thomas Highlands had a much tougher struggle in beating Covington Catholic than this video suggests ...




Class 6A winners: Louisville Trinity over Louisville Saint Xavier (as depicted below), 9-3, in Region 1; Meade County over Elizabethtown Central Hardin over Meade County (as reported here), 30-8, in 2; Louisville Ballard over Louisville Butler, 14-7, in 3, and Edgewood Dixie Heights over Independence Simon Kenton, 24-0, in 4.



Final from Somerset, in 5A Region 4: Pulaski 24, Southwestern 16 ...


And we mentioned Graves County's win in Region 1 and Cooper's in Region 3. The other 5A winner was Elizabethtown John Hardin, 7-6 over Louisville Iroquois in Region 2. For Bowling Green's seniors, this is the first varsity season that won't end with a state championship ...



Your 3A regional champs: South Warren (which apparently shared sign-making tips with their cross-town Purples), 36-0, over Paducah Augusta Tilghman in Region 1; Central, 36-33, at Corbin in 2; Russell, 17-7, over Bourbon County in 3, and defending-champ Belfry, 48-14, over Lawrence County in 4.



 Ouch, from Corbin ...



Final from Owensboro, in 4A Region 1: Owensboro 29, Madisonville-North Hopkins 28. We mentioned that Highlands won Region 4. Region 2 winner was Goshen North Oldham, 47-18 over Louisville Fairdale; Region 3, Lexington Catholic, 40-35 over Boyle County.


Oh, yeah, Class A … Mayfield, 42-14, over Russellville in Region 1; Beechwood, 46-21, over Frankfort in 2; Williamsburg over Hazard, 48-14, in 3, and Raceland, 32-21, over Paintsville in 4.





Post by The Logan Journal.



Posted by Eric at 2:00 PM
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3 comments:

  1. EricNovember 24, 2014 at 10:26:00 AM EST

    In the hallway to the men's room at the Owensboro TJ Maxx on Saturday, I met a 50-ish guy wearing a Caldwell County Tigers golf shirt and cap. I said I was sorry about the game Friday night, and I honestly thought he was going to cry. "Things were going so great. He had just scored that touchdown to make it 14-0, and that was it." He didn't even have to mention Elijah Sindelar by name.

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  2. EricNovember 30, 2014 at 3:05:00 PM EST

    Here's the play that led to one, last, untimed down, resulting in Louisville Central's game-winning touchdown: "The catch heard 'round Corbin."

    "Hard to swallow," wrote Les Dixon in Corbin's Times-Tribune.

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