Wednesday, March 26, 2025

KHSAA Boys' State: First Round

 With 32 seconds left in overtime of the first game, Bowling Green leads Adair County 50 to 49.

42 comments:

  1. It is 72.3 miles from Bowling Green H.S., in the Fourth Region, to Adair County H.S., in the Fifth Region. The fastest route takes the Cumberland Parkway for most of the way.

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  2. With 9 seconds left, Deuce Bailey drives through the Adair County defense and banks in a layup to win it for Bowling Green. The Purples prevail over the Indians, 52 to 51.

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  3. The next game will be Jeffersontown vs. St. Xavier. It is only 12.2 miles from Jeffersontown H.S., in the suburbs of Louisville, to St. Xavier H.S.

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  4. J-Town's colors are claret and light blue. That's a common color scheme in England (see Aston Villa and West Ham United), but not in the United States.

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  5. The St. X Tigers are, of course, the number one team in the State, and are heavily favored in this game.

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  6. The J-Town Chargers are in white uniforms with light blue numerals and claret and light blue trim. The Tigers are in gold uniforms with green numerals and trim.

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  7. With 1:26 left in the 1st quarter, St. X leads 17-12.

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  8. With 2:38 left in the 2d quarter, St. X leads 30-24. This is a fun, up-and-down game.

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  9. With 2:07 left in the 3d quarter, St. X leads 44-34.

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  10. With 34 seconds left in the third, St. X leads 44-39. The Tigers call time to deal with J-Town's full court press.

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  11. St. X leads 44-39 with one quarter left.

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  12. J-Town has scored 11 points in a row. They lead 45-44 with 6 1/2 minutes left.

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  13. With 5:26 left, J-Town leads 48-47. This is such a great event.

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  14. In the last 10:07 of game time, J-Town outscored St. X 30-15. As a result, the Chargers turned a 10-point deficit into a five-point win. Jeffersontown knocks off the Number One Team in the State by the score of 64 to 59. This is one of the biggest upsets in the history of the State Tournament.

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  15. The next game starts at 5 PM Central. It will feature South Oldham H.S., from the Eighth Region, and Danville Christian Academy, from the Twelfth Region. It is 75.9 miles from Danville Christian to SOHS. The fastest way is to take U.S. 127 until you hit I-64.

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  16. The South Oldham Dragons are the home team -- they are wearing white uniforms with green numerals. The Danville Christian Warriors are wearing dark blue uniforms with white numerals and gold trim.

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  17. With 2:44 left in the 1st Quarter, S. Oldham leads DCA 7 to 6. So far, every game has been close.

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  18. After one quarter, DCA leads 13-12.

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  19. With 2:56 left in the 2d Quarter, S. Oldham leads DCA 23 to 18.

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  20. In the second quarter, South Oldham outscored DCA 26 to 7. The Dragons lead 38-20 at the half.

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  21. With one quarter left, South Oldham leads 50-32.

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  22. Last game of the night: The Ashland Blazer Tomcats from the Sixteenth Region against the Calloway County Lakers from the First Region. Ashland is wearing white uniforms with maroon numerals and trim. Calloway County is wearing red uniforms with sky blue numerals and trim.

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  23. It is 373 miles from Calloway Co. H.S. to Ashland Blazer H.S. To put that figure in perspective, it is only 325 miles from Ashland Blazer H.S. to Windsor, Ontario.

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  24. With 2:02 left in the 3d quarter, Ashland and Calloway are tied at 44.

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  25. At the end of the third quarter, Ashland leads Calloway 49 to 46. The winner of this game gets Bowling Green in the quarterfinals.

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  26. With 6:55 left, Ashland leads 52-46.

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  27. With 4:20 left, Ashland leads 56-52.

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  28. In the last four minutes of this game, Zander Carter, a 6' 6" guard for Ashland, showed Calloway why he is going to play at Liberty University next year. With 55 seconds left in the game, Carter has 29 points, 7 rebounds, and 8 assists, and Ashland leads 81-64. If he keeps playing like this, Ashland will be tough to beat.

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  29. In another thriller, North Laurel (of the Thirteenth Region) edged Breathitt Co. (of the Fourteenth Region) 54 to 53. What a tournament!

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  30. It is only 61.4 miles from Breathitt Co. H.S. to North Laurel H.S., but it will take you 1 hour and 16 minutes to get there on Kentucky Highway 30.

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  31. Next up we have Lawrence Co. (from the Fifteenth Region) and Montgomery Co. (from the Tenth Region). It is 107 miles from Lawrence Co. H.S. to Montgomery Co. H.S. Basically, you have to go northeast until you hit I-64 just outside of Ashland, and then you take that all the way to Mount Sterling.

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  32. Lawrence County has a population of 16,293. Montgomery County has a population of 28,527.

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  33. After one quarter, the Montgomery Co. Indians lead the Lawrence Co. Bulldogs 25-15.

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  34. This game is over. MontCo leads Lawrence Co. 56-30 with 6:46 left in the third quarter. So three of Friday's quarterfinals are set:

    (8) Ashland Blazer v. (14) Bowling Green
    (11) S. Oldham v. Jeffersontown
    N. Laurel v. Montgomery Co.

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  35. It's Opening Day for the Washington Nationals. Here is the 2025 Opening Day Lineup for Natstown, with 2024 stats:

    1. C.J. Abrams, ss (.246, 20 HR, 65 RBI)
    2. James Wood, lf (.264, 9 HR, 41 RBI in 79 games)
    3. Luis Garcia, Jr., 2b (.282, 18, HR, 70 RBI)
    4. Josh Bell, dh (.279, 5 HR, 22 RBI in 41 games for Arizona)
    5. Nathaniel Lowe, 1b (.265, 16 HR, 69 RBI for Texas)
    6. Paul DeJong, 3b (.227, 24 HR, 56 RBI for the White Sox and KC)
    7. Keibert Ruiz, c (.229, 13 HR, 57 RBI)
    8. Dylan Crews, rf (.218, 3 HR, 8 RBI in 31 games)
    9. Jacob Young, cf (.256, 3 HR, 36 RBI)
    Pitcher: MacKenzie Gore, 10-12, ERA of 3.90

    According to VegasInsider, the over-under on wins for the Nationals is set at 72.5. That would be an improvement over the last two years, in both of which they finished 71-91.

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    1. Abrams, Garcia, and Ruiz are the only three starters who were in the starting lineup on Opening Day 2024.

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    2. Who were in the Nats' starting lineup, I mean.

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  36. Montgomery County sets a state tournament record with 16 three-pointers, and rolls past Lawrence Co. 98 to 70.

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  37. I just figured out that Friday's game will be the tenth time that Zakai Zeigler has played against the Kentucky Wildcats.

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  38. Since coming back to Washington in 2005, the Nats have an all-time regular season record of 1,510 wins and 1,626 losses, for a winning percentage of 0.482. In all seasons where Washington has fielded a Major League Team going back to 1901, Washington has a record of 6,473 wins and 7,522 losses, for a winning percentage of 0.463.

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  39. If all three Washington franchises were treated as a single franchise, they would be number 28 in all-time MLB winning percentage, just ahead of Colorado (0.462) and Miami (0.459). Here's the rest of the NL East:

    St. Louis: 0.520
    Chicago: 0.513
    Pittsburgh: 0.500
    N.Y. Mets: 0.483
    Philadelphia: 0.474
    Washington: 0.463
    Miami: 0.459

    And yes, I'm imagining that they simply took the NL East we grew up with and added the Marlins.

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