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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian York
on ninety nine to five the Fan, and away we
go on your Monday. It is a Monday, September twenty
second ed issue of the Region one Sports Report. I'm
Brian Yorke. I hope you're doing fantastic. We saw some rain,
so I'm doing well. I mean, it's Monday, I'm tired,

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but so it's not as dry outside. I'll take that.
With a chance of more rain this week come on then,
as fall is almost officially here, just in time for
us to wrap up soccer volleyball and be halfway through football.
But that's where we are, that's who we are, and
you can reach us on any of our social media
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Facebook at Region one Sports Report, and on the text
line at two seven h five three four forty three
oh eight. So there we go, all the business taken
care of, all the little introductions, all the pomp and circumstance,
and it's time for the Region one Sports Report, your
Monday edition of the show. Now, I gotta admit I
was actually listening to the intro to the show to

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act the music part right and I started to wonder,
is it time to change the intro music? Should we
change the intro music? We've had ram Jam from day one.
That was I don't know why. I can't even remember
why now we picked it. I think we were just
looking for something classic in the rock genre, something that

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when it came on, when that beat hit, when the
when the music hit, you knew what was about to happen.
You knew this show was coming on. We wanted something distinct,
so that's what it was. And listen, we went through
like some Motley Cruise stuff. We went through some seventy stuff,
like we went we went through hairbands. I mean we
we kind of went through you know, four, five, six,
seven songs before we kind of got to Ramjam and

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just went, let's let's just go with Black Betty and listen.
I've always been a fan of the song, don't get
me wrong, but I don't remember why that one won
out over some of the other ones. But I was
listening to it and I thought, I mean, we're at
that point where like, you either have to keep it forever.
It's been. It's been the intro song, been the theme song,
if you will, for eight years. So we either now
have to now have to keep it forever, or do

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we change you know, I talked about freshening up the show.
I talked about having little tweaks and things here to
the show have the text line, and we have some
more interviews, and things were lined up and are lining up.
But like, do we freshen up the show with a
with a new music bump? I don't know. You tell me.
I think it's too late. I think you kind of
have to keep it. I think you're going to confuse

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people when you change it at this point. But I
don't know, just a thought I had listening to the
intro of the show. So that's number one, number two
for any of you mechanics out there. I've got to
get my truck to a shop. I'm not asking for
recommendations on a shop. But all of a sudden, out
of just nowhere, the motor fan, which it's a it's
a nineteen RAM, it's a fifth gen RAM, and it's

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got the electric motor fan, and out of nowhere, that
thing has now started to take off like a jet engine.
You used to never hear it quiet, even when it
was running on high you would hear it. But it
would be like on a hot day when the ac
was on high that it'll kick on now anytime I
drop below fifty miles per hour, and just sounds like

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I'm about to take off on a runway. So I
don't know. It's been like the last week. Any suggestions, suggestions,
any ideas before I take it into the shop, so
I at least sound like I know a little bit
about what I'm talking about. It's been insane. Nothing else
is wrong. The cooling is good, the sensors are you know,
seem fine, although that could be wrong, I know. So

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I don't know. It's not overheating. I know we've had
a lot of dust and that probably got you know,
I live on a gravel driveway and all that dust
just constantly coming up in on the radiator and coming
up in on the fan could probably do that. I
get it. But any other suggestions or ideas, I'm all ears,
all right. So there's just things that have been on

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my mind this morning, you know, other than sports. Thinking
about the song intro randomly, and then that stressed me
out again this morning on the way to work. As
I'm pulling in the parking lot, and it sounds like
I'm about to fly away. So there's that. Now let's
get to sports. Let's get to the thing. We all
gather here for sports from around the region. We'll go
back and kind of look at some scores from soccer

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on Saturday and get caught up there, and then we'll
look at football scores and do our Monday morning QB
from Friday nights games. So here we go. Let's start
with soccer on Saturday. We'll start with boys soccer as
Calloway County beat Greenwood three to two. Evansville Harrison so
Evansville Harrison out of you guess at Evansville, Indiana beat

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Marshall County three to two. Marshall County then beat them
one nil. So a little double header action up in
Evansville and it's a three to two Evansville win, a
one nil Marshall County wins they split. McCraken County beat
Madisonville North Hopkins for one, and Murray over at Greenwood
three two. That's boys soccer from Saturday. On the girls

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side on Saturday in McCracken County over Henderson County four nil.
North Oldham beat Marshall County three to one, and then
Callaway County with eight nil wins. I said wins as
in plural eight nil both games. One of those wins
over Apollo, one of them over Ohio County. So there's
some soccer scores from the weekend. We'll get back to

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that in the moment. That's two football scores from Friday.
On your Friday, it was Paduca Tilman thirty five Franklin
Simpson fourteen. McCracken County goes on the road and beats
Union County forty nine to twenty five. Madisonville on the
road at Marshall County. They get the win, fifty five
to fourteen. Mayfield at home over Crickneon County forty nine

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to seven. Owensboro goes to Graves County gets a forty
nine to fourteen win. Murray on the road at Russellville
forty eight to six, Callaway County. I told you in
the win column fifty seven thirty six over war in East.
And those are your scores from football from Friday. All right,
before we get to football, we'll get there. It's coming.

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Anything stood out or standing out from soccer, anything catching
our attention, Well, not much from those scores. Again, we're
kind of at that point. I mean, it's the final
regular season week of soccer. You've got what kind of
technically we're down to the final two weeks. Bear with me,
but you have this week and next week, and a
lot of teams their final regular season game will be

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like next Tuesday. Some are playing through the end of
the week, some are playing right up until fall break.
But that's it. It's the end is nigh, the end
is near. For it's crazy. It's crazy. And I do
have one small, not a big complaint, just one small,
tiny complaint. I still think KHSAA is the best website

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of high school sports in the country. We've been spoiled,
you know, ry Hard's we had the best score site,
stats records, We've had the best. It is so much
easier and still to a large degree, so much easier
to navigate and figure out things for teams from the
state of Kentucky than it is any any school from

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anywhere else. However, things have slipped a bit. They have
slipped a bit since Frank Ryhord has given up the
score part of it, since it's no longer directly under hill.
Just slipped a little bit. I don't like the fact
that for example, and this is not a soccer issue.
This is everywhere. But in soccer, like we have two

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weeks left with the regular season, and used to be
once upon a time, you had the little thing below
you'd click on let's say Callaway County and you'd see
their page, and then below it you would see like
standings in the region and it would give you like
the districts and the standings, and it was so great.
Not anymore, it's not there. I'm just saying it's slipping.
Still better than anywhere else, not as good as it

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used to be. It's Toby Keith. Not as good as
it once was. Still as good once though, as it'll
ever be, I guess. But just a small complaint there,
like if we could get that back, just tidy up
a few things, it'd be right back to where it was. Nonetheless,
as you look at the final two weeks of the
regular season and you look around the region, and you

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look around at what's going on in soccer, and you
wind down to district tournament play, you see what we've
seen for the last four five weeks. On the girl's side,
it's Callowai County, I mean Callowai County, truly is the
team to beat on the girl's side. Right now, they
are in charge. They are the number one team. Now

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they'll play one of those other top teams in McCraken
County coming up, what whether permitting tomorrow night. That'll be fun.
But Callai County. As far as Region one opponents, they're unbeaten.
As far as overall opponents, they've got one loss on
the season, I would say it's them right now. Then
I would say marsh County Again. Marshall County did lose

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over the weekend in north Oldham, but they also beat
by the way Mercy Academy on Sunday. But as far
as Region one opponents, they've only lost one Region one
game to Callaway County one nil. So I would put
Callawai one A. I'd put Marshall one B, both in
that top tier, both teams that you could absolutely see
winning the region. Both teams that right now everybody's chasing.

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Then I would put mccracket at number two, not one,
C two, but right behind those teams, I mean, like
Razor thin, And then you would probably go what Murray
at that four spot. Their only struggles this season have
been to the teams. I just mentioned Marshall and Calloway.
They didn't play mccrackens. They played them next Tuesday, So

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we'll see how that goes. That's kind of how the
region saxon, And to be honest, that's kind of the
region right now. That's kind of where it is and
who the real contenders are. And we've seen that for
the last I feel like I've been saying that for
the last month more than a half since the season started.
Then you look on the boy's side, and on the
boy's side, it's once again Murray. It's once again Murray,

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still unbeaten, one tie and then a bunch of wins.
They have McCracken County coming up next Tuesday at home.
I would say McCracken County's probably your what number two team?
Probably then you would go with what oh man tough.
I'd go with Marshall just because they've beat Calloway County.

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Then go Callaway in that four spot. Kind of how
it's looking on the boy side, But that's kind of
where we stand as the regular season winds down. So again,
on the girls side, I think it's Callawai Marshall. Flip
a coin right now, Callaway's been just slightly better. But
those two teams, and then on the boys side, as
far as true regional contenders, it's it's Murray with maybe

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a shot for a McCracken to take them down. Maybe
Marshall climbs back in. Maybe Calloway's finds away. That's kind
of where things stand, all right. That's where the first
segment stands. Taking a break, drinking more coffee, getting a
more wake, and we'll come back and we'll recap Friday
nights games, playing a little Monday Morning QB when we

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return on Region one, Kentucky's first region for a reason,
Region one Sports.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
And all of girly say, I'm pretty fly for white guys.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Region on Sports. As we move along on your Monday
edition of the show, Brian Yorke here and we talk football,
we do our Monday Morning QB and we recap and
look back on Friday nights games. I've got to start.
I want to start, and there's a lot we can
start with, but I've got to start with Calloway County
because you got to give them their flowers, man, you
got to give them their due. The last time a

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Callaway County team was setting here with this many wins
in the first five weeks or at all in the
regular season. Forget the first five weeks, just this many
wins total in a football season. Four, by the way,
is the win total four and one. The last time
a Callaway County team had four wins was two thy sixteen.

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It has been nine years, nine years since Callawai County
has seen this many wins in the regular season, or
again at all in a season. Now, that Callawai County
team ended up being seven to four. That was in
twenty sixteen, led by Coach Garrison, two than sixteen, a

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seven win team. They were also four and one to
start the season, went on to win seven games. Nine years.
You'll put that in perspective. The seniors on this Callowai
County football team that has now won four games, they
were like eight years old, seven years old the last
time that happened. They were in early minary school. They

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don't they don't remember it. They don't know it. They
don't remember the last time Callaway County had a winning
football team, which again was twenty sixteen. They don't know
the last time Callaway County was four to one in
their first five games. Nine years ago twenty sixteen, talk
about heartache. That team went from seven wins to winless

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in twenty seventeen. In twenty eighteen, they won three games
in twenty nineteen one game. Just follow the trend here.
In twenty twenty they won three games close in twenty
and twenty one, they won three games in twenty twenty two, winless,

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two wins in twenty three and then last season winless
and by the way last you know, their win in
Week one of this season was the first win since
twenty twenty three and September fifteenth. This has been a
team that has won at most three games a couple
of times. They've had a couple of two win seasons,

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and they've had three no win seasons in the last
nine years. They winless a year ago, hadn't won a
game in a season and a half, and they not
only win a game this season to break that winless
season from a year ago, which they've never had two
in a row. So you knew it was coming. You

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knew it had to be coming. But usually they follow
up a winless season with a won or two win season.
They're following up a winless season with now four wins
at minimum. And they're four and one in the first
five weeks, and hey, I get it. You got to
play the schedule right for you when you are struggling

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to get wins. And listen, Marshall County a handful of
years ago played this schedule and still only ended up
with like three wins. They've done it too. They've played
the Allards in the Fulton Counties and the Webster like
they they've played these kind of teams before too, trying
to get wins and then they go on to win
two or three games and that's it. The Callawai County
had to play this schedule. They had to find a

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way to get wins. They had to drop down a level,
if you will, in competition to climb their way back.
Four and one and really the most impressive thing. And
Warren East is not a great football team. They have
one win on the season. It's against Central Harden, who
may be the worst football team in the state. That's
just being real. They may be. Look, they're for sure

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the worst big school in the state. They're six A.
They've only scored what twenty points total in five games.
They've given up like forty something points a game. I mean,
it's they're they're terrible. That's the only win that Warren
East has. They've been competitive in another, you know, couple
of other games, but they were a one win team.

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But here's the deal, go back one year. This game
last year was a sixty eight nothing win for Warren East.
Sixty eight n A. Now, that was a good Warren
East team. That was a Warreneast team that was out
to a little bit better start and ended up with
being a better football team. They were good. But that
is one heck of a turnaround to lose sixty eight nothing.

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I get it. They were a good football team. You're
a bad football team. But you got a lot of
the same dudes back and you go out this season
and you win fifty seven thirty six, pretty good stuff
you and you did it again on the ground. I mean,
come on, at what point do we just say, all right,
Logan Smith, you have to carry the football like every play,

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because why not? Forty rush attempts, three hundred and twenty
one yards, five rushing touchdowns. That is a season for
a lot of guys. This kid put it up in
one game against a team that beat them sixty eight
nothing a year ago. Forty three to twenty one five touchdowns.

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Last season, he had thirteen carries for sixty seven yards
as a team. As a team, Callowai County only had
fifty five total yards of offense last year in that
game this season, three eighty nine on the ground again,
a lot of that from Logan Smith. Eighty three in
the air. Much different, much different now, Bridwell he goes

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eighty three yards in the air, ten of sixteen, one touchdown,
no picks against Smith. Forty carries three twenty one five
touchdowns as a team, fifty four rushes, three eighty nine
and seven rushing touchdowns. Just when you thought he already
had a career night, he comes out a few weeks
later and he goes, yeh, I'll do that again. And
this is a better opponent than Fulton County. This is
a better opponent than Ballad Memorial. They're not a great opponent,

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but a better opponent. The Callawai County now four to one.
What's the outlook? What do we think they can accomplished
well the next two weeks. They're not gonna be the favorite.
That's just reality. You're gonna have to bring it. You
gonna have to play like you're gonna have to play
like something like you've got something to prove, because you
do still. But then you've got Allen County SCons Bold.

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That could be win number five. Yeah, but you can
tell me you're not the favorite. And then to wrap
up the season, you've got Marshall County. This could be
could be a six win season. Now to get more
than that, you're gonna have to still a win. You're
gonna have to either surprise us with a win at
Logan County, which is gonna be tough, or a surprise

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us with a win at Franklin Simpson, which is gonna
be tough. You've got three games left. You're not the favorite.
You're gonna have to pull an upset to guarantee a
six to seven win season. But you've still got a
shot right now at six wins where you're at least
equal to or the favorite in these games. That's pretty

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incredible considering where this program was a year ago. That's
pretty incredible considering where this program was two years ago,
three years ago. Again, they haven't had four wins in
a regular season since twenty sixteen. That team finished with
seven wins. This team has a path to seven wins.
I think more likely they end up with five or six,

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but certainly a path to seven wins. Now the competition
picks up big time for them Friday night. Not to
rain on your parade. Logan County is really really good.
They're not great. They're not They shouldn't put a running
clock on you. They shouldn't overwhelm you. They shouldn't, you know,

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just come out and blow you out. But they're better.
And this game is at Logan County, which is tough
because you've got to travel just over two hours to
get there. That's tough, man. I'm telling you. I go
back to my playing days, which you know, it was
lucky we had school buses. It was so long ago.
But I go back to my playing days in like,
it's hard to go anywhere and play anybody after a

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two hour bus ride. It's just not the routine you're
used to being in those those two hour bus rides,
just not so that throws you off in and of itself,
just throwing off your routine. But you know what, worry
about that game in a few days. We will worry
about Franklin Simpson next week. I'm not saying you can't
beat Franklin Simpson. They're good though. I mean, look, they

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they hung with Tilman, they played Tillman like. They're good.
But you know, again, if I'm looking at it, I'm saying,
you've got Logan County, Franklin Simpson, and Tilman, and to
get to at least six wins, maybe seven wins, you've
got to beat one of them. Franklin Simpson's a little
more likely. I'm not saying you can't beat Logan County.

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I'm just saying, right now, I would think Franklin Simpson
would be a little more likely. But hey, it's been
a crazy year and a year we didn't see coming already,
so why not. But to this point, four and one,
Good for you, Callaway County. And we just spent ten
minutes talking about Callaway County football, probably the most in

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one show we've spent in the eight years we've done
this show. Keep in mind that's the other thing. They
nine years ago they had a four win season. We
weren't doing the show then. Unbelievable. Good for you Callaway.
I'm looking right now at a license plate with your
logo and a cup with your logo on it in
my studio, go Lakers go, Lakers. Good for you, all right.

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So that's Callaway County. That's the start. The Lakers are
off too. That's the lead of our Monday Morning QB
is Callaway County Football. I'll give you another one. McCracken
County goes on the road and has one of them
games and one of those nights where it is like
the definition of bounce back. They go on the road
to Union County, not a fun or easy place to

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go play. Union County was in the state title game
a year ago. Union County lost some dudes off that team. Team.
Don't get me wrong, but they don't forget how to
play football. They're a prideful, tradition rich program where they
come back year after year and they keep being good.
This season, they're still good. They're not great, and they're
certainly not up to their standard. But this was again

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a tough week for McCracken when you looked at what
was against them, playing a Union County team coming off
a tough loss at Graves County. Union County is at home,
not an easy place for any opponent to go. You
drive four hours to go an hour and a half.
I mean it takes four hours to make that drive,
it feels like. And then McCracken not only makes that drive,

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they go up there and get into a weather delay,
which was we didn't believe, Like, what do you mean
there's a weather delay? We're in a drought. And then
the game starts late and it's close early. But then
McCracken County just keeps scoring a week after they could
not score on Mayfield. Literally, I mean they scored three points,
but they couldn't find the end zone. And then they

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go to Union County, who still got a good football team,
who still got a good defensive team, and they go
forty nine to twenty five. To put that in perspective,
madison Ville North Hopkins is as good as it gets
in five A or six A football. This season, they've
been great. They beat Tillman, they beat Union County forty
nine thirteen. Graves County beat them nineteen fifteen. Listen to

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Graves has got their own struggles. Don't get me wrong,
but that's a home game for Graves and they did
well defensively, but they beat them nineteen fifteen. And then
mccrackey County goes out a week after scoring three points
on Mayfield, which I get it. It's Mayfield, but mccrack
could probably still should have found the end zone once
or twice, and then they go out and they go
forty nine twenty five. Don't have the numbers or the

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official stats or even unofficial stats in this game, which
is crazy, but I'd be curious to see it, and
I'll be curious to see it when those stats get
posted usually today. Mccrack is usually pretty good about it.
I get it, you went on the road Friday, had
a late night. I'm not gonna blame you for not
having them up on Monday morning, but I'm sure they'll
be posted sometime today and we'll talk about that more
on Wednesday. As far as Union County's offense goes, they

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only had forty three passing yards, which is about par
for them, but they still had their normal run game
forty rushes to eighty four and two touchdowns. Fletcher and
McPeek did their thing, one fifty eight and one nine each.
So McCracken's defense, you know, kind of let Union County
do what they wanted. And Union County got twenty five points,

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which is pretty good for what for the style of
offense they run. But man their defense got shredded. Their
defense absolutely got shredded on Friday night. So McCracken, big win,
back of the win column. McCracken, now two and three
to start the season. How about Paduca Tillman, Paduka Tillman.
I told you this would be a different game for Tillman.

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This was not gonna be a game. They just rend
their opponent off the field. Now again, Franklin Simpson is
the kind of team. It's it's kind of like Madisonville.
They play a very different style of offense. They do
not throw the football. They want to, you know, pound
the ground. They want they want to ground control, they
want to clock control, time of possession, field position. That
that's what they do. And Tilman struggled little bit and

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a little bit early with that, but then pulls away.
Thirty five to fourteen the Blue Tornado in this football game.
And I do have their stats. Let's take a look
at it again. Thirty five to fourteen ends up being
the final stone. Crow was twenty two of thirty. He
had two hundred and seventy six yards passing, no touchdowns,
and two interceptions on the night. Tilman, though, has a

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team with thirty rushes two thirty two and four rushing touchdowns. Listen,
they just don't want to run the football. But I
think especially in games like that, Yeah, it saved them.
It saved them. They don't want to run it. They
don't like running it, they want to throw it. But
run game was definitely where it was at all four
of their offensive touchdowns coming on the ground. So Tilman

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gets the win. They now four and one to start
the season. They get Allen County Scottsville, who's terrible. They
get them this week at home. That won't be Listen,
that just won't be a fun game. Now you if
there's like one Tilman game this year at home where
you're like we might go somewhere, we might go what
somebody else play this week? That's probably it. Next week though,
they get Logan County at home. That one is a

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circle your calendar game. And then after that they went out.
I mean, Logan County is sort of the last one
on the schedule. You've got to even be worried about
or thinking about. Everything else is just show up and
play because you're just more talented than those other opponents.
All right, tell you what up against the break, Let's
take it we'll come back, you know, Tillman, McCracken in

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the win column, Calloway County, good for you what you've
done so far this season. And then you know Murray.
We'll get to Murray in a moment they had another
Mayfield had, you know, kind of went chalk. But Marshall
County and Graves County, who man tough ones on Friday.
We'll get to all of that and more when we
come back. It's Region one, Region one Sports in for
the deep.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Dive to on sports as we move along.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Our final segment on your Monday edition of the show,
recapping Friday nights games and giving our thoughts and playing
a little Monday morning QB gave our flowers, we gave
our due to Calawai County. Good for you. Four and
one to start the season. Talked about that McCracken County
big bounce back win over Union County. Again, I don't
care what Union County's record is. There's still a pretty
decent football team. And to go on the road and

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to offensively recover from a tough one a week ago,
to do what you did last week, good for you, Tilman.
Overcoming a good, tough opponent a style of a play
that gave them trouble against Madisonville that they did overcome
and did find a way to get that win last
week thirty five to fourteen. So we've talked about those teams.
We've gave them their due. Certainly, last but not least

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on the giving them their due would be Murray and Mayfield.
Murray goes on the road forty eight to six, a
winner over Russellville and a Megan exactly what we expected,
you know why. Robbins ten of twelve, ten twelve, two
hundred and four yards, two touchdowns. They ran the football
as a team twenty one times, two twenty eight and
four touchdowns. So that's that's two thirty three in the air,

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two twenty eight in the ground, six offensive touchdowns as
they dispatched a winless and pretty pretty rough, pretty tough,
pretty bad Russellville team, a one A football team. So
this was kind of a you know, just go get
a win week for Murray one A football Russellville, who's
not good. Uh, they do turn up the competition level
a notch as they get McCracken this week. We'll talk

(28:29):
about that later and of course later this week, so
we'll turn that back up, but Murray gets the win
and then Mayfield, you know, Mayfield does what Mayfield does.
They host Crittinon County. Crittin County is okay, Greny Goutty's.
Craney County has been fine. They're two and three now
on the season. They're not quite the the juggernaut they
were a handful of years ago, but they've been good.

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They take a lot of pride in their program. They
went on the road to Mayfield, Mayfield said, nah, and
they win forty two seven. This game was over in
the first quarter. It was thirty five nothing with one
oh four up in the first quarter. That, by the way,
thanks to our text line two seven zero five three
four forty three eight. But that game over thanks to
our our texter from Mayfield, who does a fantastic job

(29:13):
letting us know what's going on. Thirty five nothing in
the first quarter. Boy, but those next three quarters just
flew right by, right. What a fun night. Thirty five
nothing after one forty two seven ins or sorry, forty
nine to seven. Uh yeah, that's correct. Forty nine to
seven was the final according to my texture, so I
think it's wrong on catchs a. Nonetheless, Mayfield wins easily.

(29:38):
So those were you know, give your flowers there. McCraken
goes on the road, gets a good win, Callaway gets
a big win, Tilman gets a good win at home.
That's a good win. Murray does what Murray does, Mayfield
takes care of business easily. And then there are two
left to talk about. Who had rougher nights on Friday night?
One was the game I was at wo Man tough.

(30:00):
It's tough. It's been tough. You know, we knew this
season would be a little different for Graves County. We
think I still believe, I still have faith, I still
know the talent is there. But what a tough schedule, man,
that's number one. What a tough schedule. And it's just
another tough night for Graves County and the offense so

(30:21):
far this season. You know, I think what makes it
a little more tough for Graves is McCracken goes on
the road in a sloppy, rainy condition. Right, they go
on the road, they play an opponent you played a
week ago that you beat nineteen fifteen, and they go
put up forty nine points. They get a forty nine

(30:45):
to twenty five win on the road against the team
you beat nineteen fifteen at home. So I think that's
that's the comparing contrast that's going on right now with
Graves County is they're just having trouble on the offensive
side of the football period. Each week it's been tough.
It's been tough, it really has. And Friday night was

(31:08):
tough because Owensboro came out in the blink of an eye,
had scores quickly. You know, the first series took a
few plays. Graves had an opportunity. I think they got
them to third down, third and long, and then Owensboro converted,
and that's where all the momentum changes. If Graves can
get off the field. I'm not saying their offense was
going to move the football and score, but it just

(31:30):
energizes that whole team to hold Mayfield, to hold Owensboro
to a three and out. But they go third and long,
Owensboro converts. A few plays later, they find the end
zone and then Owensboro gets the football back and they
go like two plays they go over the top, score
same thing. A little bit later on over the top
and score and it's twenty one to nothing. Before you

(31:50):
can catch your breath, twenty one. Nothing before people have
really had a chance to settle in and find their seat.
And the way the offense had been for Graves, you
just thought, man, if we if we can just find
a way to hold them to twenty one, maybe we
can start to climb back. Maybe we can do. But
it just another week where it just wasn't their night.
I don't have the Graves totals yet. It wasn't pretty

(32:12):
the offense, the numbers just weren't good again this week.
But defensively, Graves had been really good, at least really
solid the first few weeks, at least most of the game,
not giving up a lot of points until the second
half or at some point in the second half. But
this week, I mean Owensboro was fourteen of sixteen passing
for two seventy three and three touchdowns. They were in

(32:34):
the football thirty times for one point fifty seven and
three touchdowns. The one good thing for Graves. They went
into this game knowing Evan Hampton for Owensborough, who came
off of a two hundred plus yard rushing performance the
week before, who had been good, who was their best
offensive player. They held him to sixteen carries eighty yards
in a touchdown. That's a pretty good not for Graves's

(32:55):
defense when you consider that was the focal point. The
problem is the focal point became stop Evan Hampton in
the run game, and Owensborough went okay, well, then we're
just gonna throw the football down the field and again
fourteen of sixteen, two seventy three and three touchdowns. It's
a tough night. It's been tough. It has been and
this Graves County team at you know, I think after

(33:15):
the Murray loss, you sort of looked around and you went, Okay,
it's gonna be one of those seasons. It's gonna be.
You know, we're just trying to regroup and rebuild and
refocus and do the things we've got to do this season.
Now you're not seeing you're throwing the season away. You're
not saying that we've just resided ourselves too. It's just
gonna be a wasted Season's that's not the mindset and

(33:37):
that's not what I'm saying. But you look at it
and you go, Okay, this might be a three or
four win team. It just might be based on schedule,
based on how we perform so far, based on who
we've still got left to play, and you lose forty
nine to fourteen to Owensborough, who at one point did
not look like the favorite to win the district. Hard
to see that now Madisonville does. Now you look at

(33:59):
you got to go on the road to Madisonville. You've
got to go on the road next week to Apollo,
who's not been as good as they we thought they
would be, but they've been honestly, let's be honest, They've
been better than Graves so far. And then you get
fall break to reset and regroup, and then you come
back with Marshall County with a long win streak on

(34:21):
the line against an improved Marshall County team. Muhlenberg County
is a game you can say, look, we can get this.
When that's okay, we got that. And then McCracken County,
Now that's at home, and that's a week where usually
you want to catch McCracken County and they feel a
little more checked out at that point, a little more
focused on the postseason. But if we're being honest, I mean,

(34:45):
one win so far for the Eagles, they still have
an opportunity Apollo, Marshall Muhlenberg, McCracken. They still have an
opportunity to finish this thing off the right way and
finish this thing strong. This can still be a team
that goes out and gets what I just say, one, two, three, four.
This is still a team that can go get five
regular season wins. And one of their worst seasons in

(35:08):
the last two decades was like a five win team,
So that this is a team that can you know,
it's pretty good when one of your worst teams is
five wins. I mean, listen, it's pretty good. Life's pretty good.
I've talked about the consistency of this program. It has
been as good and consistent as any program in the region.
Mayfield has had higher highs obviously and been has can

(35:32):
you know, been the example been the standard of that
Tillman in the last few years has had higher highs.
But year after year after year, going back a decade plus,
going back a decade and a half, nobody has been
more consistent than Graves County Mayfield a side, it's been
Mayfield and then and then Graves and so to say

(35:53):
that this could be one of your tougher, you know seasons,
one of your worst seasons to quote that and you
you still have a shot at five wins. That's not
bad at all. But they're gonna have to make some improvements.
They're gonna have to figure this thing out. Still, it's
not gonna be easy this week going to Madisonville. It's not.
You can hope that they overlook you, but it's not

(36:16):
gonna be easy. Next week's the test. Next week is
the one when you go to Apollo, a team that
you thought you were gonna beat to start the season,
a team that you to start the season you were
a favorite against. That's the one you go get Apollo.
Then you feel good playing Marshall County after fall break,

(36:36):
then you feel great against Buhlenberg County, and you probably
still feel good against the Cracking County even though they
just put up forty nine on opponent. You only scored
nineteen on And that's just reality. That's just me being honest,
me spitting facts. At the end of the day, when
you cut these veins, they bleed blue. At the end
of the day, when you ask me my favorite color
and my favorite mascot, it's blue and it's an eagle, period.

(37:00):
How dare you question that that's not even should even
be on your brain. But I gotta be honest, I
gotta be real here. It's been a tougher season than
we expected. But and I said this to somebody over
the weekend, when you've been as good and consistent as
that program, occasionally you're due for a year that you
go it's just not been as good. Some of that

(37:21):
has been the schedules really tough. There's a lot of factors.
It's not that they don't have talent, it's not that
they're not well coached. It's not that this is not
a good team. Sometimes the schedule doesn't line up quite
the way you hoped it would, and I think that's
been a little tougher than even they hoped it would be.
And then you're just kind of due for one of
those years. Sometimes it happens. But like I said, you

(37:42):
still got a chance at five wins in front of you.
I mean, they still theoretically could win out five of
the next six games and have a very good finish
to this season and be what we thought they could be.
That's my point, but a tough one. On Friday, it
was also tough for the Marshals. Marshall County held out hope.
Early it was a flows and a good football game.
Early I think it was like ten to seven. At

(38:03):
one point we were all in shock, like, oh my goodness,
Marshall County is holding Madisonville to in check. They're doing
some things. Look out for the Marshalls. And then it
ends up being fifty five to fourteen. Marshall County struggled
to move to the football offensively, thirty three passing yards
on five of fifteen with no touchdowns one interception. Again,
Graves plays this team on Friday night and Marshall had

(38:25):
been doing better in the past game, so that worries
me a little bit that they held Marshall County to
thirty three yards five of fifteen and one pick, no touchdowns.
Running the football, it was twenty seven carries as a team,
one to eighteen and two touchdowns, so just could not
get the football moving. On the flip side, Madisonville ended
up again fifty five points. In the end, they ended

(38:46):
up with two hundred and twenty four passing yards. Remember
this is not eighteen that likes to pass the football
sixteen of twenty one for two twenty four to three touchdowns,
no picks. They ran the football thirty three times for
two thirteen. I get it. But High Tower, who's been
in credit was fourteen carries one thirteen in a touchdown.
They I guess we're having trouble early running the football

(39:07):
went to the air, opened things up and ended up
with two twenty eight and two thirteen with three touchdowns
in the air, three on the ground. So Marshall held
out hope, but then ended up being a tough one
for them as well. And that ends up being your
show on a Monday. There it is, out of time,
out of topic, got a lot of things going on
around me in the studio, got to take care of hope.

(39:28):
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this has been Region one Sports
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