September 8, 2025 • 38 mins
Tilghman takes a third straight from Mayfield, Marshall with the comeback on the road, Murray holds off Graves and more.
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This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian York
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And here we go on your Monday. It is a Monday,
September eighth, Wow, September eighth edition of the Region one
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three eight. How are we on a chilly Monday morning?
Forty eight? As I record this show and get it
ready for radio on this early Monday morning Chili forty
I noticed when I walked out this morning it had
a bit more of a nip in the air, just
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had that fell to it. And it's by the way,
it's it's not gonna last. It's gonna get hot week,
I know, I know, Like right when we think we're
getting that that good weather, right when we think we're
getting that, oh like it's it's fall. I mean it's
early September. Of man, it's faun no, no, summertime is
still here. In fact, it's gonna be in the upper
eighties all week long, sunny skies, low's in the sixties,
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so that's even much warmer. And then on Monday, so
one week from today, it's gonna be like ninety ninety one,
still hot. It's still gonna be hot. It's it's not
quite gone yet, unfortunately, So soak it in that Today
is gonna be nice like seventy eight the hot today,
So soak that in. But the rest of the week,
come on, I know, I know, but here we are again.
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Hopefully you're doing good on this Monday. We've got a
lot to get into over the weekend, a lot to
get into over the weekend. And you know, it's always
my sort of most favorite least favorite day of the
week to do the show, because on one hand, it's
it is our most listened to show of the week
as we recap and go over and play Monday morning
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quarterback from Friday nights games, and had a lot of
interest and a lot of intrigue, not only some people
tuning in to listen to see kind of what happened,
but many others tuning in to sort of see what
I'm going to say about what happened. And so it's
it's you know, it's got that intrigue, got that high listenership,
and I love that and it motivates me and it
gets me going, and you know, I'm kind of ready
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to get going on a Monday, believe it or not.
At the same time, my love hate the hate part
of it comes in the trying to go back and
recap and remember things that happened two days ago after
I had a weekend doing lots of other things, then
thinking about and uh and remembering what happened on Friday.
So that's the fun challenge. That's you know, I feel
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like I should record this or start recording this show
on Saturday and just you know, airing it on Monday,
because that would be a lot better. But here we are. Nonetheless,
I've got to go back and you know, go back
through my mind and go back through my notes and
go back through everything and get back in that Friday
night spirit and hopefully say all the things that were
on my brainium on Friday. But that's you know, the
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challenge of having two days away from it always fun.
So it's always interesting doing these Monday shows. However, with
that said, and without much ado, let's get into it because,
like I said, we do have a lot to get into.
We've got a lot of scores that we need to
go through. We've got some stats we got to go over.
We've got some thoughts I gotta get out. So that's
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that's what we're doing today. So let's look at the
scores first from week three of the football season. That's right.
We are now, as of today, in week four of
the football season. So it's not just back, it's we're
like almost halfway through. It's insane. It's insane. We are
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almost at the halfway point of football season already. Yeah,
I mean seriously, like two weeks away from it. I
get it, but but we're we're there, like we are there.
So let's review week three, looking at scores from Friday night,
and we'll kind of go in order of how we're
going to talk about these games coming up. But you
had Tilman and Mayfield and this one not even close.
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Tillman fifty five, Mayfield twenty nine. That's on Friday. Again.
I'll go back and talk about these in a moment.
Murray Overgraves County thirty two fourteen, McCracken County beat Clarksville
Northeast sixty five twenty six, Marshall County comes back and
holds off Trigg County twenty eight, twenty seven, Calloway County
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a big road went over Fulton County forty eight fourteen,
and Massac County blanked the bombers of Ballard Memorial forty two. Nothing. Again,
those are your scores on Friday. So Tilman over Mayfield,
mccracket over Clarksville, Murray Overgraves, Marshall over Trigg, Calloway over Fulton,
Massec over Ballard. I believe I only got one of
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those wrong, and that's just because again Hecker high Water
through thick and thin. I'll always pick Graves County, but
they definitely let me down on Friday, and I think
they are the only one. But a fun not of football.
You know that Marshall Trig game. We'll get into that
in a moment. The best game of the week. It was.
That was the best game of the night. Callaway's vengeance
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on Fulton County will break that down in a moment. Ballard,
you know, they had some guys come in last year
that aren't there this year. That went back to where
they came and you were seeing a big difference, especially
with not having Blair Sayings, who did get in that
Tillman game on Friday night, by the way, but a
big difference because Ballard much more competitive and won some
of those games last year. It's not gonna happen this year.
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And then you know, McCraken got a big win. I mean, there's,
like I said, a lot to kind of get back
into and get in the weeds of on Friday night,
things that kind of stood out, things just top of
the brain before we go back and specifically look at
these games and look at these stats and kind of
kind of react and report on what happened. Things that
kind of stood out well Tilman over Mayfield just running
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them off the field. You know, I did say that
on Friday. I thought it would be a close game.
I thought Mayfield better this season. Tilman a stepped back
from a year ago. So like Mayfield felt like a
step up, Tilman step felt like a little bit of
a step back again. Not that Tilman's not going to
run the table, not that they might not win another
state title, just not quite as top heavy talent wise
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as they were last year, with a bunch of d
one dudes, a bunch of bunch of college football guys.
But they just ran Mayfield off the field fifty five
to twenty nine. That definitely stood out. It's the third
straight win for Tilman over Mayfield in the series. You
got to go back before Mayfield rattled off seventeen in
a row to find the last time Tilman won three straight.
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Tillman won three straight. I think, let me see, I
got to pull it up, holl On, I want to
get it right, don't want to be wrong. But they
won three straight between two thousand and three and two
thousand and five. Then Mayfield rattled off their seventeen game
win streak, and then going into Friday Night's game, you
had you know, Mayfield at one point had won seventeen
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straight over Tilman. That was no more. But Tilman going
into Friday night had won seventeen straight consecutive football games.
So a lot of streaks on the line on Friday,
and in the end it was Puduca Tilman. It was
Paduca Tilman again three straight for the first time since
before Mayfield had won that seventeen game win streak. So
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that was impressive. I'll get your stats numbers and more
here in a moment we talk about that game. More
specifically and kind of where these two teams go from here.
But the granddaddy of them all, if you're a Tilman fan,
did not disappoint. If you're a Mayfield fan, who boy
that that probably uh I would say losing to Graves
last season probably made the Mayfield faithful the most unhappy
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they've been in a while. But getting blown out by
Tilman definitely not happy on this Monday. Definitely not cause
you know how Mayfield fans are, and then they should
be this way. But they always think they're gonna win always,
and they should because most of the time they're right.
And they really thought they were really convinced. I was
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too to a degree, but they were really convinced they
were gonna win that game Friday. I didn't think they
were gonna win. I did think it'd be competitive, and
it wasn't. That's the thing, and again, i'll give you
the numbers improve that point here in a moment, but
that's the thing that stood out. So that was number one,
number two, Graves County, oh to three for the first
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time since twenty eleven. We get they're playing a tough schedule,
we get that, you know this was gonna be a
little bit of a step down year. They had twenty
one seniors on that group last year, most of them starters,
especially the skill guys. You had a multi year starter
at quarterback, you had an unbelievable talent at receiver, multiple
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guys over there, your skill guys. You had some good
defensive guys. But they come back with a lot of
I mean, that's what Graves does. This has been one
of the more consistent six, seven, eight win programs in
the region of the last fifteen years. And this team,
as I said on Friday, on paper, looks exactly like
that team from two years ago that went on to
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win eight football games. So you know, the talent's there,
you know there's some things there, and then the schedule
very tough. Murray's very good. But it felt like a
week that if Craves was going to get back in
the win column, man, it almost had to be last week.
They got another opportunity to coming up Friday. But but
now you start to worry. And that's the thing that
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stands out for me as a Gravescan fan. Now I'm
getting worried. I am getting worried. I have faith in
the coaches, I believe in the talent, but right now,
you know, week three, you get into week four, you
kind of are who you are. At this point. There
might be some, you know slight improvement in maybe play
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calling as coaches start to figure out personnel and start
to figure out what works what doesn't, but you kind
of are who you are. You either have a line
that can block or you don't. You either have skill
guys that can can make plays or you don't. Now again,
like I said, the improvement in the room for error
comes in the in the coaches and how they deal
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with that, and the players and how they respond to that.
But by the end of week three, you kind of
are who you are. And with this schedule, there is
some validation for concern and we'll talk about that a
little bit. Marshall County over Trie County. You know, I
said last week the Marshalls are gonna get to four
or five wins, which there's still a path to five wins.
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I'm feeling more confident they may get to four wins,
which would still be an improvement. But if that's gonna happen,
they had to get that game last week, and for
a moment there was some concern that was gonna happen.
But they did. They go on the road, they beat
a very improved Trie County team and they get a win.
Win's a win, and they get a win. They're two
and one. Callawai County's vengeance on Fulton County. Yeah, I
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got a lot to say on that as well, and
we will on the other side of the break. We
gotta take it. We're up against it. When we come back,
we'll get into the stats, the numbers of that Tilman blowout.
We will get into our concerns with Graves County and
what we saw with Murray. We'll get into Marshall County's
one point escape of Trick County, Fulton County's dominance for
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cracking County's dominance. Still got a lot to go, a
lot of show left on the other side when we return.
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three four, forty three eight. Continuing though on this Monday edition,
looking at scorer stats and more from Friday nine. I
was talking in the last segment to end the segment
about things that stood out. Let's get specific and let's
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kind of go game by game. Let's start with Tillman
in Mayfield, and the granddaddy of them all if you're
a Tillman fan, was far from disappointing. Fifty five twenty
nine to the final. As Tilman improves to three and
oh in the season, they now have an eighteen game
total win streak going back almost two full years since
their last loss, so eighteen straight for Tilman three and
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zero on the season. Mayfield falls to two and one.
The Cardinals get McCracken coming up Friday. Tilman will have
a very tough one with madison Ville North Hopkins. Now again,
they're better, they should win win handily, but going to
Madisonville and taking on an opponent like that is going
to be a challenge for the Blue Tornado and really
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the last one on their schedule until they get to
the playoffs. We'll talk about that though more later this week.
Fifty five twenty nine ends up being the final look
at the stats. And I don't have Mayfield stats, and listen,
it's Monday, it's games. I'm not gonna get into that.
But I've got Tilman stats and oo boy, twenty one
of forty passing for stone Crow. Not a great completion
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percentage when you throw the football forty times, you'd like
to be a little have a few more completions, but
that's just the confidence they have in their passing game
to just keep chucking the football. Twenty one of forty
for him, four hundred and nine yards, six touchdowns, two interceptions. Wow,
this is a kid that basically set the bench, basically
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set behind Jack James for the last few years, getting
his shot as a senior. And he's like, he's like
four hundred yards a game, four h nine, six touchdowns,
two interceptions on that Mayfield defense. Yikes. The top guy
kind of helped him out, kind of kind of had
himself a day. Cameron Wade eight catches, two hundred and
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forty five yards, five touchdowns, eight catches two hundred and
forty five yards, five touchdowns. Avery Thompson did his thing.
He got six catches, went one twenty two and two touchdowns.
Normally you see a kid go six catches, one two
to two and two touchdowns. That's a game. But Cameron
Wade said, wait a minute, I'm a senior. I'm gonna
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have a career game. And he did, and he did
it against Mayfield, which is even that's a story. I
said this all the time. You know, the great thing
about high school sports are that twenty years later, you
still have those memories in those stories to tell. And again,
he had two hundred and forty five yards. When he
retells that story in twenty years, he'll have four hundred
and fifty yards. But that's a story you'll always tell
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and always say, didn't just happen on a random knot.
Didn't just just happen against a bad opponent. It happened
against the biggest rivalry for Tillman. So good on him,
Cameron Wade with a big night. But those numbers, I mean,
listen to this and listen. Tillman didn't run the football.
I mean, thirty one carries seems like a lot, but
ten of those were from stone Crow, the quarterback, so
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they they handed the football off what twenty one times?
Wilson had fourteen carries Copeland ended up Mason Copland ended
up with seven. So thirty one carries, thirty one rush attempts,
one hundred and six yards, one touchdown. But listen to
those numbers again, this is not an average opponent. This
is not a week opponent. This is not a like
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a non football school, if you will. They're playing one
of the best in the nation, as far as one
of the most winning, you know, winningest programs in the nation.
They're playing a bitter rival and they go four hundred
and sixty one yards in the air, seven touchdowns, passing
one hundred and six on the ground with one touchdown,
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nearly six hundred yards of offense and eight off defensive
touchdowns for Puduka Tillman. I would say those Mayfield fans
are upset today, just a little bit. It's one thing
to lose Man. They just it was. It was domination
on that Mayfield defense for that Tilman offense. So big game,
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big game, big win for Tillman. Like I said, Mayfield,
I mean, you look at it. They've got McCracken coming
up at home on Friday. They'll be the favorite. They'll
be the favorite against Critne and County. Cadwell County trick
like Mayfield's gonna go on, and you know they'll get
to Friday, October thirty first, and they'll be looking at
nine to one and focused on what they've got to
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do to win another two a state title, and this
one will be behind them. But for the for the
immediate in the meantime, for this week, this one stings.
It does for Tillman. Like I said, their next their
next one is their toughest one left. Madisonville is good.
They're three and oh they've kind of put it to
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some teams so far. They beat Union County, who's actually
good and always good. They beat them forty nine to thirteen.
They blew the doors off Hopkinsville, who hasn't been good
in a while, but Hopkinsville right now is two to one,
and that loss forty two to nineteen. And then beat
Hopkins County Central, who's not great, but they dominate them
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seventy two to fourteen. This Madisonville team, and like I said,
we'll get more into this matchup later this week. They
don't throw the football, they run the football, but they
do it really well. By the way. Marquez High Tower
for them has been around for twenty years. And he's
averaging two hundred and fourteen yards a game right now rushing.
That's just the two first two games. So it'll be
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a clashing styles. What'll beat tough for Madisonville. They don't
throw the football. Tilman will quick strike, Tillman will hit
big home runs, and if you're Madisonville, you rely on
those to come on the ground and that's just not
a formula to win that game. So Tilman's style better
suits them to get a win on Friday night than
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a team playing that style, if you will. But that's
still the best opponent left on Tilman's schedule. So again,
you look at their schedule and you go pretty confident
they're going to run the table again. They may end
up two years in a row being unbeaten and back
to back state champs. It's crazy, it's crazy, but that's
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the granddaddy of them all. That's the Tillman and Mayfield
rivalry on Friday. Moving along, other games we got to
talk about. I'm going to get to Murray and Graves,
so I want to do that when I've got a
little more time to talk about it. Same thing with
Marshall and Trigg. I want to do that when I've
got a little more time, I'm going to be up
against a break in a moment because I'm losing my
voice and I had to pause a little bit between
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recording segments. So before we close out this segment, just
because we won't have as much time, let's talk about
McCracken and their game, their win on Friday night. So
the must Things who play Mayfield this week, they now
are in the win column. They're one and two to
start the year with a dominant performance against Northeast Clarksville.
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Watched a little bit of that game on Saturday just
out of curiosity. Clarksville not a great team, not a
great team, but McCracken just kind of had their way,
and McCracken is good. They're talented, and they finally started
to have their chance to flex a little bit on Friday.
Mattox O'Neill in this ball game was thirteen of twenty
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two two oh three with one touchdown and one interception.
The freshman Cole Presswood came in and as a freshman,
he moved the football. He had none completions, three of
those went to the end zone. Nine of sixteen three touchdowns, win, interception,
one hundred and two yards. So combined those two guys
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went twenty two for thirty eight three h five, four touchdowns,
two picks. They ran the football well. Dawson Hayden went
sixteen carries one hundred and thirty five yards in a touchdown.
Again as a team, McCracken County thirty two carries to
twelve five touchdowns, so four in the air, five on
the ground, over five hundred yards of offense for McCracken
County on Friday night and jud Lanier six catches one
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hundred and two yards in a touchdown. Matcham Jakari Matcham
went seven catches, ninety nine yards and two touchdowns. So
them dudes have themselves a game on Friday night in
a game that was close early but not often, in
a blowout by the end, sixty five to twenty six.
Your final. Like I said, the Mustangs won in three.
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They take on Mayfield this week. Do they have a shot.
Of course they do. They've got a good offense. It's
McCracken six a football. They should have a shot. At
the same time, you look across the field and you
realize you're at War Memorial, and you realize your opponent
is Mayfield and oh, by the way, you're getting Mayfield
coming off a butt whooping. Oh man, tough week, tough week.
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This could go one of two ways for Mayfield. You know,
some teams they have a week like that, a Friday
night like that, and they tend to implode a little bit.
They tend to still be focused too much on what
they can't change and not enough on what they can control.
Can't change the past, you can control who's ahead of
you Mayfield, though, I have a feeling, you know, in
the past and the coach Morris days, this would be
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that game that like, you're in trouble, McCracken, you're in trouble.
We're too early, and the coach do erra to know
how much that still is there. But I would say
tradition tells me McCracken, may be in trouble on Friday
night not a time to catch Mayfield. Or maybe it's
the best time to catch Mayfield. We'll see, but that's
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what's coming up for those two teams, all right. Like
I said, I knew I was gonna take a quicker break.
Let me take it, let me catch my breath, get
my voice back. We'll come back. Larger segment coming up,
we'll get into the Murray Graves game. Marshall Trigg calloi
over Fulton. Still got a lot to go.
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Preaching with sports moving along here our final segment. But
we got a lot to get into on this segment,
So let's get into it now. As we get into this,
and anytime I taught Graves County football or Graves County back, like,
I get accused of the bias and being the homer
and being a if they lose, I'm a sore loser,
and like, okay, maybe there's a little truth to that. Fine,
I'm slanted towards Graves County. That's what I do. And
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by the way, if I called play by play on
the radio for your school, if I was the quote
unquote voice of your school, you would want me to
go on Region one and be raw. Raw. You're a
school too, So maybe I'm a little slanted, a little biased.
I have a right to be. It's what it's who
I am, So I'll admit that out of the gate.
Now with that said, what I want to start off
with is giving Murray their due because they deserve that win.
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They were the better team. They were the better team
in every phase of the game. I felt like by
the end of the night. Now, early in the game
that was a battle, and we'll get into that in
a moment, but by the end of the night, it
was clear that they had out athleted, out efforted, outplayed,
out schemed, from a play calling and coaching standpoint, out prepared,
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whatever you want to say. They were at the end
of the game clearly the better program, the better team.
In the moment, we'll get into their numbers, we'll get
into their stats. Like again, they were simply just the
better team. And this was a Paul game. Early this
had a big moment happened in the game that I
don't know and it's I hate playing the what ifs
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and the butts. And it feels like with Graves, even
though those first two weeks got a little lopsided, you
had a few moments of but what if? And but this,
like I said earlier in the broadcast, you are what
you are at this point, and if you keep saying it, it
keeps being a problem. But there was did there. But
there was a moment that completely changed the dynamic of
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the game. Did it change the outcome? Like I said,
I don't think you can say that. I hate when
people say that, Like, if this would just happen, you
don't know, you still may you may have ended up
with the same outcome, maybe different score. But it certainly
changed the game. And let me get to that. So
this game, and I got to get there by saying this.
This game was close early seven to seven after the
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first quarter, ten to seven at halftime. I mean, it
was a ball game. Graves County had the ball to
start the second half. I can't remember how that drive went.
Just again, I told you, I have slept and had
other things on the brain since Friday, but I do
know Murray at one point went back up or went
up twelve seven. Graves County had the football in that
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third quarter, down twelve to seven. They hit Reagan Mathis
on a slant route. Keep in mind how quickly that
slant route has to happen. So Jase Houston, the quarterback
for Graves, had no time to throw all night. They
finally hit a slant route raging over the middle. He
catches it seventy yards sixty four seventy yards whatever it
may have been for a touchdown. Flag on the play,
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it's called back for an ineligible receiver downfield, which I
still have trouble understanding how that might be possible. I'll
admit I'm not a football rules expert in the least
I get most of them. Sometimes I get a little like,
how did they see that? What did they see? What
constitutes that? But a slant route to the right side.
Flag thrown on the left side of the field for
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an ineligible man downfield, touchdown called back. Keep in mind
this would have made the game fourteen twelve. Keep in
mind Graves would have grabbed momentum and not lost a player.
And I'll explain, because it does get called back, points
do get taken off the board. Graves County goes to
the same look. Usually they have a wrinkle in that.
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Usually they have Okay, we'll make them think we're running
the same play, but we're gonna do something else. So
if they were attempted to do something else, because my
attention immediately got put on Reagan Mathews who went down
holding his knee, So they they bring it back run
the play mathis goes down. Now on the replay, it
didn't look like he went down on a football top play.
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It looked like maybe the defense thought they were going
back to Mathis on the slant. Maybe Graves was, but
the ball was not targeting him. It was not thrown
to him in that moment, or it wasn't arriving him
in the moment that he went down as he took
a hit across the knees running full sprint across the field.
And I'll just leave it at that. Mathis goes down.
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Matthis is hurt. He goes out of the game. So
your touchdown is called back, and you lose your best
secondary defender for sure, and maybe best overall receiver. It
completely changed the game. That one call, that one sequence,
that one you know, back to back plas completely changed
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the game because now, in a twelve to seven game
where your defense has done its job for the most part,
your best secondary guy, guy who tied the school record
for interceptions last year, a guy who was top of
the state and interceptions last year, goes out. That changes things.
That changes maybe the confidence of taking you know, shots
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down field. That changes you know, Murray's ability to move
the football at that point. And Murray goes on from
that moment to go up twenty six to seven at
the end of the third quarter, en route to a
thirty two to fourteen win. The Tigers on the evening
two hundred and seventy four yards passing, White Robins sixteen
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of twenty seven, two seventy four, three touchdowns and a
pick on the ground. Not way. You know. They had
a couple of guys with forty one yards rushing, but
they were thirty carries on the ground for one to
seventy seven and a rushing touchdown. The biggest problem for
Graves County was another week where the offense just couldn't
might get going and couldn't put up the numbers. Again,
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big touchdown called back? All right, that touchdown doesn't get
called back. They would have had over one hundred yards passing,
you know, but it did. And then you look at
at what the Eagle offense did. They go sixty two
yards in the air, ten of seventeen, one touchdown, one pick,
thirty two carries for fifty three yards, one touchdown. It's
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just not gonna get it done. And with their schedule,
that's not gonna get it done against anybody. I mean,
if you tell me right now, Graves is gonna come
out and that's about their average right now. And you
say they're gonna come out Friday night and they're gonna
sixty five yards passing and seventy yards right like, they're
losing again. And part of the problem is they they
just aren't getting a push up front. They're just not
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think they've got the athletes on the edge and in
the skill spots. They're not getting time to do anything downfield.
They're not getting time to run the routes. Quarterback isn't
getting time to hit his progressions. Running backs aren't getting
time to hit the hole without somebody kind of kind
of there and in the way. And and that's been
the theme the first three weeks. Now they've played Mayfield
and Tillman. And you can excuse that a little bit
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because you know, like I said, two years ago, they
started off Owen two with the exact same scores it
felt like in the first two weeks, and they went
on to win eight games and everything was fine. It
doesn't feel as fine right now. It feels like it's
a this is a bend or break kind of week.
Because this week, if you're Graves and you go out
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and you don't beat Union County, at home. You got
to start wondering, where's the next where's the first win
come from Union County Friday? Owensboro next week. No, Owensboro
has been awful to start the season, surprisingly, but that's
still that's still Owensboro, and that's still been kind of
a tough one to get for Graves County. Then Madisonville
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at Madisonville won't be easy, Apollo out upon won't be easy,
But some of these are winnable games and should be.
I think if you're honest, if you're a Graves fan
and you started the season before it ever started, you
thought you would go into the Owensboro game two and two.
You thought you'd get Murray, maybe in a barn burner,
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maybe in a close one which you thought you could
edge them out, and you think you can get Union County.
And now what's happened? You start to doubt it a
little bit. I'm not I love my Eagles. I'm still
gonna be rooting for them like crazy, and I'm still
going to hold faith. And I've got a ton of
faith in the coaching staff I do. I think they've
got the right coaches in place, I really do. Some
may argue with me, that's on you, but I do.
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But this is tough talk, Tom, because this is a
tough spot for the Eagles to be in at zero
and three, because that schedule doesn't lighten up. It doesn't.
And you look at Marshall County, who we're going to
talk about here in a moment, and you go uh oh.
And again it's still early, but you're starting to become
who you are. And you look at Marshall County and
to go, they're better and you know what they do
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that Graves has struggled with. They've got guys up front,
they've got guys in the trenches. Now I think Graves
Hays the better skill guys, but Marshall might have the
guys to move the line of scrimmage and that's been
a struggle for Graves in the first three weeks. Football,
as much as anything, is about matchups, and this might
be a year where Marshall has a little bit of
a matchup advantage in some key areas. Maybe we still
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got a long way to go. But knee jerk reaction
to Friday and being owing three. This is uncharted territory
for Graves County in so many ways. Like I said, earlier.
First zero to three starts. Since twenty and eleven, it's
a long time ago. They've had just two losing seasons
since twenty and eleven. That was one of them. They've
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been one in three three times since twenty eleven, they
still had a winning season and two of those three
times and by the way, the losing season they had
in that was like five and six. Not terrible, not
bad at all. But this is this is a make
or break week for Graves. It really is. It really
is a make or break weekend. Union County, instead of
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becoming another good game on the schedule, becomes the most
important game on the schedule. And it doesn't mean anything
in the grand scheme of district standings and playoff pictures
and things like that, but from a how your kid's
mindset is for the rest of the year, how your
fans mindsets are for the rest of the year, Union
County became the biggest game on Graves County schedule. We'll
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talk more about that as the week goes on. Murray,
they move on, They get Marshall County, a good Marshall
County and improve Marshall County team. But again, where Murray
is really going to be exceeding. This game is where
Marshall Mt' struggle and that's defending the athleticism, defending the
athletes on the edge, defending White Robbins. That may be
were another game where he has his way again. Now,
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one bright spot for Graves County, and I'll continue to
point this out. Their defense has been very good, very
good for the most part. Most of that game they
had Murray held. You know, an offense that's scored forty
nine points a game was like six in the state
and scoring, they were held below twenty points for the
majority of that football game. A few scores later in
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the game as the game was getting away kind of
made a big difference. But for the moment, it's a
twelve to seven game. Midway through the third quarter, it's
ten to seven and half. Graves defense has been good
most of the game. The problem is their defense is
on the field a lot and a lot of time
of possession is going to their opponent and it's wearing
them out, wearing them down as the game goes on.
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But early and often in that game, their defense was good.
One other Smallking plan, I have thirty two points on
the board. Murray goes for a two point conversion. You're
up thirty two to seven, you know, midway through the
fourth quarter. I don't know what the two point conversion
gave you. That one point didn't. I don't know why
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they rent it. Not a fan of it. I'll just
leave it at that. But Murray, they go on. They
get Marshall County coming up, Russellville coming up, McCracken. You
look at the rest of their schedule. Union County and
McCracken are the two toughest teams left, and they really
are looking at a chance in an unbeaten season. All right,
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Moving on, Marshall County. The Marshalls in a close one
on Friday night. And I'm going to share this from
Marshall County Daily because it's an account of people who
were there. The Marshals, it says, secured a crucial road
victory Friday night, defeating the Tree County Wildcats twenty eight
twenty seven in a back and forth battle that came
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down to the final minutes. It really did. The game
lived up to its billing as a classic defensive struggle
turned offensive showcase, both teams trading scores throughout the contest.
The turning point came late in the fourth quarter. The
Marshals managed to punch the ball into the end zone
with just minutes remaining on the clock, setting up what
would prove to be the game winning drive. The victory
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improves Marshall County's record are two and one of the
young season, Tree County drops to one and two. The
Marshalls have been putting up this again. According to the article,
have been putting up impressive numbers throughout their first three games,
averaging nearly thirty three points per game. The defense, though,
has given up twenty eight points per game, and not
to some of the better offenses they'll see the rest
of the year. But if you're a Marshall County fan,
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the silver lining is you can move the football and
you've gotten two wins so far in the first three
weeks that you had to get. Looking at their stats
from this one, Marshall County Neeland Jazick fourteen of twenty two,
twenty eight yards, passing, one touchdown, no picks on the ground.
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Jake Thomason continues to impress. The sophomore twenty two carries
one hundred and sixty nine yards, didn't get a touchdown,
but my goodness, that dude gets behind those big linemen
up front, they get the push and he gets the yards.
As a team, they had thirty seven rushing attempts, two
hundred and forty nine yards, three rushing touchdowns. As nieland
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jazicck the quarter of punched into himself. He's kind of
as a senior become a game manager, which is what
he needs to be. I don't think they're ever gonna
be I don't think they're ever gonna come out put
U two hundred yards on somebody passing. But they can
ground and pound and work in the pass game to
compliment it. They may be figuring some things out to
get even more wins on the season if you're Marshall County,
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very tough two weeks coming up for the Marshals. They've
got Murray Madisonville. I don't see them as a favorite
in either of those games. They got the wins they
needed early, and then you look at the remaining schedule
and you'll have Muhlenberg County, Calloway County, Apollo, and Graves.
You'll still have opportunities there to get wins. But the
Marshals two to one on the early season and again
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you just got to feel for that program. And you
don't have to be a Marshall County fan to appreciate
that they are trying to finally get things turned around.
And so far, so good on the early season. All right,
last but not least because we got to wrap things up.
Calloway County gets vengeance. The only win for Fulton County
last season was against Calloway County. Calloway County goes winless.
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Felt like that was a chance to get a win.
This year, they go to Fulton County and they win
forty eight to fourteen. Did it on the ground? Logan
Smith fourteen carries three hundred and fourteen yards and six touchdowns.
Come on, listen. If you're voting for player of the week.
Tillman's got a receiver that deserves some love. But Logan
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Smith fourteen carries three fourteen and six touchdowns. That is sensational.
By the way, that is twenty five yards per carry
on average, twenty five yards of carry, six touchdowns. Crazy.
But more importantly, Calloway County winless last year. You had
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to go back to early in the previous season to
get another win. They're two and one to start the season,
and by the way, probably gonna be three in one
because they've got Ballard Memorial at home this Friday night. Yeah,
they're gonna beat Ballad. I'll just say it. And Ballard,
without blair of sayings, is struggling this season offensively against
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some common opponents from a year ago that they had
more success with. They lost forty two to nothing to
Massac County, who again a year ago that game and
my computers wanting to take it sweet time, that was
a forty four to twenty eight Ballard win. I got
Calloway County winning this game. I'll just tell you so.
I think Callway County could be three and one to
start the year. Things get a little tougher in their district.
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We won't worry about that right now. But good for Callaway.
And that's it for us. I'm out of time, out
of topic, out of time, out of breath, out of voice.
It's really hurting back on Wednesday with more. Until then,
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three eight. How are we on a chilly Monday morning?
Forty eight? As I record this show and get it
ready for radio on this early Monday morning Chili forty
I noticed when I walked out this morning it had
a bit more of a nip in the air, just
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had that fell to it. And it's by the way,
it's it's not gonna last. It's gonna get hot week,
I know, I know, Like right when we think we're
getting that that good weather, right when we think we're
getting that, oh like it's it's fall. I mean it's
early September. Of man, it's faun no, no, summertime is
still here. In fact, it's gonna be in the upper
eighties all week long, sunny skies, low's in the sixties,
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so that's even much warmer. And then on Monday, so
one week from today, it's gonna be like ninety ninety one,
still hot. It's still gonna be hot. It's it's not
quite gone yet, unfortunately, So soak it in that Today
is gonna be nice like seventy eight the hot today,
So soak that in. But the rest of the week,
come on, I know, I know, but here we are again.
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Hopefully you're doing good on this Monday. We've got a
lot to get into over the weekend, a lot to
get into over the weekend. And you know, it's always
my sort of most favorite least favorite day of the
week to do the show, because on one hand, it's
it is our most listened to show of the week
as we recap and go over and play Monday morning
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quarterback from Friday nights games, and had a lot of
interest and a lot of intrigue, not only some people
tuning in to listen to see kind of what happened,
but many others tuning in to sort of see what
I'm going to say about what happened. And so it's
it's you know, it's got that intrigue, got that high listenership,
and I love that and it motivates me and it
gets me going, and you know, I'm kind of ready
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to get going on a Monday, believe it or not.
At the same time, my love hate the hate part
of it comes in the trying to go back and
recap and remember things that happened two days ago after
I had a weekend doing lots of other things, then
thinking about and uh and remembering what happened on Friday.
So that's the fun challenge. That's you know, I feel
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like I should record this or start recording this show
on Saturday and just you know, airing it on Monday,
because that would be a lot better. But here we are. Nonetheless,
I've got to go back and you know, go back
through my mind and go back through my notes and
go back through everything and get back in that Friday
night spirit and hopefully say all the things that were
on my brainium on Friday. But that's you know, the
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challenge of having two days away from it always fun.
So it's always interesting doing these Monday shows. However, with
that said, and without much ado, let's get into it because,
like I said, we do have a lot to get into.
We've got a lot of scores that we need to
go through. We've got some stats we got to go over.
We've got some thoughts I gotta get out. So that's
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that's what we're doing today. So let's look at the
scores first from week three of the football season. That's right.
We are now, as of today, in week four of
the football season. So it's not just back, it's we're
like almost halfway through. It's insane. It's insane. We are
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almost at the halfway point of football season already. Yeah,
I mean seriously, like two weeks away from it. I
get it, but but we're we're there, like we are there.
So let's review week three, looking at scores from Friday night,
and we'll kind of go in order of how we're
going to talk about these games coming up. But you
had Tilman and Mayfield and this one not even close.
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Tillman fifty five, Mayfield twenty nine. That's on Friday. Again.
I'll go back and talk about these in a moment.
Murray Overgraves County thirty two fourteen, McCracken County beat Clarksville
Northeast sixty five twenty six, Marshall County comes back and
holds off Trigg County twenty eight, twenty seven, Calloway County
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a big road went over Fulton County forty eight fourteen,
and Massac County blanked the bombers of Ballard Memorial forty two. Nothing. Again,
those are your scores on Friday. So Tilman over Mayfield,
mccracket over Clarksville, Murray Overgraves, Marshall over Trigg, Calloway over Fulton,
Massec over Ballard. I believe I only got one of
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those wrong, and that's just because again Hecker high Water
through thick and thin. I'll always pick Graves County, but
they definitely let me down on Friday, and I think
they are the only one. But a fun not of football.
You know that Marshall Trig game. We'll get into that
in a moment. The best game of the week. It was.
That was the best game of the night. Callaway's vengeance
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on Fulton County will break that down in a moment. Ballard,
you know, they had some guys come in last year
that aren't there this year. That went back to where
they came and you were seeing a big difference, especially
with not having Blair Sayings, who did get in that
Tillman game on Friday night, by the way, but a
big difference because Ballard much more competitive and won some
of those games last year. It's not gonna happen this year.
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And then you know, McCraken got a big win. I mean, there's,
like I said, a lot to kind of get back
into and get in the weeds of on Friday night,
things that kind of stood out, things just top of
the brain before we go back and specifically look at
these games and look at these stats and kind of
kind of react and report on what happened. Things that
kind of stood out well Tilman over Mayfield just running
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them off the field. You know, I did say that
on Friday. I thought it would be a close game.
I thought Mayfield better this season. Tilman a stepped back
from a year ago. So like Mayfield felt like a
step up, Tilman step felt like a little bit of
a step back again. Not that Tilman's not going to
run the table, not that they might not win another
state title, just not quite as top heavy talent wise
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as they were last year, with a bunch of d
one dudes, a bunch of bunch of college football guys.
But they just ran Mayfield off the field fifty five
to twenty nine. That definitely stood out. It's the third
straight win for Tilman over Mayfield in the series. You
got to go back before Mayfield rattled off seventeen in
a row to find the last time Tilman won three straight.
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Tillman won three straight. I think, let me see, I
got to pull it up, holl On, I want to
get it right, don't want to be wrong. But they
won three straight between two thousand and three and two
thousand and five. Then Mayfield rattled off their seventeen game
win streak, and then going into Friday Night's game, you
had you know, Mayfield at one point had won seventeen
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straight over Tilman. That was no more. But Tilman going
into Friday night had won seventeen straight consecutive football games.
So a lot of streaks on the line on Friday,
and in the end it was Puduca Tilman. It was
Paduca Tilman again three straight for the first time since
before Mayfield had won that seventeen game win streak. So
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that was impressive. I'll get your stats numbers and more
here in a moment we talk about that game. More
specifically and kind of where these two teams go from here.
But the granddaddy of them all, if you're a Tilman fan,
did not disappoint. If you're a Mayfield fan, who boy
that that probably uh I would say losing to Graves
last season probably made the Mayfield faithful the most unhappy
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they've been in a while. But getting blown out by
Tilman definitely not happy on this Monday. Definitely not cause
you know how Mayfield fans are, and then they should
be this way. But they always think they're gonna win always,
and they should because most of the time they're right.
And they really thought they were really convinced. I was
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too to a degree, but they were really convinced they
were gonna win that game Friday. I didn't think they
were gonna win. I did think it'd be competitive, and
it wasn't. That's the thing, and again, i'll give you
the numbers improve that point here in a moment, but
that's the thing that stood out. So that was number one,
number two, Graves County, oh to three for the first
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time since twenty eleven. We get they're playing a tough schedule,
we get that, you know this was gonna be a
little bit of a step down year. They had twenty
one seniors on that group last year, most of them starters,
especially the skill guys. You had a multi year starter
at quarterback, you had an unbelievable talent at receiver, multiple
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guys over there, your skill guys. You had some good
defensive guys. But they come back with a lot of
I mean, that's what Graves does. This has been one
of the more consistent six, seven, eight win programs in
the region of the last fifteen years. And this team,
as I said on Friday, on paper, looks exactly like
that team from two years ago that went on to
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win eight football games. So you know, the talent's there,
you know there's some things there, and then the schedule
very tough. Murray's very good. But it felt like a
week that if Craves was going to get back in
the win column, man, it almost had to be last week.
They got another opportunity to coming up Friday. But but
now you start to worry. And that's the thing that
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stands out for me as a Gravescan fan. Now I'm
getting worried. I am getting worried. I have faith in
the coaches, I believe in the talent, but right now,
you know, week three, you get into week four, you
kind of are who you are. At this point. There
might be some, you know slight improvement in maybe play
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calling as coaches start to figure out personnel and start
to figure out what works what doesn't, but you kind
of are who you are. You either have a line
that can block or you don't. You either have skill
guys that can can make plays or you don't. Now again,
like I said, the improvement in the room for error
comes in the in the coaches and how they deal
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with that, and the players and how they respond to that.
But by the end of week three, you kind of
are who you are. And with this schedule, there is
some validation for concern and we'll talk about that a
little bit. Marshall County over Trie County. You know, I
said last week the Marshalls are gonna get to four
or five wins, which there's still a path to five wins.
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I'm feeling more confident they may get to four wins,
which would still be an improvement. But if that's gonna happen,
they had to get that game last week, and for
a moment there was some concern that was gonna happen.
But they did. They go on the road, they beat
a very improved Trie County team and they get a win.
Win's a win, and they get a win. They're two
and one. Callawai County's vengeance on Fulton County. Yeah, I
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got a lot to say on that as well, and
we will on the other side of the break. We
gotta take it. We're up against it. When we come back,
we'll get into the stats, the numbers of that Tilman blowout.
We will get into our concerns with Graves County and
what we saw with Murray. We'll get into Marshall County's
one point escape of Trick County, Fulton County's dominance for
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cracking County's dominance. Still got a lot to go, a
lot of show left on the other side when we return.
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three four, forty three eight. Continuing though on this Monday edition,
looking at scorer stats and more from Friday nine. I
was talking in the last segment to end the segment
about things that stood out. Let's get specific and let's
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kind of go game by game. Let's start with Tillman
in Mayfield, and the granddaddy of them all if you're
a Tillman fan, was far from disappointing. Fifty five twenty
nine to the final. As Tilman improves to three and
oh in the season, they now have an eighteen game
total win streak going back almost two full years since
their last loss, so eighteen straight for Tilman three and
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zero on the season. Mayfield falls to two and one.
The Cardinals get McCracken coming up Friday. Tilman will have
a very tough one with madison Ville North Hopkins. Now again,
they're better, they should win win handily, but going to
Madisonville and taking on an opponent like that is going
to be a challenge for the Blue Tornado and really
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the last one on their schedule until they get to
the playoffs. We'll talk about that though more later this week.
Fifty five twenty nine ends up being the final look
at the stats. And I don't have Mayfield stats, and listen,
it's Monday, it's games. I'm not gonna get into that.
But I've got Tilman stats and oo boy, twenty one
of forty passing for stone Crow. Not a great completion
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percentage when you throw the football forty times, you'd like
to be a little have a few more completions, but
that's just the confidence they have in their passing game
to just keep chucking the football. Twenty one of forty
for him, four hundred and nine yards, six touchdowns, two interceptions. Wow,
this is a kid that basically set the bench, basically
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set behind Jack James for the last few years, getting
his shot as a senior. And he's like, he's like
four hundred yards a game, four h nine, six touchdowns,
two interceptions on that Mayfield defense. Yikes. The top guy
kind of helped him out, kind of kind of had
himself a day. Cameron Wade eight catches, two hundred and
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forty five yards, five touchdowns, eight catches two hundred and
forty five yards, five touchdowns. Avery Thompson did his thing.
He got six catches, went one twenty two and two touchdowns.
Normally you see a kid go six catches, one two
to two and two touchdowns. That's a game. But Cameron
Wade said, wait a minute, I'm a senior. I'm gonna
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have a career game. And he did, and he did
it against Mayfield, which is even that's a story. I
said this all the time. You know, the great thing
about high school sports are that twenty years later, you
still have those memories in those stories to tell. And again,
he had two hundred and forty five yards. When he
retells that story in twenty years, he'll have four hundred
and fifty yards. But that's a story you'll always tell
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and always say, didn't just happen on a random knot.
Didn't just just happen against a bad opponent. It happened
against the biggest rivalry for Tillman. So good on him,
Cameron Wade with a big night. But those numbers, I mean,
listen to this and listen. Tillman didn't run the football.
I mean, thirty one carries seems like a lot, but
ten of those were from stone Crow, the quarterback, so
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they they handed the football off what twenty one times?
Wilson had fourteen carries Copeland ended up Mason Copland ended
up with seven. So thirty one carries, thirty one rush attempts,
one hundred and six yards, one touchdown. But listen to
those numbers again, this is not an average opponent. This
is not a week opponent. This is not a like
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a non football school, if you will. They're playing one
of the best in the nation, as far as one
of the most winning, you know, winningest programs in the nation.
They're playing a bitter rival and they go four hundred
and sixty one yards in the air, seven touchdowns, passing
one hundred and six on the ground with one touchdown,
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nearly six hundred yards of offense and eight off defensive
touchdowns for Puduka Tillman. I would say those Mayfield fans
are upset today, just a little bit. It's one thing
to lose Man. They just it was. It was domination
on that Mayfield defense for that Tilman offense. So big game,
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big game, big win for Tillman. Like I said, Mayfield,
I mean, you look at it. They've got McCracken coming
up at home on Friday. They'll be the favorite. They'll
be the favorite against Critne and County. Cadwell County trick
like Mayfield's gonna go on, and you know they'll get
to Friday, October thirty first, and they'll be looking at
nine to one and focused on what they've got to
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do to win another two a state title, and this
one will be behind them. But for the for the
immediate in the meantime, for this week, this one stings.
It does for Tillman. Like I said, their next their
next one is their toughest one left. Madisonville is good.
They're three and oh they've kind of put it to
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some teams so far. They beat Union County, who's actually
good and always good. They beat them forty nine to thirteen.
They blew the doors off Hopkinsville, who hasn't been good
in a while, but Hopkinsville right now is two to one,
and that loss forty two to nineteen. And then beat
Hopkins County Central, who's not great, but they dominate them
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seventy two to fourteen. This Madisonville team, and like I said,
we'll get more into this matchup later this week. They
don't throw the football, they run the football, but they
do it really well. By the way. Marquez High Tower
for them has been around for twenty years. And he's
averaging two hundred and fourteen yards a game right now rushing.
That's just the two first two games. So it'll be
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a clashing styles. What'll beat tough for Madisonville. They don't
throw the football. Tilman will quick strike, Tillman will hit
big home runs, and if you're Madisonville, you rely on
those to come on the ground and that's just not
a formula to win that game. So Tilman's style better
suits them to get a win on Friday night than
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a team playing that style, if you will. But that's
still the best opponent left on Tilman's schedule. So again,
you look at their schedule and you go pretty confident
they're going to run the table again. They may end
up two years in a row being unbeaten and back
to back state champs. It's crazy, it's crazy, but that's
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the granddaddy of them all. That's the Tillman and Mayfield
rivalry on Friday. Moving along, other games we got to
talk about. I'm going to get to Murray and Graves,
so I want to do that when I've got a
little more time to talk about it. Same thing with
Marshall and Trigg. I want to do that when I've
got a little more time, I'm going to be up
against a break in a moment because I'm losing my
voice and I had to pause a little bit between
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recording segments. So before we close out this segment, just
because we won't have as much time, let's talk about
McCracken and their game, their win on Friday night. So
the must Things who play Mayfield this week, they now
are in the win column. They're one and two to
start the year with a dominant performance against Northeast Clarksville.
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Watched a little bit of that game on Saturday just
out of curiosity. Clarksville not a great team, not a
great team, but McCracken just kind of had their way,
and McCracken is good. They're talented, and they finally started
to have their chance to flex a little bit on Friday.
Mattox O'Neill in this ball game was thirteen of twenty
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two two oh three with one touchdown and one interception.
The freshman Cole Presswood came in and as a freshman,
he moved the football. He had none completions, three of
those went to the end zone. Nine of sixteen three touchdowns, win, interception,
one hundred and two yards. So combined those two guys
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went twenty two for thirty eight three h five, four touchdowns,
two picks. They ran the football well. Dawson Hayden went
sixteen carries one hundred and thirty five yards in a touchdown.
Again as a team, McCracken County thirty two carries to
twelve five touchdowns, so four in the air, five on
the ground, over five hundred yards of offense for McCracken
County on Friday night and jud Lanier six catches one
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hundred and two yards in a touchdown. Matcham Jakari Matcham
went seven catches, ninety nine yards and two touchdowns. So
them dudes have themselves a game on Friday night in
a game that was close early but not often, in
a blowout by the end, sixty five to twenty six.
Your final. Like I said, the Mustangs won in three.
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They take on Mayfield this week. Do they have a shot.
Of course they do. They've got a good offense. It's
McCracken six a football. They should have a shot. At
the same time, you look across the field and you
realize you're at War Memorial, and you realize your opponent
is Mayfield and oh, by the way, you're getting Mayfield
coming off a butt whooping. Oh man, tough week, tough week.
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This could go one of two ways for Mayfield. You know,
some teams they have a week like that, a Friday
night like that, and they tend to implode a little bit.
They tend to still be focused too much on what
they can't change and not enough on what they can control.
Can't change the past, you can control who's ahead of
you Mayfield, though, I have a feeling, you know, in
the past and the coach Morris days, this would be
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that game that like, you're in trouble, McCracken, you're in trouble.
We're too early, and the coach do erra to know
how much that still is there. But I would say
tradition tells me McCracken, may be in trouble on Friday
night not a time to catch Mayfield. Or maybe it's
the best time to catch Mayfield. We'll see, but that's
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what's coming up for those two teams, all right. Like
I said, I knew I was gonna take a quicker break.
Let me take it, let me catch my breath, get
my voice back. We'll come back. Larger segment coming up,
we'll get into the Murray Graves game. Marshall Trigg calloi
over Fulton. Still got a lot to go.
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Preaching with sports moving along here our final segment. But
we got a lot to get into on this segment,
So let's get into it now. As we get into this,
and anytime I taught Graves County football or Graves County back, like,
I get accused of the bias and being the homer
and being a if they lose, I'm a sore loser,
and like, okay, maybe there's a little truth to that. Fine,
I'm slanted towards Graves County. That's what I do. And
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by the way, if I called play by play on
the radio for your school, if I was the quote
unquote voice of your school, you would want me to
go on Region one and be raw. Raw. You're a
school too, So maybe I'm a little slanted, a little biased.
I have a right to be. It's what it's who
I am, So I'll admit that out of the gate.
Now with that said, what I want to start off
with is giving Murray their due because they deserve that win.
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They were the better team. They were the better team
in every phase of the game. I felt like by
the end of the night. Now, early in the game
that was a battle, and we'll get into that in
a moment, but by the end of the night, it
was clear that they had out athleted, out efforted, outplayed,
out schemed, from a play calling and coaching standpoint, out prepared,
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whatever you want to say. They were at the end
of the game clearly the better program, the better team.
In the moment, we'll get into their numbers, we'll get
into their stats. Like again, they were simply just the
better team. And this was a Paul game. Early this
had a big moment happened in the game that I
don't know and it's I hate playing the what ifs
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and the butts. And it feels like with Graves, even
though those first two weeks got a little lopsided, you
had a few moments of but what if? And but this,
like I said earlier in the broadcast, you are what
you are at this point, and if you keep saying it, it
keeps being a problem. But there was did there. But
there was a moment that completely changed the dynamic of
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the game. Did it change the outcome? Like I said,
I don't think you can say that. I hate when
people say that, Like, if this would just happen, you
don't know, you still may you may have ended up
with the same outcome, maybe different score. But it certainly
changed the game. And let me get to that. So
this game, and I got to get there by saying this.
This game was close early seven to seven after the
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first quarter, ten to seven at halftime. I mean, it
was a ball game. Graves County had the ball to
start the second half. I can't remember how that drive went.
Just again, I told you, I have slept and had
other things on the brain since Friday, but I do
know Murray at one point went back up or went
up twelve seven. Graves County had the football in that
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third quarter, down twelve to seven. They hit Reagan Mathis
on a slant route. Keep in mind how quickly that
slant route has to happen. So Jase Houston, the quarterback
for Graves, had no time to throw all night. They
finally hit a slant route raging over the middle. He
catches it seventy yards sixty four seventy yards whatever it
may have been for a touchdown. Flag on the play,
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it's called back for an ineligible receiver downfield, which I
still have trouble understanding how that might be possible. I'll
admit I'm not a football rules expert in the least
I get most of them. Sometimes I get a little like,
how did they see that? What did they see? What
constitutes that? But a slant route to the right side.
Flag thrown on the left side of the field for
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an ineligible man downfield, touchdown called back. Keep in mind
this would have made the game fourteen twelve. Keep in
mind Graves would have grabbed momentum and not lost a player.
And I'll explain, because it does get called back, points
do get taken off the board. Graves County goes to
the same look. Usually they have a wrinkle in that.
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Usually they have Okay, we'll make them think we're running
the same play, but we're gonna do something else. So
if they were attempted to do something else, because my
attention immediately got put on Reagan Mathews who went down
holding his knee, So they they bring it back run
the play mathis goes down. Now on the replay, it
didn't look like he went down on a football top play.
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It looked like maybe the defense thought they were going
back to Mathis on the slant. Maybe Graves was, but
the ball was not targeting him. It was not thrown
to him in that moment, or it wasn't arriving him
in the moment that he went down as he took
a hit across the knees running full sprint across the field.
And I'll just leave it at that. Mathis goes down.
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Matthis is hurt. He goes out of the game. So
your touchdown is called back, and you lose your best
secondary defender for sure, and maybe best overall receiver. It
completely changed the game. That one call, that one sequence,
that one you know, back to back plas completely changed
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the game because now, in a twelve to seven game
where your defense has done its job for the most part,
your best secondary guy, guy who tied the school record
for interceptions last year, a guy who was top of
the state and interceptions last year, goes out. That changes things.
That changes maybe the confidence of taking you know, shots
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down field. That changes you know, Murray's ability to move
the football at that point. And Murray goes on from
that moment to go up twenty six to seven at
the end of the third quarter, en route to a
thirty two to fourteen win. The Tigers on the evening
two hundred and seventy four yards passing, White Robins sixteen
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of twenty seven, two seventy four, three touchdowns and a
pick on the ground. Not way. You know. They had
a couple of guys with forty one yards rushing, but
they were thirty carries on the ground for one to
seventy seven and a rushing touchdown. The biggest problem for
Graves County was another week where the offense just couldn't
might get going and couldn't put up the numbers. Again,
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big touchdown called back? All right, that touchdown doesn't get
called back. They would have had over one hundred yards passing,
you know, but it did. And then you look at
at what the Eagle offense did. They go sixty two
yards in the air, ten of seventeen, one touchdown, one pick,
thirty two carries for fifty three yards, one touchdown. It's
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just not gonna get it done. And with their schedule,
that's not gonna get it done against anybody. I mean,
if you tell me right now, Graves is gonna come
out and that's about their average right now. And you
say they're gonna come out Friday night and they're gonna
sixty five yards passing and seventy yards right like, they're
losing again. And part of the problem is they they
just aren't getting a push up front. They're just not
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think they've got the athletes on the edge and in
the skill spots. They're not getting time to do anything downfield.
They're not getting time to run the routes. Quarterback isn't
getting time to hit his progressions. Running backs aren't getting
time to hit the hole without somebody kind of kind
of there and in the way. And and that's been
the theme the first three weeks. Now they've played Mayfield
and Tillman. And you can excuse that a little bit
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because you know, like I said, two years ago, they
started off Owen two with the exact same scores it
felt like in the first two weeks, and they went
on to win eight games and everything was fine. It
doesn't feel as fine right now. It feels like it's
a this is a bend or break kind of week.
Because this week, if you're Graves and you go out
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and you don't beat Union County, at home. You got
to start wondering, where's the next where's the first win
come from Union County Friday? Owensboro next week. No, Owensboro
has been awful to start the season, surprisingly, but that's
still that's still Owensboro, and that's still been kind of
a tough one to get for Graves County. Then Madisonville
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at Madisonville won't be easy, Apollo out upon won't be easy,
But some of these are winnable games and should be.
I think if you're honest, if you're a Graves fan
and you started the season before it ever started, you
thought you would go into the Owensboro game two and two.
You thought you'd get Murray, maybe in a barn burner,
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maybe in a close one which you thought you could
edge them out, and you think you can get Union County.
And now what's happened? You start to doubt it a
little bit. I'm not I love my Eagles. I'm still
gonna be rooting for them like crazy, and I'm still
going to hold faith. And I've got a ton of
faith in the coaching staff I do. I think they've
got the right coaches in place, I really do. Some
may argue with me, that's on you, but I do.
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But this is tough talk, Tom, because this is a
tough spot for the Eagles to be in at zero
and three, because that schedule doesn't lighten up. It doesn't.
And you look at Marshall County, who we're going to
talk about here in a moment, and you go uh oh.
And again it's still early, but you're starting to become
who you are. And you look at Marshall County and
to go, they're better and you know what they do
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that Graves has struggled with. They've got guys up front,
they've got guys in the trenches. Now I think Graves
Hays the better skill guys, but Marshall might have the
guys to move the line of scrimmage and that's been
a struggle for Graves in the first three weeks. Football,
as much as anything, is about matchups, and this might
be a year where Marshall has a little bit of
a matchup advantage in some key areas. Maybe we still
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got a long way to go. But knee jerk reaction
to Friday and being owing three. This is uncharted territory
for Graves County in so many ways. Like I said, earlier.
First zero to three starts. Since twenty and eleven, it's
a long time ago. They've had just two losing seasons
since twenty and eleven. That was one of them. They've
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been one in three three times since twenty eleven, they
still had a winning season and two of those three
times and by the way, the losing season they had
in that was like five and six. Not terrible, not
bad at all. But this is this is a make
or break week for Graves. It really is. It really
is a make or break weekend. Union County, instead of
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becoming another good game on the schedule, becomes the most
important game on the schedule. And it doesn't mean anything
in the grand scheme of district standings and playoff pictures
and things like that, but from a how your kid's
mindset is for the rest of the year, how your
fans mindsets are for the rest of the year, Union
County became the biggest game on Graves County schedule. We'll
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talk more about that as the week goes on. Murray,
they move on, They get Marshall County, a good Marshall
County and improve Marshall County team. But again, where Murray
is really going to be exceeding. This game is where
Marshall Mt' struggle and that's defending the athleticism, defending the
athletes on the edge, defending White Robbins. That may be
were another game where he has his way again. Now,
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one bright spot for Graves County, and I'll continue to
point this out. Their defense has been very good, very
good for the most part. Most of that game they
had Murray held. You know, an offense that's scored forty
nine points a game was like six in the state
and scoring, they were held below twenty points for the
majority of that football game. A few scores later in
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the game as the game was getting away kind of
made a big difference. But for the moment, it's a
twelve to seven game. Midway through the third quarter, it's
ten to seven and half. Graves defense has been good
most of the game. The problem is their defense is
on the field a lot and a lot of time
of possession is going to their opponent and it's wearing
them out, wearing them down as the game goes on.
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But early and often in that game, their defense was good.
One other Smallking plan, I have thirty two points on
the board. Murray goes for a two point conversion. You're
up thirty two to seven, you know, midway through the
fourth quarter. I don't know what the two point conversion
gave you. That one point didn't. I don't know why
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they rent it. Not a fan of it. I'll just
leave it at that. But Murray, they go on. They
get Marshall County coming up, Russellville coming up, McCracken. You
look at the rest of their schedule. Union County and
McCracken are the two toughest teams left, and they really
are looking at a chance in an unbeaten season. All right,
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Moving on, Marshall County. The Marshalls in a close one
on Friday night. And I'm going to share this from
Marshall County Daily because it's an account of people who
were there. The Marshals, it says, secured a crucial road
victory Friday night, defeating the Tree County Wildcats twenty eight
twenty seven in a back and forth battle that came
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down to the final minutes. It really did. The game
lived up to its billing as a classic defensive struggle
turned offensive showcase, both teams trading scores throughout the contest.
The turning point came late in the fourth quarter. The
Marshals managed to punch the ball into the end zone
with just minutes remaining on the clock, setting up what
would prove to be the game winning drive. The victory
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improves Marshall County's record are two and one of the
young season, Tree County drops to one and two. The
Marshalls have been putting up this again. According to the article,
have been putting up impressive numbers throughout their first three games,
averaging nearly thirty three points per game. The defense, though,
has given up twenty eight points per game, and not
to some of the better offenses they'll see the rest
of the year. But if you're a Marshall County fan,
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the silver lining is you can move the football and
you've gotten two wins so far in the first three
weeks that you had to get. Looking at their stats
from this one, Marshall County Neeland Jazick fourteen of twenty two,
twenty eight yards, passing, one touchdown, no picks on the ground.
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Jake Thomason continues to impress. The sophomore twenty two carries
one hundred and sixty nine yards, didn't get a touchdown,
but my goodness, that dude gets behind those big linemen
up front, they get the push and he gets the yards.
As a team, they had thirty seven rushing attempts, two
hundred and forty nine yards, three rushing touchdowns. As nieland
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jazicck the quarter of punched into himself. He's kind of
as a senior become a game manager, which is what
he needs to be. I don't think they're ever gonna
be I don't think they're ever gonna come out put
U two hundred yards on somebody passing. But they can
ground and pound and work in the pass game to
compliment it. They may be figuring some things out to
get even more wins on the season if you're Marshall County,
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very tough two weeks coming up for the Marshals. They've
got Murray Madisonville. I don't see them as a favorite
in either of those games. They got the wins they
needed early, and then you look at the remaining schedule
and you'll have Muhlenberg County, Calloway County, Apollo, and Graves.
You'll still have opportunities there to get wins. But the
Marshals two to one on the early season and again
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you just got to feel for that program. And you
don't have to be a Marshall County fan to appreciate
that they are trying to finally get things turned around.
And so far, so good on the early season. All right,
last but not least because we got to wrap things up.
Calloway County gets vengeance. The only win for Fulton County
last season was against Calloway County. Calloway County goes winless.
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Felt like that was a chance to get a win.
This year, they go to Fulton County and they win
forty eight to fourteen. Did it on the ground? Logan
Smith fourteen carries three hundred and fourteen yards and six touchdowns.
Come on, listen. If you're voting for player of the week.
Tillman's got a receiver that deserves some love. But Logan
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Smith fourteen carries three fourteen and six touchdowns. That is sensational.
By the way, that is twenty five yards per carry
on average, twenty five yards of carry, six touchdowns. Crazy.
But more importantly, Calloway County winless last year. You had
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to go back to early in the previous season to
get another win. They're two and one to start the season,
and by the way, probably gonna be three in one
because they've got Ballard Memorial at home this Friday night. Yeah,
they're gonna beat Ballad. I'll just say it. And Ballard,
without blair of sayings, is struggling this season offensively against
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some common opponents from a year ago that they had
more success with. They lost forty two to nothing to
Massac County, who again a year ago that game and
my computers wanting to take it sweet time, that was
a forty four to twenty eight Ballard win. I got
Calloway County winning this game. I'll just tell you so.
I think Callway County could be three and one to
start the year. Things get a little tougher in their district.
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We won't worry about that right now. But good for Callaway.
And that's it for us. I'm out of time, out
of topic, out of time, out of breath, out of voice.
It's really hurting back on Wednesday with more. Until then,
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