November 23, 2025 • 42 mins
Murray Wins in OT Thriller, is it the best playoff game in Murray history? Tilghman's Dominating Second Half to top Logan County. Mayfield falls short again.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian York
on ninety nine to five The Fat.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hand Away we Go.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It is a Monday, November twenty fourth edition of the
Region one Sports Report. Hey Brian Yorke here, hope you're
having a fantastic, just incredible start to your short week.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Some people will get a you know, only have to
work a three day week this week. I gotta work
a four day week. I've got to work Black Friday.
But hey, come see me. It should be fun. I'll
be handing out Goodie bad be handing out the swag
bags at Kentucky Oak Small. We have those for you
on Friday. The first two hundred people that get in
you can get a swag bag. So come say ha
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on Black Friday morning. But nonetheless, it is a holiday week,
not the most beautiful or awesome way to start your week.
As it is gray and cloudy and overcast and rainy
on this Monday. You know I've said said it before,
I'll say it again. This is why I hate fall.
All you people that celebrate fall, it's for me. I
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just see leaves falling, more work to be done in
the yard, and then it Most days are like this.
In fact, if you look the weather, most days are
gonna be like this. Eighty percent chants are rain today,
ninety percent chants tomorrow. We might see the thing called
the sun on Wednesday and Thursday. For Thanksgiving. It is
gonna be cold on Thanksgiving. By the way, we don't
often get a cold Thanksgiving. We normally get like I'm
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normally in shorts and a T shirt. It's it's a
very odd thing in Kentucky. But it is gonna be
cold on Thanksgiving Friday. It's gonna be cold for Black
Friday shopping and then rain again. But you know, so
that's that's what we're looking at. That's why I hate
this time of year. I hate the weather. Nonetheless, I digress.
By the way, that means we only have two shows
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this week, Monday and Wednesdays, the only shows we have
for you this week. Today, we've got to play a
little Monday morning quarterback. Get caught up from the football
games this weekend. I got some thoughts and kind of
here's the thing I'm recording at home.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Obviously you know that now.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And as I record at home, you know, one of
the weird things that would happen when I go to
the studio is I would go to the studio and
early in the morning recording the show. I would be
kind of my brain would be fixed on the actual games,
the actual stats, the actual production, not any of the
drama you see on Facebook, not any of the drama
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you see that sort of surrounds the game, but the
actual game. Recording at home, my brain sort of fixates
on the drama because I'm not at work, I'm not
in the studio. I'm not just thinking about all the
details I need to report on for the games. So
there is a little bit of a tone shift in
the show. Today we are going to play Monday morning quarterback.
We are going to get caught up on the on
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field action from Friday nights games.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But I got some thoughts with some.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of the comments and things and drama that went on
at some of the games. And I'll explain more when
we get into that a little bit later on.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Also, by the way, again, things I can't remember, let
me give you the phone number.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You guys have been phenomenal. I asked for help.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I said that the one of the things about doing
this show, keeping it going, how vital and important it
was for me to keep everything going.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Uh, I needed help.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I was gonna need you know, information, I was gonna
need fodder for the show. I was gonna need your
help from those that are at the games and those
that are witnessing it them you know first hand. And
so that's what the text number is for. And you
guys have responded, keep it going please so we can
keep this going. That number is two seven oh five
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three four forty three oh eight two seven oh five
three four forty.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Three oh eight.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You can just text in information. Look, I don't you
don't have to worry about me. I respond to a
few people occasionally. I don't respond to everybody, unfortunately. Then
that's kind of a heads up. If I don't respond
to you, I'm not being rude. I just get several messages.
It's hard to keep them straight. But I appreciate all
the information. So you can text in. You don't have
to worry about me texting you back. I don't know
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who you are. Your number is anonymous to me. So anyway,
I do appreciate all that have done it so far,
and I appreciate all that continue and will do it
in the future.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Again.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That number is two seven h five three four forty
three oh eight. Okay, who man, Sorry, I know, I
just feel like by the time I get around recording
this show from you know again from home, then I've
got a lot of things on my mind, and I
feel like I've just got to get it all out
at once.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I got to remember to pace myself.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So let's do that. Now, let's talk football from Friday night.
Let's get into the games now. I said last week
I thought it was more likely only one team made
it through than all three. But that didn't mean I
was saying only one team is going to make it
through in the playoffs. Two of our three teams are
that played Friday night advanced. Two of those three teams
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made it through. One of those fan bases of the
team that didn't, they're pretty upset that. I think they
forget that sometimes, you know, winning championships is not easy,
and sometimes fan bases can get a little spolt. But
it's not easy. There are, believe it or not, good
football teams in the state. Sometimes they're better than you.
I know, it's sometimes hard to swallow that there is
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one fan base upset today because their team, for a
second year in a row, had their playoffs dashed dreams
dashed by the same team, this time on the road.
They're just better. And we'll talk about that in a moment.
Murray had one of the most phenomenal games in football
playoff history, and it really was.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And we'll get into the nuances of that.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But to go almost the entire game without scoring and
then just have an onslaught of back and forth touchdowns
to get to overtime, not only get to overtime, but
then once we got it over time, how crazy things were.
So you know, we'll get into that. But Murray does advance.
And then Paduka Tilman had.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
A wild one. They had a wild one.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
They had one where they trailed that game early and
then went on a pretty incredible run to put Logan
County away, not only get the lead, but put them
away and get the win. And there was a little
bit of drama off the field at Logan County, and
I am going.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
To address it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
If you weren't aware, there was some the visiting media
for Logan County not happy with the home field hospitality
for Paduca Tillman, and I wouldn't be either, and I
think it's completely unacceptable, and I'll just say that now
and I'll explain and we'll get into that in a
little bit as well. So those are the things we
got to talk about. But in short, Murray advances, Tilman advances,
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both teams into the Final four. Both teams they don't
get a normal Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They've got to go play.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
They gotta go play some football Friday night. So we'll
recap these games and we will begin to kind of
look ahead a little bit to Friday night, although Windnesday
Show will kind of do that as well. Also on
Wednesday Show, while I'm thinking about it, we'll revisit our
power five from basketball so that we are all set
and ready, because folks, here's the deal. You know, we're
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talking final four in football, we're talking Murray's games, or
you know, they've still got a game to go at
least we're talking Tillman's still alive and playing. But basketball
season starts the monday we get back from Thanksgiving, so
again we won't have a show on Friday to talk
about it. We get back on that Monday, we'll be
talking about upcoming basketball games and things we're looking forward
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to and things to watch. Basically, what I want to
do is each Monday Show we're going to recap, you know,
games from Friday and Saturday the best that we can,
but we're also going to look ahead at that week
and look at the most anticipated games of that week,
sort of what are the matchups, what are the games
of the week, what are the games If you haven't
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got a dog in the race, if you don't have
a kid playing, if you just like sports like me,
what are the games that week that you need to
make sure that if you're going to go to a game,
you go see that game.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So we'll do that on Monday shows.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
On Wednesday, we'll recap Tuesday and Monday and Tuesday games
and we'll have our Power five, and then on Friday
we'll recap everything through the week to that point and
we will sort of set up the weekend. That's how
the show will flow once we get into basketball season.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So there's our housekeeping. There's what's on the show today.
There's what we have to get into, dive into and
do today, and we'll do it in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Let's take a break.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's an early one, but I'm going to catch my breath,
get my thoughts, and we'll come back. We'll talk football
from Friday right here on Region one, and there were
some things going on in sports today that will make
your brain fall out of your skull.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You were listening to the Region one Sports Report on
ninety nine to five the.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Fan Reagon one Sports right here on your Monday edition
of the show. We talked about, Uh, you know what
we've got to talk about. We got to talk high
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school football from Friday night. By the way, that phone
number again in case you want to get in touch
with us here on the show is two seven oh
five three four forty three eight two seven oh five
three four forty three eight. So Murray Tilman advance mayfield
season comes to an end. Let's start with the craziest
game of the night. Let's start with Murray and then uh,
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just the incredible finish to an incredible playoff game. Now,
I say I didn't get to go. I wanted to go,
I had every intention to go. I forgot my son
had a basketball game and no offense. I don't get
to see him play pretty much beyond this week. Now,
he'll still have about a month of middle school basketball left.
When we get to December, I'll get to see maybe
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one or two of those games. So I made it
a point to go watch play on Friday night. But
then I made it a point to follow the action
from Murray High. And for three quarters it was, you know,
three almost four quarters, it was like, man, it's kind
of a bad football game. Intense, neither team can score,
neither team can break the ice, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And then it became what it became.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It became the classic that we will look back on
it as being now. Because I didn't go, I can't
say it's the best playoff football game I've ever seen,
but Murray still has the title for that to me,
and people forget, and I think we have short term memories.
This may be the most significant playoff game because they're
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further into the playoffs, but the best playoff game I've
ever seen, and I would have a hard time believing
this one was actually better. Was the playoff win over
Mayfield a few years ago? It was I believe in
twenty twenty one? Am I am I wrong? In that
twenty twenty maybe wasn't the COVID year. It was the
next year, So no, it was my bad, my mistake.
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The year was twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It was a what triple overtime win at Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
To me, that's the best game I've ever seen in
the playoffs because both teams were going blow for blow
the entire game. Both teams went into overtime and answered
each other's you know, responded to each other's drive and score.
It was phenomenal. So this game I'm sure was great.
Just can't say for me it's the best playoff game
I've ever seen, or ever witnessed, or ever experienced because
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I didn't experience it. But if you were at both,
i'd be interested to know from you if that's this
one was better. Now it's most recent, so you might
have recency bias, But man, that football game at I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Think about that at War Memorial.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Triple overtime and you knock off the Mayfield Cardinals in
the playoffs. That's a special playoff moment. That's pretty special
for a game that went the way it did, scoring
like it did, you know, into overtime. You know, I
think I think Murray might have even scored on fourth
down like twice in overtime in that game to stay
alive and get the victory.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So that one, to me still the greatest I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But apparently Friday night you guys got treated to a
pretty good win as well. Now again, I wasn't there.
You know who was Steve Springer, the Murray Ledger in
tom So let me share from mister Springer his article.
So here we go, he says, and this is how
he begins the article. In the defensive struggle of a
game that will go down as one of the greatest
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games in Murray High lore, the Murray High Tiger football
team had a historic win, made history, and defied history
in an absolute classic, twenty to fourteen win int against
Lexington Catholic to advance to the Class three A semi finals.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Again it sounds amazing. I just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I just have a hard time believing it was better
than that Mayfield game. A crucial go line stand by
the Murray defense followed by a ten yard run up
the middle by Tiger junior running back Gage Champman for
the win, still the thirteenth win of the season, a
record in Tiger football history. But that was only the
last of a slew of great plays in historic drives
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at the end of regulation and over time, along with
another controversy for the ages, It's again according to mister Springer,
he says for the first forty four to thirty right,
So for the first forty four minutes forty four minutes
thirty seconds of the game, the Tigers and Knights seem
to want to showcase their step defense and punning game
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instead of their high scoring offenses. The Tigers came into
the hazy Ty Holland Stadium night with one of the
states' top scoring offenses at forty eight point nine points
per game. Lexington Catholic brought in the thirty points per
game scoring unit, but for the majority of the game
it was a defensive lover's dream.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah. Maybe could have also just been bad offense. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Neither team plays bad offense, so that's why I had
to say I'm kidding. The teams would trade eight point
eight punts excuse me, eight punts throughout the night, most
of them forced by a great team defense. Time after
tom Both teams would stop each other inside the red
zone of the first half, and at the end of
each half of the first three quarters of play, and
over eight minutes in the fourth quarter of the game
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would remain scoreless. Then somebody flipped a switch. Yeah, listen,
I'm tracking this game on Friday. I see it scoreless
until this point of the football game, and I almost
couldn't believe it. I kept thinking he didn't top a
number correctly, they put zeros.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It should be you know, this should be a number
in front of that zero. No, it's still zeros.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Couldn't believe it, and then how crazy the game went
from here again? According to Steve Springer, he says, after
forcing a Night punt and nine to fifty nine seconds
left in the game, the Tigers would get the ball
on their own sixteen yard line and put together one
of the greatest drives of Murray football history. The Tigers
have showcase they balance offense all season and much time.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
This was no different.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Senior quarterback White Robins would engineer a ninety four yard
drive that would take almost six and a half minutes
off the clock. He would connect with three different receivers
and four different Tigers would run the ball, culminating with
Robin's taking a shotgun snap of the Night seven yard line,
looking to his right, finding nobody open, and then sprinting
left and diving into the left corner pylon with two
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Night defenders lunging at his heels to put the first
points on the board with three forty one left in
the game. Some people paint with colors. Mister Springer's painting
with words, but track what he's saying. There a ninety
four yard drive that took six and a half minutes
off the clock. When each team is basically three and out,
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each team is basically having drive.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Stall all night long.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
The longest drive of the football game, at the most
crucial time ends with a Tiger's score to break things
open and give them a seven to nothing lead. Near
the end of the football game with three forty one
left in the game. Back to the article, Ta Holland
Stadium had been waiting all night to explode, Murray finally
gave them the go ahead. With Murray leading seven to
nothing after a Hank Franzen extra point, He then says
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lecenan Catholic answered right back. A short answuing kickoff was
returned twenty yards to midfield. The Knights were quickly in business.
Knight senior quarterback Brady Wizik would use two vital minutes
of game clock and hit four consecutive passes to three
different receivers. The last of which was an eleven yarder
to senior receiver Duncan. Oh, I'm gonna mess this name up,
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Yancey yancey gyance. Nonetheless, uh, he would fight his way
over the go line and after a successful point after
the game was tied seven to seven with one twenty
six remaining in the game, Again the insanity scoreless football
until six and a half minutes left in the game,
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and then both teams basically score on their on those drives.
Murray goes ninety four yards, takes a lot of time
off the clock. Now the pressure's on Catholic and they
come right back and score.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
He goes on to say, now again, one twenty six
left in the game. Murray's offense has scored a lot
this season, and they've done it quickly at times. Almost
a minute and a half should be plenty of time for
Robbins and his talented receiving corps to work with. After
senior receiver as Am Martin returned the Catholic kickoff to
the Murray sixteen yard line, it was time for Robins
to go to work. The officials had other plans, however,
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Oh hey, I'm not saying it.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Steve Springer is uh, he said. On the first play.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
From scrimmage, to start the game winning drive, Robbins would
throw the ball to the right flat, where senior receiver
Joshua Bridge's junior appear to have to go low to
real in the past, but never actually have possession of
the ball.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It would squirt out of his grasp.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
In nights, senior defensive back Baird Woodhull would scoop it
up and run it all the way back to the
end zone for a controversial call that sucked all the
life out of the home side of the Tie Holland Stadium.
The stun crowd dropped eerily silent, as Catholics seemingly had
just crushed Murray's championship dreams and perfect season in.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
The blink of an eye.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
If the Tigers were to stay alive, they would have
to defy the historic slap back of reality they had
just taken. So again, they throw a football. Now I've
seen the film, I saw the video. Robbins throws it
to Joshua Bridges junior. He never had possession right now,
it's high school football. They don't have video replay in
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real time. Maybe they assumed he had possessed. I just
don't see how they thought that in real time. I
don't see how they thought in real time he had
possession of that football. It's thrown low, his fingers are
barely on it, it hits the ground, squirts away, and they
rolled it a fumble.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I mean, he never established possession.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
He never made a football move once the football was
in his hands. So that alone, for me, is why
it shouldn't have been a fumble, much less how low
the pass was, how it clearly hit their I mean,
there's just a lot that goes with and now again
in real time, give him a break, but he never
made a football move. That's the thing that's kind of
head scratching. Nonetheless, and maybe in high school football you
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don't have to.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I don't know. Maybe that's one of those weird things
where they're.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Like, no, you don't have to. He never like, he
just never had the football. That's my point. So again, nonetheless,
it's ruled a fumble. Catholic takes a lead fourteen to
seven with just seconds remaining on the clock. He goes
on to say in the article, after a touchback on
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the kickoff, Murray and Robbins would be staring down another
desperately long drive, this time an eighty yarder with only
one five left in the clock. So one oh five
left in the game, They've got the football with eighty
yards to the end zone.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Okay, that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
After an incomplete pass, Robbins would hit Martin for a
six yard game and run for another yard to the
Murray twenty seven yard line. Not enough, fourth down clock ticking.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Now, I'm arguing that the Mayfield Murray game from a
few years ago is the better overall game. But this
might be the more historic moment.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
This might be the.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
More pearl clutching, hold onto your seat and just hold
on tight kind of moment in playoff football history. So again,
fourth down clock ticking, less than a minute to go,
Murray season on the line. A fatally charitable lex and
Catholic fifteen yard penalty would push the Tigers to the
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Murray forty two yard line. Then, as in just about
every Tiger game this season, it was time for the
Isaiah Martin Show to break out. Robbins would throw a
forty six yard bomb to Martin to advance the Tigers
to the night twelve yard line, and just like that
there was life again in the stadium, and with only
twenty three seconds left in the game, Robbins put the
bow Tie on an even better, more historic, more important
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drive than before by taking a shotgun snap for night
seven yard line, rolling right, finding a leaping Martin in
the right end of the end zone to cut the
lead to fourteen thirteen, with the most important extra point
of ink Franz's life looming, which he ended up making.
So all all of that to say, and this is
what's amazing, Like, if you're Lexton Catholic and I know
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Murray's got good receivers, I get that, you can't let
this is like a role in basketball, right, you can't
let the other team's best player beat you. You gotta
make somebody else make the shot. You gotta make somebody
else make the play. And Catholic let the two best
players of Murray's team beat them. They let Robbins find Martin.
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I know it's easier said than done, but you gotta
double cover that dude, right, You got to double cover him,
and he just is wide open sprinting down the field
for that forty six yarder to set all of this
up for Murray. And then again he catches the ball
in the end zone. Can't let that happen. The best
players can't beat you and clutch Tom. But when the
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best players do what they do and clutch Tom, that's
why teams win. That's why Murray won. So we're tied
at fourteen. Even with just twenty three seconds left. Wasik
would get the Knights close to the Tiger's red zone,
but his forty five yard keeper on fourth down as
time expired, came up about six yards short of the
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end zone.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Over Tom.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Like again, twenty three seconds plenty of time technically for
a good offense, and this kid goes forty six yards
and you know, Tiger fans had to be thinking, oh no,
this is how our season comes.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
To an end.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And then he comes up six yards short. Crazy, So
they go to overtime. Now, Lexington Catholic would get the
first crack at the end zone and the extra penalty
starting at the Murray ten yard line, but the Murray
High defense would be the ones doing the cracking. They
would stuff the night rushing attack four consecutive times, the
last time at the one yard line to hand the
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ball back over to the most prolific offense in the state.
I watched this, I saw the video.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Poor play calling, man, Like you get four cracks of
the end zone from the ten yard line and you
run and run and run, and I get it. They
came within a yard, but they also came a yard short.
I don't know. So here we go. Murray's got the football.
They just have to score, right, they just have to score.
And they go heavy package. I mean, I think they
put seven linemen on the field like they just went,
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We're just going to run the football, run the football,
run the football, and the worst case scenario, we're going
to kick it on fourth down. Wins win this game anyway.
Chapman within Beryl Murray hide at the semi finals when
he plowed through the stout Lexi Catholic run defense. Three
plays later on an eleven yard touchdown run. The Tiger
fans rushed to the field after an exasperating twenty to
fourteen classic. Actually, as I say that, I think you
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do have to go for the touchdown on the first overtime.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You can't kick the field go.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So they get four plays they get in twenty to
four team Murray wins. Incredible. Now let's look at stats
in this one. Let's take a look at how this
game played out. Why Robbins in this football game twenty
four of thirty eight two twenty five, one touchdown, one
pick as a team, Murray in the football thirty six times,
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one hundred and twenty one total rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns.
Let's look at if Catholics got their stats up and
I didn't check before, so they don't. So I don't
know what Catholic's final stats were, but you can tell
right there for Murray. Again, a defensive game. So Murray
gets the win. What's next for Murray? Well, the RPI
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reshuffles things. So now Murray doesn't get to host a game.
They've hosted the.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
First three rounds.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Now they go on the road and they take on
Lloyd Memorial. Now, if you're like me, and you're like,
who is Lloyd Memorial? Where they are the Juggernauts? Now
I'll admit, I'll admit I have covered high school sports
for over twenty years, almost twenty four years of my
life I have covered high school sports. Been a in
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sports coverage of some kind, newspaper, radio, Region one sports,
you name it. I've never heard of a mascot the
Juggernaut in the state. I didn't know Lloyd Memorial was
a school until right now. And I know some of
you are like, how did you know? I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I mean, I'm sorry. I don't keep up with District
five teams in football, but.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Apparently they are the Juggernauts.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They are really good as they also, like Murray, are unbeaten.
They're undefeated, but like Murray, they're one of four teams left.
Now it's Lloyd Memorial and Murray playing for a chance
to play in the championship game, which would be the
winner of Christian Academy Louisville Cal that one we know
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in Bell County Lloyd Memorial, in case you're wondering again,
the Juggernauts unbeaten this season. They play looks like a
lot of Northern Kentucky teams Newport, Newport, Central Catholic, Connor
Campbell County, Penalton County, Bourbon County, all up in that
northern part of the state. So some good football, some
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real good football, and a coach cunning Out might be
more familiar with them than anybody. Though they do have
a pretty decent passing attack. Caleb Evans, their senior quarterback,
twenty one hundred and eighty seven yards throwing on the season,
thirty four touchdowns, five interceptions. They also run the football
at one hundred and fifty six yards per game with
thirty eight rushing touchdowns again thirty four passing, thirty eight rushing,
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and they do have a kid in the receiving department
with fourteen rushing touchdowns with nine hundred and fifty receiving yards.
This is a monster game for Murray. Clearly, it's the
semi finals. Clearly the best team they've played all year.
But hope floats and hope springs eternal, and hope is
what Murray has going on the road on Friday night.
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Will break this one down more on Wednesday. So Murray advances.
Greatest playoff game ever. Oh man, I don't know. Again,
I wasn't there to be fair, but it's in my mind, man.
It it'd be tough to top what I saw with
that Murray Mayfield game from years past.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
But Murray wins. Murray advances, they are off to the
semi finals.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
They are not the only team that made it to
the semi finals, but Uka Tilman made it to the
semi finals, a struggle with Logan County for most of
the game. We'll get into that in a moment, but
also some controversy at the game how they treated the
visiting media.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Now, listen, I get it, man.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I can't tell you how many times I just keep
my mouth shut on these things because you know, I know,
I know that I've got to go there at some
point this basketball season, and they may treat me with
the upmost like the same way because I open, I
get it, and I get that it comes off as
winy broadcaster who just didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Get it like I get it.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
But in our profession and in our world, and for
those that cut like, here's the thing too. And let
me just say this before I get on that high horse,
there are fewer and fewer entities covering these games. It
is there is coming a day. And I have said
this for a long time. We have taken for granted
the media that we have had. And listen, the newspaper
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ain't there like it used to be. Right, it's not
there like it used to be. It's not their fault.
It's how times have changed. But used to there'd be
somebody from the Paduca Sun in almost every game across
the region, every single night.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
That ain't happening no more, not at all.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
There used to be radio for I think every school
in the region that ain't happening no more. You can
take for granted all you want, if you're in Graves County,
for what you know, games being on Willie That ain't
gonna be the case forever.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Our games being on the fan from m Kraken County
are on CBO for Marshall County. There's coming a day
that those those properties may not exist, or the ability
to carry those games anymore may not exist. So the
least we can do is at least be kind and
nice and professional with those that are still trying to
do their job and cover these things and get word
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out and keep record of these things. If nothing else,
media is a record keeper. It's how we'll look back
and how we'll remember these games. So there is something
in our industry about being professional and courteous to those people,
especially when there are fewer and fewer able and willing
to do it. And I'm just sorry you can't treat
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visiting media like you.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Did on Friday night. You can't. And we'll get into
that with that game and more when we come back.
This as Region one, Region one Sports the best in
the West.
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Some people call.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Me the space cover, some call me the Gangster. Love
Reach you on Sports.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Moving along your final segment here on your Monday edition
of the show. Before we get into what I was
kind of getting into, let's talk about the game itself.
Let's talk about Tilman and their win over Logan County.
Now again, I will share from those that were there,
the record keepers in the media and Paduca Sun was there.
I want to share a little bit about what they
had to say about it, because for a moment on
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Friday night, I'm tracking the Murray game. Can't believe it's
scoreless with two of those the offenses that they had kind.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Of blowing my mind a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
And I'm checking in on the Tilman game and going, whoa,
they're actually losing and may lose, like may lose this game.
And here's how it went. Logan County held the advantage
of the early stages. This according to the article, they
got up seventeen nothing after a short screen pass filled goal,
then a short rush early in the second quarter.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
This is when I tuned in and I thought, are
you kidding me? Seventeen nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
The Blue Tornado, according to the article, couldn't get anything
moving off instantly in the first frame, but quickly regrouped
in the second. So essentially what happened in this game
was Tilman had to rally back, had to come back
seventeen down at home in the second quarter in the playoffs. Now,
according to the article, DJ Wilson had a monster game
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for Tillman. Through a majority of the game, the senior
running back had two hundred total yards on thirty carries.
Scored the first touchdown of the game halfway through the
second quarter on a one yard rush. Wilson then made
an acrobatic gravel to pass from stone Crow, then shrugged
off a few defenders for a fifteen yard score. Every
time he touched the ball, he ran over a cougar
and used his physicality all night long. Logan County drilled
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a thirty five yard field goal as the final scored
the half, and they headed to the locker room leading
twenty four twenty.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But Tillman came out.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Tillman had themselves a second half, and I'm going to
try to kind of recap it. Essentially, essentially, Tillman would
essentially Tillman would come out take the lead in the
first part of the third quarter and then go on
and I gotta find it here, then go on to
have a thirty four to three run to.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Beat Logan County.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
So the finals scored, I didn't give that earlier, In
case you missed, it was forty eight to twenty seven.
If I just told you the final score of the
Tillman Logan County game was forty eight to twenty seven,
you would have thought Tillman from the word go just
scored a lot of points and Logan County just couldn't
keep up, and that was the ballgame.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
But no, Tillman trailed.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
They trailed the half, They trailed throughout the you know,
seventeen to nothing to start the game, and they went
on a thirty four to three run in the second
half to get the win.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That is an incredible second half.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Incredible Looking at the stats for this one, stone Crow
eleven of twenty two, one hundred and fifty five yards,
four touchdowns, no picks. DeMarcus Willson DJ Wilson Man he
was incredible. Thirty nine carries for two hundred and sixty
six yards, two touchdowns as a team forty four carries
threeh eight three rushing touchdowns every time soon the leading receiver.
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He had five catches for eighty seven yards at a touchdown,
four different receivers with touchdown catches four and Tilman comes
back at home to get a win with just a
mind blowing second half performance. That's an incredible second half performance.
You're down, you.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Don't have a moment.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Maybe you grabbed a little momentum there at the end
of the second quarter by making it a ball game,
but you're down seventeen to nothing. Logan County is a
good football team, and what an unbelievable showing.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
In that second half. Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Now Tilman gets Franklin County, not Franklin Simpson who they
beat earlier in the year. They get Franklin County in
the next round in the semi finals again on the road.
Who is Franklin County. Well, the Flyers again, that's another
new one for me. Clearly they're mascots and eagle, but
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they're the Flyers. So the Franklin County Flyers are on
the season thirteen to zero, throwing the football at two
hundred and twenty five yards per game, thirty six touchdowns,
five picks. They don't run the football a ton, just
one hundred eleven yards rushing per game, but thirty one
rushing touchdowns. So that's who's up next for Tillman. Who
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is left in their bracket. Let's take a look at that.
So if you look at the four A playoffs, you
have Tilman taking on Franklin County. Franklin County still unbeaten.
Then you have Corbin and Bull County. So the winner
of Bull County Corbin will take on the winner of
Franklin County and Paduca. Tilman's still favorite. This may be
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on the road, but it's only on the road because
the RPI says Franklin County is better. Maybe not, we'll see,
but Tilman within incredible second half. Now to the kind
of thing that was the controversy and what I was
kind of speaking to early. This is according to WRUS,
which covers Logan County. Their radio crew, they shared a
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picture and they shared a picture of basically the press
box and then this tin and table and equipment set
up to the left side of the press box according
to the picture, and in their posts they say, Cougar fans,
we apologize for the quality of the broadcast tonight. We
were advised by Paduca Tilman's administration today there was no
room in the press box for our broadcast crew. They
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placed Zach and Austin under a tent beside the press box,
directly beneath a PA speaker. We were doing our best
to make it listenable. That's just unacceptable, and that's a
bad look.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's just a bad look.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And keep in mind there was a lightning delay and
some rain that moved in and with that equipment a dangerous,
very very dangerous and b just a unbelievable unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I think they did say in their posts they contacted
Tilman early in the week, did not get a response back,
contacted them later in the week and they said they
probably wouldn't have room, then confirmed they wouldn't have room
now for people defending it and saying, well, when our
radio crew goes on the road, they're not always in
a press box again, and that's on the people. That's
on those people, right. I have never in football ever
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been in a situation where we've been on the road
ever and not had a spot. We went to m
what was it, mcew and Tennessee a couple of years
ago to the absolute worst press box I've ever been
in in my life, and they made it a point
to make sure that we at least had a spot,
not a big spot, but a spot we could see
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out of and broadcast from inside the press box because
there was a threat of rain that night. And this
thing I've been in hunting, I've been in tree stands
bigger than this press box, the worst I've ever been
a part of. We went on the road to Madisonville,
and when we go on the road to Madisonville, they
put us at the end of the press box where
there's one little window, and I end up standing outside
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the press box. However, if I had to be under cover,
there would be very cramped room for me and Kyle
to be undercover. And my whole point is it just
it's just a bad look. And in a night when
there was rain and a put them in front of
the PA speaker. That's just that's not a professional thing
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to do or an accommodating thing to do to somebody
who is your guest.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
They are the guest media.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I'm not saying you give them the best spot, absolutely not.
You give them a spot. So I just I'm sorry,
just unexcusable. It just is to me. And here's the thing.
Go read the comments on that post. There are other
broadcasters coming out and saying it was the worst experience
they've ever had in broadcasting. That ain't them saying it
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about McCracken or Graves or Marshall or Murray. Murray ain't
exactly a nice press box. It's a tiny little tin
can of a press box. No offense Murray, it is.
But you know what, they had a spot for you,
they did. They have a spot for your visiting radio.
They make sure you're taking care of and you're accommodated
to the best that they can with what they have.
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So I don't know, you're gonna brag on the amazing
facilities in the field, and that is a big press box.
You could find a spot for them somewhere.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You just can.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
And I know I'll get treated poorly probably when we
go down there, But you know where, you won't get
treated poorly when you come to Graves because you won't
because that's not a professional thing to do in a
way that you accommodate visiting media. Now, look if they
brought multiple radio stations, if they brought. You know, there's
three different that's happened before. I've seen it, where like
three different radio stations showed up said we cover that.
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Like I get it. Can't accommodate all of them. One
of them you probably can. Just not a good look,
just not. Nonetheless, I'll step up off Mahi horse. All right,
the final thing we have to address. Unfortunately, those two
teams Tilman and Not. Unfortunately Tilman and Murray advance. Unfortunately
Mayfield did not. Mayfield losing their game for a second
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year in a row as they fall to Lexington Christian,
this time thirty five sixteen. Again, this was on the road.
I don't have stats. I get it, I don't have stats.
But they go on the road. They lose to Christian
in the officially third round of the playoffs, but their
second round game because they had the BAE.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Now, if you remember.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
This time last year, in fact, one year ago to
the day, almost Lexton Christian came to Mayfield and beat
them forty seven seven. So I've seen a lot of
Mayfield fans saying, no, we just haven't met the standard.
And that's true, I mean to your standards of winning
state titles or at least playing in state title games.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
You have fallen.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Short for a little bit longer than you probably would like,
no doubt, or probably used to. But times change, and
it's hard to win a state title game. It's hard,
and it should be hard. It shouldn't be easy. You
don't want it to be a cake walk. Because here's
what happens. If you guys just keep winning, people are
gonna point and go, well, you're just winning two B
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A titles. Go call me when you're a six like.
That's not as easy as winning at six A or
five A or four like. That's the narrative. You don't
want that to be the narrative. You want to be
hard to win state titles. And sometimes you're just not
the best team. I know that's hard to swallow and fathom,
and I know it is, and sometimes it's not as
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easy as saying, well, we just want it more. It's
just those cliches don't work. Sometimes talent matters. And I'm
not saying you don't have talent. You got plenty of talent.
You whipped a lot of teams this year, including my
Graves County Eagles. What I'm saying is sometimes there's just
more talent and better teams. And it's just been true
that a team out of Lexington has been better than
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you the last few years especially, it's just harder to
win with these private schools like Lexington Christian, like Catholic
who you had to run into a few years ago,
like cal like all these schools you've seen in the
past come and go.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
It's just harder to win when they're around. It just is.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
And I do agree you you fall a little short
of the standards that you have set. At the end
of the day, there's still high school kids kids keyword there,
and it's not like the coaches are coaching to lose
and it's not like that they they just throw their
hands up and go, oh, we're just not good. Sometimes
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you're just not as good, or there are just better teams,
and unfortunately you've run into that team the last two years,
especially Lexington Christians just better. And I know it's driving
you crazy. You haven't reached those standards. Look, as a
UK basketball fan, I feel your pain as far as
not reaching standards. As an Ohio State football fan, there
were a lot of years that Ohio State was not reaching.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Sometimes though, especially with high school kids, a little bit
of patience. You've got a lot of guys coming back,
your quarterback, some receivers.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I mean, like the sky is still the limit.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
You still got a lot to returning that could still
make it be a big run next year. Just saying
sometimes it ain't as easy, and it shouldn't be. It
does suck, though, man, it does.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
It does.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Mayfield season comes to an end, and so does this
episode of Region one. I hope you've enjoyed it. I've
enjoyed it. I'll talk to you again on Wednesday. Until then,
this has been Region one Sports
This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian York
on ninety nine to five The Fat.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Hand Away we Go.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
It is a Monday, November twenty fourth edition of the
Region one Sports Report. Hey Brian Yorke here, hope you're
having a fantastic, just incredible start to your short week.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Some people will get a you know, only have to
work a three day week this week. I gotta work
a four day week. I've got to work Black Friday.
But hey, come see me. It should be fun. I'll
be handing out Goodie bad be handing out the swag
bags at Kentucky Oak Small. We have those for you
on Friday. The first two hundred people that get in
you can get a swag bag. So come say ha
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on Black Friday morning. But nonetheless, it is a holiday week,
not the most beautiful or awesome way to start your week.
As it is gray and cloudy and overcast and rainy
on this Monday. You know I've said said it before,
I'll say it again. This is why I hate fall.
All you people that celebrate fall, it's for me. I
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just see leaves falling, more work to be done in
the yard, and then it Most days are like this.
In fact, if you look the weather, most days are
gonna be like this. Eighty percent chants are rain today,
ninety percent chants tomorrow. We might see the thing called
the sun on Wednesday and Thursday. For Thanksgiving. It is
gonna be cold on Thanksgiving. By the way, we don't
often get a cold Thanksgiving. We normally get like I'm
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normally in shorts and a T shirt. It's it's a
very odd thing in Kentucky. But it is gonna be
cold on Thanksgiving Friday. It's gonna be cold for Black
Friday shopping and then rain again. But you know, so
that's that's what we're looking at. That's why I hate
this time of year. I hate the weather. Nonetheless, I digress.
By the way, that means we only have two shows
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this week, Monday and Wednesdays, the only shows we have
for you this week. Today, we've got to play a
little Monday morning quarterback. Get caught up from the football
games this weekend. I got some thoughts and kind of
here's the thing I'm recording at home.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Obviously you know that now.
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And as I record at home, you know, one of
the weird things that would happen when I go to
the studio is I would go to the studio and
early in the morning recording the show. I would be
kind of my brain would be fixed on the actual games,
the actual stats, the actual production, not any of the
drama you see on Facebook, not any of the drama
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you see that sort of surrounds the game, but the
actual game. Recording at home, my brain sort of fixates
on the drama because I'm not at work, I'm not
in the studio. I'm not just thinking about all the
details I need to report on for the games. So
there is a little bit of a tone shift in
the show. Today we are going to play Monday morning quarterback.
We are going to get caught up on the on
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field action from Friday nights games.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
But I got some thoughts with some.
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Of the comments and things and drama that went on
at some of the games. And I'll explain more when
we get into that a little bit later on.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Also, by the way, again, things I can't remember, let
me give you the phone number.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
You guys have been phenomenal. I asked for help.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I said that the one of the things about doing
this show, keeping it going, how vital and important it
was for me to keep everything going.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Uh, I needed help.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
I was gonna need you know, information, I was gonna
need fodder for the show. I was gonna need your
help from those that are at the games and those
that are witnessing it them you know first hand. And
so that's what the text number is for. And you
guys have responded, keep it going please so we can
keep this going. That number is two seven oh five
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three four forty three oh eight two seven oh five
three four forty.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Three oh eight.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
You can just text in information. Look, I don't you
don't have to worry about me. I respond to a
few people occasionally. I don't respond to everybody, unfortunately. Then
that's kind of a heads up. If I don't respond
to you, I'm not being rude. I just get several messages.
It's hard to keep them straight. But I appreciate all
the information. So you can text in. You don't have
to worry about me texting you back. I don't know
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who you are. Your number is anonymous to me. So anyway,
I do appreciate all that have done it so far,
and I appreciate all that continue and will do it
in the future.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Again.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That number is two seven h five three four forty
three oh eight. Okay, who man, Sorry, I know, I
just feel like by the time I get around recording
this show from you know again from home, then I've
got a lot of things on my mind, and I
feel like I've just got to get it all out
at once.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I got to remember to pace myself.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
So let's do that. Now, let's talk football from Friday night.
Let's get into the games now. I said last week
I thought it was more likely only one team made
it through than all three. But that didn't mean I
was saying only one team is going to make it
through in the playoffs. Two of our three teams are
that played Friday night advanced. Two of those three teams
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made it through. One of those fan bases of the
team that didn't, they're pretty upset that. I think they
forget that sometimes, you know, winning championships is not easy,
and sometimes fan bases can get a little spolt. But
it's not easy. There are, believe it or not, good
football teams in the state. Sometimes they're better than you.
I know, it's sometimes hard to swallow that there is
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one fan base upset today because their team, for a
second year in a row, had their playoffs dashed dreams
dashed by the same team, this time on the road.
They're just better. And we'll talk about that in a moment.
Murray had one of the most phenomenal games in football
playoff history, and it really was.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And we'll get into the nuances of that.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
But to go almost the entire game without scoring and
then just have an onslaught of back and forth touchdowns
to get to overtime, not only get to overtime, but
then once we got it over time, how crazy things were.
So you know, we'll get into that. But Murray does advance.
And then Paduka Tilman had.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
A wild one. They had a wild one.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
They had one where they trailed that game early and
then went on a pretty incredible run to put Logan
County away, not only get the lead, but put them
away and get the win. And there was a little
bit of drama off the field at Logan County, and
I am going.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
To address it.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
If you weren't aware, there was some the visiting media
for Logan County not happy with the home field hospitality
for Paduca Tillman, and I wouldn't be either, and I
think it's completely unacceptable, and I'll just say that now
and I'll explain and we'll get into that in a
little bit as well. So those are the things we
got to talk about. But in short, Murray advances, Tilman advances,
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both teams into the Final four. Both teams they don't
get a normal Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
They've got to go play.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
They gotta go play some football Friday night. So we'll
recap these games and we will begin to kind of
look ahead a little bit to Friday night, although Windnesday
Show will kind of do that as well. Also on
Wednesday Show, while I'm thinking about it, we'll revisit our
power five from basketball so that we are all set
and ready, because folks, here's the deal. You know, we're
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talking final four in football, we're talking Murray's games, or
you know, they've still got a game to go at
least we're talking Tillman's still alive and playing. But basketball
season starts the monday we get back from Thanksgiving, so
again we won't have a show on Friday to talk
about it. We get back on that Monday, we'll be
talking about upcoming basketball games and things we're looking forward
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to and things to watch. Basically, what I want to
do is each Monday Show we're going to recap, you know,
games from Friday and Saturday the best that we can,
but we're also going to look ahead at that week
and look at the most anticipated games of that week,
sort of what are the matchups, what are the games
of the week, what are the games If you haven't
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got a dog in the race, if you don't have
a kid playing, if you just like sports like me,
what are the games that week that you need to
make sure that if you're going to go to a game,
you go see that game.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
So we'll do that on Monday shows.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
On Wednesday, we'll recap Tuesday and Monday and Tuesday games
and we'll have our Power five, and then on Friday
we'll recap everything through the week to that point and
we will sort of set up the weekend. That's how
the show will flow once we get into basketball season.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
So there's our housekeeping. There's what's on the show today.
There's what we have to get into, dive into and
do today, and we'll do it in just a moment.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Let's take a break.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
It's an early one, but I'm going to catch my breath,
get my thoughts, and we'll come back. We'll talk football
from Friday right here on Region one, and there were
some things going on in sports today that will make
your brain fall out of your skull.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
You were listening to the Region one Sports Report on
ninety nine to five the.
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Fan Reagon one Sports right here on your Monday edition
of the show. We talked about, Uh, you know what
we've got to talk about. We got to talk high
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school football from Friday night. By the way, that phone
number again in case you want to get in touch
with us here on the show is two seven oh
five three four forty three eight two seven oh five
three four forty three eight. So Murray Tilman advance mayfield
season comes to an end. Let's start with the craziest
game of the night. Let's start with Murray and then uh,
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just the incredible finish to an incredible playoff game. Now,
I say I didn't get to go. I wanted to go,
I had every intention to go. I forgot my son
had a basketball game and no offense. I don't get
to see him play pretty much beyond this week. Now,
he'll still have about a month of middle school basketball left.
When we get to December, I'll get to see maybe
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one or two of those games. So I made it
a point to go watch play on Friday night. But
then I made it a point to follow the action
from Murray High. And for three quarters it was, you know,
three almost four quarters, it was like, man, it's kind
of a bad football game. Intense, neither team can score,
neither team can break the ice, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
And then it became what it became.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
It became the classic that we will look back on
it as being now. Because I didn't go, I can't
say it's the best playoff football game I've ever seen,
but Murray still has the title for that to me,
and people forget, and I think we have short term memories.
This may be the most significant playoff game because they're
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further into the playoffs, but the best playoff game I've
ever seen, and I would have a hard time believing
this one was actually better. Was the playoff win over
Mayfield a few years ago? It was I believe in
twenty twenty one? Am I am I wrong? In that
twenty twenty maybe wasn't the COVID year. It was the
next year, So no, it was my bad, my mistake.
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The year was twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It was a what triple overtime win at Mayfield.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
To me, that's the best game I've ever seen in
the playoffs because both teams were going blow for blow
the entire game. Both teams went into overtime and answered
each other's you know, responded to each other's drive and score.
It was phenomenal. So this game I'm sure was great.
Just can't say for me it's the best playoff game
I've ever seen, or ever witnessed, or ever experienced because
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I didn't experience it. But if you were at both,
i'd be interested to know from you if that's this
one was better. Now it's most recent, so you might
have recency bias, But man, that football game at I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Think about that at War Memorial.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Triple overtime and you knock off the Mayfield Cardinals in
the playoffs. That's a special playoff moment. That's pretty special
for a game that went the way it did, scoring
like it did, you know, into overtime. You know, I
think I think Murray might have even scored on fourth
down like twice in overtime in that game to stay
alive and get the victory.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So that one, to me still the greatest I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
But apparently Friday night you guys got treated to a
pretty good win as well. Now again, I wasn't there.
You know who was Steve Springer, the Murray Ledger in
tom So let me share from mister Springer his article.
So here we go, he says, and this is how
he begins the article. In the defensive struggle of a
game that will go down as one of the greatest
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games in Murray High lore, the Murray High Tiger football
team had a historic win, made history, and defied history
in an absolute classic, twenty to fourteen win int against
Lexington Catholic to advance to the Class three A semi finals.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Again it sounds amazing. I just I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I just have a hard time believing it was better
than that Mayfield game. A crucial go line stand by
the Murray defense followed by a ten yard run up
the middle by Tiger junior running back Gage Champman for
the win, still the thirteenth win of the season, a
record in Tiger football history. But that was only the
last of a slew of great plays in historic drives
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at the end of regulation and over time, along with
another controversy for the ages, It's again according to mister Springer,
he says for the first forty four to thirty right,
So for the first forty four minutes forty four minutes
thirty seconds of the game, the Tigers and Knights seem
to want to showcase their step defense and punning game
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instead of their high scoring offenses. The Tigers came into
the hazy Ty Holland Stadium night with one of the
states' top scoring offenses at forty eight point nine points
per game. Lexington Catholic brought in the thirty points per
game scoring unit, but for the majority of the game
it was a defensive lover's dream.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah. Maybe could have also just been bad offense. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Neither team plays bad offense, so that's why I had
to say I'm kidding. The teams would trade eight point
eight punts excuse me, eight punts throughout the night, most
of them forced by a great team defense. Time after
tom Both teams would stop each other inside the red
zone of the first half, and at the end of
each half of the first three quarters of play, and
over eight minutes in the fourth quarter of the game
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would remain scoreless. Then somebody flipped a switch. Yeah, listen,
I'm tracking this game on Friday. I see it scoreless
until this point of the football game, and I almost
couldn't believe it. I kept thinking he didn't top a
number correctly, they put zeros.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
It should be you know, this should be a number
in front of that zero. No, it's still zeros.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Couldn't believe it, and then how crazy the game went
from here again? According to Steve Springer, he says, after
forcing a Night punt and nine to fifty nine seconds
left in the game, the Tigers would get the ball
on their own sixteen yard line and put together one
of the greatest drives of Murray football history. The Tigers
have showcase they balance offense all season and much time.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
This was no different.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Senior quarterback White Robins would engineer a ninety four yard
drive that would take almost six and a half minutes
off the clock. He would connect with three different receivers
and four different Tigers would run the ball, culminating with
Robin's taking a shotgun snap of the Night seven yard line,
looking to his right, finding nobody open, and then sprinting
left and diving into the left corner pylon with two
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Night defenders lunging at his heels to put the first
points on the board with three forty one left in
the game. Some people paint with colors. Mister Springer's painting
with words, but track what he's saying. There a ninety
four yard drive that took six and a half minutes
off the clock. When each team is basically three and out,
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each team is basically having drive.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Stall all night long.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
The longest drive of the football game, at the most
crucial time ends with a Tiger's score to break things
open and give them a seven to nothing lead. Near
the end of the football game with three forty one
left in the game. Back to the article, Ta Holland
Stadium had been waiting all night to explode, Murray finally
gave them the go ahead. With Murray leading seven to
nothing after a Hank Franzen extra point, He then says
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lecenan Catholic answered right back. A short answuing kickoff was
returned twenty yards to midfield. The Knights were quickly in business.
Knight senior quarterback Brady Wizik would use two vital minutes
of game clock and hit four consecutive passes to three
different receivers. The last of which was an eleven yarder
to senior receiver Duncan. Oh, I'm gonna mess this name up,
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Yancey yancey gyance. Nonetheless, uh, he would fight his way
over the go line and after a successful point after
the game was tied seven to seven with one twenty
six remaining in the game, Again the insanity scoreless football
until six and a half minutes left in the game,
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and then both teams basically score on their on those drives.
Murray goes ninety four yards, takes a lot of time
off the clock. Now the pressure's on Catholic and they
come right back and score.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
He goes on to say, now again, one twenty six
left in the game. Murray's offense has scored a lot
this season, and they've done it quickly at times. Almost
a minute and a half should be plenty of time for
Robbins and his talented receiving corps to work with. After
senior receiver as Am Martin returned the Catholic kickoff to
the Murray sixteen yard line, it was time for Robins
to go to work. The officials had other plans, however,
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Oh hey, I'm not saying it.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Steve Springer is uh, he said. On the first play.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
From scrimmage, to start the game winning drive, Robbins would
throw the ball to the right flat, where senior receiver
Joshua Bridge's junior appear to have to go low to
real in the past, but never actually have possession of
the ball.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
It would squirt out of his grasp.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
In nights, senior defensive back Baird Woodhull would scoop it
up and run it all the way back to the
end zone for a controversial call that sucked all the
life out of the home side of the Tie Holland Stadium.
The stun crowd dropped eerily silent, as Catholics seemingly had
just crushed Murray's championship dreams and perfect season in.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
The blink of an eye.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
If the Tigers were to stay alive, they would have
to defy the historic slap back of reality they had
just taken. So again, they throw a football. Now I've
seen the film, I saw the video. Robbins throws it
to Joshua Bridges junior. He never had possession right now,
it's high school football. They don't have video replay in
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real time. Maybe they assumed he had possessed. I just
don't see how they thought that in real time. I
don't see how they thought in real time he had
possession of that football. It's thrown low, his fingers are
barely on it, it hits the ground, squirts away, and they
rolled it a fumble.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I mean, he never established possession.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
He never made a football move once the football was
in his hands. So that alone, for me, is why
it shouldn't have been a fumble, much less how low
the pass was, how it clearly hit their I mean,
there's just a lot that goes with and now again
in real time, give him a break, but he never
made a football move. That's the thing that's kind of
head scratching. Nonetheless, and maybe in high school football you
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don't have to.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I don't know. Maybe that's one of those weird things
where they're.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Like, no, you don't have to. He never like, he
just never had the football. That's my point. So again, nonetheless,
it's ruled a fumble. Catholic takes a lead fourteen to
seven with just seconds remaining on the clock. He goes
on to say in the article, after a touchback on
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the kickoff, Murray and Robbins would be staring down another
desperately long drive, this time an eighty yarder with only
one five left in the clock. So one oh five
left in the game, They've got the football with eighty
yards to the end zone.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Okay, that's where we are.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
After an incomplete pass, Robbins would hit Martin for a
six yard game and run for another yard to the
Murray twenty seven yard line. Not enough, fourth down clock ticking.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Now, I'm arguing that the Mayfield Murray game from a
few years ago is the better overall game. But this
might be the more historic moment.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
This might be the.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
More pearl clutching, hold onto your seat and just hold
on tight kind of moment in playoff football history. So again,
fourth down clock ticking, less than a minute to go,
Murray season on the line. A fatally charitable lex and
Catholic fifteen yard penalty would push the Tigers to the
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Murray forty two yard line. Then, as in just about
every Tiger game this season, it was time for the
Isaiah Martin Show to break out. Robbins would throw a
forty six yard bomb to Martin to advance the Tigers
to the night twelve yard line, and just like that
there was life again in the stadium, and with only
twenty three seconds left in the game, Robbins put the
bow Tie on an even better, more historic, more important
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drive than before by taking a shotgun snap for night
seven yard line, rolling right, finding a leaping Martin in
the right end of the end zone to cut the
lead to fourteen thirteen, with the most important extra point
of ink Franz's life looming, which he ended up making.
So all all of that to say, and this is
what's amazing, Like, if you're Lexton Catholic and I know
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Murray's got good receivers, I get that, you can't let
this is like a role in basketball, right, you can't
let the other team's best player beat you. You gotta
make somebody else make the shot. You gotta make somebody
else make the play. And Catholic let the two best
players of Murray's team beat them. They let Robbins find Martin.
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I know it's easier said than done, but you gotta
double cover that dude, right, You got to double cover him,
and he just is wide open sprinting down the field
for that forty six yarder to set all of this
up for Murray. And then again he catches the ball
in the end zone. Can't let that happen. The best
players can't beat you and clutch Tom. But when the
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best players do what they do and clutch Tom, that's
why teams win. That's why Murray won. So we're tied
at fourteen. Even with just twenty three seconds left. Wasik
would get the Knights close to the Tiger's red zone,
but his forty five yard keeper on fourth down as
time expired, came up about six yards short of the
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end zone.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Over Tom.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Like again, twenty three seconds plenty of time technically for
a good offense, and this kid goes forty six yards
and you know, Tiger fans had to be thinking, oh no,
this is how our season comes.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
To an end.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
And then he comes up six yards short. Crazy, So
they go to overtime. Now, Lexington Catholic would get the
first crack at the end zone and the extra penalty
starting at the Murray ten yard line, but the Murray
High defense would be the ones doing the cracking. They
would stuff the night rushing attack four consecutive times, the
last time at the one yard line to hand the
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ball back over to the most prolific offense in the state.
I watched this, I saw the video.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Poor play calling, man, Like you get four cracks of
the end zone from the ten yard line and you
run and run and run, and I get it. They
came within a yard, but they also came a yard short.
I don't know. So here we go. Murray's got the football.
They just have to score, right, they just have to score.
And they go heavy package. I mean, I think they
put seven linemen on the field like they just went,
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We're just going to run the football, run the football,
run the football, and the worst case scenario, we're going
to kick it on fourth down. Wins win this game anyway.
Chapman within Beryl Murray hide at the semi finals when
he plowed through the stout Lexi Catholic run defense. Three
plays later on an eleven yard touchdown run. The Tiger
fans rushed to the field after an exasperating twenty to
fourteen classic. Actually, as I say that, I think you
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do have to go for the touchdown on the first overtime.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You can't kick the field go.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
So they get four plays they get in twenty to
four team Murray wins. Incredible. Now let's look at stats
in this one. Let's take a look at how this
game played out. Why Robbins in this football game twenty
four of thirty eight two twenty five, one touchdown, one
pick as a team, Murray in the football thirty six times,
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one hundred and twenty one total rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns.
Let's look at if Catholics got their stats up and
I didn't check before, so they don't. So I don't
know what Catholic's final stats were, but you can tell
right there for Murray. Again, a defensive game. So Murray
gets the win. What's next for Murray? Well, the RPI
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reshuffles things. So now Murray doesn't get to host a game.
They've hosted the.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
First three rounds.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Now they go on the road and they take on
Lloyd Memorial. Now, if you're like me, and you're like,
who is Lloyd Memorial? Where they are the Juggernauts? Now
I'll admit, I'll admit I have covered high school sports
for over twenty years, almost twenty four years of my
life I have covered high school sports. Been a in
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sports coverage of some kind, newspaper, radio, Region one sports,
you name it. I've never heard of a mascot the
Juggernaut in the state. I didn't know Lloyd Memorial was
a school until right now. And I know some of
you are like, how did you know? I just didn't know.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I mean, I'm sorry. I don't keep up with District
five teams in football, but.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Apparently they are the Juggernauts.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
They are really good as they also, like Murray, are unbeaten.
They're undefeated, but like Murray, they're one of four teams left.
Now it's Lloyd Memorial and Murray playing for a chance
to play in the championship game, which would be the
winner of Christian Academy Louisville Cal that one we know
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in Bell County Lloyd Memorial, in case you're wondering again,
the Juggernauts unbeaten this season. They play looks like a
lot of Northern Kentucky teams Newport, Newport, Central Catholic, Connor
Campbell County, Penalton County, Bourbon County, all up in that
northern part of the state. So some good football, some
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real good football, and a coach cunning Out might be
more familiar with them than anybody. Though they do have
a pretty decent passing attack. Caleb Evans, their senior quarterback,
twenty one hundred and eighty seven yards throwing on the season,
thirty four touchdowns, five interceptions. They also run the football
at one hundred and fifty six yards per game with
thirty eight rushing touchdowns again thirty four passing, thirty eight rushing,
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and they do have a kid in the receiving department
with fourteen rushing touchdowns with nine hundred and fifty receiving yards.
This is a monster game for Murray. Clearly, it's the
semi finals. Clearly the best team they've played all year.
But hope floats and hope springs eternal, and hope is
what Murray has going on the road on Friday night.
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Will break this one down more on Wednesday. So Murray advances.
Greatest playoff game ever. Oh man, I don't know. Again,
I wasn't there to be fair, but it's in my mind, man.
It it'd be tough to top what I saw with
that Murray Mayfield game from years past.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
But Murray wins. Murray advances, they are off to the
semi finals.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
They are not the only team that made it to
the semi finals, but Uka Tilman made it to the
semi finals, a struggle with Logan County for most of
the game. We'll get into that in a moment, but
also some controversy at the game how they treated the
visiting media.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
Now, listen, I get it, man.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
I can't tell you how many times I just keep
my mouth shut on these things because you know, I know,
I know that I've got to go there at some
point this basketball season, and they may treat me with
the upmost like the same way because I open, I
get it, and I get that it comes off as
winy broadcaster who just didn't.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Get it like I get it.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
But in our profession and in our world, and for
those that cut like, here's the thing too. And let
me just say this before I get on that high horse,
there are fewer and fewer entities covering these games. It
is there is coming a day. And I have said
this for a long time. We have taken for granted
the media that we have had. And listen, the newspaper
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ain't there like it used to be. Right, it's not
there like it used to be. It's not their fault.
It's how times have changed. But used to there'd be
somebody from the Paduca Sun in almost every game across
the region, every single night.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
That ain't happening no more, not at all.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
There used to be radio for I think every school
in the region that ain't happening no more. You can
take for granted all you want, if you're in Graves County,
for what you know, games being on Willie That ain't
gonna be the case forever.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Our games being on the fan from m Kraken County
are on CBO for Marshall County. There's coming a day
that those those properties may not exist, or the ability
to carry those games anymore may not exist. So the
least we can do is at least be kind and
nice and professional with those that are still trying to
do their job and cover these things and get word
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out and keep record of these things. If nothing else,
media is a record keeper. It's how we'll look back
and how we'll remember these games. So there is something
in our industry about being professional and courteous to those people,
especially when there are fewer and fewer able and willing
to do it. And I'm just sorry you can't treat
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visiting media like you.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Did on Friday night. You can't. And we'll get into
that with that game and more when we come back.
This as Region one, Region one Sports the best in
the West.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Some people call.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Me the space cover, some call me the Gangster. Love
Reach you on Sports.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Moving along your final segment here on your Monday edition
of the show. Before we get into what I was
kind of getting into, let's talk about the game itself.
Let's talk about Tilman and their win over Logan County.
Now again, I will share from those that were there,
the record keepers in the media and Paduca Sun was there.
I want to share a little bit about what they
had to say about it, because for a moment on
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Friday night, I'm tracking the Murray game. Can't believe it's
scoreless with two of those the offenses that they had kind.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Of blowing my mind a little bit.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
And I'm checking in on the Tilman game and going, whoa,
they're actually losing and may lose, like may lose this game.
And here's how it went. Logan County held the advantage
of the early stages. This according to the article, they
got up seventeen nothing after a short screen pass filled goal,
then a short rush early in the second quarter.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
This is when I tuned in and I thought, are
you kidding me? Seventeen nothing.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
The Blue Tornado, according to the article, couldn't get anything
moving off instantly in the first frame, but quickly regrouped
in the second. So essentially what happened in this game
was Tilman had to rally back, had to come back
seventeen down at home in the second quarter in the playoffs. Now,
according to the article, DJ Wilson had a monster game
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for Tillman. Through a majority of the game, the senior
running back had two hundred total yards on thirty carries.
Scored the first touchdown of the game halfway through the
second quarter on a one yard rush. Wilson then made
an acrobatic gravel to pass from stone Crow, then shrugged
off a few defenders for a fifteen yard score. Every
time he touched the ball, he ran over a cougar
and used his physicality all night long. Logan County drilled
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a thirty five yard field goal as the final scored
the half, and they headed to the locker room leading
twenty four twenty.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But Tillman came out.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Tillman had themselves a second half, and I'm going to
try to kind of recap it. Essentially, essentially, Tillman would
essentially Tillman would come out take the lead in the
first part of the third quarter and then go on
and I gotta find it here, then go on to
have a thirty four to three run to.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Beat Logan County.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
So the finals scored, I didn't give that earlier, In
case you missed, it was forty eight to twenty seven.
If I just told you the final score of the
Tillman Logan County game was forty eight to twenty seven,
you would have thought Tillman from the word go just
scored a lot of points and Logan County just couldn't
keep up, and that was the ballgame.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
But no, Tillman trailed.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
They trailed the half, They trailed throughout the you know,
seventeen to nothing to start the game, and they went
on a thirty four to three run in the second
half to get the win.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
That is an incredible second half.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Incredible Looking at the stats for this one, stone Crow
eleven of twenty two, one hundred and fifty five yards,
four touchdowns, no picks. DeMarcus Willson DJ Wilson Man he
was incredible. Thirty nine carries for two hundred and sixty
six yards, two touchdowns as a team forty four carries
threeh eight three rushing touchdowns every time soon the leading receiver.
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He had five catches for eighty seven yards at a touchdown,
four different receivers with touchdown catches four and Tilman comes
back at home to get a win with just a
mind blowing second half performance. That's an incredible second half performance.
You're down, you.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Don't have a moment.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Maybe you grabbed a little momentum there at the end
of the second quarter by making it a ball game,
but you're down seventeen to nothing. Logan County is a
good football team, and what an unbelievable showing.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
In that second half. Wow.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Now Tilman gets Franklin County, not Franklin Simpson who they
beat earlier in the year. They get Franklin County in
the next round in the semi finals again on the road.
Who is Franklin County. Well, the Flyers again, that's another
new one for me. Clearly they're mascots and eagle, but
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they're the Flyers. So the Franklin County Flyers are on
the season thirteen to zero, throwing the football at two
hundred and twenty five yards per game, thirty six touchdowns,
five picks. They don't run the football a ton, just
one hundred eleven yards rushing per game, but thirty one
rushing touchdowns. So that's who's up next for Tillman. Who
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is left in their bracket. Let's take a look at that.
So if you look at the four A playoffs, you
have Tilman taking on Franklin County. Franklin County still unbeaten.
Then you have Corbin and Bull County. So the winner
of Bull County Corbin will take on the winner of
Franklin County and Paduca. Tilman's still favorite. This may be
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on the road, but it's only on the road because
the RPI says Franklin County is better. Maybe not, we'll see,
but Tilman within incredible second half. Now to the kind
of thing that was the controversy and what I was
kind of speaking to early. This is according to WRUS,
which covers Logan County. Their radio crew, they shared a
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picture and they shared a picture of basically the press
box and then this tin and table and equipment set
up to the left side of the press box according
to the picture, and in their posts they say, Cougar fans,
we apologize for the quality of the broadcast tonight. We
were advised by Paduca Tilman's administration today there was no
room in the press box for our broadcast crew. They
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placed Zach and Austin under a tent beside the press box,
directly beneath a PA speaker. We were doing our best
to make it listenable. That's just unacceptable, and that's a
bad look.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's just a bad look.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
And keep in mind there was a lightning delay and
some rain that moved in and with that equipment a dangerous,
very very dangerous and b just a unbelievable unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
I think they did say in their posts they contacted
Tilman early in the week, did not get a response back,
contacted them later in the week and they said they
probably wouldn't have room, then confirmed they wouldn't have room
now for people defending it and saying, well, when our
radio crew goes on the road, they're not always in
a press box again, and that's on the people. That's
on those people, right. I have never in football ever
(36:26):
been in a situation where we've been on the road
ever and not had a spot. We went to m
what was it, mcew and Tennessee a couple of years
ago to the absolute worst press box I've ever been
in in my life, and they made it a point
to make sure that we at least had a spot,
not a big spot, but a spot we could see
(36:46):
out of and broadcast from inside the press box because
there was a threat of rain that night. And this
thing I've been in hunting, I've been in tree stands
bigger than this press box, the worst I've ever been
a part of. We went on the road to Madisonville,
and when we go on the road to Madisonville, they
put us at the end of the press box where
there's one little window, and I end up standing outside
(37:08):
the press box. However, if I had to be under cover,
there would be very cramped room for me and Kyle
to be undercover. And my whole point is it just
it's just a bad look. And in a night when
there was rain and a put them in front of
the PA speaker. That's just that's not a professional thing
(37:29):
to do or an accommodating thing to do to somebody
who is your guest.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
They are the guest media.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
I'm not saying you give them the best spot, absolutely not.
You give them a spot. So I just I'm sorry,
just unexcusable. It just is to me. And here's the thing.
Go read the comments on that post. There are other
broadcasters coming out and saying it was the worst experience
they've ever had in broadcasting. That ain't them saying it
(37:56):
about McCracken or Graves or Marshall or Murray. Murray ain't
exactly a nice press box. It's a tiny little tin
can of a press box. No offense Murray, it is.
But you know what, they had a spot for you,
they did. They have a spot for your visiting radio.
They make sure you're taking care of and you're accommodated
to the best that they can with what they have.
(38:19):
So I don't know, you're gonna brag on the amazing
facilities in the field, and that is a big press box.
You could find a spot for them somewhere.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
You just can.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
And I know I'll get treated poorly probably when we
go down there, But you know where, you won't get
treated poorly when you come to Graves because you won't
because that's not a professional thing to do in a
way that you accommodate visiting media. Now, look if they
brought multiple radio stations, if they brought. You know, there's
three different that's happened before. I've seen it, where like
three different radio stations showed up said we cover that.
(38:52):
Like I get it. Can't accommodate all of them. One
of them you probably can. Just not a good look,
just not. Nonetheless, I'll step up off Mahi horse. All right,
the final thing we have to address. Unfortunately, those two
teams Tilman and Not. Unfortunately Tilman and Murray advance. Unfortunately
Mayfield did not. Mayfield losing their game for a second
(39:15):
year in a row as they fall to Lexington Christian,
this time thirty five sixteen. Again, this was on the road.
I don't have stats. I get it, I don't have stats.
But they go on the road. They lose to Christian
in the officially third round of the playoffs, but their
second round game because they had the BAE.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
Now, if you remember.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
This time last year, in fact, one year ago to
the day, almost Lexton Christian came to Mayfield and beat
them forty seven seven. So I've seen a lot of
Mayfield fans saying, no, we just haven't met the standard.
And that's true, I mean to your standards of winning
state titles or at least playing in state title games.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
You have fallen.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Short for a little bit longer than you probably would like,
no doubt, or probably used to. But times change, and
it's hard to win a state title game. It's hard,
and it should be hard. It shouldn't be easy. You
don't want it to be a cake walk. Because here's
what happens. If you guys just keep winning, people are
gonna point and go, well, you're just winning two B
(40:16):
A titles. Go call me when you're a six like.
That's not as easy as winning at six A or
five A or four like. That's the narrative. You don't
want that to be the narrative. You want to be
hard to win state titles. And sometimes you're just not
the best team. I know that's hard to swallow and fathom,
and I know it is, and sometimes it's not as
(40:36):
easy as saying, well, we just want it more. It's
just those cliches don't work. Sometimes talent matters. And I'm
not saying you don't have talent. You got plenty of talent.
You whipped a lot of teams this year, including my
Graves County Eagles. What I'm saying is sometimes there's just
more talent and better teams. And it's just been true
that a team out of Lexington has been better than
(40:59):
you the last few years especially, it's just harder to
win with these private schools like Lexington Christian, like Catholic
who you had to run into a few years ago,
like cal like all these schools you've seen in the
past come and go.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
It's just harder to win when they're around. It just is.
Speaker 1 (41:17):
And I do agree you you fall a little short
of the standards that you have set. At the end
of the day, there's still high school kids kids keyword there,
and it's not like the coaches are coaching to lose
and it's not like that they they just throw their
hands up and go, oh, we're just not good. Sometimes
(41:37):
you're just not as good, or there are just better teams,
and unfortunately you've run into that team the last two years,
especially Lexington Christians just better. And I know it's driving
you crazy. You haven't reached those standards. Look, as a
UK basketball fan, I feel your pain as far as
not reaching standards. As an Ohio State football fan, there
were a lot of years that Ohio State was not reaching.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Sometimes though, especially with high school kids, a little bit
of patience. You've got a lot of guys coming back,
your quarterback, some receivers.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I mean, like the sky is still the limit.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
You still got a lot to returning that could still
make it be a big run next year. Just saying
sometimes it ain't as easy, and it shouldn't be. It
does suck, though, man, it does.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
It does.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Mayfield season comes to an end, and so does this
episode of Region one. I hope you've enjoyed it. I've
enjoyed it. I'll talk to you again on Wednesday. Until then,
this has been Region one Sports
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