Calloway secures a winning season. Murray stays unbeaten and Graves keeps improving.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian york
on ninety nine to five the Fare presented by the
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
And away we go on your Monday. It is a
chilly Monday, but it is a Monday. Nonetheless, it is
a Monday. November third edition of the Region one Sports Report.
I'm Brian Yorke. As always, you can get in touch
with us all over our social media accounts and via
phone line at two seven oh five three four forty
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
It is cold this morning. Not Chili, it's cold.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It was thirty three when I got into my pickup
truck and drove to Paducah from good old Marshall County
early this morning, and now it is uh, it's a
ball me thirty four. So it has warmed up quite
a bit outside, gonna make our way to sixty one.
It's just that time of year where we are in
full winter gear in the mornings and then we're t
shirt and you know, pants, shorts and a long sleeve
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whatever you want to wear in the afternoon, but much
much warmer. Love it, gotta love it, but here it
is November is here. Wow, unbelievable, November is here. The
regular season of football is over, and we've got all
of that to wrap up here today. The regular season,
which means the end of the year for a few
teams in our area, either opting out of the playoffs
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or just didn't make the playoffs. We'll get into that
and then set you up for the playoffs. So we've
got that to talk about. It a lot of football today,
that's my point. Just a lot of football today, and
then as we have time, we'll start inching our way
into our basketball coverage. I know it's early November. I
know they don't officially tip off until for another month,
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but we don't have that long to cover them. We
don't have that long to deep dive and break down
and get into our preseason coverage. If you look at
how the calendar lays out, you essentially have about three
weeks because Thanksgiving week completely messes us up, and then
you'll be playing basketball the week after that. So really
we've got about three weeks. We've got about nine episodes,
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which seems like a lot, but it's not. Trust me,
it is not. So we'll start inching into our basketball coverage,
probably today one hundred percent on Wednesday. We will be
much more in depth on Wednesday with some basketball talk,
and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Listen, It's just reality.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We do a pretty good audience size during fall, Like
our audience size is pretty substantial during fall, but our
audience is in basketball. I mean, we hit our marks,
we hit our numbers, they go way up when we
get into basketball season.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That's just no secret.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's just where our bread and butter is when it
comes to Region one sports, and so I'm looking forward
to it. It's the thing that I feel like I
have the easiest time talking and I'm excited for that.
So we'll get into that maybe a little bit today,
much more on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Officially we will wait a week or so, I don't know,
but sometime either next week or the week rot before Thanksgiving,
we will do our top ten teams. We will do
our top ten players to watch. We'll kind of talk
about which team might surprise us this year, things like that.
So we'll kind of save that more official, in depth
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outline discussion for another week or so, but we'll start
kind of talking off the top of our brainiums. We'll
start kind of talking off the top of our head.
What we're looking forward to in basketball season. We'll get
into that as the week goes on. So that's what's
coming up, what's behind us, and still coming up football.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We wrapped up the regular season on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We get into the playoffs this coming week, and we've
got some things to talk about and some thoughts that
I got to get out. So without further ado, we'll
do what we do. We'll talk high school sports. Looking
back on Friday, I'll go over the scores first and
then like immediately the things that kind of stood out,
and you'll kind of get an idea of where we're
going today.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
From Friday night.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
There were a lot of scores that should not surprise you,
a lot of scores that they are what they are.
We kind of expected them to be what they are.
But let's look at it. You had Mayfield over Central
by the way, that's out of Louisville, forty three thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That was on Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You had Murray taking down Caldwell County fifty six sixteen.
Thought it would be a lopsided game that ended up
being a big time blowout, fifty six sixteen Tigers over
the Tigers on Friday, Miehlenberg County beat Ballard Memorial forty
two zero, Paduka Tilman over Christian County fifty four to seven.
You had Graves County over McCracken County forty one twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, we'll get into that later.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And then you had Callaway County over Marshall County forty
five forty and a thriller down in Callaway County on
Friday night. So those are your scores. I told you
we'd have several blowmouts.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
We did.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Murray and Coboy ended up being a big blowout. We'll
break down stats on that one in a moment. But
Murray ends the regular season unbeaten, undefeated, unblemished, ten to zero.
Caldwell County had a good year too, they were a
good team. Fifty six to sixteen ends up being your final.
Miilerberg County takes care of Ballard. What a tough, tough
season for Ballard. And again, I think that falls into
the bigger conversation category.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Right. We talked about this last week.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We talked about opting out of the playoffs and reasons
for opting out of the playoffs, and I think it's
a two fold conversation. I think one is got to
do with the immediate, like how do you stop this
from happening in the immediate Maybe you got to shorten
the playoffs, or maybe you got to limit the amount
of teams that are in so that you don't have
as many teams opting out. And then number two, if
you're opting out, I think you move into the second
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conversation of the viability of your program long term, short term,
short term is it viable? Long term is a viable?
And I think those are real discussions that real leaders
need to have. Just my opinion, just my two cents,
but I think those are the two conversation, and I
think one team in our area falls into that. But
that's a quick, quick conversation on that. Moving on the
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two big games of the week last week, and I
told you these would be the two heavyweights. I told
you these would be the two games with a chance
to be the best two football games.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And we were not disappointed.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And if you were the Marshall Calloway game, especially as
a callaway fan, you were not disappointed. My goodness, forty
five forty ends up being the final in that football game.
Now we're going to break it down and go through
scores and like the back and forth scoring, and I'll
give you the stats. Calloway County stats are up. I'll
give you their stats at least. But what an unbelievable
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game in Calway County. We keep talking about this, probably
too much. Some of you are like, you know, Murray's undbeaten.
Why aren't you talking about them? Because they're in a
spot where we expected right. Mayfield's right where we expect
them to be. Tillman is right where we expect them
to be. Calloway is in a spot we did not
expect them to be, and there is nobody listen. I
don't care who you are. I don't care how big
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of a Callaway, booster, supporter, quarterback, club member, lifelong bandwagon,
you know, drum beater. I don't care who you are.
You did not see this season coming. You might have
saw a few wins coming. You might have saw a
change in the air coming. You might have seen, you know,
something that indicated it'll be better than last season. But
last season was a winless year. Wasn't gonna be much
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harder to be better than last season. But you didn't
see six wins. You just didn't. Now they lost to
the teams they should have lost to, right, They lost
to Murray, they lost to Logan County, Franklin Simpson and
Abduka Tilman. All those teams are better than them still,
clearly they just are. But Callaway beat the Marshals of
the world who blew them out last season. They beat
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the Fulton Counties of the world who blew them out
last season. And that's the point I'm making. This was
truly And don't let anybody, and you know the for
the staunch supporter who says they saw it come in
their line, ain't that ain't the truth?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
You didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And for the ones who are gonna sit here and
downplay their strength of schedule as being nothing, guess what,
they haven't played a great schedule the last few years
and they couldn't get wins. This really is a true
turnaround for Callaway County and year number one for coach
Lewis it is. I just gave you the evidence. Fulton
County dominated Calloway County last season at Calloway County. Fulton
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County got most of their guys back. Calloway County comes
back this year and blows them out of the water
as they should. Marshall County beat Callaway County last season
forty five nothing, forty five nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
One year later, Calloway County flips the script.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, they gave up forty points, but they beat the
Marshalls forty five to forty.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
They didn't get shut out in this one.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
They put up forty five on a Marshall County team
in year two of their coaching tenure, with a lot
of seniors back, with a lot of veterans back off
of last year's team, Callaway flipped the script.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
To the biggest you didn't see this coming and to
the biggest critic, it is a turnaround. It truly is.
Six wins for Callaway County. Unbelievable for them. They have
guaranteed a winning season no matter what happens against e
Town and I'm rooting for a win, but no matter
what happens in the playoffs, they're gonna get a winning season. Unbelievable. Now,
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we'll go through the Marshall game in a moment, and
we'll go through the history, because I think I think
that's important too. We'll go through the history of that series.
It's not often Calloway gets a win. Now it has
been the case the last five years, but those wins
are starting to pile up a little bit more for
Calloway County than they had in the previous thirty some
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odd years. But a winning season for Callaway good for them.
And then on the flip side of that, the other
big game that I told you to watch out for
Graves and McCracken. I told you this could be coming.
I told you Graves County would move to the football on McCracken.
They just their defense is just not interested in trying
to lock down and stop anybody. And I told you
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Graves defense was better than some of the defenses McCracken
had played. And the McCracken still played well, still had
some good offensive hits and runs. But I told you
this could be coming. Not to count out Graves County.
They were getting better every week and this felt like
the right opponent at the right time, and they win
forty one to twenty seven. The offense looked good, the
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defense looked as good as it always does, and Graves
is flipping the script a little bit as they go
into the playoffs. But those two games, those were the highlights,
and they did not disappoint All right, let's take a break.
We'll come back. We'll break them down stats and more
when we come back. This as Reagion one Sports and.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
There were some things going on in sports today that
will make your brain fall out of your skull. You
were listening to the Region one Sports Report on ninety
nine to five, the fan.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
To it all, the gat them on the beach? What's
Goring's moving along?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Here? On your Monday edition of the show. I can't
even keep up with what day it is. Talking football
from Friday night, wrapping up our regular season. Let's talk
Callaway and Marshall.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
First.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's the big one from Friday, Callaway securing a winning season,
Marshall falling to three and seven of the regular season,
their season comes to an end. They did not make
the playoffs. We'll get into that here in a moment.
But this one was a wild one on Friday. And
I'm just gonna go over the scoring, because if I
just give you the scoring, you're gonna get the sense
of what I was feeling and viewing from my game
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at Graves, just watching the scores come across for this
game at Callaway and Marshall. So just the scoring quick note.
You'll notice Callaway kind of dominated, kind of owned the
first half. Marshall had one valiant effort in the second half,
and then Calloway found a way to win in the end.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
That's kind of how the trend of the game win.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But here we go, just the scoring Callawai jumped up
first six to nothing with eight thirty left in the
first quarter. Calway gets another touchdown, twelve nothing. They apparently
could not make paights twelve nothing with two ten left
in the first quarter, all Calloway counting. So the first
quarter comes to an end, they're up two touchdowns. Thankfully
for Marshall miss pats or missed you know, opportunities to
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add on kipped it to twelve. I mean, Marshall scores
two touchdowns. They're winning even though they're down two touchdowns
twelve nothing. Then in the second quarter, it was nineteen
to seven early into the second quarter, so again Callaways
scored again no paights and then Marshall gets a touchdown
and a pat nineteen seven, ten forty four remaining in
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the second quarter. Next score to come across Calloway County
hits one in a Lakers finished off an extended drive
when they late in the second quarter, twenty five to seven,
with one seventeen remaining in the second quarter, Marshall did
get a field goal and made it twenty five ten
at halftime, So twenty five ten a fifteen point game,
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which by the way, should have been more, and that
should have been twenty eight ten at the minimum, but
twenty five to ten going into halftime, fifteen point lead
for Callaway County, Marshall barely able to muster seven points.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
This game looked over. This game looked like.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yep, thought Callawai would win, probably going to stay a
fourteen point, fifteen point game the rest of the way,
But this looks like Callaway's got it in the bag.
And then the second half completely flipped, completely flipped Marshall
County scores as Thomasin punched it in for a TD
with the nine to forty mark in the third quarter
twenty five seventeen, and then the next score to come
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across in the third quarter ended up being another Marshall
County score as Jesik scored this time and I just
lost my spot this time with four minutes to go
in the third quarter twenty five twenty three, Marshall's trail
by two. Marshall would take their first lead of the
game early in the fourth quarter. It was a let's
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see Jessic found Jet Jones for a thirty two yard
TD twenty nine to twenty five, Marshall County on top
with eleven fifty four to go in the football game.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Calloway would respond.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They would come back and get a touchdown thirty two
twenty nine with ten fifteen left to go in the game.
You get a sense of how wild this is gonna finish.
Marshall gets their first leader. They come back from fifteen down,
They come back with several unanswered points. They take a
lead twenty nine to twenty five. In fact, nineteen oh
run for the Marshalls in this football game. To take
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that lead. Callowai responds thirty two to twenty nine. With
just over ten minutes to go, Marshall County would get
another field goal from Braiden York. Probably related, I don't know,
but Braiden York gets another field goal and ties the
game thirty two thirty two, with seven fifty remaining in
the football game. That would be your score. That would
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be your score until two minutes left in the football game.
Callaway would go get a touchdown thirty nine thirty two
with two minutes remaining. However, Marshall County would get a
sixty five yard pass from Jesuit to Jones. They would
convert the two point conversion. They would take one more
lead in this football game, forty thirty nine with one
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forty five remaining. The drama, the intensity, the back and forth,
the nerves that Callaway fans are feeling, the nerves that
the Marshall fans are feeling, like unbelievable. Forty to thirty nine.
Marshall back on top. They've got a chance with one
forty five left in the football game. A long pass
over the middle followed up by a Laker TD and
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a two point conversion being no good. But Calloway County
scores with fifty five seconds remaining to go up forty
five to forty, which ends up being your final unbelievable.
Marshall County had the lead with what a minute when
I say minute four five remaining and less than forty
seconds later, Callaway scores to secure the victory and get
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the win.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Unbelievable game.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Now we'll talk about the implications and where all this
lands for both teams here in a moment, but unbelievable
back and forth. Like I said at halftime, you thought, man,
Callaway maybe doesn't cruise, but they're gonna be comfortable the
rest of the game. They were not comfortable the rest
of the game. They had to fight as well as
Marshall came back. What an effort for the Marshalls there
in their final game of the year, just coming up
short and you play like that in the first half.
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You win the football game going away, but Marshall comes
up short, Callaway gets to win. Let's look at the
stats for this one, and forgive me as I'm trying
to relocate the stats. I'm all over the map here.
Stats are not up for Marshall yet. I'm sure they
will be as the week goes on, but for Callaway
they are. Let's take a look at these in this
game for the Callaway County and you can kind of
see what their offense did and it was terrific. Matthew
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Bradwell twenty four of thirty six, five touchdowns, one pick,
three hundred and fifty eight yards. I told you on
Friday that if Callaway County could get the football out
in the edge, if Callaway County could get the football
out of space. Marshall has just had trouble all year
defending that against just about everybody. And Calloway County got
the football out into space. They got the football downfield
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in the air again. Bradley was twenty four of thirty six,
three point fifty eight, five touchdowns, one pick, his main
man Darkest, the senior twelve catches, one eighty six and
one touchdown. Don't forget Phillips four catches, two touchdowns, seventy
one yards. And then on the ground Logan Smith, who's
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had an unbelievable year. And you talk about all the
reasons why Callaway has turned their program around, You talk
about all the reasons why last year to this year
has been night and day. Logan Smith, Yeah, thirty carries,
that's a lot. He also had one hundred and seventy
eight yards and two touchdowns and Callaway County gets it done. Which,
by the way, as I was saying earlier, in the
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history of the Sea Series, these two teams have played
each other going back to nineteen seventy nine. Now, they
didn't play each other every single year, there's been gaps
in that time period, but since nineteen seventy nine, they
have played each other, by my count thirty nine times,
So thirty nine times going back to nineteen seventy nine,
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Marshall County's all time record going into that game Friday
night was twenty nine and eight.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Twenty nine and eight, Calloway County picked up their ninth
win ever in the series. And here's the deal though, Yeah,
long term, you look at the history of the series,
Marshall County dominated. In fact, they won the first one, two, three, four,
won the first five meetings, lost the game, and then
ended up winning one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
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tail eleven in a row, and then they'd lose, win
a couple, then they lose, win five or six, then
they'd lose. That's kind of how the series has gone.
Except the last few years it's flipped. Yes, Marshall has
the all time series, but Callaway County has actually flipped
it the last few years. You go back to twenty nineteen,
Marshall County had rattled off let's see one, two, three, four, five,
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six consecutive wins over Callaway County. But since twenty nineteen,
Callaway County has won one, two, three four, four of
their last six meetings. So Callaway has nine wins all time.
So yes, Friday night was a historic win. It was
just the ninth win ever. But they've won four of
their last six, so they've turned it around. Now for
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Marshall County unfortunately, and listen, you know I played there,
I went to school there. I would love to see
that program thrive once again. And you gotta start the
bigger picture question is will it ever get back to
a winning season? Will will they ever ever be able
to kind of get over that hump. Things have been
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tough for them, and it was a season in which
we started with a lot of promise. They beat Critney
County pretty handily, but they should like again, you want
to compare these two programs. Compare these two programs. Callaway
did not get a win last season. They improved. They
went out and beat every team they should beat this
season to get to six wins. Marshall looked like they
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were on that path. They beat Critney County, they should
beat Critney County. They lost to Cadwell, they should beat
Coudwell County. They made mistakes, some things didn't go their way,
some calls, I get it. They should beat Caudwall County
lost by two. Okay, tough, But when you're trying to
get over that hump, when you're trying to get over
a three win season, we'll talk about how many years
in a row this has been. Now, those are the
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games you can't lose. Okay, fine, come up a little short,
saw improvement. Then went and beat Trig County. They should
beat Trig County. It was closed, but they beat them.
They lost to Murray. They should lose to Murray, lost
to Madisonville. They should lose to Madisonville. Beat Meehlnburg, they
should beat me Miehlenberg. Right like, you get the trend here.
But the one that got away was the Codwell County game.
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And then you could argue you could argue that traditionally
they are better than Callaway County and Calloway County improved
from last season to this season. And Marshall had a
chance to win that game on Friday. So that's two wins.
Think about that, that's three wins on the season. They
kind of let two get away from them. That'd be
a five win season. That's how that's how you know narrow.
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The margin of error is when you are kind of
perpetually stuck with three wins, and you're trying to get
over that hump. But imagine the trajectory going forward. There's
no moral victories. You will look back on the season
and judge it is a three win season. You won't
look back and go, yeah, but they also had chances.
Won't matter. It'll be another three win year they did.
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And here's my point. People like me that look closer
at these things, people like me that live more for
it and dive more, you know, dive deeper into it,
We're gonna look at it and go, man, they could
have been a five win team.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
They were better. This was an improved football team from
a year ago. They were better.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But unfortunately there are fewer of us look at it
like that than there are general public just dismissing them
as still being a bad football team. I don't think
they're that bad. I think they should have won five
games this year. They had a chance to, and I'm
rooting for it, man, I want to see it. They
have now been stuck at three wins and no more
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than three wins every season since twenty seventeen. That's incredible.
That is now nine consecutive seasons in which they have
won no more than three games. In twenty nineteen, they
went two to nine. That's been their worst mark in
that time. But their last at least four wins season came.
It came in seventeen. The year before that, they won
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their last five game season in a long time. That
was what was on the line this season, because can
you imagine the trajectory that Callaway County is on, or
put themselves on by getting to six wins this season
after losing every game last year. If Marshall flips the
Caldwell game and they should have they should have won
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that game. And if they play a little bit better
in the first half on Friday Night and beat Calloy
County and you're it's a completely different conversation today. Now
we know they're good, we know they're better, we know
they're good enough to win those games. But it's a
completely different conversation today, and it's one that I'll be honest,
I was rooting for. I have been. I have been.
I want to see it thrive again. I want to
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see it good. I think it's good for the school,
the community, the region. It's still like it shocks people
when I tell them. Marshall used to be good at football.
It shocks me that Marshall's now currently not as good
at football, like because it was just it was a
thing back in our day, right Like I sound like
an old geezer, but it was. When you look at
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the two coaches that really built the program. And I know,
we give coach Shelton all the credit, you got to
give Doc Sanders a lot of credit. From nineteen eighty
to nineteen eighty nine, that program won sixty games, sixty
and forty three in that time. That set the mark.
Even before that, Larry Krause was the first winning coach
there at the school. Remember they consolidated the first two seasons,
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they went six and fifteen. Then coach Krause came along,
they went twenty three and eighteen. Doc Sanders sixty and
forty three. Jim Shelton in his ten years seventy eight
and fifty and they've not had a winning coach since.
They've not had but a few winning teams since, which
is just blows my mind. Because I came up in
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the eighties and the nineties. I'm rooting for it. I
want to see it. I want to see the program thrive.
They've got the resources, they've got, the student body, they've
got the they got everything, they got the facilities, they
got everything they need. And this season they were close. Man,
they were so close to getting that fourth and fifth win,
changing the dynamic and maybe maybe there is some moral victory,
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maybe they fill it within the program that they they
left a couple on the field that they should have
got to that fifth win. I hope they do. I
hope that's the feeling because they are better than their record,
and that's my point. That is my overall point. They
are better than their record, but they'll be judged by
the record. Unfortunately, Calloway, we're judging them by the record.
Six wins. I think it's a good year for Marshall.
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I do think when you dive deeper, you see a
bit of a pivot in the program this season, and
I hope it pays off in the long run.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
All Right, taking a break, we'll come back. We've got
more right here.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Your schools, your report, the Region one Sports Report.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Freaking Sports.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
As we roll along here on your Monday edition of
the show, we talk Calai Marshall, give Calloway their due
by the way they do play Etown this week. Looking
at Elizabethtown, they have to go on the road for
this one. Etown is a very good football team. Callowai
will be the underdog in this one, but you know what,
go Lakers. You're playing with house money at this point.
Go get it done. What a season they've had. Again,
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Marshall season does come to an end unfortunately. All right,
Moving on, we talked McCracken, Graves, McCracken and Grapes.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Again.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I'm not one of these guys that wants to say
I told you so, but I told you so. You know,
McCracken had been on an incredible run of just putting
up all kinds of points. The problem is they give
up a lot of points. And that was a problem
on Friday because you faced a and improved and a
Graves County offense that has certainly gotten better. But you
I mean again, they moved the football pretty consistently. They
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got a forty one to twenty seven win because their
defense is better than you've seen as well, and that
was something we talked about last week. In this game,
just looking at the stats, we'll kind of go through
the scoring here at a moment when I get it
pulled up. But in this game, looking at the stats,
we'll start with McCracken because i'm on their page. Just
you know, it's Monday, I'm on their page. But you
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know McCracken did put up some numbers in this game.
Two hundred and sixty yards passing and one hundred and
twenty seven on the ground. Manx O'Neill was eighteen of
thirty eight three touchdowns two sixty with three interceptions in
this football game running the football again thirty six carries
as a team for one to twenty seven and one touchdown. Listen,
I know Landon Newman is their guy. He's their bruiser.
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He's the one that's come on late. Dawson Hayden was
like untouchable for Grapes County. He came in and completely
changed things. And I don't know why I only got
twelve carries. I thought he should have run the football
a lot more. I thought their best, their best offense.
They took some shots down field at work, Don't get
me wrong. You know those that two hundred and sixty yards.
There were several shots downfield that were good vertical shots
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that they took and hit. But I thought the game
changer was Dawson Hayden, who came in and was a
completely different change of pace.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Quick, elusive, got.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Behind the tackles on the offensive line and got between
the tackles and kind of snuck the end of the
hole before you knew it, man like Grease Lattin, and
he was gone. I'm surprised he didn't run the football more.
I thought he was a big game changer. Twelve carries,
seventy six yards. Matcham was the big receiver for Merkraken County.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
This kid's good. Man just the sophomore.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
He had seven catches, one hundred and sixty six yards
and two touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
He's good. You know.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Judildier is only a sophomore too. Like, they get some
dudes coming back in the on the edge. Those two
guys coming back on the edge are gonna be good.
And then the freshman quarterback press Wood, like I think
they'll have. I think they'll be a little bit better
next year than people are gonna give them credit for.
Because it's gonna be easy to look at at losing O'Neill,
look at losing the running backs and their seniors and
this and that. But those guys on the edge and
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then you've got a what will be a sophomore quarterback
next season with two very good, experienced junior receivers. That's
gonna be something to watch next season. Not gonna be
too much of a drop off there, I don't think.
But nonetheless, sticking to this game again, they did put
up some numbers, but they you know again, twenty incomplete passes,
three picks. That's that's credit to that Graves County defense.
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And in the end thirty six carries for one to
twenty seven with one rushing time down, not you know again,
giving up chunks, giving up some plays on some drives
that McCracken was able to get going, but then not
letting them in the end zone. That's credit to the
Graves County defense. Looking at Graves County in this game,
they've gotten better every single week the last three weeks.
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Chase Houston was really good. Fifteen of twenty one, three touchdowns,
one seventy five to one interception. It was a bad pass,
a really bad pass, bad decision, jumped in the air
to throw it, lobbed it up, you know, in an
otherwise stellar game. It was one kind of uh oh regress,
you know, moment of regression, but overall, overall, everything else
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was moments of improvement. Fifteen of twenty one, three pick,
three touchdowns, one pick, one, seventy five on the ground.
Jase Houston was incredible on the ground. Eighteen rushes as
a quarterback, ninety six yards in a touchdown. He had
one score where he swept around to the right side
of the field completely reverse course and just ran away
from everybody and scored a touchdown. He ran east to
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west more than he had to run north to south,
and so it was like a thirty yard run, give
or take, and he ran seventy yards to get it done.
It was it was just pure athleticism on display. Brady
Rozell seventeen carries, thirty six yards, he had a touchdown
as well. So again Graves offensively, you know, they got
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out gained in this game, but they were balanced. One
seventy five on the air, three touchdowns, one thirty two
on the ground, two touchdowns and Graves gets to win.
And we told you like they were hitting a part
of their schedule, even going in against mccrack and McCracken
had gotten into the top ten and six A football
had been putting up forty nine or more points on everybody,
and we kept saying, but this Graves defense is better.
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They're just different than those opponents. And then the problem
that McCracken ran into was their defense has also given
up a lot of points, and they gave up forty
one on Friday night, and they couldn't outscore their opponent
on Friday night. And Graves won more of an old
fashioned football game where their defense was good and their
offense was was really good and they get the win.
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Graves has won three in a row. They have won
essentially four of their last seven, which is a pretty
good mark considering how the season started. And they go
into the playoffs to take on a four and six
Bowling Green team. Now, no secret, this has not been
one of the better years for Graves County.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
It just hasn't.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
They've played a brutal schedule, but they they've also You
talked about Marshall County kind of leaving some wins on
the field. Think about that Graves had a shot. They
had Madisonville beat couldn't complete it. They had Apollo. Really
they were the better team against Apollo, couldn't get the win.
You flip those two games. This is a six win team,
that's the second seed in the district. But you don't
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and what I say earlier history, real judge the wins
and losses, not look at how they happened. And it's
a four win team, but they're four and six. They
go to Bowling Green, which otherwise would be like a
death sentence, would otherwise be like a well, no, no
sense of playing that game. It's gonna be awful because
Bowling Green's always legit. But Bowling Green this season is
four and six. Just as Graves has had one of
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their down years for the first time in a long time,
Bowling Green's having one of their worst years for the
first time in a long time. Now they're still good.
That's still gonna be a game. You better bring it.
But it's an opportunity for Graves to keep this going
and see just how much they have improved the last
few weeks. For McCracken County. Again, they end up with
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what five wins on the year.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Not bad.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
They get Central Harden on Friday night. That's gonna be
gonna be a good one for them. I just put
it that way. Central Harden a one win team, and
if you look at how things shake out for McCracken County.
Once they beat Central Harden, they'll have probably Henderson County,
who they beat fifty five to forty two at Henderson. So,
no matter what happened this past Friday night, and even
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though Graves was the overall better football team McCracken's run
of the playoffs, they've got a shot to win three
playoffs games, certainly two potentially three. Not bad, not a
bad spot to be in if you're McCracken County. But
that was Graves and McCracken on Friday night. What else
we got? What else we got? I'm looking over the
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scores Murray and Codwell fifty six sixteen. Murray ends up unbeaten.
I don't even remember the last time it happened. I'm
sure mister Springer had it in his article forgive Me.
I kind of skimmed. I kind of power read the article,
kind of flew through it this morning as I was
running out of tom But an unbeaten season for Murray again.
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They just ran the table start off the year with
what now looks like a really good win over Apollo.
For a moment, it didn't look as impressive Now it
looks really good. They beat and improved and now better
Graves County team. They beat McCracken County on the road
fifty nine to fifty six. I told you if McCracken
was playing some defense, that might have gone differently.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But Murray outshoots them.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
They beat a good not great, good Union and then
just beat a good Cardwell County team Cardwall County this
season what won two, three, four, five six a six
win team. They're better, they're improved and Murray had no
problem with them on Friday night. Look into the stats
in this one for the Tigers three hundred and forty
six yards passing.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
How about this? Why Robbins could you have had a
better night?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Robbins goes twelve of thirteen, three touchdowns three forty six.
That incomplete pass will haunt his dreams for the next week.
Twelve of thirteen as a team on the ground, sixteen carries,
one hundred and seventy two yards, five rushing touchdowns. Bohmer
with three rushing touchdowns. He had one hundred and eight
yards on six carries.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Again, the three that didn't go for a touchdown are
going to haunt his dreams this week.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Isaiah Martin.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
How about this four catches, three touchdowns, one seventy nine Like,
it just doesn't get any more efficient for the Tigers.
And they go on to a ten and o season
and they get eight Air County on Friday night. This
will be at Murray. They'll get the win. Eight Air
County a three win team, not a great team. So
Murray should should get the win and this one should
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have no problem. That would put them playing either Hart
County or Hopkins County Central. We'll go ahead and say it.
They're gonna play Hart County. That's a good football team.
That'll be a little different. Their second round game will
be the game you're gonna have to start really digging
in and finding out.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Who you are.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
You're gonna win a state title. That second round game
is gonna get much more difficult than that first round game,
much when it usually does, but it really will in
this case. So their path not easy, but certainly a
path for them. And then on the other side of that,
I mean, if you get through that game, you've got
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probably just kind of looking at probably Glasgow and they're
really good. They're a state favorite. So this path, man,
you're gonna win one. You're gonna really earn one in
Class three A, really earn one in Class three A.
But at least for this week, Murray keep rowling for sure?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
For certain?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
All right, what else we got? Mayfield had no problem
with Central. That game actually started early so Central could
get back home. This game started at six o'clock forty
three thirteen ends up being your final for the Cardinals,
and I've already lost my spot, so let me go
back and find them here. For the Cardinals, you look
at it. They have a bye week this week, so
they get an off week. I don't know if I'd
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want that or not, to be honest, but they get
a bye week. They'll play the winner of Hancock County
and Caldwall County.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Flip a coin.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I don't know who's gonna come out of that game,
probably Hancock County, but could also see Caldwell County winning
that win. So again, the path for Mayfield will basically
be they'll get Hancock County or Cardwall County next week.
Then the week after that they're probably gonna get Owensboro Catholic.
That again, that'll be the week right there. All right,
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that's it for us. I'm actually out of tom out
of Tom. Hope we've covered it all, didn't get into
the basket. I know we'll get into that on Wednesday. Man,
a lot of good stuff to talk about when we
get to the show on Wednesday. Until then, hope you've enjoyed,
have a good rest of your day, have a good Tuesday.
We'll talk on Wednesday. Until then, this has been Region
one Sports
This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian york
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
And away we go on your Monday. It is a
chilly Monday, but it is a Monday. Nonetheless, it is
a Monday. November third edition of the Region one Sports Report.
I'm Brian Yorke. As always, you can get in touch
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Speaker 3 (00:39):
It is cold this morning. Not Chili, it's cold.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It was thirty three when I got into my pickup
truck and drove to Paducah from good old Marshall County
early this morning, and now it is uh, it's a
ball me thirty four. So it has warmed up quite
a bit outside, gonna make our way to sixty one.
It's just that time of year where we are in
full winter gear in the mornings and then we're t
shirt and you know, pants, shorts and a long sleeve
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whatever you want to wear in the afternoon, but much
much warmer. Love it, gotta love it, but here it
is November is here. Wow, unbelievable, November is here. The
regular season of football is over, and we've got all
of that to wrap up here today. The regular season,
which means the end of the year for a few
teams in our area, either opting out of the playoffs
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or just didn't make the playoffs. We'll get into that
and then set you up for the playoffs. So we've
got that to talk about. It a lot of football today,
that's my point. Just a lot of football today, and
then as we have time, we'll start inching our way
into our basketball coverage. I know it's early November. I
know they don't officially tip off until for another month,
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but we don't have that long to cover them. We
don't have that long to deep dive and break down
and get into our preseason coverage. If you look at
how the calendar lays out, you essentially have about three
weeks because Thanksgiving week completely messes us up, and then
you'll be playing basketball the week after that. So really
we've got about three weeks. We've got about nine episodes,
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which seems like a lot, but it's not. Trust me,
it is not. So we'll start inching into our basketball coverage,
probably today one hundred percent on Wednesday. We will be
much more in depth on Wednesday with some basketball talk,
and I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Listen, It's just reality.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
We do a pretty good audience size during fall, Like
our audience size is pretty substantial during fall, but our
audience is in basketball. I mean, we hit our marks,
we hit our numbers, they go way up when we
get into basketball season.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
That's just no secret.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's just where our bread and butter is when it
comes to Region one sports, and so I'm looking forward
to it. It's the thing that I feel like I
have the easiest time talking and I'm excited for that.
So we'll get into that maybe a little bit today,
much more on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Officially we will wait a week or so, I don't know,
but sometime either next week or the week rot before Thanksgiving,
we will do our top ten teams. We will do
our top ten players to watch. We'll kind of talk
about which team might surprise us this year, things like that.
So we'll kind of save that more official, in depth
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outline discussion for another week or so, but we'll start
kind of talking off the top of our brainiums. We'll
start kind of talking off the top of our head.
What we're looking forward to in basketball season. We'll get
into that as the week goes on. So that's what's
coming up, what's behind us, and still coming up football.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We wrapped up the regular season on Friday night.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
We get into the playoffs this coming week, and we've
got some things to talk about and some thoughts that
I got to get out. So without further ado, we'll
do what we do. We'll talk high school sports. Looking
back on Friday, I'll go over the scores first and
then like immediately the things that kind of stood out,
and you'll kind of get an idea of where we're
going today.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
From Friday night.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
There were a lot of scores that should not surprise you,
a lot of scores that they are what they are.
We kind of expected them to be what they are.
But let's look at it. You had Mayfield over Central
by the way, that's out of Louisville, forty three thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
That was on Friday.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
You had Murray taking down Caldwell County fifty six sixteen.
Thought it would be a lopsided game that ended up
being a big time blowout, fifty six sixteen Tigers over
the Tigers on Friday, Miehlenberg County beat Ballard Memorial forty
two zero, Paduka Tilman over Christian County fifty four to seven.
You had Graves County over McCracken County forty one twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, we'll get into that later.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
And then you had Callaway County over Marshall County forty
five forty and a thriller down in Callaway County on
Friday night. So those are your scores. I told you
we'd have several blowmouts.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
We did.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Murray and Coboy ended up being a big blowout. We'll
break down stats on that one in a moment. But
Murray ends the regular season unbeaten, undefeated, unblemished, ten to zero.
Caldwell County had a good year too, they were a
good team. Fifty six to sixteen ends up being your final.
Miilerberg County takes care of Ballard. What a tough, tough
season for Ballard. And again, I think that falls into
the bigger conversation category.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Right. We talked about this last week.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We talked about opting out of the playoffs and reasons
for opting out of the playoffs, and I think it's
a two fold conversation. I think one is got to
do with the immediate, like how do you stop this
from happening in the immediate Maybe you got to shorten
the playoffs, or maybe you got to limit the amount
of teams that are in so that you don't have
as many teams opting out. And then number two, if
you're opting out, I think you move into the second
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conversation of the viability of your program long term, short term,
short term is it viable? Long term is a viable?
And I think those are real discussions that real leaders
need to have. Just my opinion, just my two cents,
but I think those are the two conversation, and I
think one team in our area falls into that. But
that's a quick, quick conversation on that. Moving on the
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two big games of the week last week, and I
told you these would be the two heavyweights. I told
you these would be the two games with a chance
to be the best two football games.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
And we were not disappointed.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
And if you were the Marshall Calloway game, especially as
a callaway fan, you were not disappointed. My goodness, forty
five forty ends up being the final in that football game.
Now we're going to break it down and go through
scores and like the back and forth scoring, and I'll
give you the stats. Calloway County stats are up. I'll
give you their stats at least. But what an unbelievable
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game in Calway County. We keep talking about this, probably
too much. Some of you are like, you know, Murray's undbeaten.
Why aren't you talking about them? Because they're in a
spot where we expected right. Mayfield's right where we expect
them to be. Tillman is right where we expect them
to be. Calloway is in a spot we did not
expect them to be, and there is nobody listen. I
don't care who you are. I don't care how big
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of a Callaway, booster, supporter, quarterback, club member, lifelong bandwagon,
you know, drum beater. I don't care who you are.
You did not see this season coming. You might have
saw a few wins coming. You might have saw a
change in the air coming. You might have seen, you know,
something that indicated it'll be better than last season. But
last season was a winless year. Wasn't gonna be much
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harder to be better than last season. But you didn't
see six wins. You just didn't. Now they lost to
the teams they should have lost to, right, They lost
to Murray, they lost to Logan County, Franklin Simpson and
Abduka Tilman. All those teams are better than them still,
clearly they just are. But Callaway beat the Marshals of
the world who blew them out last season. They beat
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the Fulton Counties of the world who blew them out
last season. And that's the point I'm making. This was
truly And don't let anybody, and you know the for
the staunch supporter who says they saw it come in
their line, ain't that ain't the truth?
Speaker 3 (07:56):
You didn't.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
And for the ones who are gonna sit here and
downplay their strength of schedule as being nothing, guess what,
they haven't played a great schedule the last few years
and they couldn't get wins. This really is a true
turnaround for Callaway County and year number one for coach
Lewis it is. I just gave you the evidence. Fulton
County dominated Calloway County last season at Calloway County. Fulton
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County got most of their guys back. Calloway County comes
back this year and blows them out of the water
as they should. Marshall County beat Callaway County last season
forty five nothing, forty five nothing.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
One year later, Calloway County flips the script.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Yeah, they gave up forty points, but they beat the
Marshalls forty five to forty.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
They didn't get shut out in this one.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
They put up forty five on a Marshall County team
in year two of their coaching tenure, with a lot
of seniors back, with a lot of veterans back off
of last year's team, Callaway flipped the script.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Again.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
To the biggest you didn't see this coming and to
the biggest critic, it is a turnaround. It truly is.
Six wins for Callaway County. Unbelievable for them. They have
guaranteed a winning season no matter what happens against e
Town and I'm rooting for a win, but no matter
what happens in the playoffs, they're gonna get a winning season. Unbelievable. Now,
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we'll go through the Marshall game in a moment, and
we'll go through the history, because I think I think
that's important too. We'll go through the history of that series.
It's not often Calloway gets a win. Now it has
been the case the last five years, but those wins
are starting to pile up a little bit more for
Calloway County than they had in the previous thirty some
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odd years. But a winning season for Callaway good for them.
And then on the flip side of that, the other
big game that I told you to watch out for
Graves and McCracken. I told you this could be coming.
I told you Graves County would move to the football on McCracken.
They just their defense is just not interested in trying
to lock down and stop anybody. And I told you
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Graves defense was better than some of the defenses McCracken
had played. And the McCracken still played well, still had
some good offensive hits and runs. But I told you
this could be coming. Not to count out Graves County.
They were getting better every week and this felt like
the right opponent at the right time, and they win
forty one to twenty seven. The offense looked good, the
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defense looked as good as it always does, and Graves
is flipping the script a little bit as they go
into the playoffs. But those two games, those were the highlights,
and they did not disappoint All right, let's take a break.
We'll come back. We'll break them down stats and more
when we come back. This as Reagion one Sports and.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
There were some things going on in sports today that
will make your brain fall out of your skull. You
were listening to the Region one Sports Report on ninety
nine to five, the fan.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
To it all, the gat them on the beach? What's
Goring's moving along?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Here? On your Monday edition of the show. I can't
even keep up with what day it is. Talking football
from Friday night, wrapping up our regular season. Let's talk
Callaway and Marshall.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
First.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That's the big one from Friday, Callaway securing a winning season,
Marshall falling to three and seven of the regular season,
their season comes to an end. They did not make
the playoffs. We'll get into that here in a moment.
But this one was a wild one on Friday. And
I'm just gonna go over the scoring, because if I
just give you the scoring, you're gonna get the sense
of what I was feeling and viewing from my game
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at Graves, just watching the scores come across for this
game at Callaway and Marshall. So just the scoring quick note.
You'll notice Callaway kind of dominated, kind of owned the
first half. Marshall had one valiant effort in the second half,
and then Calloway found a way to win in the end.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
That's kind of how the trend of the game win.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
But here we go, just the scoring Callawai jumped up
first six to nothing with eight thirty left in the
first quarter. Calway gets another touchdown, twelve nothing. They apparently
could not make paights twelve nothing with two ten left
in the first quarter, all Calloway counting. So the first
quarter comes to an end, they're up two touchdowns. Thankfully
for Marshall miss pats or missed you know, opportunities to
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add on kipped it to twelve. I mean, Marshall scores
two touchdowns. They're winning even though they're down two touchdowns
twelve nothing. Then in the second quarter, it was nineteen
to seven early into the second quarter, so again Callaways
scored again no paights and then Marshall gets a touchdown
and a pat nineteen seven, ten forty four remaining in
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the second quarter. Next score to come across Calloway County
hits one in a Lakers finished off an extended drive
when they late in the second quarter, twenty five to seven,
with one seventeen remaining in the second quarter, Marshall did
get a field goal and made it twenty five ten
at halftime, So twenty five ten a fifteen point game,
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which by the way, should have been more, and that
should have been twenty eight ten at the minimum, but
twenty five to ten going into halftime, fifteen point lead
for Callaway County, Marshall barely able to muster seven points.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
This game looked over. This game looked like.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yep, thought Callawai would win, probably going to stay a
fourteen point, fifteen point game the rest of the way,
But this looks like Callaway's got it in the bag.
And then the second half completely flipped, completely flipped Marshall
County scores as Thomasin punched it in for a TD
with the nine to forty mark in the third quarter
twenty five seventeen, and then the next score to come
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across in the third quarter ended up being another Marshall
County score as Jesik scored this time and I just
lost my spot this time with four minutes to go
in the third quarter twenty five twenty three, Marshall's trail
by two. Marshall would take their first lead of the
game early in the fourth quarter. It was a let's
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see Jessic found Jet Jones for a thirty two yard
TD twenty nine to twenty five, Marshall County on top
with eleven fifty four to go in the football game.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Calloway would respond.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
They would come back and get a touchdown thirty two
twenty nine with ten fifteen left to go in the game.
You get a sense of how wild this is gonna finish.
Marshall gets their first leader. They come back from fifteen down,
They come back with several unanswered points. They take a
lead twenty nine to twenty five. In fact, nineteen oh
run for the Marshalls in this football game. To take
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that lead. Callowai responds thirty two to twenty nine. With
just over ten minutes to go, Marshall County would get
another field goal from Braiden York. Probably related, I don't know,
but Braiden York gets another field goal and ties the
game thirty two thirty two, with seven fifty remaining in
the football game. That would be your score. That would
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be your score until two minutes left in the football game.
Callaway would go get a touchdown thirty nine thirty two
with two minutes remaining. However, Marshall County would get a
sixty five yard pass from Jesuit to Jones. They would
convert the two point conversion. They would take one more
lead in this football game, forty thirty nine with one
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forty five remaining. The drama, the intensity, the back and forth,
the nerves that Callaway fans are feeling, the nerves that
the Marshall fans are feeling, like unbelievable. Forty to thirty nine.
Marshall back on top. They've got a chance with one
forty five left in the football game. A long pass
over the middle followed up by a Laker TD and
(15:43):
a two point conversion being no good. But Calloway County
scores with fifty five seconds remaining to go up forty
five to forty, which ends up being your final unbelievable.
Marshall County had the lead with what a minute when
I say minute four five remaining and less than forty
seconds later, Callaway scores to secure the victory and get
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the win.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Unbelievable game.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Now we'll talk about the implications and where all this
lands for both teams here in a moment, but unbelievable
back and forth. Like I said at halftime, you thought, man,
Callaway maybe doesn't cruise, but they're gonna be comfortable the
rest of the game. They were not comfortable the rest
of the game. They had to fight as well as
Marshall came back. What an effort for the Marshalls there
in their final game of the year, just coming up
short and you play like that in the first half.
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You win the football game going away, but Marshall comes
up short, Callaway gets to win. Let's look at the
stats for this one, and forgive me as I'm trying
to relocate the stats. I'm all over the map here.
Stats are not up for Marshall yet. I'm sure they
will be as the week goes on, but for Callaway
they are. Let's take a look at these in this
game for the Callaway County and you can kind of
see what their offense did and it was terrific. Matthew
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Bradwell twenty four of thirty six, five touchdowns, one pick,
three hundred and fifty eight yards. I told you on
Friday that if Callaway County could get the football out
in the edge, if Callaway County could get the football
out of space. Marshall has just had trouble all year
defending that against just about everybody. And Calloway County got
the football out into space. They got the football downfield
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in the air again. Bradley was twenty four of thirty six,
three point fifty eight, five touchdowns, one pick, his main
man Darkest, the senior twelve catches, one eighty six and
one touchdown. Don't forget Phillips four catches, two touchdowns, seventy
one yards. And then on the ground Logan Smith, who's
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had an unbelievable year. And you talk about all the
reasons why Callaway has turned their program around, You talk
about all the reasons why last year to this year
has been night and day. Logan Smith, Yeah, thirty carries,
that's a lot. He also had one hundred and seventy
eight yards and two touchdowns and Callaway County gets it done. Which,
by the way, as I was saying earlier, in the
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history of the Sea Series, these two teams have played
each other going back to nineteen seventy nine. Now, they
didn't play each other every single year, there's been gaps
in that time period, but since nineteen seventy nine, they
have played each other, by my count thirty nine times,
So thirty nine times going back to nineteen seventy nine,
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Marshall County's all time record going into that game Friday
night was twenty nine and eight.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Twenty nine and eight, Calloway County picked up their ninth
win ever in the series. And here's the deal though, Yeah,
long term, you look at the history of the series,
Marshall County dominated. In fact, they won the first one, two, three, four,
won the first five meetings, lost the game, and then
ended up winning one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
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tail eleven in a row, and then they'd lose, win
a couple, then they lose, win five or six, then
they'd lose. That's kind of how the series has gone.
Except the last few years it's flipped. Yes, Marshall has
the all time series, but Callaway County has actually flipped
it the last few years. You go back to twenty nineteen,
Marshall County had rattled off let's see one, two, three, four, five,
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six consecutive wins over Callaway County. But since twenty nineteen,
Callaway County has won one, two, three four, four of
their last six meetings. So Callaway has nine wins all time.
So yes, Friday night was a historic win. It was
just the ninth win ever. But they've won four of
their last six, so they've turned it around. Now for
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Marshall County unfortunately, and listen, you know I played there,
I went to school there. I would love to see
that program thrive once again. And you gotta start the
bigger picture question is will it ever get back to
a winning season? Will will they ever ever be able
to kind of get over that hump. Things have been
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tough for them, and it was a season in which
we started with a lot of promise. They beat Critney
County pretty handily, but they should like again, you want
to compare these two programs. Compare these two programs. Callaway
did not get a win last season. They improved. They
went out and beat every team they should beat this
season to get to six wins. Marshall looked like they
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were on that path. They beat Critney County, they should
beat Critney County. They lost to Cadwell, they should beat
Coudwell County. They made mistakes, some things didn't go their way,
some calls, I get it. They should beat Caudwall County
lost by two. Okay, tough, But when you're trying to
get over that hump, when you're trying to get over
a three win season, we'll talk about how many years
in a row this has been. Now, those are the
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games you can't lose. Okay, fine, come up a little short,
saw improvement. Then went and beat Trig County. They should
beat Trig County. It was closed, but they beat them.
They lost to Murray. They should lose to Murray, lost
to Madisonville. They should lose to Madisonville. Beat Meehlnburg, they
should beat me Miehlenberg. Right like, you get the trend here.
But the one that got away was the Codwell County game.
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And then you could argue you could argue that traditionally
they are better than Callaway County and Calloway County improved
from last season to this season. And Marshall had a
chance to win that game on Friday. So that's two wins.
Think about that, that's three wins on the season. They
kind of let two get away from them. That'd be
a five win season. That's how that's how you know narrow.
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The margin of error is when you are kind of
perpetually stuck with three wins, and you're trying to get
over that hump. But imagine the trajectory going forward. There's
no moral victories. You will look back on the season
and judge it is a three win season. You won't
look back and go, yeah, but they also had chances.
Won't matter. It'll be another three win year they did.
(21:41):
And here's my point. People like me that look closer
at these things, people like me that live more for
it and dive more, you know, dive deeper into it,
We're gonna look at it and go, man, they could
have been a five win team.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
They were better. This was an improved football team from
a year ago. They were better.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But unfortunately there are fewer of us look at it
like that than there are general public just dismissing them
as still being a bad football team. I don't think
they're that bad. I think they should have won five
games this year. They had a chance to, and I'm
rooting for it, man, I want to see it. They
have now been stuck at three wins and no more
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than three wins every season since twenty seventeen. That's incredible.
That is now nine consecutive seasons in which they have
won no more than three games. In twenty nineteen, they
went two to nine. That's been their worst mark in
that time. But their last at least four wins season came.
It came in seventeen. The year before that, they won
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their last five game season in a long time. That
was what was on the line this season, because can
you imagine the trajectory that Callaway County is on, or
put themselves on by getting to six wins this season
after losing every game last year. If Marshall flips the
Caldwell game and they should have they should have won
(23:04):
that game. And if they play a little bit better
in the first half on Friday Night and beat Calloy
County and you're it's a completely different conversation today. Now
we know they're good, we know they're better, we know
they're good enough to win those games. But it's a
completely different conversation today, and it's one that I'll be honest,
I was rooting for. I have been. I have been.
I want to see it thrive again. I want to
(23:25):
see it good. I think it's good for the school,
the community, the region. It's still like it shocks people
when I tell them. Marshall used to be good at football.
It shocks me that Marshall's now currently not as good
at football, like because it was just it was a
thing back in our day, right Like I sound like
an old geezer, but it was. When you look at
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the two coaches that really built the program. And I know,
we give coach Shelton all the credit, you got to
give Doc Sanders a lot of credit. From nineteen eighty
to nineteen eighty nine, that program won sixty games, sixty
and forty three in that time. That set the mark.
Even before that, Larry Krause was the first winning coach
there at the school. Remember they consolidated the first two seasons,
(24:06):
they went six and fifteen. Then coach Krause came along,
they went twenty three and eighteen. Doc Sanders sixty and
forty three. Jim Shelton in his ten years seventy eight
and fifty and they've not had a winning coach since.
They've not had but a few winning teams since, which
is just blows my mind. Because I came up in
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the eighties and the nineties. I'm rooting for it. I
want to see it. I want to see the program thrive.
They've got the resources, they've got, the student body, they've
got the they got everything, they got the facilities, they
got everything they need. And this season they were close. Man,
they were so close to getting that fourth and fifth win,
changing the dynamic and maybe maybe there is some moral victory,
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maybe they fill it within the program that they they
left a couple on the field that they should have
got to that fifth win. I hope they do. I
hope that's the feeling because they are better than their record,
and that's my point. That is my overall point. They
are better than their record, but they'll be judged by
the record. Unfortunately, Calloway, we're judging them by the record.
Six wins. I think it's a good year for Marshall.
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I do think when you dive deeper, you see a
bit of a pivot in the program this season, and
I hope it pays off in the long run.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
All Right, taking a break, we'll come back. We've got
more right here.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Your schools, your report, the Region one Sports Report.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Freaking Sports.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
As we roll along here on your Monday edition of
the show, we talk Calai Marshall, give Calloway their due
by the way they do play Etown this week. Looking
at Elizabethtown, they have to go on the road for
this one. Etown is a very good football team. Callowai
will be the underdog in this one, but you know what,
go Lakers. You're playing with house money at this point.
Go get it done. What a season they've had. Again,
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Marshall season does come to an end unfortunately. All right,
Moving on, we talked McCracken, Graves, McCracken and Grapes.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Again.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I'm not one of these guys that wants to say
I told you so, but I told you so. You know,
McCracken had been on an incredible run of just putting
up all kinds of points. The problem is they give
up a lot of points. And that was a problem
on Friday because you faced a and improved and a
Graves County offense that has certainly gotten better. But you
I mean again, they moved the football pretty consistently. They
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got a forty one to twenty seven win because their
defense is better than you've seen as well, and that
was something we talked about last week. In this game,
just looking at the stats, we'll kind of go through
the scoring here at a moment when I get it
pulled up. But in this game, looking at the stats,
we'll start with McCracken because i'm on their page. Just
you know, it's Monday, I'm on their page. But you
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know McCracken did put up some numbers in this game.
Two hundred and sixty yards passing and one hundred and
twenty seven on the ground. Manx O'Neill was eighteen of
thirty eight three touchdowns two sixty with three interceptions in
this football game running the football again thirty six carries
as a team for one to twenty seven and one touchdown. Listen,
I know Landon Newman is their guy. He's their bruiser.
(27:14):
He's the one that's come on late. Dawson Hayden was
like untouchable for Grapes County. He came in and completely
changed things. And I don't know why I only got
twelve carries. I thought he should have run the football
a lot more. I thought their best, their best offense.
They took some shots down field at work, Don't get
me wrong. You know those that two hundred and sixty yards.
There were several shots downfield that were good vertical shots
(27:38):
that they took and hit. But I thought the game
changer was Dawson Hayden, who came in and was a
completely different change of pace.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Quick, elusive, got.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Behind the tackles on the offensive line and got between
the tackles and kind of snuck the end of the
hole before you knew it, man like Grease Lattin, and
he was gone. I'm surprised he didn't run the football more.
I thought he was a big game changer. Twelve carries,
seventy six yards. Matcham was the big receiver for Merkraken County.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
This kid's good. Man just the sophomore.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
He had seven catches, one hundred and sixty six yards
and two touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
He's good. You know.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Judildier is only a sophomore too. Like, they get some
dudes coming back in the on the edge. Those two
guys coming back on the edge are gonna be good.
And then the freshman quarterback press Wood, like I think
they'll have. I think they'll be a little bit better
next year than people are gonna give them credit for.
Because it's gonna be easy to look at at losing O'Neill,
look at losing the running backs and their seniors and
this and that. But those guys on the edge and
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then you've got a what will be a sophomore quarterback
next season with two very good, experienced junior receivers. That's
gonna be something to watch next season. Not gonna be
too much of a drop off there, I don't think.
But nonetheless, sticking to this game again, they did put
up some numbers, but they you know again, twenty incomplete passes,
three picks. That's that's credit to that Graves County defense.
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And in the end thirty six carries for one to
twenty seven with one rushing time down, not you know again,
giving up chunks, giving up some plays on some drives
that McCracken was able to get going, but then not
letting them in the end zone. That's credit to the
Graves County defense. Looking at Graves County in this game,
they've gotten better every single week the last three weeks.
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Chase Houston was really good. Fifteen of twenty one, three touchdowns,
one seventy five to one interception. It was a bad pass,
a really bad pass, bad decision, jumped in the air
to throw it, lobbed it up, you know, in an
otherwise stellar game. It was one kind of uh oh regress,
you know, moment of regression, but overall, overall, everything else
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was moments of improvement. Fifteen of twenty one, three pick,
three touchdowns, one pick, one, seventy five on the ground.
Jase Houston was incredible on the ground. Eighteen rushes as
a quarterback, ninety six yards in a touchdown. He had
one score where he swept around to the right side
of the field completely reverse course and just ran away
from everybody and scored a touchdown. He ran east to
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west more than he had to run north to south,
and so it was like a thirty yard run, give
or take, and he ran seventy yards to get it done.
It was it was just pure athleticism on display. Brady
Rozell seventeen carries, thirty six yards, he had a touchdown
as well. So again Graves offensively, you know, they got
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out gained in this game, but they were balanced. One
seventy five on the air, three touchdowns, one thirty two
on the ground, two touchdowns and Graves gets to win.
And we told you like they were hitting a part
of their schedule, even going in against mccrack and McCracken
had gotten into the top ten and six A football
had been putting up forty nine or more points on everybody,
and we kept saying, but this Graves defense is better.
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They're just different than those opponents. And then the problem
that McCracken ran into was their defense has also given
up a lot of points, and they gave up forty
one on Friday night, and they couldn't outscore their opponent
on Friday night. And Graves won more of an old
fashioned football game where their defense was good and their
offense was was really good and they get the win.
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Graves has won three in a row. They have won
essentially four of their last seven, which is a pretty
good mark considering how the season started. And they go
into the playoffs to take on a four and six
Bowling Green team. Now, no secret, this has not been
one of the better years for Graves County.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
It just hasn't.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
They've played a brutal schedule, but they they've also You
talked about Marshall County kind of leaving some wins on
the field. Think about that Graves had a shot. They
had Madisonville beat couldn't complete it. They had Apollo. Really
they were the better team against Apollo, couldn't get the win.
You flip those two games. This is a six win team,
that's the second seed in the district. But you don't
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and what I say earlier history, real judge the wins
and losses, not look at how they happened. And it's
a four win team, but they're four and six. They
go to Bowling Green, which otherwise would be like a
death sentence, would otherwise be like a well, no, no
sense of playing that game. It's gonna be awful because
Bowling Green's always legit. But Bowling Green this season is
four and six. Just as Graves has had one of
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their down years for the first time in a long time,
Bowling Green's having one of their worst years for the
first time in a long time. Now they're still good.
That's still gonna be a game. You better bring it.
But it's an opportunity for Graves to keep this going
and see just how much they have improved the last
few weeks. For McCracken County. Again, they end up with
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what five wins on the year.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Not bad.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
They get Central Harden on Friday night. That's gonna be
gonna be a good one for them. I just put
it that way. Central Harden a one win team, and
if you look at how things shake out for McCracken County.
Once they beat Central Harden, they'll have probably Henderson County,
who they beat fifty five to forty two at Henderson. So,
no matter what happened this past Friday night, and even
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though Graves was the overall better football team McCracken's run
of the playoffs, they've got a shot to win three
playoffs games, certainly two potentially three. Not bad, not a
bad spot to be in if you're McCracken County. But
that was Graves and McCracken on Friday night. What else
we got? What else we got? I'm looking over the
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scores Murray and Codwell fifty six sixteen. Murray ends up unbeaten.
I don't even remember the last time it happened. I'm
sure mister Springer had it in his article forgive Me.
I kind of skimmed. I kind of power read the article,
kind of flew through it this morning as I was
running out of tom But an unbeaten season for Murray again.
(33:34):
They just ran the table start off the year with
what now looks like a really good win over Apollo.
For a moment, it didn't look as impressive Now it
looks really good. They beat and improved and now better
Graves County team. They beat McCracken County on the road
fifty nine to fifty six. I told you if McCracken
was playing some defense, that might have gone differently.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But Murray outshoots them.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
They beat a good not great, good Union and then
just beat a good Cardwell County team Cardwall County this
season what won two, three, four, five six a six
win team. They're better, they're improved and Murray had no
problem with them on Friday night. Look into the stats
in this one for the Tigers three hundred and forty
six yards passing.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
How about this? Why Robbins could you have had a
better night?
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Robbins goes twelve of thirteen, three touchdowns three forty six.
That incomplete pass will haunt his dreams for the next week.
Twelve of thirteen as a team on the ground, sixteen carries,
one hundred and seventy two yards, five rushing touchdowns. Bohmer
with three rushing touchdowns. He had one hundred and eight
yards on six carries.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Again, the three that didn't go for a touchdown are
going to haunt his dreams this week.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Isaiah Martin.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
How about this four catches, three touchdowns, one seventy nine Like,
it just doesn't get any more efficient for the Tigers.
And they go on to a ten and o season
and they get eight Air County on Friday night. This
will be at Murray. They'll get the win. Eight Air
County a three win team, not a great team. So
Murray should should get the win and this one should
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have no problem. That would put them playing either Hart
County or Hopkins County Central. We'll go ahead and say it.
They're gonna play Hart County. That's a good football team.
That'll be a little different. Their second round game will
be the game you're gonna have to start really digging
in and finding out.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Who you are.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
You're gonna win a state title. That second round game
is gonna get much more difficult than that first round game,
much when it usually does, but it really will in
this case. So their path not easy, but certainly a
path for them. And then on the other side of that,
I mean, if you get through that game, you've got
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probably just kind of looking at probably Glasgow and they're
really good. They're a state favorite. So this path, man,
you're gonna win one. You're gonna really earn one in
Class three A, really earn one in Class three A.
But at least for this week, Murray keep rowling for sure?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
For certain?
Speaker 2 (36:04):
All right, what else we got? Mayfield had no problem
with Central. That game actually started early so Central could
get back home. This game started at six o'clock forty
three thirteen ends up being your final for the Cardinals,
and I've already lost my spot, so let me go
back and find them here. For the Cardinals, you look
at it. They have a bye week this week, so
they get an off week. I don't know if I'd
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want that or not, to be honest, but they get
a bye week. They'll play the winner of Hancock County
and Caldwall County.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Flip a coin.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
I don't know who's gonna come out of that game,
probably Hancock County, but could also see Caldwell County winning
that win. So again, the path for Mayfield will basically
be they'll get Hancock County or Cardwall County next week.
Then the week after that they're probably gonna get Owensboro Catholic.
That again, that'll be the week right there. All right,
(36:54):
that's it for us. I'm actually out of tom out
of Tom. Hope we've covered it all, didn't get into
the basket. I know we'll get into that on Wednesday. Man,
a lot of good stuff to talk about when we
get to the show on Wednesday. Until then, hope you've enjoyed,
have a good rest of your day, have a good Tuesday.
We'll talk on Wednesday. Until then, this has been Region
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