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This is the Region one Sports Report with Brian York
on ninety nine to five the fac and away we go.
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It is your Monday I don't even remember December eighth
edition of the Region one Sports Report. And again that
is if you're listening to the radio side of this
for the podcast listener, you're getting this on Sunday night. Nonetheless,
this is your Monday edition of the Region one Sports Report.
I'm Brian Yorke. As always, you can get in touch
with me here at the show by two seven oh five,
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hire audience. All right, So here we go on a Monday.
It's you know, inching a little bit closer to Christmas.
It is December eighth. It is cold. We definitely know
winter is here. No real relief in sight. And that's fine.
Like I've said before, be cold until Christmas Day and
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then the day after Christmas. It can be seventy five.
That's fine with me. But basketball is in full swing.
We've got our first week of the season out of
the way. I have some thoughts on that. We'll go
through scores and some things later. And football season is
now officially done, as the Murray High Tigers did fall
in the state title game to Christian Academy Louisville forty
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two to seven. So I was hoping to come in
and record this show today and eat my plate of
crow in the sense of Murray winning. That didn't happen,
and I kind of on Friday show said there's no
way they get blown out, like all the experts had
predicted a blowout. In fact, a lot of experts predicted
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this exact score. And I just man, the run they've
had in the playoffs, they've sort of defied expectation most
of the playoffs. Anyway, There's no way they get ran.
There's no way it's forty two seven. There's no way
that score holds up, is true, and it did. So
the playoff crow I'm eating today is I was wrong
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in the wrong way. Forty two seven ends up being
your final Cow's just cow, you know. And I saw
somebody go, man, Murray can't do anything. Cow's cow. And
they're a true behemoth of a football team in the
state of Kentucky. And Murray found out. And of course
not having Wyatt Robbins, which we didn't really talk about
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last week. It was on my brain, but we didn't
just didn't factor into my discussions. But not having Whyat
Robbins makes it an even harder thing to overcome. Look
in the SATs from this one on Saturday, they had
to go to freshman Kenyon Cunningham, coach's son efficiently. He
eate of thirteen passing but through two interceptions and just
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had fifty six yards no touchdowns. The run game, Bomer
was good, nine carries seventy five yards, again not bad.
As a team they had thirty six carries, one to
eighteen in a touchdown, and then Isaiah Martin did have
forty yards on four catches. He still did his thing again,
just not inert enough for the Murray High Tigers. Looking
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at cal who kind of had their way in this one.
The Centurions, in fact, I actually don't have their stats,
so how about that, But they did kind of have
their way in this one quarterback through for a good
amount of yards. They scored almost seemingly at will, and
then again defensively just kind of kept Murray from being
able to do anything much less move the football in
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any direction they wanted to move it. So football season's
done for us. Murray season comes to an end. Not
a bad one. I mean, when you can finish fourteen
and one, you play fis fifteen football games, which you know,
it's a lot of football, and and you finish fourteen
to one and finish as a state runner up and
your first title game appearance in over thirty years, it's
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pretty good stuff. Pretty good stuff there. For the Murray
High Tigers. You start to kind of look ahead at
what they will have next season. Where they had, you know,
a lot of their guys this season that put up
numbers their seniors, and so you expect and again I'm
not saying it'll be like, oh, they're only gonna win
four games next year. I'm not saying that at all,
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but you do expect a bit of a come down.
Next season. Won't be certainly a preseason you know, power
probably five team in their class. They won't you know
a little bit of those things. But and here's my point. Yes,
they graduate Robbins again, lost him at the end of
the season in the playoffs. They graduate Bohmer, they graduate
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Martin Bridges Junior. I mean, all these guys mean out,
like all their stats, like like their production is graduating.
But you expect because there are are good there is
talent there. Coaching has proved itself time and time again. Again.
I'm not saying they're only gonna win four games next season,
but it is gonna be a much different season for
the Tigers next year losing these guys. However, they are
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in one of those situations where they're a program now
right like they are that sort of their expectation is
to turn it over and rinse and repeat year after year,
to be the new Mayfield, to be the new Paducah Tillman.
And so even though I'm saying you expect a little
bit of a come down season, as in I don't
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expect them to make a state title game run, you
certainly expect to see them. They expect to compete, go
win football games, and go continue to be a consistent
program in their class, and they'll be good next year.
And I'm not saying bad. They'll be good. They've got
good young talent. The coach's son Cunningham, who had to
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step up and take over the quarterback spot when Robbins
went down. You know, you'll see him take the reins
and you'll see It's sort of that thing we talked
about going into basketball season, a lot of question marks.
We don't have the answers. They might and then it's
on them to kind of show us the answers next season.
But what a year for Murray Hoigh, What an unbelievable
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Don't take these kind of seasons for granted. That's kind
of what I'm saying too. They'll take them for granted.
This is this is a good year. It's a good
season for the Tigers, and one that you don't want
to again take for granted. Know it's special, remember it
and celebrate it, and it'll be one. And that's the
great thing. When those players that are graduating this year
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come back, they'll get to talk about the run they
made to the state title game. When those players come
back five years, ten years, twenty years, forty years down
the road, they'll be remembered as that team that made
that run. So Murray High season is done, so is
our football coverage. Now we turn our attention to basketball,
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and let's do this. To finish out this first segment,
I'll go I'll do scores from Friday and Saturday, and
then we'll come back. We'll just kind of have general
thoughts and stats and anything we might have to add
to it. All right, So scores from around the region.
Let's go to Friday's games. This is boys basketball on Friday.
You had Apollo travel to Ballard Memorial and win that game.
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Eighty one forty two. Callaway County beat Lead Academy out
of Nashville, Tennessee, sixty two to sixty. Carlisle County beat
Paducah Tillman Wow seventy four fifty nine, seventy four fifty nine.
I'm coming back to that one. Christian Fellowship over Franklin
or Frankfurt Christian sixty two to twenty three. Cornerstone Christian
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beat CCA fifty five to fifty. Hickman County over South Fulton, Tennessee,
sixty five to forty three, Marshall County over Sterlington. That's Monroe,
Louisiana sixty five forty seven. Mayfield beat Fulton County nine
eighty sixty one, Portland Christian over CCA sixty three fifty four,
and drig County beat Fulton City eighty three fifty six.
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That's just boys basketball on Friday. Let's go to girls
basketball on Friday. Calloway County beat Leed Academy, Tennessee, eighty
eight thirty one, Carlisle County beat Paduca Tillman girls basketball
seventy eight thirty six, Henderson County beat McCracken County sixty
two to forty nine, Hickman County over South Fulton, Tennessee
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fifty two, forty, Mayfield over Fulton County forty nine to thirteen,
and Trig County over Fulton City fifty nine thirty three.
That's girls scores. Obviously, I'm gonna come back to this
in the second segment, Carlile over Tillman, Boys and girls.
That is, Yeah, we gotta talk about it for a
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lot of reasons. We got to talk about it, Carlile
over Tillman. And then you look at other things, you
look at other scores, not really a we'll kind of
look at Henderson McCracken and what that means on the
girls side of things. But that's our Friday night scores,
let's go to Saturday scores. So Saturday scores, we'll go
back to boys basketball. First. Saturday boys basketball, Atherton beat
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Saint Mary eighty one fifty seven, Carlile County over Robinson, Illinois.
That's mary In sixty two forty two, CFS beat Foundation
Christian Academy fifty nine to forty six, Graves County over
Hopkinsville sixty three sixty one. I was that that one
over time, we'll talk about it. Hickman County over Crickney
County sixty nine to thirty seven, Lake County, Tiptonville, Tennessee
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seventy nine, seventy five over Fulton County. Marshall County over
Clinton County's eighty one forty two. We're going to circle
back to that one as well. McCracken County over Fardelle
seventy eight fifty eight, Somerset Christian School over CFS seventy
six seventy And that's our scores in boys basketball on Saturday.
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Carl's basketball on Saturday, Callaway County over Lyon County seventy
eight to fifty eight, Carlile County over Obien County Central
seventy one fifty four, Cornerstone Christian over CFS forty three
thirty seven, Graves County beat bull At East thirty nine
to thirty eight, Hickman County over Saint Mary's Episcopal School
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that's out of Memphis thirty seven thirty six, Lake County Tiptonville,
Tennessee beat Fulton County fifty eight twenty four. And McCracken
County over Northwest Clarks Fult Tennessee fifty eight eighteen. Whoa man,
that is a lot of basketball on Friday and Saturday,
and we've got a lot of thoughts. Give me a break.
I'll take it. We'll come back on the other side.
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We'll break it down right here on Region one.
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And 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.
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The fan, he's mister Greene Christmas, He's mister suns.
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Bread. You on sports, moving along here on your Monday
edition of the show, as we talk high school basketball, man,
I gave you a full rundown of scores on Friday
and Saturday. A lot of basketball has been played and yeah,
I'm getting a lot of thoughts out of all of this.
One thing is, and here's the deal. I fully appreciate.
I fully appreciate how much time is committed to being
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a coach and coaching and getting scores reported and getting
stats reported. I get that. But we do live in
a day and age and I think I'm a prime
example of this where coverage keeps dropping. Not at the
fault of the people who want to cover teams, but
that's just the world we live in. The entities that
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were used to covering things just start covering things anymore.
I get it. You know, I even took a different
full time job because well, it was time for me
to take a different full time job. So it's harder,
is the point I'm making for teams to get covered
these days. It's harder for teams to get recognized. It's
harder for teams for players to be you know, sort
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of highlighted with what they're doing. And all that we
ask in the media is don't make it harder by
not putting stats on online like that. When you can
get stats online, get them online. And I had listen,
I got into a little bit of a heated conversation
with an assistant coach, not Greaves County. I know people
will go when you deal with them, not them because
I brought this up. I said, it feels like maybe
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it's the start of the season, but you know, last season,
and I know the website changed a little. I get
all of that, I said, but it feels like stats
are going up three, four, five days after the game.
And last season it felt like, you know, maybe a day,
but no more than two days and stats would at
least be up. And they said, well, you know, there's
a lot that goes into coaching and we're being pulled
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in different and I said, I guess that, And where
the conversation got heated. This was this was Thursday night
when I was talking about this, and I said, I'm
gonna give you my day. For example, I got up,
took my kids to school, and then I went went
and worked a nine to five job. And I left
that nine to five job, and I came to this
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gym so that I could cover another team that I
could do my second job. And then I'm gonna get
home at ten o'clock at night, and then I'm gonna
go record Reagion one Sports and if I'm lucky, I
will be done working after starting my first job shift
at eight thirty in the morning. I'll be done working
roughly at midnight tonight. And that's the effort some of
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us covering these teams put in to make sure they're
getting coverage, to make sure that the spotlight is being
you know, is shining on these players. So don't tell
me what you've just had a long date, Good for you,
But don't take five days, you know, between putting up stats,
because if it just keeps making things harder for people
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like me and not just be in particular, I've talked
to others, it gets harder for us to do what
we are trying to do, and then it just eventually
leads to more frustration and more people not covering these
athletes and these teams. Now, I know, as I say that,
somebody's going to go, you're complaining, you're whining. Yeah, because
if I'm going to put in a fifteen or sixteen
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hour work day and still try to cover these athletes,
the least somebody can do is tell us who's score
points in those games, Like, if we're trying to cover them,
the least anybody else can do is make sure those
stats are posted. So, yeah, I'll complain a little bit,
I'll wint a little bit. I'm saying that to say
I hope the trend is. It's early in the season
and this is not going to be a full season trend, because,
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just to be honest with you, if it is, you know,
I do this show at my discretion. Now, I do
this show at my pacing. And if i come home
on a Tuesday night knowing I've got to record Wednesday
show and stats and things aren't up, either the show
gets cut short or we just cut shows because it's
just going to be too hard to do a show
like this and to cover these teams, these athletes without
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the content. And I guess it's the point I'm getting to. There,
you go rant over, I'll get off my high horse.
All right, Let's look at the things that happened on
the on the court this weekend and things we can
report on. I was not shocked. One of the things
we've been looking for going into the season. Who's Paduka
Tilman going to be? Remember, they fired a phenomenal head coach,
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a maybe the most respected head coach maybe in the
state for sure, in the region, maybe in the state.
And this is a guy that has been a winner,
and he didn't win enough, or he didn't win the
way that they wanted to win. And I, look, I
get that, I'm not one of you. I can't complain, right,
but but you fired a guy that I've never heard
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a bad word said against him, And so that sort
of led to one of your bet one of your
best player then going okay, I'm going to transfer. And
he went to your county inner county rival. And you
hired a new coach who may be great, who may
be phenomenal, who may be the next next great thing
to hit the region. Don't know him, haven't met him,
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couldn't tell you. But the question we had on Tilman was,
this is looking like a setback. This is looking like
no matter how good the new coach may be, he
just might not have enough to deal with this season
or enough to win with this season. So Tillman was
a giant mystery team going into the season, maybe the
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team we knew the absolute least about. Now. The reports
we were getting, you know, from the summer weren't great.
But at summer basketball, sometimes the best teams in the
summer end up being just absolute bottom dwellers in the
region in the regular season. So Tillman was a mystery,
a big mystery going into the season. And Tilman's first
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game of the year, they come out and they get
Carlile County, and we know, and you hear the show
and you follow along, you know that I had Carlile
County in my power five to start the year. They
returned a lot of guys, they were a solid team
last year. They've got one of the best players in
the region and Wyatt Ricord. They've got size, they've got linked,
they've got strength, they've got a veteran coach. They've got
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a lot to like. But traditionally it's a team that
Tilman tends to beat. So if that's the measuring stick
that Tilman traditionally can beat a Carlisle County or you
expect them to, then here you go, first game of
the year, Tilman gets Carlile County. Tilman loses that game
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seventy four to fifty nine. And I think a couple
of things. For me, if I'm Tilman concerned me not
that I lost to Carlisle again. I just gave you
the reasons. Carlisle's good top five team going end of
the season. One of the best players in the region
in the season. They've got two true bigs. They can
present matchup problems. They're good. But Carlo County put up
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seventy four points on Tilman and Tilman only scored fifty nine. Traditionally,
and when Tilman is good and Tilman has what it takes,
Tillman just runs you off the floor. They get up
and down, they out athlete you. They just score at
a pace that you can't keep up with. But to
start the season, the script was flipped and Carlo County,
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who doesn't shoot the ball great from outside, scored seventy
four points. Looking at Carlisle stats, they shot fifty I'm sorry,
sixty percent from the floor, just two of eight from three. Again,
don't take a lot, don't make a lot. Two of
eight from three, sixteen of twenty five at the foul line.
That was sixty four percent. But look at this Wyatt
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Ricord twenty three points in this game, nineteen for Dax Garrett,
fifteen for Brendan O'Neill, eleven for Case and Perez. By
the way, Ricord twenty three points, fifteen rebounds. Yeah, he's
going to be a problem for a lot of teams,
not just Tilman. So twenty three and fifteen that's a
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pretty good and pretty good knot on the floor. Now, again,
I don't have Tilman stats. These were Friday games, maybe
waiting to get back to work on Monday to put
the stats in. That's again, hopefully the case. I neverdeing
a team for not having stats up the next day,
and in this case of a weekend game, it would
be Monday would be the next day. But seventy four
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to fifty nine Tillman falls, I don't know. I still
think there's questions, and I still want to see the stats,
and I still want to see how that went on
their end. But when you give up seventy four points
and your opponent only shot twenty five percent from three
and only took eight threes to start with, it might
be a long season, just Mike. Now, Again, not a
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lot of teams have a guy that's going to go
dropped twenty three and fifteen on everybody. But that would
be concerning for me if I'm Tilman. So not the start,
or at least not the start they hoped they would get.
And again, the mystery team not one that bowlds super
well for them right now. Then on the girls side,
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and I said this was a boy girls situation. On
the girls side, things we were hearing about Tillman in
this offseason was not good. And I'll just be the
first to admit, whether it was true or not, the
rumor mill was just going crazy this season or this summer.
They didn't have enough girls. They didn't have enough girls
to play some of their games. They were showing up
to practice and only had four or five showing up
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to practice. Even if they had more than five, they
didn't have enough to run a whole lot in practice
when they would get more than five or six. Not
a lot of great things coming out of Tilman and
Carlot County on the girl's side again, A good team,
a team that for me will be right outside that
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power five all year, not because they're bad, but because
you know, McCracken, Marshall, Callaway, Graves and Mayfield are just
better this season, and those five are probably gonna be
those those power five teams the whole season. So Carlisle's
gonna be getting that kind of fringe team that'll be
right there on the cusp, but kind kind of behind
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those teams I think most of the year, and Carlile
County came out and absolutely destroyed Tilman seventy eight thirty six,
seventy eight thirty six. Now do you have stats? And
here you go. Listen Coach Dillard, a new coach at Tilman.
More power to you, more power to thank you. I
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can't thank you enough for putting stats online. Carlo County
did two, so Coach Wright, you or your staff thank you.
But Friday night, Carlisle County Eden Brewer, who we didn't
even talk about in the preseason. EDINB. Brewer had nineteen
points in this game. Macy Hogan Camp, who was one
of our top ten players in the region, sixteen points,
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and Grayson Edging, another one of our top players, had ten.
They had nine points for Olivia Webb, nine points for
Elder Draper. By the way, Hogan, Camp and Web each
with ten points each, so they had double doubles. Pretty
good stuff. Carlot County shot forty seven percent from the floor,
just four of nineteen from three. And again that's the
point I'm making. You give up seventy eight points and
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your opponent shot twenty one percent from three, So twenty
one percent they were ten of seventeenth the foul line
four Paduca Tilman in this one. And I think this
is where it's gonna be a tough year for Tilman.
It's just gonna be tough. They got a couple of
players that can score. Haylen Hughes had sixteen points. Naisha Smith,
who was one of our top players in the region,
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she had twelve. But they shot just thirty percent from
the floor. They were thirty percent from three, just five
to twelve at the foul line. They had twenty eight
rebounds in this game. And to kind of compare and
contrast that, twenty eight rebounds as a team for Tillman,
forty three for Carlole County Carlo County by the way
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three and oh, they beat Obien County Central. I watched.
I had to leave. That game was after my Graves
game on Saturday at Callaway. I had to leave. I
watched that game like them warming up, and I'll be honest,
watching them warm up, I went, oh, man, I think
Carlo might be in trouble in this game. And then
Carlo goes out and goes seventy one to fifty four
with a win over Obien County. Central and again Grayson
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edging twenty five points, sixteen for Hogan Camp, Riley Lemons,
who we didn't even mention from the Tilman game twelve points.
Olivia Webb had ten Hogan Camp, by the way, another
double doubles. She like she's a junior and she's not
gonna get Player of the Year because that's that's gonna
go to sailor Low. It just is. And you know,
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if not Low to be Coke. But those are the
players that'll be up for it this year. But Macy
Hogan Camp double doubles each and every night, come on,
like look out, and that'll be what keeps Carlot County
in our discussion and in our conversation all year. It'll
be interesting to see, you know, how they match up
with Mayfield for that all a but that'll keep them
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in the running for sure. So Carlo County three and
oer on the girl's side. Putuka Tilman o N two
to start the season on the girl's side, and again
with Tilman both their games on the girls side, they're
shooting just thirty five percent one percent from three. Hughes
has got eighteen a game, Smith eleven. But they have
nothing to contribute after that, Like it's two players and
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just nothing else coming after that, and that I think
is gonna be a problem for sure for them this season.
On the boys side, And we were talking about this earlier.
On the boys side. You know, Carlo County's two and one.
Their lone losses to Saint Mary. It was a five
point loss to Saint Mary. Saint Mary struggling to start
the year. They're one and two. I'll see them Friday night.
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We'll see it for myself. You look at the Vikings
and I'm kind all over the place, but forgive me,
this is sort of how these things go. You look
at the Vikings shooting forty seven thirty nine percent from three.
Those are not bad stats. Scoring sixty a game not bad,
seventeen for May's twelve for Nichols, Puckett with ten, and
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Griffin with Griffith with nine. I mean, there's there's a
lot to like here. Honestly, there's a lot to like
for Saint Mary to start the year. So it's either
really good competition or young players learning how to compete
and win. But the stats look good. I think they'll
be fine in the end. And the way, like if
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you do the this team beat this team, therefore this
team's better. Well, Saint Mary beat Carlisle at Carlisle, by
the way, and Carlisle handled Tillman better than they've handled anybody,
and so by that logic, it looks like Saint Mary
has a good shot to get back to the regional tournament.
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They're not gonna take down Cracking. Their focus is gonna
have to be on making sure they take down Tilman
when they get their head to head and they get
their opportunity. But right now, it looks like Saint Mary,
at least to start the season, is the better team.
So if you're ranking that district, you're gonna go mccrack
and one. We'll talk about film in a moment, you'll
go Saint Mary two and Tilman three. That's how you
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would probably stack it right now to start the season.
And again, Saint Mary will get a winnable game on Tuesday,
they get Ballad on the road. That's a game they'll win,
and then Graves on the road Friday. A lot tougher
this year to beat Graves. We'll talk about my Eagles
in a moment. It's gonna be a lot tougher to
beat them this season, But we'll see how they stack up.
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We'll see the measuring stick, right, We'll see where they
compare on Friday. But yeah, I spent last week kind
of saying, I don't know Saint Mary thinks this, but
they they dropped a game that we thought they would win,
and I don't know how that's gonna bold. And then
you see what Tilman's done. I know it's been just
one game. I know, but again, if you're going this
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team beat this team, and this team beat this team,
it looks like that district is McCracken and Saint Mary
again coming out of it, or at least this season
will be McCracken, who said it home last year getting
into the regional tournament, and Tilman probably setting it home.
And hear me when I say this, it's been one week,
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so we're already talking what's gonna happen three months from
now after one week of basketball, plenty of time to change. Absolutely,
could it have been an anomaly? Absolutely for Tillman. They
get Henderson County on Tuesday night, that won't be much
easier than playing a Carlisle County. They have Carbondale Community
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on Friday. I know nothing about them they have Apollo
on Saturday, who beat Ballad handily, but again that doesn't
necessarily mean anything. And then they get CCA in Callaway County.
So I really do think it'll be a week from
Tuesday before we really know who Tillman is really. So
I know it feels like I'm kind of dogging them,
not really, but it will be probably that Tuesday game
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with Callaway before we have a good sense of who
they are. And notice I haven't even talked mc cracken
County yet. I haven't talked Marshall County yet. I haven't
talket Graves County yet. These are just the first things
that stood out. This is what stood out on Friday night.
But speaking of Marshall County, talk about what stood out
on Friday night. Marshall County's two and zero. I watched
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a little bit of Sterlington play in the game after
the Graves game on Thursday night. That's who Marshall played
on Friday. They're good, They're solid, and going into the season,
the narrative for Marshall has been Matthew Langy's gonna score
and if he scores, they win. The question will be
who steps up around him. I think you're gonna get
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different players every night. The other question was is there
enough stepping up around him? Well, so far it hasn't mattered.
He scored. I'll have to go back and look, and
I'll do that during the break. He scored twenty nine
in their opening game on Friday night. Neiland Jessek and
Ryan Stokes each had ten and then you had five
four three two two two, So he had twenty nine.
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He's gonna score fifty percent or more of their points
most nights. That's just I mean, sixty five points. He
was just shy fifty percent. I know that sounds crazy,
but he's gonna score around fifty percent of their points
each night. When they win, he'll have fifty, he'll have
thirty points, they'll have sixty something, he'll have thirty. And
the question is and was, who's gonna will anybody be
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able to step up? Will enough step up? So far,
so good, And I'll give you the other scoring in
a moment from their second game. But they're two to
zero and they beat a Clinton County team. By the way,
they beat a Clinton County team that was last season.
Because you know they're out of a region where don't
know a lot about. They're out of a district we
don't know a lot about. But last season, Clinton County
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lost in the fourth Region championship and they finished thirty
and three. They were upset by Bowling in that game.
They were the better team. They were thirty and three.
Last season they graduated a couple of guys, but they're
still really good. And Marshall didn't just beat them on Saturday.
They demolished them eighty one forty two and again here
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during the break. I won't do it now, but I'll
go look that up and see what Langy had in
that game and the other scoring. In fact, let's do that.
We'll take the break. We'll come back on the other
side with how Marshall's doing it, and then how McCracken
and Graves are doing and we'll show you why those
three teams are the top three in the region right now.
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Region on Sports. Moving along our final segment on your
Monday edition of the show. So I was talking about
Matthew Langey, you talking about Marshall uh in their game.
In their game against Clinton County, it was eighty one
forty two to the final. Langy and this was after
three quarters. I don't even know what he finished with,
but after three quarters he had thirty four points, thirty
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four going into the fourth quarter. At that point Marshall
had sixty six. That proves my point. He's gonna score
fifty percent of their points. But right now he's scoring
at a clip that. Is there a player in the
region that'll do better. I don't think so. And like
I said, for Marshall win, he has to because I
don't know if they have enough without him. Jessik has
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been there, Stokes has been there. So it looks like
those three will kind of be the one two three
punch for Marshall County this year. When the defense paced
over attention to Langy, it'll get those other guys shots.
You're gonna have to hope Langy has an off night
or you have somebody to guard him in right now.
To be honest, maybe Graves has enough to do it.
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Maybe McCracken. As far as taking him out of the game,
taking him out of the equation. But man at that clip,
that's the reason why Marshall's the number two team in
the region right now, or number three team in the region.
And then you look at I just mentioned them. You
look at Graves my Eagles. They've been good one and
one to start the year. They lost the game they
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were supposed to probably look better in that game than
they did in their win on Saturday. Played Hopkinsville on Saturday.
And here's really what's getting Graves right now. Legs fatigue.
You can just see it. You can just see it.
Legs just go by the fourth quarter. But Graves on
Saturday gotta win in overtime over Hoptown, maybe the last
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time those two schools ever play. His Hoptown is consolidating,
but Graves gets to win sixty three to sixty one.
That's coming off their loss on Thursday night. Cavett has
been Tai Cavet. He's been really good, just being a
good athlete, driving downhill, getting to the rim body. Bekassovik
has been extremely aggressive in the same way, getting downhill,
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using his size, using his length, his athleticism. He's also
knocking down outside shots. Volters knocking down outside shots. Mathis
is knocking down shots, getting downhill cherry knocked down at three,
Like they are dangerous, and what makes them dangerous a
little bit the opposite of like McCracken. McCracken's got some size.
Marshall's got Langey who can at least give them some
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length and size. Graves is putting essentially four guards and
one forward on the floor. I mean their starting lineup
is essentially four guards and then you would kind of list,
you know, the Kassivik is the forward, not really a post,
but a forward, and they're fast and they're quick, and
they're aggressive and they're they're you know, there was one point,
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and I love this. There was one point I think
it was in the second quarter where there was like
a minute five left on the clock and they got
the ball and they didn't hold it for the last shot.
Oh that was so refreshing. That was so refreshing. I
can't wait for the shot clock. Oh my goodness. There
are some coaches in this region that just won't know
how to coach when the where there's a minute on
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the clock and they've got the ball, they're gonna lose
their minds. Heck, there's some coach in this region that
have two minutes on the clock, you wouldn't know what
to do. But yeah, they didn't hold the ball. It
wasn't old school grind it out. And by the way,
that wasn't how they played in the nineties. That wasn't
how anybody played in the nineties, maybe the early two
thousands that started. They didn't hold it. They went for
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a shot and they got one quickly. Then they got
the ball back with like forty seconds and then they
kind of held right like then they held, but they
were in go mode. Didn't matter, the situation, didn't matter
the school. Let's go score, let's go get another basket.
I love that. And you're gonna have to play that
way if you want to win this region, if you
want to beat mccrackett, if you can't slow and go
and grind it out and try to out physical or
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out athlete anybody, you're not gonna do that. Get up
and down, make it fanatic, pace, be aggressive, drive to
the basket, create driving lanes, create movement on offense. That'll
get it done this year. And so they looked like
a top three team so far this week. And then
there's McCracken, and what else can you say about McCracken.
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At this point, they're two to zero. I'm gonna throw
the CCA game out, Like somebody after watching that game
said they look like a cheat code. Brother. They played
CCA like let's pump the brakes. Doesn't mean they couldn't
look good in that game, but that you just can't
tell anything from those games. And that's not knocking CCA.
CC's just they've had a good run at times here
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in the past. They're just down this year and they're
not gonna compete with McCracken. But you look at Okay,
they played Fairdell on Saturday, a little bit step up
in competition. Seventy eight to fifty eight ends up being
your final McCracken County. And this one had twenty from Woodford,
twenty from Adams, fourteen from Miller, and ten from Klope.
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Four guys in double figure Cloak, by the way, sixteen rebounds.
I'm telling you this is what makes them dangerous. Cloak
with a double double would Fox score in twenty because
he's gonna be twenty a game. I don't think he
has to be more than twenty a game, and I
don't think he should try to be more. Don't don't
look at what Matthew Lanky's doing and go Man, if
I want to be Player of the Year, I gotta
go outscore that guy. Just go drop eighteen or twenty
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a game and your team's gonna win a lot of games.
McCracken shot fifty eight percent from the floor, just three
of ten from three. That'll be interesting to see if
they shoot better as the season goes on. But nine
of eleven of the foul line. And I'm gonna do
it because you have to. But if you look at
both games combined, they're shooting sixty percent from the floor. Again,
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just thirty percent from three. I just don't know if
they've got shooters. Graves doesn't have a lot of shooters either.
Marshall really doesn't have a lot of shooters either. So
it just may be the case this year in the
region you're not gonna have that one team that has
two or three that can knock them down consistently. Wood
Fork eighteen and a half a game, Adam seventeen, Miller
at twelve, three guys in double fears Clop will get
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in there as the season goes on. I think they'll
have those four guys will be the guys scoring the
basketball this season for McCracken. But yeah, Cloaks averaging or
will be averaging a double double here in just a
few more games. So that's as you look at the region,
that's kind of where things are. McCracken is the juggernaut.
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It's gonna take a plus effort when you play McCracken.
You're gonna have to have them play a B level
game and you're gonna have to bring your A game.
You're not beating if they play their best and you
play their best. I don't think you beat them, not
right now. Maybe as the season goes on. You know,
we talk about this all the time in the preseason.
The question is not are you good now? It's can
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you get good as the season goes on? Like what
you're ceiling. I think there's some teams that start the
season season and their ceiling is higher than their playability,
And in fact, I think that's every team. The question is,
and I'll say this, and this is kind of getting
in the weeds. I think McCracken has started the season
closer to their ceiling, like playing at a level closer
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to their ceiling. I don't know if they're gonna be
much better as the season goes on. I think they've
already started off as as good as they almost as
good as they can be. I think there's room for
improvement still for Marshall, certainly for Graves, for Carlisle County,
for Murray, for you know, Saint Mary. I think there's
room for those teams to improve as the season goes on.
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The question is is their best gonna get close enough
to McCracken's best, right like the gap right now? You know,
Graves may be playing at a at a level eighty
of their best one hundred percent. McCracken may be playing
right now at a level ninety. So can can Graves
hit their you know, ninety five and keep McCracken at
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it ninety or is McCracken gonna end up making up
that ten percent and it's still going to be too
much for these other teams? You see what I'm saying?
If that makes sense, probably not makes more sense in
my head, but the point being, and I stand by that.
I think McCracken has started the season closer to what
their ceiling is than other teams, but I think their
ceiling is higher than other teams can reach. So the
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question is can other teams close that gap reach their
ceiling sooner, faster, more efficiently by the end of the season,
because if McCracken does, I don't know if it'll matter.
I don't know if it'll matter, but I think that's
what we're seeing. McCracken at number one, clearly truly best
team in the region. I think we are seeing that
Graves has what it takes. They are who he thought
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they were going to be this year, and they still
have room for improvement. Marshall's same thing said in the preseason.
Langy's going to score fifty percent of the points. If
they get enough around him, they'll win games. So far,
so good, that's happening. Carlisle's been what we thought using
the bigs guard play has been a little better it
needs to be, and if it is, they'll be right
in contention. Calloway's been better than we thought, much better.
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They're right in the mix of things. Murray's been good.
I think will still be in the mix of things.
Saint Mary will be in the mix. So all these
teams is kind of falling exactly where we kind of
had them going into to Week one of the season.
There's still a lot of basketball left, ate a lot
of basketball left. That's early season thoughts on the boy's side.
On the girl's side, let me say this and I'm
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going to run out of time. It's kind of the
same way on the girls side a little bit. I
think Calloway has started the season closer to their ceiling,
and their ceiling was just a little higher than everybody else.
They have looked exactly how they need to look. If
you're the preseason favorite to win the region, you want
to come out and show it early. And I feel
like they have done that. I certainly feel they've done that.
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Now again, I don't know, you know, the competition level
so far, I don't know where that's been. I mean,
Saint Mary's not great lead academy. I kind of looked
them up. They didn't too great coming into the season.
But Lion County beat Graves County pretty handily in their
first game, and Callaway beat Lion County pretty handily in
their game. In fact, looking at the numbers for the
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Lady Lakers so far this season, Jaden Coke twenty one
a game, Sailor Low twenty a game. Josie Haynes with
eleven a game, Andrew Emery with ten a game, and
Olivia Perkins at eight a game. They're shooting fifty nine
percent from the floor. They are forty eight percent from three.
Hear me when I say this. If they shoot, if
they shoot so much as thirty eight percent from three,
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much less forty eight percent from three, nobody beats them
in this region, not one team. That is a ridiculous number.
Forty eight percent from three. They're twenty nine of sixty
my goodness, eighty four percent of the foul line, and
Sailor Low a double double, twenty points, eleven rebounds a
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game their best three point shooters. Just out of curiosity,
just looking this up. But when you look at their
shooting from three, Haines leads them eight of nineteen, so
that's forty two percent. She's made the second most. She's
taken the most. Jayden Coke's been their best shooter. She's
nine of twelve, nine of twelve. That is seventy five percent.
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She's not gonna do that all season, but that's pretty
impressive through three games. I'm just telling you they're gonna
be really hard to beat. They shoot this way, and
if these players continue, you know I told you, and
I still think this is true. Coke and Low will
lead them. They'll both have sixteen to twenty five points
every single game. It'll be shocking to find a game
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where either is below sixteen points. There might be games
where one might score thirty, one might score you know whatever,
But like their average is gonna always be sixteen to
twenty five. Like that's that's just who they are. They're
gonna give you that. Every night. You can bank on
sixteen points each from both of them plus every night.
That's my point. You gotta have a third score. And
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I've said and I think it's true, it'll rotate, it'll
be Haines, it'll be Emery mostly, and it'll be one
of them every night. And as long as one of
them steps up, that's all you're gonna need. That's all
you're gonna need, and you're gonna win the region. And
so far, that's what they've gotten and that's why they're
gonna win the region at least, that's why they're the
favorite Graves County. They're one of the top three teams
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in the region. They struggled Game one, they honestly struggled.
In Game two, played a good Bulletese team, good size,
they had some girls that could score. That's a good team.
And for me, it was three quarters of oh no,
like it's gonna be a long year because they're doing
some things well, but you know, this is not looking
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like a team that can compete for the region, not
the way Calloy is playing. But in that fourth quarter
you saw some things click. Mostly shots went up sooner.
Some of their possession they were taking three minutes off
the clock without getting a shot up or until they
got a shot. I mean, it just felt like forever
before the offense would find a shot. And it's not
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that there weren't open looks, they just weren't taking them.
Then in the fourth quarter it's almost like they were like,
we got to shoot the ball, and they did and
they made shots. So maybe things clicked in that fourth quarter.
Still think they're a top three team, but you can
see the separation right now in Callaway and the Graves.
I saw Marshall play. You can see the separation in
the Callaway to Marshall. But those teams still still look
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like they've got enough to stay in it, in the
top three, top four most of the year. And then
you've got McCracken County, who has been good. Now. They
played a very good Henderson County team on Friday night
and lost, but that was competitive, so they're still in
the mix. May feel still in the mix, so you're
seeing the same thing though, Like my point was earlier
on the girls side, Callaway's ceiling a little higher, and
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they've been closer to their ceiling to start the year
than everybody else has been closer to their ceiling. Can
those teams improve an up to make it a race?
We'll see. All right, I'm out of toime, I'm out
of topic. My voice is starting to go. Hope you've
enjoyed it. That's your recap of week one. On Wednesday,
we'll have our Power five rankings and so much more.
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Be safe, have fun, enjoy your next few days, enjoy
the ball games. We'll talk on Wednesday. Until then, this
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It's you know, inching a little bit closer to Christmas.
It is December eighth. It is cold. We definitely know
winter is here. No real relief in sight. And that's fine.
Like I've said before, be cold until Christmas Day and
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then the day after Christmas. It can be seventy five.
That's fine with me. But basketball is in full swing.
We've got our first week of the season out of
the way. I have some thoughts on that. We'll go
through scores and some things later. And football season is
now officially done, as the Murray High Tigers did fall
in the state title game to Christian Academy Louisville forty
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two to seven. So I was hoping to come in
and record this show today and eat my plate of
crow in the sense of Murray winning. That didn't happen,
and I kind of on Friday show said there's no
way they get blown out, like all the experts had
predicted a blowout. In fact, a lot of experts predicted
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this exact score. And I just man, the run they've
had in the playoffs, they've sort of defied expectation most
of the playoffs. Anyway, There's no way they get ran.
There's no way it's forty two seven. There's no way
that score holds up, is true, and it did. So
the playoff crow I'm eating today is I was wrong
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in the wrong way. Forty two seven ends up being
your final Cow's just cow, you know. And I saw
somebody go, man, Murray can't do anything. Cow's cow. And
they're a true behemoth of a football team in the
state of Kentucky. And Murray found out. And of course
not having Wyatt Robbins, which we didn't really talk about
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last week. It was on my brain, but we didn't
just didn't factor into my discussions. But not having Whyat
Robbins makes it an even harder thing to overcome. Look
in the SATs from this one on Saturday, they had
to go to freshman Kenyon Cunningham, coach's son efficiently. He
eate of thirteen passing but through two interceptions and just
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had fifty six yards no touchdowns. The run game, Bomer
was good, nine carries seventy five yards, again not bad.
As a team they had thirty six carries, one to
eighteen in a touchdown, and then Isaiah Martin did have
forty yards on four catches. He still did his thing again,
just not inert enough for the Murray High Tigers. Looking
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at cal who kind of had their way in this one.
The Centurions, in fact, I actually don't have their stats,
so how about that, But they did kind of have
their way in this one quarterback through for a good
amount of yards. They scored almost seemingly at will, and
then again defensively just kind of kept Murray from being
able to do anything much less move the football in
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any direction they wanted to move it. So football season's
done for us. Murray season comes to an end. Not
a bad one. I mean, when you can finish fourteen
and one, you play fis fifteen football games, which you know,
it's a lot of football, and and you finish fourteen
to one and finish as a state runner up and
your first title game appearance in over thirty years, it's
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pretty good stuff. Pretty good stuff there. For the Murray
High Tigers. You start to kind of look ahead at
what they will have next season. Where they had, you know,
a lot of their guys this season that put up
numbers their seniors, and so you expect and again I'm
not saying it'll be like, oh, they're only gonna win
four games next year. I'm not saying that at all,
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but you do expect a bit of a come down.
Next season. Won't be certainly a preseason you know, power
probably five team in their class. They won't you know
a little bit of those things. But and here's my point. Yes,
they graduate Robbins again, lost him at the end of
the season in the playoffs. They graduate Bohmer, they graduate
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Martin Bridges Junior. I mean, all these guys mean out,
like all their stats, like like their production is graduating.
But you expect because there are are good there is
talent there. Coaching has proved itself time and time again. Again.
I'm not saying they're only gonna win four games next season,
but it is gonna be a much different season for
the Tigers next year losing these guys. However, they are
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in one of those situations where they're a program now
right like they are that sort of their expectation is
to turn it over and rinse and repeat year after year,
to be the new Mayfield, to be the new Paducah Tillman.
And so even though I'm saying you expect a little
bit of a come down season, as in I don't
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expect them to make a state title game run, you
certainly expect to see them. They expect to compete, go
win football games, and go continue to be a consistent
program in their class, and they'll be good next year.
And I'm not saying bad. They'll be good. They've got
good young talent. The coach's son Cunningham, who had to
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step up and take over the quarterback spot when Robbins
went down. You know, you'll see him take the reins
and you'll see It's sort of that thing we talked
about going into basketball season, a lot of question marks.
We don't have the answers. They might and then it's
on them to kind of show us the answers next season.
But what a year for Murray Hoigh, What an unbelievable
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Don't take these kind of seasons for granted. That's kind
of what I'm saying too. They'll take them for granted.
This is this is a good year. It's a good
season for the Tigers, and one that you don't want
to again take for granted. Know it's special, remember it
and celebrate it, and it'll be one. And that's the
great thing. When those players that are graduating this year
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come back, they'll get to talk about the run they
made to the state title game. When those players come
back five years, ten years, twenty years, forty years down
the road, they'll be remembered as that team that made
that run. So Murray High season is done, so is
our football coverage. Now we turn our attention to basketball,
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and let's do this. To finish out this first segment,
I'll go I'll do scores from Friday and Saturday, and
then we'll come back. We'll just kind of have general
thoughts and stats and anything we might have to add
to it. All right, So scores from around the region.
Let's go to Friday's games. This is boys basketball on Friday.
You had Apollo travel to Ballard Memorial and win that game.
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Eighty one forty two. Callaway County beat Lead Academy out
of Nashville, Tennessee, sixty two to sixty. Carlisle County beat
Paducah Tillman Wow seventy four fifty nine, seventy four fifty nine.
I'm coming back to that one. Christian Fellowship over Franklin
or Frankfurt Christian sixty two to twenty three. Cornerstone Christian
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beat CCA fifty five to fifty. Hickman County over South Fulton, Tennessee,
sixty five to forty three, Marshall County over Sterlington. That's Monroe,
Louisiana sixty five forty seven. Mayfield beat Fulton County nine
eighty sixty one, Portland Christian over CCA sixty three fifty four,
and drig County beat Fulton City eighty three fifty six.
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That's just boys basketball on Friday. Let's go to girls
basketball on Friday. Calloway County beat Leed Academy, Tennessee, eighty
eight thirty one, Carlisle County beat Paduca Tillman girls basketball
seventy eight thirty six, Henderson County beat McCracken County sixty
two to forty nine, Hickman County over South Fulton, Tennessee
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fifty two, forty, Mayfield over Fulton County forty nine to thirteen,
and Trig County over Fulton City fifty nine thirty three.
That's girls scores. Obviously, I'm gonna come back to this
in the second segment, Carlile over Tillman, Boys and girls.
That is, Yeah, we gotta talk about it for a
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lot of reasons. We got to talk about it, Carlile
over Tillman. And then you look at other things, you
look at other scores, not really a we'll kind of
look at Henderson McCracken and what that means on the
girls side of things. But that's our Friday night scores,
let's go to Saturday scores. So Saturday scores, we'll go
back to boys basketball. First. Saturday boys basketball, Atherton beat
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Saint Mary eighty one fifty seven, Carlile County over Robinson, Illinois.
That's mary In sixty two forty two, CFS beat Foundation
Christian Academy fifty nine to forty six, Graves County over
Hopkinsville sixty three sixty one. I was that that one
over time, we'll talk about it. Hickman County over Crickney
County sixty nine to thirty seven, Lake County, Tiptonville, Tennessee
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seventy nine, seventy five over Fulton County. Marshall County over
Clinton County's eighty one forty two. We're going to circle
back to that one as well. McCracken County over Fardelle
seventy eight fifty eight, Somerset Christian School over CFS seventy
six seventy And that's our scores in boys basketball on Saturday.
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Carl's basketball on Saturday, Callaway County over Lyon County seventy
eight to fifty eight, Carlile County over Obien County Central
seventy one fifty four, Cornerstone Christian over CFS forty three
thirty seven, Graves County beat bull At East thirty nine
to thirty eight, Hickman County over Saint Mary's Episcopal School
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that's out of Memphis thirty seven thirty six, Lake County Tiptonville,
Tennessee beat Fulton County fifty eight twenty four. And McCracken
County over Northwest Clarks Fult Tennessee fifty eight eighteen. Whoa man,
that is a lot of basketball on Friday and Saturday,
and we've got a lot of thoughts. Give me a break.
I'll take it. We'll come back on the other side.
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We'll break it down right here on Region one.
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Bread. You on sports, moving along here on your Monday
edition of the show, as we talk high school basketball, man,
I gave you a full rundown of scores on Friday
and Saturday. A lot of basketball has been played and yeah,
I'm getting a lot of thoughts out of all of this.
One thing is, and here's the deal. I fully appreciate.
I fully appreciate how much time is committed to being
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a coach and coaching and getting scores reported and getting
stats reported. I get that. But we do live in
a day and age and I think I'm a prime
example of this where coverage keeps dropping. Not at the
fault of the people who want to cover teams, but
that's just the world we live in. The entities that
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were used to covering things just start covering things anymore.
I get it. You know, I even took a different
full time job because well, it was time for me
to take a different full time job. So it's harder,
is the point I'm making for teams to get covered
these days. It's harder for teams to get recognized. It's
harder for teams for players to be you know, sort
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of highlighted with what they're doing. And all that we
ask in the media is don't make it harder by
not putting stats on online like that. When you can
get stats online, get them online. And I had listen,
I got into a little bit of a heated conversation
with an assistant coach, not Greaves County. I know people
will go when you deal with them, not them because
I brought this up. I said, it feels like maybe
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it's the start of the season, but you know, last season,
and I know the website changed a little. I get
all of that, I said, but it feels like stats
are going up three, four, five days after the game.
And last season it felt like, you know, maybe a day,
but no more than two days and stats would at
least be up. And they said, well, you know, there's
a lot that goes into coaching and we're being pulled
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in different and I said, I guess that, And where
the conversation got heated. This was this was Thursday night
when I was talking about this, and I said, I'm
gonna give you my day. For example, I got up,
took my kids to school, and then I went went
and worked a nine to five job. And I left
that nine to five job, and I came to this
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gym so that I could cover another team that I
could do my second job. And then I'm gonna get
home at ten o'clock at night, and then I'm gonna
go record Reagion one Sports and if I'm lucky, I
will be done working after starting my first job shift
at eight thirty in the morning. I'll be done working
roughly at midnight tonight. And that's the effort some of
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us covering these teams put in to make sure they're
getting coverage, to make sure that the spotlight is being
you know, is shining on these players. So don't tell
me what you've just had a long date, Good for you,
But don't take five days, you know, between putting up stats,
because if it just keeps making things harder for people
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like me and not just be in particular, I've talked
to others, it gets harder for us to do what
we are trying to do, and then it just eventually
leads to more frustration and more people not covering these
athletes and these teams. Now, I know, as I say that,
somebody's going to go, you're complaining, you're whining. Yeah, because
if I'm going to put in a fifteen or sixteen
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hour work day and still try to cover these athletes,
the least somebody can do is tell us who's score
points in those games, Like, if we're trying to cover them,
the least anybody else can do is make sure those
stats are posted. So, yeah, I'll complain a little bit,
I'll wint a little bit. I'm saying that to say
I hope the trend is. It's early in the season
and this is not going to be a full season trend, because,
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just to be honest with you, if it is, you know,
I do this show at my discretion. Now, I do
this show at my pacing. And if i come home
on a Tuesday night knowing I've got to record Wednesday
show and stats and things aren't up, either the show
gets cut short or we just cut shows because it's
just going to be too hard to do a show
like this and to cover these teams, these athletes without
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the content. And I guess it's the point I'm getting to. There,
you go rant over, I'll get off my high horse.
All right, Let's look at the things that happened on
the on the court this weekend and things we can
report on. I was not shocked. One of the things
we've been looking for going into the season. Who's Paduka
Tilman going to be? Remember, they fired a phenomenal head coach,
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a maybe the most respected head coach maybe in the
state for sure, in the region, maybe in the state.
And this is a guy that has been a winner,
and he didn't win enough, or he didn't win the
way that they wanted to win. And I, look, I
get that, I'm not one of you. I can't complain, right,
but but you fired a guy that I've never heard
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a bad word said against him, And so that sort
of led to one of your bet one of your
best player then going okay, I'm going to transfer. And
he went to your county inner county rival. And you
hired a new coach who may be great, who may
be phenomenal, who may be the next next great thing
to hit the region. Don't know him, haven't met him,
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couldn't tell you. But the question we had on Tilman was,
this is looking like a setback. This is looking like
no matter how good the new coach may be, he
just might not have enough to deal with this season
or enough to win with this season. So Tillman was
a giant mystery team going into the season, maybe the
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team we knew the absolute least about. Now. The reports
we were getting, you know, from the summer weren't great.
But at summer basketball, sometimes the best teams in the
summer end up being just absolute bottom dwellers in the
region in the regular season. So Tillman was a mystery,
a big mystery going into the season. And Tilman's first
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game of the year, they come out and they get
Carlile County, and we know, and you hear the show
and you follow along, you know that I had Carlile
County in my power five to start the year. They
returned a lot of guys, they were a solid team
last year. They've got one of the best players in
the region and Wyatt Ricord. They've got size, they've got linked,
they've got strength, they've got a veteran coach. They've got
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a lot to like. But traditionally it's a team that
Tilman tends to beat. So if that's the measuring stick
that Tilman traditionally can beat a Carlisle County or you
expect them to, then here you go, first game of
the year, Tilman gets Carlile County. Tilman loses that game
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seventy four to fifty nine. And I think a couple
of things. For me, if I'm Tilman concerned me not
that I lost to Carlisle again. I just gave you
the reasons. Carlisle's good top five team going end of
the season. One of the best players in the region
in the season. They've got two true bigs. They can
present matchup problems. They're good. But Carlo County put up
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seventy four points on Tilman and Tilman only scored fifty nine. Traditionally,
and when Tilman is good and Tilman has what it takes,
Tillman just runs you off the floor. They get up
and down, they out athlete you. They just score at
a pace that you can't keep up with. But to
start the season, the script was flipped and Carlo County,
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who doesn't shoot the ball great from outside, scored seventy
four points. Looking at Carlisle stats, they shot fifty I'm sorry,
sixty percent from the floor, just two of eight from three. Again,
don't take a lot, don't make a lot. Two of
eight from three, sixteen of twenty five at the foul line.
That was sixty four percent. But look at this Wyatt
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Ricord twenty three points in this game, nineteen for Dax Garrett,
fifteen for Brendan O'Neill, eleven for Case and Perez. By
the way, Ricord twenty three points, fifteen rebounds. Yeah, he's
going to be a problem for a lot of teams,
not just Tilman. So twenty three and fifteen that's a
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pretty good and pretty good knot on the floor. Now, again,
I don't have Tilman stats. These were Friday games, maybe
waiting to get back to work on Monday to put
the stats in. That's again, hopefully the case. I neverdeing
a team for not having stats up the next day,
and in this case of a weekend game, it would
be Monday would be the next day. But seventy four
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to fifty nine Tillman falls, I don't know. I still
think there's questions, and I still want to see the stats,
and I still want to see how that went on
their end. But when you give up seventy four points
and your opponent only shot twenty five percent from three
and only took eight threes to start with, it might
be a long season, just Mike. Now, Again, not a
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lot of teams have a guy that's going to go
dropped twenty three and fifteen on everybody. But that would
be concerning for me if I'm Tilman. So not the start,
or at least not the start they hoped they would get.
And again, the mystery team not one that bowlds super
well for them right now. Then on the girls side,
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and I said this was a boy girls situation. On
the girls side, things we were hearing about Tillman in
this offseason was not good. And I'll just be the
first to admit, whether it was true or not, the
rumor mill was just going crazy this season or this summer.
They didn't have enough girls. They didn't have enough girls
to play some of their games. They were showing up
to practice and only had four or five showing up
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to practice. Even if they had more than five, they
didn't have enough to run a whole lot in practice
when they would get more than five or six. Not
a lot of great things coming out of Tilman and
Carlot County on the girl's side again, A good team,
a team that for me will be right outside that
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power five all year, not because they're bad, but because
you know, McCracken, Marshall, Callaway, Graves and Mayfield are just
better this season, and those five are probably gonna be
those those power five teams the whole season. So Carlisle's
gonna be getting that kind of fringe team that'll be
right there on the cusp, but kind kind of behind
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those teams I think most of the year, and Carlile
County came out and absolutely destroyed Tilman seventy eight thirty six,
seventy eight thirty six. Now do you have stats? And
here you go. Listen Coach Dillard, a new coach at Tilman.
More power to you, more power to thank you. I
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can't thank you enough for putting stats online. Carlo County
did two, so Coach Wright, you or your staff thank you.
But Friday night, Carlisle County Eden Brewer, who we didn't
even talk about in the preseason. EDINB. Brewer had nineteen
points in this game. Macy Hogan Camp, who was one
of our top ten players in the region, sixteen points,
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and Grayson Edging, another one of our top players, had ten.
They had nine points for Olivia Webb, nine points for
Elder Draper. By the way, Hogan, Camp and Web each
with ten points each, so they had double doubles. Pretty
good stuff. Carlot County shot forty seven percent from the floor,
just four of nineteen from three. And again that's the
point I'm making. You give up seventy eight points and
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your opponent shot twenty one percent from three, So twenty
one percent they were ten of seventeenth the foul line
four Paduca Tilman in this one. And I think this
is where it's gonna be a tough year for Tilman.
It's just gonna be tough. They got a couple of
players that can score. Haylen Hughes had sixteen points. Naisha Smith,
who was one of our top players in the region,
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she had twelve. But they shot just thirty percent from
the floor. They were thirty percent from three, just five
to twelve at the foul line. They had twenty eight
rebounds in this game. And to kind of compare and
contrast that, twenty eight rebounds as a team for Tillman,
forty three for Carlole County Carlo County by the way
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three and oh, they beat Obien County Central. I watched.
I had to leave. That game was after my Graves
game on Saturday at Callaway. I had to leave. I
watched that game like them warming up, and I'll be honest,
watching them warm up, I went, oh, man, I think
Carlo might be in trouble in this game. And then
Carlo goes out and goes seventy one to fifty four
with a win over Obien County. Central and again Grayson
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edging twenty five points, sixteen for Hogan Camp, Riley Lemons,
who we didn't even mention from the Tilman game twelve points.
Olivia Webb had ten Hogan Camp, by the way, another
double doubles. She like she's a junior and she's not
gonna get Player of the Year because that's that's gonna
go to sailor Low. It just is. And you know,
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if not Low to be Coke. But those are the
players that'll be up for it this year. But Macy
Hogan Camp double doubles each and every night, come on,
like look out, and that'll be what keeps Carlot County
in our discussion and in our conversation all year. It'll
be interesting to see, you know, how they match up
with Mayfield for that all a but that'll keep them
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in the running for sure. So Carlo County three and
oer on the girl's side. Putuka Tilman o N two
to start the season on the girl's side, and again
with Tilman both their games on the girls side, they're
shooting just thirty five percent one percent from three. Hughes
has got eighteen a game, Smith eleven. But they have
nothing to contribute after that, Like it's two players and
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just nothing else coming after that, and that I think
is gonna be a problem for sure for them this season.
On the boys side, And we were talking about this earlier.
On the boys side. You know, Carlo County's two and one.
Their lone losses to Saint Mary. It was a five
point loss to Saint Mary. Saint Mary struggling to start
the year. They're one and two. I'll see them Friday night.
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We'll see it for myself. You look at the Vikings
and I'm kind all over the place, but forgive me,
this is sort of how these things go. You look
at the Vikings shooting forty seven thirty nine percent from three.
Those are not bad stats. Scoring sixty a game not bad,
seventeen for May's twelve for Nichols, Puckett with ten, and
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Griffin with Griffith with nine. I mean, there's there's a
lot to like here. Honestly, there's a lot to like
for Saint Mary to start the year. So it's either
really good competition or young players learning how to compete
and win. But the stats look good. I think they'll
be fine in the end. And the way, like if
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you do the this team beat this team, therefore this
team's better. Well, Saint Mary beat Carlisle at Carlisle, by
the way, and Carlisle handled Tillman better than they've handled anybody,
and so by that logic, it looks like Saint Mary
has a good shot to get back to the regional tournament.
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They're not gonna take down Cracking. Their focus is gonna
have to be on making sure they take down Tilman
when they get their head to head and they get
their opportunity. But right now, it looks like Saint Mary,
at least to start the season, is the better team.
So if you're ranking that district, you're gonna go mccrack
and one. We'll talk about film in a moment, you'll
go Saint Mary two and Tilman three. That's how you
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would probably stack it right now to start the season.
And again, Saint Mary will get a winnable game on Tuesday,
they get Ballad on the road. That's a game they'll win,
and then Graves on the road Friday. A lot tougher
this year to beat Graves. We'll talk about my Eagles
in a moment. It's gonna be a lot tougher to
beat them this season, But we'll see how they stack up.
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We'll see the measuring stick, right, We'll see where they
compare on Friday. But yeah, I spent last week kind
of saying, I don't know Saint Mary thinks this, but
they they dropped a game that we thought they would win,
and I don't know how that's gonna bold. And then
you see what Tilman's done. I know it's been just
one game. I know, but again, if you're going this
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team beat this team, and this team beat this team,
it looks like that district is McCracken and Saint Mary
again coming out of it, or at least this season
will be McCracken, who said it home last year getting
into the regional tournament, and Tilman probably setting it home.
And hear me when I say this, it's been one week,
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so we're already talking what's gonna happen three months from
now after one week of basketball, plenty of time to change. Absolutely,
could it have been an anomaly? Absolutely for Tillman. They
get Henderson County on Tuesday night, that won't be much
easier than playing a Carlisle County. They have Carbondale Community
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on Friday. I know nothing about them they have Apollo
on Saturday, who beat Ballad handily, but again that doesn't
necessarily mean anything. And then they get CCA in Callaway County.
So I really do think it'll be a week from
Tuesday before we really know who Tillman is really. So
I know it feels like I'm kind of dogging them,
not really, but it will be probably that Tuesday game
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with Callaway before we have a good sense of who
they are. And notice I haven't even talked mc cracken
County yet. I haven't talked Marshall County yet. I haven't
talket Graves County yet. These are just the first things
that stood out. This is what stood out on Friday night.
But speaking of Marshall County, talk about what stood out
on Friday night. Marshall County's two and zero. I watched
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a little bit of Sterlington play in the game after
the Graves game on Thursday night. That's who Marshall played
on Friday. They're good, They're solid, and going into the season,
the narrative for Marshall has been Matthew Langy's gonna score
and if he scores, they win. The question will be
who steps up around him. I think you're gonna get
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different players every night. The other question was is there
enough stepping up around him? Well, so far it hasn't mattered.
He scored. I'll have to go back and look, and
I'll do that during the break. He scored twenty nine
in their opening game on Friday night. Neiland Jessek and
Ryan Stokes each had ten and then you had five
four three two two two, So he had twenty nine.
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He's gonna score fifty percent or more of their points
most nights. That's just I mean, sixty five points. He
was just shy fifty percent. I know that sounds crazy,
but he's gonna score around fifty percent of their points
each night. When they win, he'll have fifty, he'll have
thirty points, they'll have sixty something, he'll have thirty. And
the question is and was, who's gonna will anybody be
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able to step up? Will enough step up? So far,
so good, And I'll give you the other scoring in
a moment from their second game. But they're two to
zero and they beat a Clinton County team. By the way,
they beat a Clinton County team that was last season.
Because you know they're out of a region where don't
know a lot about. They're out of a district we
don't know a lot about. But last season, Clinton County
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lost in the fourth Region championship and they finished thirty
and three. They were upset by Bowling in that game.
They were the better team. They were thirty and three.
Last season they graduated a couple of guys, but they're
still really good. And Marshall didn't just beat them on Saturday.
They demolished them eighty one forty two and again here
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during the break. I won't do it now, but I'll
go look that up and see what Langy had in
that game and the other scoring. In fact, let's do that.
We'll take the break. We'll come back on the other
side with how Marshall's doing it, and then how McCracken
and Graves are doing and we'll show you why those
three teams are the top three in the region right now.
That and more. This is Region.
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Region on Sports. Moving along our final segment on your
Monday edition of the show. So I was talking about
Matthew Langey, you talking about Marshall uh in their game.
In their game against Clinton County, it was eighty one
forty two to the final. Langy and this was after
three quarters. I don't even know what he finished with,
but after three quarters he had thirty four points, thirty
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four going into the fourth quarter. At that point Marshall
had sixty six. That proves my point. He's gonna score
fifty percent of their points. But right now he's scoring
at a clip that. Is there a player in the
region that'll do better. I don't think so. And like
I said, for Marshall win, he has to because I
don't know if they have enough without him. Jessik has
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been there, Stokes has been there. So it looks like
those three will kind of be the one two three
punch for Marshall County this year. When the defense paced
over attention to Langy, it'll get those other guys shots.
You're gonna have to hope Langy has an off night
or you have somebody to guard him in right now.
To be honest, maybe Graves has enough to do it.
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Maybe McCracken. As far as taking him out of the game,
taking him out of the equation. But man at that clip,
that's the reason why Marshall's the number two team in
the region right now, or number three team in the region.
And then you look at I just mentioned them. You
look at Graves my Eagles. They've been good one and
one to start the year. They lost the game they
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were supposed to probably look better in that game than
they did in their win on Saturday. Played Hopkinsville on Saturday.
And here's really what's getting Graves right now. Legs fatigue.
You can just see it. You can just see it.
Legs just go by the fourth quarter. But Graves on
Saturday gotta win in overtime over Hoptown, maybe the last
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time those two schools ever play. His Hoptown is consolidating,
but Graves gets to win sixty three to sixty one.
That's coming off their loss on Thursday night. Cavett has
been Tai Cavet. He's been really good, just being a
good athlete, driving downhill, getting to the rim body. Bekassovik
has been extremely aggressive in the same way, getting downhill,
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using his size, using his length, his athleticism. He's also
knocking down outside shots. Volters knocking down outside shots. Mathis
is knocking down shots, getting downhill cherry knocked down at three,
Like they are dangerous, and what makes them dangerous a
little bit the opposite of like McCracken. McCracken's got some size.
Marshall's got Langey who can at least give them some
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length and size. Graves is putting essentially four guards and
one forward on the floor. I mean their starting lineup
is essentially four guards and then you would kind of list,
you know, the Kassivik is the forward, not really a post,
but a forward, and they're fast and they're quick, and
they're aggressive and they're they're you know, there was one point,
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and I love this. There was one point I think
it was in the second quarter where there was like
a minute five left on the clock and they got
the ball and they didn't hold it for the last shot.
Oh that was so refreshing. That was so refreshing. I
can't wait for the shot clock. Oh my goodness. There
are some coaches in this region that just won't know
how to coach when the where there's a minute on
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the clock and they've got the ball, they're gonna lose
their minds. Heck, there's some coach in this region that
have two minutes on the clock, you wouldn't know what
to do. But yeah, they didn't hold the ball. It
wasn't old school grind it out. And by the way,
that wasn't how they played in the nineties. That wasn't
how anybody played in the nineties, maybe the early two
thousands that started. They didn't hold it. They went for
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a shot and they got one quickly. Then they got
the ball back with like forty seconds and then they
kind of held right like then they held, but they
were in go mode. Didn't matter, the situation, didn't matter
the school. Let's go score, let's go get another basket.
I love that. And you're gonna have to play that
way if you want to win this region, if you
want to beat mccrackett, if you can't slow and go
and grind it out and try to out physical or
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out athlete anybody, you're not gonna do that. Get up
and down, make it fanatic, pace, be aggressive, drive to
the basket, create driving lanes, create movement on offense. That'll
get it done this year. And so they looked like
a top three team so far this week. And then
there's McCracken, and what else can you say about McCracken.
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At this point, they're two to zero. I'm gonna throw
the CCA game out, Like somebody after watching that game
said they look like a cheat code. Brother. They played
CCA like let's pump the brakes. Doesn't mean they couldn't
look good in that game, but that you just can't
tell anything from those games. And that's not knocking CCA.
CC's just they've had a good run at times here
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in the past. They're just down this year and they're
not gonna compete with McCracken. But you look at Okay,
they played Fairdell on Saturday, a little bit step up
in competition. Seventy eight to fifty eight ends up being
your final McCracken County. And this one had twenty from Woodford,
twenty from Adams, fourteen from Miller, and ten from Klope.
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Four guys in double figure Cloak, by the way, sixteen rebounds.
I'm telling you this is what makes them dangerous. Cloak
with a double double would Fox score in twenty because
he's gonna be twenty a game. I don't think he
has to be more than twenty a game, and I
don't think he should try to be more. Don't don't
look at what Matthew Lanky's doing and go Man, if
I want to be Player of the Year, I gotta
go outscore that guy. Just go drop eighteen or twenty
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a game and your team's gonna win a lot of games.
McCracken shot fifty eight percent from the floor, just three
of ten from three. That'll be interesting to see if
they shoot better as the season goes on. But nine
of eleven of the foul line. And I'm gonna do
it because you have to. But if you look at
both games combined, they're shooting sixty percent from the floor. Again,
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just thirty percent from three. I just don't know if
they've got shooters. Graves doesn't have a lot of shooters either.
Marshall really doesn't have a lot of shooters either. So
it just may be the case this year in the
region you're not gonna have that one team that has
two or three that can knock them down consistently. Wood
Fork eighteen and a half a game, Adam seventeen, Miller
at twelve, three guys in double fears Clop will get
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in there as the season goes on. I think they'll
have those four guys will be the guys scoring the
basketball this season for McCracken. But yeah, Cloaks averaging or
will be averaging a double double here in just a
few more games. So that's as you look at the region,
that's kind of where things are. McCracken is the juggernaut.
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It's gonna take a plus effort when you play McCracken.
You're gonna have to have them play a B level
game and you're gonna have to bring your A game.
You're not beating if they play their best and you
play their best. I don't think you beat them, not
right now. Maybe as the season goes on. You know,
we talk about this all the time in the preseason.
The question is not are you good now? It's can
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you get good as the season goes on? Like what
you're ceiling. I think there's some teams that start the
season season and their ceiling is higher than their playability,
And in fact, I think that's every team. The question is,
and I'll say this, and this is kind of getting
in the weeds. I think McCracken has started the season
closer to their ceiling, like playing at a level closer
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to their ceiling. I don't know if they're gonna be
much better as the season goes on. I think they've
already started off as as good as they almost as
good as they can be. I think there's room for
improvement still for Marshall, certainly for Graves, for Carlisle County,
for Murray, for you know, Saint Mary. I think there's
room for those teams to improve as the season goes on.
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The question is is their best gonna get close enough
to McCracken's best, right like the gap right now? You know,
Graves may be playing at a at a level eighty
of their best one hundred percent. McCracken may be playing
right now at a level ninety. So can can Graves
hit their you know, ninety five and keep McCracken at
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it ninety or is McCracken gonna end up making up
that ten percent and it's still going to be too
much for these other teams? You see what I'm saying?
If that makes sense, probably not makes more sense in
my head, but the point being, and I stand by that.
I think McCracken has started the season closer to what
their ceiling is than other teams, but I think their
ceiling is higher than other teams can reach. So the
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question is can other teams close that gap reach their
ceiling sooner, faster, more efficiently by the end of the season,
because if McCracken does, I don't know if it'll matter.
I don't know if it'll matter, but I think that's
what we're seeing. McCracken at number one, clearly truly best
team in the region. I think we are seeing that
Graves has what it takes. They are who he thought
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they were going to be this year, and they still
have room for improvement. Marshall's same thing said in the preseason.
Langy's going to score fifty percent of the points. If
they get enough around him, they'll win games. So far,
so good, that's happening. Carlisle's been what we thought using
the bigs guard play has been a little better it
needs to be, and if it is, they'll be right
in contention. Calloway's been better than we thought, much better.
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They're right in the mix of things. Murray's been good.
I think will still be in the mix of things.
Saint Mary will be in the mix. So all these
teams is kind of falling exactly where we kind of
had them going into to Week one of the season.
There's still a lot of basketball left, ate a lot
of basketball left. That's early season thoughts on the boy's side.
On the girl's side, let me say this and I'm
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going to run out of time. It's kind of the
same way on the girls side a little bit. I
think Calloway has started the season closer to their ceiling,
and their ceiling was just a little higher than everybody else.
They have looked exactly how they need to look. If
you're the preseason favorite to win the region, you want
to come out and show it early. And I feel
like they have done that. I certainly feel they've done that.
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Now again, I don't know, you know, the competition level
so far, I don't know where that's been. I mean,
Saint Mary's not great lead academy. I kind of looked
them up. They didn't too great coming into the season.
But Lion County beat Graves County pretty handily in their
first game, and Callaway beat Lion County pretty handily in
their game. In fact, looking at the numbers for the
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Lady Lakers so far this season, Jaden Coke twenty one
a game, Sailor Low twenty a game. Josie Haynes with
eleven a game, Andrew Emery with ten a game, and
Olivia Perkins at eight a game. They're shooting fifty nine
percent from the floor. They are forty eight percent from three.
Hear me when I say this. If they shoot, if
they shoot so much as thirty eight percent from three,
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much less forty eight percent from three, nobody beats them
in this region, not one team. That is a ridiculous number.
Forty eight percent from three. They're twenty nine of sixty
my goodness, eighty four percent of the foul line, and
Sailor Low a double double, twenty points, eleven rebounds a
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game their best three point shooters. Just out of curiosity,
just looking this up. But when you look at their
shooting from three, Haines leads them eight of nineteen, so
that's forty two percent. She's made the second most. She's
taken the most. Jayden Coke's been their best shooter. She's
nine of twelve, nine of twelve. That is seventy five percent.
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She's not gonna do that all season, but that's pretty
impressive through three games. I'm just telling you they're gonna
be really hard to beat. They shoot this way, and
if these players continue, you know I told you, and
I still think this is true. Coke and Low will
lead them. They'll both have sixteen to twenty five points
every single game. It'll be shocking to find a game
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where either is below sixteen points. There might be games
where one might score thirty, one might score you know whatever,
But like their average is gonna always be sixteen to
twenty five. Like that's that's just who they are. They're
gonna give you that. Every night. You can bank on
sixteen points each from both of them plus every night.
That's my point. You gotta have a third score. And
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I've said and I think it's true, it'll rotate, it'll
be Haines, it'll be Emery mostly, and it'll be one
of them every night. And as long as one of
them steps up, that's all you're gonna need. That's all
you're gonna need, and you're gonna win the region. And
so far, that's what they've gotten and that's why they're
gonna win the region at least, that's why they're the
favorite Graves County. They're one of the top three teams
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in the region. They struggled Game one, they honestly struggled.
In Game two, played a good Bulletese team, good size,
they had some girls that could score. That's a good team.
And for me, it was three quarters of oh no,
like it's gonna be a long year because they're doing
some things well, but you know, this is not looking
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like a team that can compete for the region, not
the way Calloy is playing. But in that fourth quarter
you saw some things click. Mostly shots went up sooner.
Some of their possession they were taking three minutes off
the clock without getting a shot up or until they
got a shot. I mean, it just felt like forever
before the offense would find a shot. And it's not
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that there weren't open looks, they just weren't taking them.
Then in the fourth quarter it's almost like they were like,
we got to shoot the ball, and they did and
they made shots. So maybe things clicked in that fourth quarter.
Still think they're a top three team, but you can
see the separation right now in Callaway and the Graves.
I saw Marshall play. You can see the separation in
the Callaway to Marshall. But those teams still still look
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like they've got enough to stay in it, in the
top three, top four most of the year. And then
you've got McCracken County, who has been good. Now. They
played a very good Henderson County team on Friday night
and lost, but that was competitive, so they're still in
the mix. May feel still in the mix, so you're
seeing the same thing though, Like my point was earlier
on the girls side, Callaway's ceiling a little higher, and
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they've been closer to their ceiling to start the year
than everybody else has been closer to their ceiling. Can
those teams improve an up to make it a race?
We'll see. All right, I'm out of toime, I'm out
of topic. My voice is starting to go. Hope you've
enjoyed it. That's your recap of week one. On Wednesday,
we'll have our Power five rankings and so much more.
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Be safe, have fun, enjoy your next few days, enjoy
the ball games. We'll talk on Wednesday. Until then, this
has been Region one Sports
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