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Remember, this is all my opinion and nothing scientific lol. Let’s hear everyone else’s opinion. 

Who will win their districts? This is who I have coming out of their districts and moving on to the Regional Tournament. 

57th District 
1) Paintsville 
2) Johnson Central 

58th District 
1) Lawrence County 
2) Prestonsburg 

59th District 
1) Pikeville 
2) Shelby Valley 

60th District 
1) Belfry 
2) Pike County Central. 

The 15th Region Tournament should be a great tournament with alot of talent. Maybe the most baseball talent as a whole to ever come out of the 15th. 

15th Region rankings. 

1) Lawrence County: IMO they have the best 2 arms in the Region and 3 more that can beat anyone else on any given night. Blevins and Patton are throwing lights out right now. In their last 4 starts against great competition East Carter (probably the best team in the 16th) , Spring Valley (20-8), Jackson OH (18-3 #4 ranked 2A team in OH, and Wheelersburg OH (17-5 #7 ranked 2A team in OH) they have given up only 4 hits, 2 unearned runs, 45Ks, and only 5BBs on 27innings pitched. Not to mention B Fletcher hasn’t given up a run on the mound since mid March. 

Lawrence Countys offense is producing hits and runs had a great clip against really good competition. 4 kids hitting over .400 and 1 of those over .500. LC lineup has shown some power this year with 16HR so far. 

2) Pikeville: they have a great pitching staff with 3 studs that can shut anyone down. Clark, Thompson, and Duty are all studs on the mound. They showed in their All A run they can beat anyone on the state. 

Pikevilles offense has been better than predicted this year. They have a lot of kids that stay on the baseball and put the ball in play. 

3) Painstville: has a host of guys and can throw it. Form Taylor, Fugate, Miller, Collins and Ratliff. All capable of beating anyone. Their biggest question will be can they stay healthy. 

Painstville has a ton of offense. They have hit over 28HR this year but also struck out 217 times. They are a free swinging team. Anyone in their lineup can hit it out of the park. 

4) Belfry: Deskins and Hall lead their pitching staff but they have a few kids Adkins, Banks, Brown, and Varney who can beat you. 

Offensively the Banks twins, Deskins, Stanley, Varney, and Jude can square the ball up and hurt you. 

5) Prestonsburg: solid team with good kids 
6) Johnson Central: don’t pay attention to they record. They have talent and can beat anyone. 
7) Shelby Valley: don’t know anything about them 
8) Pike County Central: see SV 
9) Magoffin County: I put MC hear because if their throwing Litteral they can beat anyone. 
10) Martin County 
11) Floyd Central 
12) East Ridge 
13) Phelps 
14) Betsy Layne 
15) Jenkins

The top 4 are a notch above the other teams IMO. When region gets here which ever one of their 4 are playing the best that week will win the region. Plus one will get a better draw than the other 2. I think It’ll be a fun tourney.