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lol!!!


I remember Smith and Lorenzon playing basketball, and the best I remember they were both pretty good at it. Seems like I remember them playing one of the good Paintsville teams in a Sweet 16 saturday morning game some time around the mid 90's. I could be wrong but, if I am not mistaken, they beat Paintsville in that game too. Didn't Lorenzon play a little baseball at one point too?

Just thought that a kid that has the cannon that he does would follow in his pap's Hall of Fame footsteps to some degree. At least be on the team anyways. How good are Highlands basketball and baseball teams normally? Other than the Lorenzon/Smith era I have never heard too much out of them in either sport. With the seasons favorable for a kid to play both baseball and football, I'm surprised that Highlands has not had several power pitchers over the years, considering all of the strong armed QB's they continually crank out.

Since the Lorenzen and Smith days there have been very, very few kids to play two sports at Highlands. As far as baseball, it has never been a big sport at Highlands(much bigger in Kenton Co than Campbell Co.). As far as Basketball, there have been some very good teams over the years with quit a few sweet sixteens (I believe one runner-up and a couple semi final appearances).Just off the top of my head, Have you not heard of Scott Draud? I think he won Mr KY basketball award in 85-86. He was not recruited by UK and went on to Vandy and was a star. He was NIT MVP and an excellent 3 pt shooter that UK let slip away. I remember he had a couple very good games agianst the cats. The years since Lorenzen have continued to have less two sports athletes on them and although they compete well in the region, have had a significant decline.The competition to start on the football team has caused players to give up other sports to weight lift and practice football year round. I do not follow baseball, so do not know what extent it has effected that,but do know that it has killed the track program(track use to fight for regional title every year).