[laker20]

Apples and dinosaurs. Not all schools have football teams, but most all have basketball teams. Add to that the way the population flows, the fact that football is six classes while basketball is one and you come up with some strange bedfellows.
That said, I know nothing of Russell County other than the fact that they're called the Lakers, and that they have a pretty decent football team this season, but that previous to last season when they beat Hopkins Central in the first round, they'd won exactly one playoff game since 1998.

However, in 2009 we lost to Lone Oak, who represented the west in the state finals, and if I'm not mistaken scored more points on them than anyone other than LexCath & Boyle.

As mentioned above, last year was our first playoff win in several seasons, and we lost in the 2nd round to ACS by 9 in a very close game. Of course ACS represented the west in the finals and lost to Boyle by 7. So we are no stranger to playing the top teams in the state. In fact several of the players in this team played significant minutes in both these games.