[thetribe]

Boy am I glad that I got to see this game :thumb: Pikeville played GREAT!!

Pikeville fought back hard! They were down like 4-5 at the half and got behind by 10+ early in the 3rd. They took the lead by 10 early in the 4th and ER never got it any closer than 6. Pikeville's big men played GREAT -- Champlin, Robertson, Boyd. Not many TOs for the Panthers but still had some bad shots.

The ref bashing will start soon enough. It looked to me like Pikeville got away with a couple fo fouls but then again ER got by with a BUNCH of walks. So were they makeup calls? Who knows. ER's coach got a T late in the game only to be followed by a player when he was arguing the first.

Pikeville shot FT really well in this game. And for some reason ER started fouling with 3:00+ to go :confused: At this point they were only down by single digits. PHS made them when they needed to and pulled away!

Congrats PANTHERS!!!

What you described is just Coach May's style. He is the hot headed, jump up, smack the floor, throw the clipboard, shove the chair kind of coach. That's not typical of East Ridge. You will see alot of that in heated games this year from him IMO. He was like that back at Elkhorn City anyway. As for them fouling, I believe that too is just a trait of him. He wants to stop the clock way too early when the boys could have actually made some plays to come back up and not gave P-ville the chance to shoot that many free throws.

Hopefully East Ridge fans don't get on here and make asses of themselves and try to blame stuff on the refs. Refs make bad calls, in all games, for all teams. That simple. Don't represent your school badly because I for one will be mad if people for MY team starts to whine about this one and make themselves and the school look bad.

Congratulations to Pikeville on the win. It's been a long time coming. East Ridge just isn't the team that they used to be. It will probably be YEARS before the team builds back up to what it has been. They have only 3 seniors this year. It's not exactly what you would call a rebuilding year either because I don't think that next year will step up either...who knows though.

Best of luck to East Ridge as they continue into the season. Don't hang your heads over a lose, just use it on the court and win the next one. Good luck guys!