[cksportsfan]

I guess we should thank coach. Middlesboro's closest district game is over 2hrs and now he wants them to go to Washington County. Thanks coach. Let me add thanks KHSAA for using 4 year adv. 2 years would better represent the school. I have said this before Middlesboro numbers today are 190 boys. Travel has really caused problems and now Prestonsburg wants them to go to Washington County.

Pretty sure Middlesboro is closer to Gatlinburg, Tenn., than it is to Washington County (Springfield).

I'd know, considering I went to Gatlinburg in 2012 on a Wednesday and Thursday and caught the LaRue-Bell playoff game that Friday. Stayed the night that Friday in the Middlesboro Days Inn -- which I hope I never have the pleasure of staying the night again -- and came back to Hardin County that Saturday (in which you pass through Washington County on the route I took).

FWIW, Washington County should not be considered "East" or districts 5-6-7-8 in any class. In any alignment. It's in the 19th District in basketball.