[Orange Blaze]

To be honest, I think paintsville, hazard, and pikeville are a toss up every season. No one will really know who is the best until after the playoffs. Even then, the best team doesn’t always win. The year pikeville won it all, paintsville was clearly the best team in 1a imho. Kash Daniel’s injury was enough to turn the tide, and the rest is history.

1A in the east has been tricky the past few years. The preseason number one always seems to slip up and another team knocks them off. We haven’t really seen the top preseason class A team go the distance since Williamsburgs run in 2013 and 14z