[HCS]

I think Cumberland played Cawood pretty close a couple of times that season, including the district finals (63-58). The Redskins ended up being regional runner-up that year. Cumberland won four straight districts from 70 to 73, then Lynch won two straight, then Cawood won three straight, then Harlan in 79.
Cawood lost to Hazard that year in the regular season - I think a Christmas tournament.

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Rodney Woods
Mike Deaton

HCS , you know your 13th region basketball.  I'm gonna have to step my game up a notch. lol

Both Coach Woods and Coach Deaton coached at Corbin.

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Coach Bobby Knight leads all 13th region coaches with  767 career wins, all at Clay Co.   Only one other coach won more than 700 HS basketball games, all with 13th region teams. Who is he?

I'll be real impressed if anyone knows the other team to beat Cawood in 1978...

Let me say I don't know the answer to this but I'm going to take a guess based on a couple of things I do know.

I do know that Cumberland had some pretty good teams in the seventies, right up there with Cawood.  The logical answer would be Cumberland. In fact, those two probably had the most 52nd district titles in the seventies.  So, if my life depended on me getting it right I would say Cumberland. But my life doesn't depend on it. So, I'll go another direction.  I also know Lone Jack had some pretty decent teams in the late seventies and early eighties. I know they made the regional about every year during a span of four or five years around that time. So, in '78, they might have been competitive enough to upset a strong Cawood team.  But I'm going with a darkhorse. I graduated in '80 and so I know for a fact that the Lynch Bulldogs entered the regional tournament that year as a champion of  the 52nd. Not sure how good they were in '78  but I know they were in the region tournament as district winner or runner up several times during the seventies and eighties.  Just a  somewhat educated guess, I'll go with Lynch . If not them, Lone Jack.

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I could be wrong but let’s say Michael Jones, Charles Thomas, and Todd Cox of Harlan, Tony Pietrowski of Corbin, Chris McKissick of Clay, Madden at Jackson?, Keith Sloan of Cumberland? McDaniel or Bennett of Corbin? Maybe an Elam from Knox?

Pretty darn good. You nailed five of them.

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To illustrate just how incredibly talented the 13th region was in '94 , we had three 1st team All-State players,  one  2nd team All-Stater,  one 3rd team All-Stater , and four  Honorable Mentions on the All-State team.


How many of the nine can you name?

First Team:

Michael Jones (Harlan) ;    Charles Thomas (Harlan)  ;   Tony P. (Corbin)

Second Team:

Chris McKissic


Third Team:

Ryan Wilson(Wburg) - one of the state's top scorers AND rebounders


Honorable Mention:

Jeff "Chico" Baldwin(Jackson Co.) ;  Todd Cox (Harlan)  ; 

Casey Lester (Harlan)   ;     Allen Sharpe(KC) -one of the best long-range shooters I've ever seen


We had a long debate on Facebook last year about the best talent in 13th Region history - mid 90s or mid 80s. I will go with mid 80s.