[EKY Sportster]

To be honest with ya. Neither team deserved to win tonight. I thought they both played sloppy. Hats off to #31 Arnette! Great game. As for the rough road at Region... I hope we draw SV right off the bat! So that way it is either put up or shut up! Good luck at Region to both teams. Would be nice to see a rematch in the Regional Finals!

Congrats to Magoffin County!! The Hornets deserve what they got - two District Championships, boys and girls!!! The boys hung in there and never gave up.

As for the game itself, the effort was there by both teams, but I have never seen two teams try so hard to give the game away! Paintsville missed enough easy baskets and free throws to have put it away before OT and Magoffin turned the ball over and made silly mistakes enough times to have put Paintsville away in regulation as well. It was a hard fought game by both teams (which made it a good game to watch) but it was very sloppy. Both teams had chance after chance to connect on the knockout blow and neither could do it. If either team takes that kind of game to the Expo Center they will be coming back home real quick. Get it together guys and represent the 57th well.

As for Paintsville, they deserved the loss. They played hard but played very poorly! They were lucky the game even went into OT in the first place and even still they had their chance to win. NO ONE stepped up to get it done. I hate to see them lose the District Championship, but I am glad they are going in as a runner-up. They need to be put up against a District winner first game and prove they can win it. And I hope they draw SV first so we can settle that one right away! If the Tigers expect a trip to Rupp, they will need to beat SV anyway, so it might as well be first. Good luck!!