[School Admin.]

I can't tell you how proud I am of my boys! Its been a LONG TIME COMING for Feds Creek!! We have built our program, paid our dues, and taken our beatings in the past to get here!!! I want to thank everyone who made this possible, the boys won the games on the court, but we have tremendous support from our community! Our enrollment for our school is small, but no one matched our crowd!! I want to take my hat off to the Virgie Eagles, perhaps the most accomplished basketball program in Eastern Kentucky, you brought your A GAME and took us to the limit! I am so glad both teams brought their best game and left it on the court!! I also want to thank the other schools who rallied behind us in the championship game! Dorton cheered with us, we had such wars this year!! We made some really good friends from that school, such nice people! Elkhorn City, our sister school and longtime rival, rallied to our side in the title game!! We put our rivalry aside and they supported us! Thank you so very much! I also want to thank my very good friend, Principal Lisa Hess from Kimper Elementary for coming to the game and cheering on our kids!! We sure did have a memorable celebration last night!! We had a Police escort, we our fire departments and rescue squads leading the way!! We had so many people standing in front of their homes waving and cheering us on through Grapevine and Feds Creek!! Coach Davis, I also want to thank some of your players for making the trip to Feds Creek and celebrating with us!! Our kids welcomed them with open arms!! A funny thing, I went to find our team to introduce them to the crowd, and guess where I found them and the Dorton players? In the gym playing basketball with each other!!! Only young kids can go play a tournament and then play pick up basketball at 2:00 AM!!! Anyway, a big time thank you to our players, fans, and supporters!!!!