[64SUR]

Final

[Bulldogs4Ever]

Looks like Dawgs are improving.

[E's Army]

Congrats to Cordia.

[zaga_fan]

Looks like Big Al kept the score down in this one, but Cordia was too much.

[Buford T Justice]

This game was like going to a fight and a basketball game broke out! Hazard tried to ulgy the game up as bad as they could but you can't blame them that's the only chance they had. All night long every time a cordia player would go airborne hazard would walk up underneath them an undercut them. Anthony Nelson took a nasty fall his elbow after the game had a huge not about the size of a baseball he is gonna have to have it drained. I saw them elbow the Henry kid so hard in the mid section he doubled over. Ulgy ulgy game but they won I guess that's all that matters.

[UK#24]

for the first time in the Rodrick Rhodes era it looked like Cordia was actually the ones getting the calls.
Even though Cordia led most of the game, I still felt like Hazard was going to win until Austin Spurlock fouled out and Hazard was down 4.

[Barnacleboy]

Lets not forget an elbow thrown at Ryan Smith, and 2 of Hazards players being tripped and thrown to the floor.

[KyGurl]

Is there any kids from Knott County on this team or is it all kids from other states? Noticing on the radio, the names of the Cordia players didn't sound like names from this area. Just curious !!

[64SUR]

Is there any kids from Knott County on this team or is it all kids from other states? Noticing on the radio, the names of the Cordia players didn't sound like names from this area. Just curious !!

I think they all lived in Lotts Creek and go to school at Cordia. Hope that helped. :popcorn:

[2elijah]

I think they all lived in Lotts Creek and go to school at Cordia. Hope that helped. :popcorn:

amen. Play ball.

[thegr81]

Fouls were lop sided in Cordias favor. A fan from hazard said it was 11-3 in the first half. He also said it was a good game to watch, that both teams played hard.

[ky playmaker]

heard the frazier kid left obi and is at hazard. any truth? he is no longer at obi i do know that

[bulldogsports]

He is at Hazard

[OhHereWeGo]

Fouls were lop sided in Cordias favor. A fan from hazard said it was 11-3 in the first half. He also said it was a good game to watch, that both teams played hard.

I didn't think that in basketball teams had to have the same amount of fouls... Not saying that the foul situation should've been lopsided, and I wasn't at the game, but sometimes teams foul more. Shame I missed it though because it sounded like a hard fought game. Would've made a good championship game.

[Buford T Justice]

The reason the fouls were lopsided is that cordia players are about 2 steps quicker than hazard and hazard could not guard them. I promise you this for every foul they called there was about 5 they didn't call. As far as the elbow throw at smith it was a flop he was trying to draw a foul he should have been whistled for a foul on the rebound anyway he was all over keta. Oumar was just trying to clear out.

[The Weatherman]

heard the frazier kid left obi and is at hazard. any truth? he is no longer at obi i do know that

I don't know much about this kid. Will he receive any eligibility for this season? Will he be able to help Hazard if eligible?

[Bulldogs4Ever]

Frazier will help the Dawgs tremendously.

[KyGurl]

I think they all lived in Lotts Creek and go to school at Cordia. Hope that helped. :popcorn:

I didn't think they would be flying from New York on game days !! Your response didn't help at all !!

[64SUR]

I didn't think they would be flying from New York on game days !! Your response didn't help at all !!

Just think about it someone in hazard just won the lottery. :igiveup:

[2elijah]

Just think about it someone in hazard just won the lottery. :igiveup:

I honestly love the game of basketball. I was 11 years old when Lees College in
Jackson built their gym. I lived across the street. Breathitt County, Jackson City
and the Lees Generals all played their home games in that gym. Breathitt's first
state tournament team played their home games there because their popularity had
outgrown their own gym. When Louisville Central, Dunbar, Clay County, Pikeville,
Ashland, Hazard, Napier, Combs, Wheelwright, Hindman, Carr Creek, Paintsville,
etc. came to town the people were thicker'n flies and the smoke was even thicker.
Just thinking about Fairce reamin' out his boys, stabbing them in the chest and pulling
the hair off their legs while they nodded and Yes Sir'd down at his beet red, about
to stroke out face warms my heart. Mickey Gibson, the Couch brothers, Sam Smith,
Larry Conley, Roscoe, Pearl Combs, Morton Combs, Austin Dumas, Keith, Paul Smith,
these people were gods. Basketball was everything. Every fan knew you had
to value possessions, play man defense, hit your free throws, that good fundamentals
and team play beat good athletes, that the school and its teams were governed by
a military hierarchy, that coaches and school administrators represented the best
of each community. Everybody knew ball. Everybody talked ball. Everybody
loved ball.

The best game all year was when Breathitt scrimmaged the newly arriving Lees
General scholarship players. Lees gave about 30 scholarships for room and board
and classes. Lees had their pick of the elite athletes from the surrounding counties.
Roads were bad. Lees produced many of the areas teachers. Lees played in a
highly competitive conference that featured Vincennes, Lincoln Memorial and
Sue Bennett. They also played the MSU, EKU and UK freshmen. Son, there were
ballers in that gym. Fairce's boys most always won these scrimmages by less than
10 points. But everybody knew the Lees boys arrived out of shape and that
Fairce's team would be a well oiled machine in late August. When swimming at the
city pool, we could hear the whistle blowing from Breathitt's gym. Each boy was
drilled in the fundamentals of his position and then, how he fit in the system.
Fairce kept his first 12 on army cots in his house much of the year. Getting back
and forth in the county couldn't be done and even at the city school, students
didn't drive to school until the mid 60s. He fed the boys commodity cheese and
peanut butter and other commodities along with local chip ins. His boys were
pushing 16 as freshmen. They had terrific fundamentals in middle schools.
The middle schools were highly competitive. Teams didn't load up with all stars.
The varsity 12 drilled during study halls. They had no fundamental weakness.
Everybody in the county knew it. Everybody was for it. That's what it was going
to take to compete with Carr Creek, Hazard and Hindman. A kid acting out
was unheard of. The community loved the boys. If a boy so much as looked
cross eyed towards an adult, he would be in the gym duck walking 500 laps.
Learning how to fit in the community, working hard, team play and leaving it
all on the floor was all it took to become a regional god.

Each of the Lees players came from similar programs and similar communities.
After digesting all the ball I could talk about or watch in the Lees gym, I would
start running the hills around town. I ran a path that would take me by all the
outdoor pickup games, stopping to give advice to young players but mostly to
talk ball. Every pickup game was knock down competitive, nobody wanted to
sit. Younger players would ask me how long I had to sit before getting picked,
what I had to work on to get better, did I think they had the goods. I would finish
my run with a sprint from frogtown, across broadway and up main street.
I would blow by people and they would laugh and taunt, "Must be exactly 3
minutes to 5 o'clock, look at their watch and say, yeah right on time." Everybody
knew I got whipped if I wasn't sitting down for supper at 5:00. I would blow in
the door and sit down with my brothers to eat. Dad would say, "practice tonight
at 6:00?" Yep. "what happened at school today?" I'd tell him. "Got another
game this week?" "Yeah, Thursday away at Hazel Green. I plan to put a big
goose egg on Hollan." "Just do it; don't talk about it son. Nobody likes a braggart."
"Is it ok if I go to the Lees game after practice and then shoot some pinball
with Harold and Martin?" "Who's Lees play?" "Vincennes." "That'll be a big crowd.
Keep an eye on your brothers; make sure they get home before you get with
Harold and Martin. Is Vincennes running their 1-2-2 trap this year?" "Yeah,
aLeest that's what the Lees boys are practicing for." "Those Indiana boys are
half court trap crazy. Well, they'll be all 6'4" at the 2 spots, tough nut to crack
out of a set. We'll just have to beat that thing down the floor like last year.
If we have to set, Dixon ought to try a 3-2 with that big Reed boy from Magoffin
County screenin' their 1. I just might have to walk over to the game a while.
Breathitt at Hazard tonight? Roscoe won't show a thing tonight, to close to
March. They say that new point guard they brought up from Knoxville is
hell on wheels, you seen him yet?" "Yeah. He's no point guard. Dribbles too
much. Shoots too much. Has no idea how to pass his man into shooting
position. No lateral quickness on D. He's really a forward with a jumper.
Roscoe should move him into a sub position at forward." "Nobody else is
sayin' that son." "That's cause everybody loves a fancy dribbler with a jumper.
I know they paid good money for that boy, but they pay Roscoe good money
to make unpopular decisions that win. I'll bet you one dollar that Mr.
Knoxville sits in two weeks. He has to do it soon, before district." Well,
course I won't bet if I haven't seen him. But I'll tell you what, I'm goin'
to tell that Corner Lunch bunch what you said." "That'll be just fine Dad.
See you at the game. I'll be home by 11:00."

Bless your heart 64, I know you love ball. I too surrender.