[swva_sports]

Who are the best underclassmen in the 13th, 14th, and 15th regions?

[Sportscritic79]

Freshman
Austin slone
Corey flinchum
Creech
Braxton keathley
Shepherd kid from Johnson Central
Sophomore
Chris Spriggs
Carter Parsons
Jackson Keene
Dalton Combs

[Gridiron_Raid]

Ethan Buell and Blake Burnett from Bell County should be on anyone’s lists for a freshman and a sophomore.

[BlackHawk]

Perry has a great freshman class

[Spud6]

Floyd Central's sophomore class is the class they are building their program around.

[swva_sports]

Ethan Buell and Blake Burnett from Bell County should be on anyone’s lists for a freshman and a sophomore.

What grade is the Huff kid in? He’s pretty solid too.

[DukeBoy]

Landon Miller - Perry Central - The Alpha

[Ice61706]

More freshmen from the 15th:
Tyler Weddington
Cole Slone
Zade Rash
Grant Hall

[Belichick]

I was about to say the Rash kid at Belfry has the ball handling and shooting to be great. He works hard at his game and I think he is focused solely on one sport-basketball. He’s working on his skills and in the weight room. He’ll be as good as anyone around here in that age group. I want to see him be more physical and play better defense but that will come. He’s just a freshman but he’s a dandy. Cole Slone and Brody Little at Pikeville are already getting varsity minutes on a good team too. I look for those two to be fixtures/starters for the Panthers the next 3 seasons. Slone for JC is obvious and he’s going to be a star/already is. Brady Johnson at Valley is a player. Carter Parsons and Isaiah Allen for Betsy Layne. Chris Spriggs from Floyd Central is one of most athletic and quick guards around and can be great if he plays hard consistently and keeps his head. Braxton Keathley for Prestonsburg is excellent offensively but gotta play both ends and quit snow birding. I think he’s a great talent but has more to give. Plenty more but those stick out to me around 15th region. Ashland has a few. The Davis kid who is a sophomore is an incredible athlete. Boyd County has Spurlock who is the best of the all as a sophomore. One of the best sophomores in the state.

[RTruth]

Slone - JC
Keathley - PBurg

Those two are the best on the 15th by a large margin and I think Slone is 1/2 notches above Keathley.

The biggest thing for me is level of competition and how good your team is. Putting up numbers as a freshman against really bad teams or on really horribly coached teams doesn’t mean a whole lot.

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I was about to say the Rash kid at Belfry has the ball handling and shooting to be great. He works hard at his game and I think he is focused solely on one sport-basketball. He’s working on his skills and in the weight room. He’ll be as good as anyone around here in that age group. I want to see him be more physical and play better defense but that will come. He’s just a freshman but he’s a dandy. Cole Slone and Brody Little at Pikeville are already getting varsity minutes on a good team too. I look for those two to be fixtures/starters for the Panthers the next 3 seasons. Slone for JC is obvious and he’s going to be a star/already is. Brady Johnson at Valley is a player. Carter Parsons and Isaiah Allen for Betsy Layne. Chris Spriggs from Floyd Central is one of most athletic and quick guards around and can be great if he plays hard consistently and keeps his head. Braxton Keathley for Prestonsburg is excellent offensively but gotta play both ends and quit snow birding. I think he’s a great talent but has more to give. Plenty more but those stick out to me around 15th region. Ashland has a few. The Davis kid who is a sophomore is an incredible athlete. Boyd County has Spurlock who is the best of the all as a sophomore. One of the best sophomores in the state.

Rash kid has tons of potential and looks physically mature this year but him and Keathley have same issues. They lack a lot on the defensive end.

Weddington kid at Phelps gets a lot done without being overly athletic.

The 15th right now is lacking quality teams and coaching outside 3/4 places. So I expect some big numbers from younger kids.

[Beetlejuice]

Austin Sperry

[Onward Leslie!]

Jayden Hacker -Leslie County

[Truewords]

Slone - JC
Keathley - PBurg

Those two are the best on the 15th by a large margin and I think Slone is 1/2 notches above Keathley.

The biggest thing for me is level of competition and how good your team is. Putting up numbers as a freshman against really bad teams or on really horribly coached teams doesn’t mean a whole lot.

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I was about to say the Rash kid at Belfry has the ball handling and shooting to be great. He works hard at his game and I think he is focused solely on one sport-basketball. He’s working on his skills and in the weight room. He’ll be as good as anyone around here in that age group. I want to see him be more physical and play better defense but that will come. He’s just a freshman but he’s a dandy. Cole Slone and Brody Little at Pikeville are already getting varsity minutes on a good team too. I look for those two to be fixtures/starters for the Panthers the next 3 seasons. Slone for JC is obvious and he’s going to be a star/already is. Brady Johnson at Valley is a player. Carter Parsons and Isaiah Allen for Betsy Layne. Chris Spriggs from Floyd Central is one of most athletic and quick guards around and can be great if he plays hard consistently and keeps his head. Braxton Keathley for Prestonsburg is excellent offensively but gotta play both ends and quit snow birding. I think he’s a great talent but has more to give. Plenty more but those stick out to me around 15th region. Ashland has a few. The Davis kid who is a sophomore is an incredible athlete. Boyd County has Spurlock who is the best of the all as a sophomore. One of the best sophomores in the state.

Rash kid has tons of potential and looks physically mature this year but him and Keathley have same issues. They lack a lot on the defensive end.

Weddington kid at Phelps gets a lot done without being overly athletic.

The 15th right now is lacking quality teams and coaching outside 3/4 places. So I expect some big numbers from younger kids.

Rash can play. Weddington can play. If they could have kept together they would have been a hard duo to deal with. If you sagged in on Weddington then Rash can hit multiple 3’s. If you try to go man to man on Weddington he is hard to deal with. They would get even better later in high school too. But it was not to be

[VICTORY FORMATION]

Seth Caudill, Hazard sophmore

[Hi Risk Warrior]

North Laurel has the freshman that won the state as 8th graders: Joe Smith, Cooper Robinson, Jude McWhorter, Cam Anderson & Asher Edwards, Braden Hampton. Some are on the high school team some are playing Frosh and JV this season.

[Mountainparkway]

Austin Sperry

18 year old junior is not the definition of a underclassman bruh

[zaga_fan]

Austin Sperry

18 year old junior is not the definition of a underclassman bruh

A junior is an underclassmen, regardless of age.

[Spud6]

Sperry from Breathitt is just a junior?

[Diablo]

Yes Sir. Jr. The way it with the portal now, a kid is better off graduating at 19. Up against 24-25 year olds now in college.

[BillSelf]

Austin Sperry

18 year old junior is not the definition of a underclassman bruh

A junior is an underclassmen, regardless of age.

Actually....


By definition, Upperclassmen is Junior or Senior.

[BillSelf]

15th Region Freshmen

57th
Slone - J. Central
Shepherd- J. Central
Rose- J. Central
Woods- Paintsville
Cole- Paintsville
Lauffer- Paintsville

58th
Keathley- PBURG
Hall- BL
Perry- Lawrence

60th
Rash- Belfry
Weddington- Phelps
Hall- Pike Central

Based on roles with teams thus far and production.

[Belichick]

15th Region Freshmen

57th
Slone - J. Central
Shepherd- J. Central
Rose- J. Central
Woods- Paintsville
Cole- Paintsville
Lauffer- Paintsville

58th
Keathley- PBURG
Hall- BL
Perry- Lawrence

60th
Rash- Belfry
Weddington- Phelps
Hall- Pike Central

Based on roles with teams thus far and production.

All good players but there are players on better team benches that are superior talents than some of those.

[Mountainparkway]

Austin Sperry

18 year old junior is not the definition of a underclassman bruh

A junior is an underclassmen, regardless of age.

Zag as much as most of the time you are correct but this time you’re 100 percent wrong. A junior is considered in the good ol USA a upperclassman

[BillSelf]

15th Region Freshmen

57th
Slone - J. Central
Shepherd- J. Central
Rose- J. Central
Woods- Paintsville
Cole- Paintsville
Lauffer- Paintsville

58th
Keathley- PBURG
Hall- BL
Perry- Lawrence

60th
Rash- Belfry
Weddington- Phelps
Hall- Pike Central

Based on roles with teams thus far and production.

All good players but there are players on better team benches that are superior talents than some of those.

Freshman in the region "superior" to those?



Not based on roles and varsity production...


I'd include..


Johnson- F. Central
Slone and Little- Pikeville
Bartley- SV

[Old School Hound]

Corbin:

Sophomore - Eli Pietrowski , Lucas Brittain
8th Grade - Ryder Akins

[Van Hagar]

According to Webster’s dictionary, an underclassman is a high school or college student who is not a senior. So by definition, anyone in the junior class or below are underclassmen. Look it up if you doubt me.

[Belichick]

15th Region Freshmen

57th
Slone - J. Central
Shepherd- J. Central
Rose- J. Central
Woods- Paintsville
Cole- Paintsville
Lauffer- Paintsville

58th
Keathley- PBURG
Hall- BL
Perry- Lawrence

60th
Rash- Belfry
Weddington- Phelps
Hall- Pike Central

Based on roles with teams thus far and production.

All good players but there are players on better team benches that are superior talents than some of those.

Freshman in the region "superior" to those?



Not based on roles and varsity production...


I'd include..


Johnson- F. Central
Slone and Little- Pikeville
Bartley- SV

Freshmen as good or better than some on your initial list, yes. You named a few of them second go around. Several like them around the mountains that are just sitting behind starters on good teams. Roles may increase as the year goes on or maybe next year but doesn’t make them any less talented. Lots of sophomores same way.

[Beetlejuice]

According to Webster’s dictionary, an underclassman is a high school or college student who is not a senior. So by definition, anyone in the junior class or below are underclassmen.  Look it up if you doubt me.

In all seriousness, Sperry should have graduated last year, yet he’s a junior.  Go figure. I don’t know what u call him.

[Mountainparkway]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictiona...%20college

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Your wrong too van hager

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Says school or college so I’m going to say high school qualifies as a school.

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A member of the freshmen or sophomore class van Hager is what Webster is saying. Where did you see junior or anything not a senior?

[BaseballPirate]

Bryson Edwards
10th grade
Powell County