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7th Grade State at KBA (Lex) is starting this coming weekend (Jan 26-28). North Laurel won last years 6th Grade State game in a thriller over North Oldham 55-52.

If you haven't done so please and want to play please contact KBA before Wednesday Jan 24 at playkba.com

This year's tournament should even be bigger as we have over 70 teams already signed up:

Anderson County
Augusta
B Michael Caudill (Richmond)
Bate (Danville)
Beaumont Middle (Lex)
Belfry
Bourbon County
Boyd County
Brown (Lou)
Casey County
Christian Academy of Louisville (CAL)
Clay County
Conner Middle (NKY)
Corbin
Crosby (Lou)
Drakes Creek (Warren Co)
East Jesamine
East Oldham County Beast
Eastside Middle (Lou)
EJ Hayes (Lex)
Elkhorn Middle (Frankfort)
Farnsley Middle (Lou)
Georgetown
Harrison County Middle
Hart Co
Hazard Middle
Jackson City
James D Adams (Prestonburg)
JCTMS (Louisville)
Johnson County Middle (JCMS)
Knox County
Larue County
LCA (Lex Christian Acad)
Leestown (Lex)
Lincoln Co
Louisville Celtics (St Patricks)
LTMS (Lex)
Lyon Co
Mason County
McCreary
McKell
McNabb (Montgomery Co)
Meece (Somerset)
Monroe Co
Morton (Lex)
Moss Middle-Glasglow
Mt. Washington
North Laurel
North Oldham County
Norther Pulaski
Oldham County Colonels
Owensboro Middle
Paintsville
Robert Campbell (Clark Co)
Rockcastle
Royal Springs (Scott Co)
Saint Gabriel
Scott County
Shelby East
Simons (Flemingsburg)
South Laurel
South Oldham
Southern (Lexington)
Southern Pulaski
Tates Creek (Lex)
Taylor County
West Jessamine
West Perry
Westport (Lou)
Whitley County
Wolfe Co
Woodford County

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Looks like a total of 73 Teams for 7th Grade MS State: Should be competitive with 3 Teams bringing undefeated records in an 8 with only one loss.....

Games Start Friday evening - schedule should be up tomorrow afternoon.

Good Luck to all....

Anderson County
Augusta
B Michael Caudill
Barbourville
Bate
Beaumont
Belfry
Bourbon County
Boyd County
Brown
Campbellsville
Casey County
Christian Academy of Louisville
Clay County
Conner
Corbin
Crosby
Drakes Creek
East Jesamine
East Oldham County
Eastside Middle
EJ Hayes
Elkhorn
Farnsley
Georgetown
Harrison County
Hart County
Hazard
Jackson City
James D Adams
JCTMS
Johnson County Middle (JCMS)
Knox County
Larue County
Lexington Christian Academy
Leestown
Lincoln County
St Patricks
LTMS
Lyon County
Mason County
McCreary County
McKell
McNabb
Meece
Monroe County
Morton
Henry F Moss
Mt. Washington
North Laurel
North Oldham County
Norther Pulaski
Oldham County
Owensboro
Paintsville
Robert Campbell
Royal Springs
Shelby East
Simons
South Laurel
South Oldham
Southern (Lex)
Southern Pulaski
Spencer County
Tates Creek
Taylor County
West Jessamine
West Perry
Westport
Whitley County
Wolfe County
Woodford County

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Schedule Up...Total of 73 Teams for 7th Grade State... Starts Friday

Good Luck!!!

http://playkba.com/Schedules.aspx

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Who are some of the favorites?

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We are down to the Final 4:

The Elite 8 games were a slugfest....Some amazing games with some real good teams matched up against each other and it coming down to the final play.....!! In the first time I can remember it is an all Louisville Final 4:

Championship Division:

Crosby (Louisville) - Very athletic Crosby beats a determined and skilled Moss (Glasgow) 51-37

JCTMS (Louisville) - Beats a very skilled and reigning 6th Grade State Champs Lyon County 56-37

Westport beat a highly skilled and tough Corbin in a nail-biter 45-41

St Patricks (Louisville) beat traditional power South Pulaski in an unbelievable game 49-47

Gold Championship:
Final 4 Include Teams from all over the state...

South Laurel beat a valiant team from Elkhorn (Frankfort) 59-38

Eastside beat a hard-nosed West Perry team 55-43

Tates Creek (Lex) beat a talented McNabb (Montgomery County) in a tough game 48-38

McCreary County beat a very talented and hard working Hart County team in a thriller 48-47

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and then there were 2.....

Championship Bracket:

An all Louisville affair with JCTMS playing Westport. JCTMS full court defense and upbeat game wore down a good Crosby team with JCTMS winning 58-34. In the second game, Westport had a little too much left in the tanks at the end with their big man scoring key buckets at the end and prevailed over a very good and resilient St Patricks team 39-34....

In the Gold Division it is Eastside playing vs. McCreary. McCreary playing a tough all around game beats a game Tates Creek team who is just starting their season 40-35 and Eastside wins a tough one in OT against a fundamentally sound South Laurel team 52-49

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FINALS:

Gold Bracket:

McCreary wins the Gold bracket outlasting a tough Eastside team to win the Gold bracket 40-31. Both teams gave it their all and played 4 games, including the championship game on Sunday.

Championship Bracket:

JCTMS is the 2018 7th Grade State KBA Champion eliminating Westport 48-30 in the championship. JCTMS got things started early with aggressive defense and some hot 3-pt shooting and led 17-4 at end of the first quarter and although Westport played hard they just couldn't ever get over JCTMS early lead.

Many Thanks to all the players, parents and coaches for making this a great weekend. We had over 70 teams from all over the state that that accounted for over 140 games at multiple sites this weekend.

Next weekend we have the BIG one - 8th Grade State with close to 90 Teams signed up!!!