In other news, Fort Campbell’s game last night, lost to governmental shutdown, rescheduled for October 30, 2025
Rather uncharacteristically, we experienced a vast array of Thursday night, high school football action on October 2, 2025. We picked the 13-games on the schedule and won 12 of them, completely missing that St. Henry’s was going to lay a butt-kicking on Owen County (40-12). We picked Owen County. It was our only blemish on the night. How we missed that, I will never know. Maybe Owen County’s keeping it within 62-points of Beechwood’s Tigers (68-6) earlier this season (September 26) lulled us into some hope the Rebels might get it done against St. Henry’s. Anyhow, the Maroons in 5A, District 1, ran its record to 7-0 overall and 3-0 in its district.
HB Lyon, Scouting Director, “KPGFootball”
Greeneville, KY: The Maroons from North Hopkins have run its record to 7-0 for the first time since 1983. We checked this year’s record against the 11-win, 2019 team which made the semi-state run under Coach Jay Burgett to make sure we were on point. That team opened the ’19 season with five (5) straight wins before dropping its sixth game to Logan County, 26-24.
The 2019 team never saw 7-0. The 1983 edition did.
This team shares some similarities with the 1983 edition. In ’83, the Maroons were described, by outlets, as being “too good for high school football” with some suggesting the team could compete with the Dallas Cowboys.
The Cowboys were America’s team in the 80s and regularly competing for championships in the NFL. This year’s Maroons might well beat the present Dallas Cowboys. They can’t seem to beat anyone they play nowadays.
Madisonville-North Hopkins travelled to Greenville, Kentucky to play Muhlenberg County. You know where that is. John Prine taught all of us that Muhlenberg County was 🎶…down by the Green River where paradise lay.🎶
Muhlenberg County was riding a 4-2 worksheet into the game at home with one of 5A’s very best football teams. For the homesteading Mustangs it was a struggle though not an altogether unforeseeable one.
For the Mustangs the game with Madisonville was a struggle though not an altogether unforeseen one
Friday Night Fletch
Madisonville-North Hopkins won the game 56-12. They (unofficially) compiled 524 total yards, 274 passing and 250-yards rushing.
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The gang for the Maroons were all there. Mr. Football candidate, Markezz Hightower (’26), gained 200-yards rushing (or thereabouts) and picked up 45-yards receiving. QB, Alex Richards (’28), was 10 for 16 for 274-yards passing with three (3) TDs.
Tight-end, Jayden Travis (’26), worked the middle effectively between the second and third level of the defense loosening the run box and permitting Hightower and Ryder Sandidge (’27) room to operate. Kadence Price and his cohorts on the OL perpetually established the line of scrimmage five (5) to seven (7) yards from where it started.
For its part, the defense was stifling and against a very capable and talented, albeit young, group of offensive skills on the ‘Stangs’s sideline. Kirk LaGrange (’26), Travion Stafford (’26), and “Mr. Versatile” Ryder Sandidge (’27) kept the home-standing Mustangs corralled while Bryson Shoulders (’27) and Clayton Gunkel (’27) kept the high-powered passing attack in check.
Big time nose, Luke DeMoss (’27) was an immovable obstruction in the middle of the Mustang A-Gap all night. What he didn’t tackle, he darn sure clogged.
“I was pretty impressed with some of the talent the Mustangs had on the field against us,” Assistant Coach Mike Evans told KPGFootball. “That Klay Wilken (’27 QB) is a player. He throws a really nice ball. Wilken has a ton of arm talent.”
Evans continue to report that senior, “…WR, Brayden Baskerville (’26), made a grab against our defense, on a deep ball, where we couldn’t have been in better defensive position. Baskerville just made a great, athletic play.”
We caught up with Madisonville’s head football coach, Chris Price. Coach Price and Evans both agreed, “there is little doubt Muhlenberg County is a football program trending the right direction. Kudos to their program, coaching staff, and kids.”
The Maroons, now 7-0, will have the week off next week before reconvening the 17th of October for Owensboro Apollo (5A, D1, 2-4). Following the 17th, the Maroons will play Owensboro Senior High (5A, D1, 5-2 and winners of five (5) straight) the following week before closing the regular season with Warren Central (5A,D2, 3-3).
The game with “Senior High” should be a highly anticipated one. North Hopkins has the highest RPI in 5A, while Owensboro is fourth (4th).
In other news, we published an article lamenting the fact the government shutdown looked likely to prevent the game between Trigg County and Fort Campbell from ever being played. When that article was published, Thursday afternoon, there were no existing plans to reschedule what would have been a critical district game for both teams. Last night’s game was suspended owing to the present federal government shutdown.
That certainly isn’t the fault of Trigg County, its program, coaches, and kids. It can’t be fairly attributed to Fort Campbell High School either. Everywhere you looked there were nothing by victims, lain to waste, on either side of that highway.
Coach Chris Ezell and Coach Henry Mitchell, both US Army veterans, “stepped up” to right what would have been a terrible wrong. The two coaches saved the matchup for their programs, their district, and their kids. Good for both of those gentlemen.
The game has been rescheduled for October 30, 2025 at Fort Campbell’s Fryar Stadium. Trigg County will forego playing its previously scheduled game with winless, 1A, 1st-District, Fulton County the following night (October 31, 2025).
Well done, men!
This is Friday Night Fletch, reporting for KPGFootball, reminding you to PLAY THROUGH THE WHISTLE!
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