Hopkinsville Middle School – Kentucky Prep Gridiron

Andrew Nason from Wofo staking his early claim as being a ’25 ‘Mr. Football Candidate.’ @AndrewNason21 @WoodfordFBall @WofoNews @SFord_7 @4adenN @minguabeefjerky @PrepSpin @1776Bank @MaxPreps @KyHighFootball @kyhighs @HLpreps

October 4, 2022 Henry Lyon 1

He is a transfer from 4A Hopkinsville High School. With the struggles Hoptown has experienced with QB play, and with the efficiency this young ’25 QB has displayed, don’t you imagine the transfer of this particular player to Woodford County is all the more painful? Enjoy this look at a player whose candidacy for the ’25 graduating class’s “Mr. Football” award is looking all the more legitimate, week after week. HB.

Tristin Dillard, ’27, and Jack Whaley Long, ’27, looking to right the Tiger ship this Fall. @minguabeefjerky @KyHighFootball @khsaafootball @PrepSpin @MaxPreps @OfficialKYMSFA @KYFUTURESTARS

July 16, 2022 Henry Lyon 0

One of them (Tristin Dillard) is considered among the best RBs in Kentucky and is a member of the Team Kentucky FBU Elite squad and the other (Jack Whaley Long) is a relative unknown but is starting to demonstrate the skills requisite to achieve stardom at this and the next level. Together, they will take a young HMS squad as far as they are able to carry the Tigers. Enjoy this look at two ’27 stars. HB.

@HoptownFootball adds a little (more) “D-I Flava” to the 2020-stew in Florida Transfer QB, @TreyvonJeffers1 (c/o 2022)

June 18, 2020 Henry Lyon 0

With an ever-changing landscape in the first-district of the 4A classification brought about by graduation, it seems hard to pick a favorite in that particular district. Madisonville was perfectly ravaged by graduation losses right where it hurts, along the offensive front and the defensive front-seven. They lost plenty in the […]

KYMSFA Playoffs, one moves on…another goes home.

October 8, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

Well, it wasn’t A Tale of Two Cities Saturday in Hopkinsville, Kentucky but it turned out to be a Tale of Two Teams and they are headed in decidedly different directions, at least for now. Hopkinsville Middle School continued its red-hot play, behind four scores in which Daisjaun Mercer factored, at the very […]

Judgment Day, Part Deux, CCMS vs. HMS at the Stadium of Champions

October 1, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

There maybe hasn’t been a more stunning nor demonstrable appearing improvement than the improvement HMS has undergone over the course of the 2018 season. The HMS team which lost week one at Caldwell County, a game in which Caldwell benefitted from recovering numerous on-side kicks in route to the rout, […]

Resurgent HMS has a large obstacle in its way in Logan County Middle

September 19, 2018 Fletcher Long 2

A team which was left for dead just a few weeks ago (including by this very publication), through very hard work has resurrected its season and travels tomorrow to challenge perennial heavyweight, Logan County Middle School in Russellville, Kentucky. The HMS Tigers, 3-2, behind the rather Herculean effort of its […]

Jacob Beale is fast becoming, for HMS, a “Jac[ob] of all trades, master of many…”

September 13, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

Interestingly enough, and something of which many people may not be aware, the name Jacob is a cognate of the name James which has the name, Jack, commonly ascribed as a short or nickname. In the study of linguistics, cognates are words with a common etymological origin. Cognates, therefore, originate from […]

A Game which MATTERS…

August 27, 2018 Fletcher Long 2

I have known Christopher Southerland for many years prior to his being hired to head up the Hopkinsville Middle School football program. He’s a bright guy and his heart is in the right place. However, that being said, I don’t think it was a very good idea for him to […]

Pikeville’s Landon Hammock doing way more than just lying around…

June 30, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

I know when we hear the word Hammock most people immediately think of a piece of back-yard, lounging equipment often used for napping, but people around the Pikeville Football program will have to be excused should they think of something altogether different. In Pikeville, especially around the football sect, the word […]

Oscar “JT” Adams, IV, Class of 2023…

May 9, 2018 Fletcher Long 0

Talk about a huge pick-up for a middle school program. I am not saying the only reason JT Adams’ father, John, got the job at Christian County High School as the new Offensive Coordinator is solely because he has fathered a class of 2023 dynamo whom the varsity program would […]