Here is how we 10 Friday night match-ups fleshing out on October 11, 2019. We haven’t quite figured where we will be Friday night, leaning on taking in the Anderson County at Bourbon County game in Paris, Kentucky. Anyway, this level of sarcasm is protected content for subscribers only. Sorry.
Louisville Trinity has lost 2 of its past three football games. Ballard underperforms in light of the level of athlete it has on the roster. Ballard has the athletes to play with anyone, even Trinity. This game may be close, but in the end Trinity will win because its jersey has “Trinity” across the chest.
KPGFootball’s weekly winner…Trinity
South Warren has just had its 21-game winning streak snapped last Friday night when playing cross-town rival, Bowling Green Senior High School. Greenwood opened with a convincing 14-point win against a Franklin-Simpson team which just happens to not be very good, though we didn’t know that when the two played. Greenwood let dismal Christian County hang around way too long for us to believe it can beat the Spartans regardless of what string of QB plays Friday night.
KPGFootball’s weekly winner…South Warren
this past Friday Night!
Nothing runs its mouth like a Hoptown team which believes it is in the 4A title chase. Man the yip-yip-yippity-yappers are flapping a mile a minute this week as the Hoptown faithful (which number around 40 fans) are booking hotel rooms (Note: They will need 3 rooms) in Lexington for the State Championship game. Look out Hoptown because North Hopkins presents a different match-up issue for you than Logan County which plays a similar brand of football as the Tigers. North Hopkins will try to run the football right at you and not try to out-athlete you, like so many teams have discovered is not the way to beat a Hoptown football team. Hopkinsville hasn’t beaten the Maroons since 2016 and the games haven’t been very close either.
KPGFooball’s weekly winner…Madisonville North-Hopkins
Christian Academy of Louisville appears to be really missing Milton Wright, Stephen LeFors, and getting to play in the 2A classification. While the Centurions have a lot of weapons, particularly across its offensive and defensive fronts, this version looks to lack some of the separation speed of former Centurion squads. DeSales smacked Paducah Tilghman this past Friday night and playing the Blue Tornado requires as many track stars as football players. DeSales athletes are as fast and explosive as anyones. We think the Centurions leave this game .500.
KPGFootball’s weekly winner…St. Francis DeSales
We have been telling anyone who would listen this would be a good year for DuPont Manual since 2017. Manual has been stock-piling first-rate 2021 talent from out of the rich and fertile fields of the Louisville youth and middle school programs for years. DuPont Manual, like we said of DeSales, has the athletes to play with anyone. Still, St. Xavier, like Trinity, still wins games in Louisville because of what is stitched across its chests (unless playing Trinity).
KPGFootball’s weekly winners…St. Xavier
Waggener is a team which really impresses us with the combination of skills and bigs it has on its roster. They have some special athletes and just the right amount of “Big John Mudd-types” to play upfront to beat a lot of people. All any HS team needs in one Big John Mudd, and Waggener has one (Lucky them). Central claimed this offseason, when we didn’t preseason rank them high enough in our poll for their liking, that they always lose a ton of seniors and re-load, not re-build. Well, not this year.
KPGFootball’s weekly winner…Waggener
Every now and again we like throwing ourselves an underhanded soft-ball lob. Leslie County’s star, two-way player Preston Spurlock is playing at about 50-percent which wasn’t enough to get by Middlesboro at home. Spurlock at 50% is plenty to get by Knott County Central.
KPGFootball’s weekly winner…Leslie County
This is a big game and will decide the District 8 championship. It is a tough one to pick because Shelby Valley is a little better than Martin County but not by much. Martin County is at home. In the end, a good HS RB is hard to stop and Shelby Valey has Dalton Meade running behind Peyton Blackburn, whom we (affectionately) call “The Choke Slammer.” We will take Shelby Valley in a game which will be very close.
KPGFootball’s weekly winner…Shelby Valley
We would be remiss in not saying that David Jones and his staff (Bourbon County HS) can sure coach them some football (Yeah, we see you Sweet Pea). We saw them practice a few times this offseason and if you would have told us they would be 3-3, through the first six, we would have laughed dead in your face. Bourbon gets better every week, like a team which is well coached should. Now, Anderson County has some of the best talent in the 4A classification and we think they are woefully under-coached, if we are being frank. If they aren’t foolishly trying to throw it all over the ball park for a two game stint during which we thought they had surely lost their collective minds, they might be undefeated right now. Darion Dearinger is a match-up problem for any team and Zach Labhart can flat-out play. If they get down-hill, the Colonels have nothing to stop that noise.
KPGFootball’s weekly winner…Anderson County
Lexington Catholic has played the toughest schedule in KHSAA. That is why they are 4-2 and the CalPreps.com computer algorithm still believes them to be the 18th best football team in Kentucky regardless of classification. However, that same algorithm has Boyle County as the 3rd best team in Kentucky HS football regardless of classification. We think CalPreps.com is wrong. We take Boyle County over any team, in any classification, in Kentucky High School football in 2019. That includes our belief they will rout Catholic, Friday night, in Danville.
KPGFootball’s weekly winner…Boyle County
Reporting for KPGFootball, this is HB Lyon, reminding all of you ballers out there that #WeGotUCovered and we’re JUST CALLING IT LIKE WE SEE IT!
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