Keeton to sport a year round tan in Florida

All of the ladies that read this site will be happy to know that Noah Keeton will be sporting a year round tan from now on. Noah accepted a scholarship to play basketball for Rollie Massimino at Northwood University in West Palm Beach, Florida. Keeton had a standout career for the Patriots and will look to further it in college. He is a great guy and deserves this as much as anybody. We wish Noah the best and hope that he has a great future there. This is a great opportunity for Noah and everyone should be proud that Lincoln County is producing athletes of this caliber. Look for Keeton on ESPN in the near future.....

Young to Lindsey Wilson??

I have heard that Ryan Young has decided to continue his basketball career next year. Rumor has it that the senior guard from Lincoln County is going to play for the Lindsey Wilson Blue Raiders. It is great to see him get a chance to continue his basketball career. He was the floor general for the Patriots for the better part of the past four years.

Young is a hard worker and exceptional athlete. I am sure he will excell at LW.

Baseball Season

This has been a very successful sports year. Hopefully the success can be carried over to baseball now. Most feel the team is poised to have a very good year.

Baseball games occur more frequently, and I don't get a chance to see much of them. Anyone who does, please update. Post the scores or highlights of the game on here.

Good Luck Bat Pats

Predictions?

If you get on the KHSAA web site they have the rosters of each of the teams in the tournament. These also include the stats for all of the players on each team. I looked at Shelby County and South Laurel and Hazard. It looks, from the stats, like we will match up with any of these teams. I thought we proved during the region that we can play any style that other teams want to throw at us.
I really enjoyed the predictions that we did during the football season, and I thought we should try that with the state tourney for the boys. So lets have it. Do your research, and then tell everyone what you think will happen in the first game, second game, the entire tournament.

For me, give me Lincoln 65 to Shelby 56 in the first round. Think it will be Lincoln and Hazard in the second round and I like Lincoln 62 over Hazard 58. Dont like Lincoln's chances on Saturday morning, probably see Mason County or Paducah Tilman. But wouldn't it be great to be in Rupp on Saturday morning.
Also, you can change your predictions after the first game, if you dont like what you see.

Sweet Sixteen Rd. 1 Preview

Thursday, March 20
Session three
approx. 1:30pm tip off

Lincoln County:

27-5
22-2 since December (losses to Dunbar and McCreary Central)
average 71 pts per game
give up 56 pts per game
Played a good early season schedule
Defending 12th region champs
common opponents: Boyle County (W 3x's), Madison Central (W),

Shelby County:

23-8
Six game winning streak
average 63 pts per game
give up 53 pts per game
common opponents: Boyle County (W), Madison Central (L)

Back 2 Back 2 Rupp Tee Shirts available at Patriot Sports on Friday 3/14 @ noon

Tee Shirts with the 2008 design ( getting to be an every year thing ) will go on sale at Patriot Sports beginning at noon on Friday. Shirts will be $12.00. Just like last year there will also be a special commemorative 12th Region Champion shirt being sold at the High School, not sure what they will be charging for their shirt.

12th Region Updates

The Lincoln County boys and girls have both advanced to the second round of the regional tournament. Both were very impressive in their opening round games.

The Lady Pats defeated Wayne County Monday night, in Stanford, 50-40. The game was very close throughout. The Lady Pats finally pulled away in the fourth quarter, outscoring Wayne 15-4. The next opponent is the Casey County Lady Rebels. These two met a couple weeks ago in Liberty, and played a very close, competitive contest. The two will meet in the 12 region semi-finals Friday night in Stanford at 6 pm.

The boys were also victorious in their first round game. They defeated the Southwestern Pulaski Warriors last night at Pulaski High School in the first round of the boys 12th region tournament.

Lincoln had troubled acclimating to the slow style Southwestern was trying play. It was a 6 pt game at half time, and the lead gradually grew from there the rest of the game. Southwestern never got it any closer, and the Pats finally won by a final margin of 54-36.

Junior Ethan Spurlin led the Pats in scoring and rebounding. He, unofficially, scored 24 pts and pulled down 14 rebounds. He was unstoppable in the post, and really benefited by some nice drive and dishes from the Patriot back court.

They will move on to play the host school, Pulaski County, next Monday night at 6 pm. Everyone put on their red and get out to the games this next week. There is a good chance both of these teams could be playing in the Sweet Sixteen.

Also don't forget to listen to Patriot Sports talk, immediately after the game(s) Friday and Saturday night on 102.9 Fm and on the web at WPBKFM.com. Game recaps, fan interaction, Patriot Sports 12th region trivia contest and coach interviews. Don't miss it.