{"id":18931,"date":"2025-11-15T06:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T06:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/?p=18931"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:55:29","slug":"quick-hitter-story-south-warren-boat-races-hopkinsville-51-23-bghs-logan-county-advance-to-regional-championship-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/?p=18931","title":{"rendered":"QUICK HITTER STORY\/South Warren boat races Hopkinsville, 51-23; BGHS, Logan County advance to regional championship round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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SOUTH WARREN WIDEOUT JAKE CARTER
TOOK SEVERAL SNAPS AT RUNNING BACK
IN THE SPARTANS’ VICTORY OVER HOPKINSVILLE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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UNION COUNTY KNOCKS OFF PREVIOUSLY UNBEATEN GLASGOW, 10-7; PADUCAH TILGHMAN ELIMINATES FRANKLIN-SIMPSON, 49-14<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Warren High School’s unbeaten football team took care of business against the visiting Hopkinsville Tigers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which means the Spartans will be playing at home for a KHSAA Class 6A regional championship next week on their home turf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Warren’s Kayden York scored first, on a nifty touchdown run to the right side. But Hopkinsville responded quickly in Friday night’s second-round matchup on the South Warren campus, and the Tigers were very much in contention for the bulk of the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in fact, Hoptown briefly had the lead, at 8-7, and it looked like it might be a tight one …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Camden Page, the Spartans’ starting quarterback, guided his team downfield for some critical points before halftime, and South Warren took a 29-16 lead into the locker room at the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Tigers never recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Warren rolled past Hopkinsville, 53-21, to remain unbeaten in 12 games. The Spartans will take on Henderson County, a 41-34 winner over McCracken County, in a KHSAA regional championship game on Friday night at South Warren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a home game, that’s the big thing,” South Warren coach Brandon Smith said when it was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOUTH WARREN’s TUCKER SEARS
SCORES ON A 41-YARD TD RECEPTION
IN THE THIRD QUARTER AGAINST HOPKINSVILLE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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JAKE CARTER AND THE SPARTANS
REMAINED UNBEATEN IN 12 GAMES.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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BOWLING GREEN’s ETHAN KIRKLAND
AND THE PURPLES WILL BE ON THE ROAD
TO FACE LOUISVILLE’s ATHERTON HIGH SCHOOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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TODD ADLER’s LOGAN COUNTY SQUAD
WILL FACE PADUCAH TILGHMAN
NEXT WEEK IN PADUCAH.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Three teams from South Central Kentucky — South Warren, Bowling Green High School and Logan County — all won by impressive margins in second-round play. Bowling Green clobbered Owensboro’s Apollo High School, 52-27, which means the Purples — the two-time defending KHSAA Class 5A state champions — will be on the road next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowling Green (6-6 overall) will travel to Louisville to tangle with Atherton High School for a Class 5A regional championship. The Purples have won five of their last six games, four of which took place on their home field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logan County, meanwhile, turned in an impressive performance in rolling past Elizabethtown High School, 35-0, on Friday night in E-Town. The Cougars are now 10-2 overall, and they’ll get another shot at defending KHSAA Class 4A state champion Paducah Tilghman next week at McRight Stadium in Paducah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Logan County took Paducah Tilghman to the limit, before falling 35-27 in a district game on October 3 in Paducah. Several of the Cougars’ players expressed a desire to face Tilghman again, immediately after the game, and they’ll get that chance next Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FRANKLIN-SIMPSON FINISHES ITS SIXTH SEASON
UNDER COACH MAX CHANEY WITH A 7-5 RECORD …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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… BUT THE WILDCATS LOSE
A SENIOR CLASS OF
JUST NINE PLAYERS
FOR THE 2026 SEASON.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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GREENWOOD’s SENIOR CLASS SAW ITS SEASON
END AT OWENSBORO HIGH SCHOOL, 42-14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Paducah Tilghman knocked off Franklin-Simpson, another district rival, by claiming a 49-14 victory over the tradition-rich Wildcats on Friday night in Paducah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Franklin-Simpson finishes 7-5 on the season, and sixth-year Wildcats coach Max Chaney will lose just nine seniors from this year’s team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The big upset of the night took place in Glasgow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Union County, a Class 3A state runner-up last season, traveled to Scotties Stadium and slipped past Glasgow, 10-7, to advance to the quarterfinal round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Union County will be a decided underdog when the Braves travel to Louisville to face defending KHSAA Class 3A state champion Louisville Christian Academy. LCA crushed Louisville’s DeSales High School, 48-3, on Friday night to remain unbeaten in 12 games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Hart County saw its season come to an end, after unbeaten Murray High School rolled past the Raiders, 49-6, in Murray, Kentucky. Hart County finishes another successful season under veteran coach Chad Griffin with a 9-3 overall record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll have complete coverage of South Warren’s 51-23 victory over Hopkinsville on Saturday morning at jimmashek.com, after which I’ll be covering the WKU home game against Middle Tennessee State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FRESHMAN QB ANTHONY DAVIS
HAS BEEN A QUICK STUDY
AT BOWLING GREEN HIGH SCHOOL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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SOUTH WARREN’s KAYDEN YORK
SCORES ON A 4-YARD RUN
IN THE SECOND QUARTER.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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RUGGED RUNNING BACK DAVIS CHANEY
GAVE THE GATORS CONSISTENCY IN
HIS SENIOR YEAR AT GREENWOOD.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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PIPER WASN’T FEELING WELL, HAVING
TO GO THE VET ON FRIDAY, BUT
SHE’s A TROUPER, TRUST ME …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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