Friday, June 24, 2005

My Adopted Colonels Rule the Bluegrass State

There is no fool-proof way to gauge which Kentucky high schools had the best athletic programs this year. One old-fashioned way is to measure success in the major team sports -- baseball, boys' and girls' basketball, fast-pitch softball and football. (Soccer and volleyball aren't played in some parts of the state, and/or the number of games they play in those sports vary widely.)

Using 20 wins as the standard of success in baseball, basketball and softball, and 10 wins in football, Dixie Heights was the only program to hit the mark in each of those sports this school year The Colonels won 10 games in football, 25 in boys' hoops, 20 in girls' hoops, 20 in baseball and 23 in softball.

Scott County just missed scoring across the board, coming up one win shy in softball. Corbin, Henderson County, Lexington Catholic and Owensboro Catholic also qualified in four out of five sports. Trinity, an all-boys' school, was 3-for-3 in baseball, basketball and football.

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