[Mr.Kimball]

maybe if they will allow ghost men the tigers will be alright this season, haha just kidding...the pitching staff was wore out last year and it showed in the first round of the district, i dont think Grimm gained anything on his fastball from start of the season until the end and watkins' fastball just kept getting flatter and flatter...with the seeding this year hopefully paintsville and lawrence will both make it, im guessing lawrence is about the only team that could potentially beat paintsville this season....other than that what does the 15th have, ive heard JC will just be too young, but thats just what i was told...

JC will be young this season, but they were young last season as well. They only had 3 seniors and 1 junior on last seasons squad. As far as pitching, yes, they lost Fyffe and Blanton, but they have 4 kids that will still be able to hit the low 80's with one freshman coming up, that at times touched the mid 80's as an 8th grader. Vance was a freshman last season and he indeed did beat Lawrence Co, as well. During the summer Central played Paintsville with both teams pretty much having this season's rosters intact and they were still all the traditional close competitive JC/Paintsville games that they always are. Grimm just barely scraped out one win against them. I really believe that it is again a three team race , with the edge I agree going to the other two teams, but dont be surprised if JC were to pull another one out. Some people told me last year that I was crazy when I said that Lawrence would be right up there at seasons end, and looked what happened (right Guru...lol). Johnson Central wont be off as much as some think they will be. The biggest obstacle I think that they face will be how much quality practice time they will be able to have due to the uncertain completion date of their new field. I think that Paintsville lost a little more offensive prowless than what some may think. Pikeville also will be a team that will be able to knock anyone else in the region out. I dont think that they may be back to their former status just yet, but they will be able to pull off a win against anybody else. They proved that over the summer and fall as well when playing Lawrence.