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let me remind all of you guy's whoom are making predictions on this season without really reviewing last season stats...baseball is still all about stats ...the last time that i checked......so let's look at offense..paintsville had 4 players in all offensive categories in the ky high school coaches web site...these are the stats from which the mr. baseball award is chosen from..2 of these players are returning this season..Corey Adams #1 in state in runs scored top ten in all other categories... J.D. vanhoose top 15 in all offensive categories.... they also return the #1 pitcher in the region ...Shane Grimm..... so if you want to make pedictions then let's at least use a little bit of reason in the equation.....jc is a young team with a lot of pitching,but no dominant pitching,,,,,you can talk about parker all you want I've seen him perform in games that count...I was not impressed!!! but don't count them out...Pikeville does not have any good pitching and I've seen them all....that leaves the only other real contender LC....they have at least two good pitchers and can generate offense....so your regional favorite should be lc ,, paintsville ,, jchs ...in that order and i would be surprised ,,,,,really surprised to see any other team compete for a regional title

P- burg weak overall ,some pitching
Pikeville ,, all of their talent is young....almost no pitching...older kids did not even make the cut for their travel team...excluding daniel harmon ...
no other regional competetion

Keep in mind that some of this info is in my opinion only and not meant to belittle any team just going by the facts.....