The Tigers finally reached the top last year, beating Ballard 76-73 in overtime for the state championship. He played basketball at Henry Clay HS (graduated in 1999). Fox News lawsuit unveils gaslighting that has become common practice in U.S. | Opinion, Rare animal dashes across road, then returns with precious cargo, Texas photos show. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Advance Local. He brings great enthusiasm to the program and is excited about the direction the program is headed. The next day Keith was cut open to relieve artery blockage. Some comes from Bolser, who had to learn right alongside his players all year. On 12/30, the Clay varsity basketball team lost their home non-conference game against Southview (Sylvania, OH) by a score of 59-44. Schools: Memphis (Tenn.) University School. And if somehow we missed someone, please let us know. Chuckey-Doak 18-14. Elizabethton 26-4. Watch this highlight video of the Clay (Green Cove Springs, FL) basketball team in its game Clay vs Middleburg Game Highlights - Jan. 17, 2023 on Jan 17, 2023. Get the latest news, schedule, scores, stats, league standings, rankings and photos for Caldwell's high school's Boys Basketball teams. Under Coach Gays leadership, the Commodores had their first winning season in 7 years. Previously, Coach Bordas has been an assistant coach at Lafayette High School, and Henry Clay High School, as well as the head coach at LTMS, Southern Middle and Bourbon County High School. MANCHESTER Clay County basketball coach Bobby Keith has a couple of lucky black cats at home. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). Both of Hurley's sons, Bobby (Arizona State) and Danny Hurley (Connecticut) are Division I head coaches. Were all sisters. Tennessee 17-15. "It was my first and my only job, except for my time with Uncle Sam," he said. While some student-athletes dont let the emotions show until theyve played their last game as a senior, these Red Devils are a unit, one that now wont have another basketball game until next winter. Note: Only boys basketball coaches were included in these rankings. (Pictured with assistant coach Rob Hawk (left) and Rodney Harris). That was followed a few months later by winning the Class A state championship in baseball. Bobby Keith, who guided Clay County to the 1987 Sweet Sixteen championship and was regarded as one of the greatest basketball coaches in state history, passed away Oct. 5, 2016, after suffering a heart attack. I just said, Listen, Im proud of you, Bolser said. As of 20 May 2015, he is the head coach for the men's basketball team at Clay High School . Mattox is aJunior player in the Tates Creek Basketball Program. Guice graduated from Howard Payne University and went directly to work for Midway High, where he won 1,392 wins in boys and girls basketball combined, with 1,018 of those wins coming on the boys side, where he finished as state runner . So last June I retired from the Lexington Herald-Leader after covering approximately 4,000 high school sports events in my career. A score that in the eyes of those players who were a part of this incredible . Email: As a boys coach, he spent his entire career in Georgia. NEW! After graduating in 2005, Coach Gay went on to play collegiate ball at Kentucky State University (2006- 2010). He collected 35 points total last season. 11/28 @ Eastern* 5:00# L 36-27 As Jackson walked off the court, you could see she was emotional. The KHSAA uses a Google ad sequence to help fund and pay for its web site. Thats what keeps him young and, at the same time, makes him old. Luck is not the reason the Tigers last March became the first mountain team in 31 years to win the boys state title. The school's Board of Trustees voted for the deal Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023 which will pay . Not that he wants it. Taking a basketball off the noggin can be an enlightening experience. Bottom line: Kenny Almond won three state championships at Woodlawn High and also finished as state runner-up four times in his career three at Woodlawn and once at Lee High in 1982. After seeing Keith back in action at practice, Rawlings had another version of the prognosis. Schools: Queens Archbishop Molloy (New York) High School. He had a career record of 767-125 (86%). Pictured: Dennis Tobin of Hopatcong watching his son and fellow 2,000-point scorer Matt during a game in 2011. 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He put his hands on her shoulders, looked her in her eyes and talked softly. Bottom line: The most well-known high school basketball coach of all time was DeMatha High's Morgan Wooten, who won five national championships in 45 years. Keith coached 27 seasons at Clay County, including 24 straight beginning with the 1970-71 season. Brooks' vault of basketball knowledge will be put to the test now that he is the new boys head basketball coach at Clay High. He spent his entire 44-year career as a coach, principal and superintendent in the Clay County School District. One of the hardest things in basketball is teaching a team not to beat itself. You have to learn who they are and what makes them go, Bolser said of his players. 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Visser comes to the Eagles with eight years as a. He spent his entire 44-year career as a coach, principal and superintendent in the Clay County School District. After Clay County beat Ballard in overtime to win the state title in 1987, he quipped: I was hoping so bad I could win one before I gave it up because these things are harder to come by than chicken teeth!. Boys Junior High. Keith was a media favorite because he was always cooperative and always a good quote. When he grows up, he wants to be just like his daddy and coach others! Newark Academy High School yearbook, courtesy of Newark Academy High School, Pictured: The 1974-75 Newark Academy basketball team. Those were three of the most epic games at any level of basketball, Davenport told the Herald-Leader. WYMT first reported that Keith died from an apparent heart attack at Manchester Memorial Hospital. In 1987, Keith took a Tigers team starring future University of Kentucky standout Richie Farmer then a junior to the programs second Sweet Sixteen championship game, two years after Clay County fell to Hopkinsville, by one point in the 1985 finals. He has been involved with the Heroes Camp in South Bend and, since November, 2013, has been teaching at Clay. He was hired on as the head coach for Boys Basketball in 2017. White won a staggering 18 state championships during his coaching career and put high school basketball in Alaska on the national radar, most notably when his 1993 team at East High entered the national rankings thanks to future Duke star and NBA player Trajan Langdon. 559 talking about this. Stats are entered by the coach or designated team statistician in the admin. 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He died in January 2020, at 88 years old. Email me at mfields@khsaa.org. Bolser has done his best to help his players reach that potential, but hes had to be patient. Pictured: Carstarphen as the current head coach at Camden. He teaches three math classes a day, oversees a study hall and home room. Schools: Fort Worth Terrell (Texas) High School, Fort Worth Dunbar (Texas) High School, State championships: 5 (1963, 1965, 1967, 1993, 2003). Bottom line: Jack Curran was one of the most successful high school coaches in the country in two sports basketball and baseball during his 50-plus year career at Archbishop Molloy High. RAMSEY Logan Bahn, better known as a bruising offensive lineman in football, showed he can play basketball as well. He graduated from Asbury with a Degree in Sports Management. The Tigers points were the most by a losing team in the state finals, and that team also set a tournament record with 345 total points scored. The doctors were right, Rawlings said. But Keith, a superb motivator, is probably more eloquent at halftime of a close game. But its nothing new. Broussard took over at St. Thomas More High in 1983 for his brother, Ricky, who took a job as a college assistant, and has never left. 1 in Kentucky with a 21-1 record and 32 consecutive victories over state competition. Henry Clay outlasted Carlisle County 35-33 in three overtimes in the finals of the 1983 Boys' State Basketball Tournament, with Greg Bates' buzzer-beating rebound basket finally deciding the epic battle that left the 19,500 fans in Rupp Arena emotionally exhausted. CoEd Varsity. North Clay Community High School 500 Kinmundy Rd Louisville, IL 62858 618-665-3102 FOLLOW US Facebook. Im not that bad, he said with a smile. I still remember the score, Central 59, us 55.. During a second-half comeback effort, sophomore Maddie Sonsini hit a big shot to bring the Red Devils within a single possession, and Bolser fist-pumped so hard that his right leg came off the ground, spinning him around 180 degrees. Keith laughs at that story, but he doesnt do much laughing on the sidelines during games. When he stepped onto the sidelines, he was giving 100 percent.. Then his coach at Ludlow High School, Dan Sullivan, retired from the position to take an assistant coaching role at Gallatin County, where his son, Vance Sullivan, is the head coach. Brooks was a 6-foot-4 sharpshooter who scored 2,324 points in his Rogers career. I wrote this profile of Keith for the Lexington Herald-Leader in 1988 at the height of Clay Countys success. There are situations where you have to start from the beginning. FORTVILLE, Ind. High School, Holden (La.) This Richmond team was one full of sophomores, and theyre the ones who got most of the playing time both this season and last. 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