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  Fri 11/27/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 21 - John Hardin Bulldogs: 28 Purples again face unbeaten Bulldogs Strong defenses square off tonight at El Donaldson By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News Friday, November 27, 2009 In 2007, a 12-0 John Hardin team welcomed Bowling Green to Bulldog Stadium in Elizabethtown for the third round of the Class 5A state playoffs. The Purples left with a 27-23 win, ruining the Bulldogs’ season. The situation is somewhat similar tonight, although the Bulldogs (13-0) have one more win, the stakes are a little bit higher and El Donaldson Stadium will be the venue for the Class 5A semifinal matchup. “They’re good,” John Hardin coach Mark Brown said about Bowling Green with a laugh. “They’re big and fast. Defensively they really get after it. They’ve got a great defense and they’re not gonna give up anything cheap. You’re gonna have to work for everything you get. “Offensively, they’re so wide open and they do so many things offensively that you can’t concentrate on any one thing. They get in so many different sets and formations it’s really gonna be a task trying to defend them.” John Hardin has had little trouble defending anyone this season, with 20 points being the maximum it’s allowed in a game. The Bulldogs have pitched three shutouts and allowed just one touchdown on five different occasions. “We never expected to be undefeated when this season started,” Brown said. “We’re proud of the kids and just tickled to death to be where we are. We had a lot of people to replace on offense and then we had some new people on defense. We thought we could have a winning season, but we didn’t have any idea our defense would play this well all year long.” For the host Purples (11-2), confidence should be at a season high after going on the road and winning 28-14 at Christian County. “I would hope that it’s pretty good,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said of his team’s mental state. “We’ve just beaten two of the best teams in the state of Kentucky (in Owensboro and Christian County). I don’t think you get to this stage without believing in yourself and believing in your teammates. That goes for everybody that’s still playing.” Still, Wallace added he knows John Hardin won’t be afraid to step onto Monie Beard Field. “They won’t be hesitant at all,” he said. “They play with a bigger chip on their shoulder than maybe anybody I’ve ever seen in high school football. They’re very confident in their abilities and they have an excellent football team. They’ve put up incredible numbers, but I think we have an advantage in we’ve played teams similar to their abilities - I don’t think they’ve played anybody similar to ours.” John Hardin is led on offense by quarterback Alex Dingle and running back Landon Savoy. Dingle has thrown for 1,976 yards and 27 touchdowns while Savoy has 1,112 yards on the ground and 13 scores. Matt Simmons has caught 24 balls for 586 yards and 12 scores while Jeremy Harness has 42 receptions for 687 yards and seven TDs. “They’re a little more balanced than normal wing-T teams,” Wallace said. “Their quarterback is a three-year starter, they have a really good receiver and a really good tight end. They have more a capability of hurting you throwing it. There as good offensively as anybody we’ve seen.” The Purples will continue to throw all they’ve got at their opponents, whether it be Chandler Sears or Scooter Hollis at quarterback, LaVance Anderson toting the rock or receiver Sam Howard doing everything in between. “They’re awful big,” Brown said. “It’s one thing to be big and slow, but they’re big and fast. We’re gonna try and find some way to slow ’em down. It’ll be the biggest challenge we’ve had all year.” John Hardin is surrendering just 145 yards a game. “I think the strength of their defense lies in their defensive line,” Wallace said. “The players who are behind (the line) can all run really well - they’re very athletic. They have some size and some strength in their defensive line. If we’ll be attentive to what we’re doing and play hard, I think we’ve played defenses that are similar to theirs and we might have a chance at moving the football.” The winner of tonight’s contest will advance to face the Highlands-Pulaski County winner at 7 p.m. Dec. 4 at Western Kentucky University’s Houchens-Smith Stadium. “You never stay the same,” Wallace added. “Every week’s different, every day’s different, especially in high school sports. While the last two weeks have given us a better feeling of what we’re doing offensively with our football team, we’ll be judged by what we do (tonight).” Bowling Green High School
  Fri 11/20/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 28 - Christian County Colonels: 14 Familiar foe - again Bowling Green set to face Christian County for second time By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Friday, November 20, 2009 It’s dejaˆ-vu all over for Bowling Green tonight. Again. For the second straight week, the Purples (10-2) will face an opponent for the second time this season. This time it’s Christian County, but this time it’s less familiar. Bowling Green beat the Colonels (8-4) in Week One in a relatively easy 22-3 win at Houchens-Smith Stadium. That was then, this is now. “We’re totally different teams (from where we were),” BG coach Kevin Wallace said. “Both of us have changed personnel quite a bit. We’re playing a team that’s used to winning, that’s had success in the playoffs - won a regional championship last year. We’re fortunate that we have a lot of guys on our football team that have been around success and been around success at this level of the playoffs. I think both teams are very similar in the type of squads we have and I think we’re very similar in the type of experience we have and very similar in the level of success that we’ve had.” Christian has allowed just 21 points the last two weeks and plays defense like a holiday sparkler - flying around to the ball from every which way. “We’re going to see a defense this week that’s different than anything we’ve seen,” Wallace said. “They’re gonna stack the line of scrimmage and they’re gonna rush seven on pass and they’re gonna defend with four because they’re all man (coverage) and they’re athletic enough to do that. It makes them much more difficult to prepare for because it’s something we haven’t seen.” And it may be even more difficult to expose. Despite the emergence of LaVance Anderson as BG’s primary offensive threat and Sam Howard as the Purples’ do-it-all playmaker, CCHS feeds off its opponents’ indecisiveness to make reads at the point of attack. “I’m certain they can identify that we want to get the ball to Anderson and Howard,” Wallace said. “As I said, we have a lot of similarities. We both have good defense, we both struggle from time to time offensively - but we have a couple playmakers on our offense that if we can get them the ball in open space, good things can happen.” On offense, Christian has had a revolving door at quarterback, having three different players complete at least 20 passes. But that doesn’t change Bowling Green’s plan to key on running back Vashun Banks (1,070 yards rushing, 318 yards passing, 13 total TDs) and receiver Marcoreyon Tandy (209 yards passing, 118 yards rushing, 5 TDs). “They’re gonna try to get the ball to Banks and get him out into the open field,” Wallace said. “Their big offensive line up front is gonna try and get on you. Their passing game has been effective for them and Tandy is a real threat as a wide receiver for them. Those are the two playmakers they want to have the ball - that’s not a mystery. It’s easy to identify that, it’s difficult to stop it.” The Purples are coming off a 25-21 win over Owensboro last week after trailing 21-7 in the second half. But the momentum of that win, Wallace said, will now have to be null and void. “You gotta get rid of it,” he said. “You have to get rid of the euphoria that you had a big comeback win because if you live with that giddy feeling all week, I’m not sure you’re getting yourself in a mental focus that prepares you to play against another quality team. We’ll relive that great comeback at a banquet or something - we don’t need to relive it every day this week.” Kickoff is at 7 p.m. tonight at the Stadium of Champions and the winner moves on to face the winner of John Hardin-Oldham County next week. Stadium of Champions-Hopkinsville, KY
  Fri 11/13/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 25 - Owensboro Red Devils: 21 Owensboro a familiar sight for Purples By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Friday, November 13, 2009 Bowling Green and Owensboro are no strangers on the football field. And at 7 p.m. tonight, for the fourth time in its past 26 games, BGHS entertains the neighbors from the north in what figures to be another playoff classic. Owensboro eliminated BG from the playoffs a season ago. But the good news for the Purples is they’ve already avenged that loss with a 26-21 win earlier this season. Bowling Green (9-2) hasn’t lost in the playoffs to a team it’s beaten in the regular season since 1997. “I like those odds better than the other ones ... but heck, it’s just tough to beat good teams period - it doesn’t make any difference whether it’s the first time or the second time,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said. It’s tough to identify clear advantages for either team in this one. While Wallace thinks speed plays into the hands of the visitors, the side that makes the fewest mistakes will likely move on to next week’s third round. “The team that plays the best is gonna win,” Wallace said. “The team that does the little things and takes care of the football and wins the kicking game has a great advantage in this contest. “They’ve got the best foot-speed of anyone we’ve seen all year long. But we feel like we’re a good football team, too, and we’re excited about the opportunity to go play.” The Red Devils (9-2) have won five straight since a 13-10 loss at Christian County. Owensboro’s two losses this season came by a combined eight points. “You gotta be happy having won nine ball games,” OHS coach Joe Prince said. “We’ve lost a couple close ones to some good football teams. We’re back in the playoffs, playing the second round and there’s a lot of teams not playing right now. We’re happy about that.” Prince said not much about his team has changed since that Sept. 18 loss at El Donaldson Stadium. And he certainly remembers a performance by a senior running back for BGHS. “Last time, LaVance Anderson wore us out with 200-and-something yards rushing,” Prince recalled. “We obviously got to stop him on the run. But they’re a well-balanced team. We just gotta tackle better than we did last time. We try to watch all the film we can. We watched some of the game from down there, but we’ve also watched a lot of their recent games to see what they’ve been doing.” Wallace agreed there won’t be any surprises tonight. “I’m of the belief you do what you do best - on both sides of the ball,” he said. “There are things that we’ll do that are similar (to that first meeting), there are things that we’ve gotten better at or worse at that we’ll either throw away or keep. I don’t think you get into the middle of November and try to change who you are.” The winner moves on to face either Christian County or Warren Central in the third round. The Red Devils hope to send BGHS home for the second straight year. “I don’t think we’re hesitant - I think we’re looking forward to the opportunity,” Prince said. Bowling Green High School
  Fri 11/6/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 38 - Hopkinsville Tigers: 6 Hoptown a difficult No. 4 seed for Purples By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Friday, November 6, 2009 After all was said and done this season, Bowling Green managed to win its seventh straight district title, compiled an 8-2 record and earned the right to host a first-round game tonight at El Donaldson Stadium in the Class 5A state playoffs. “We’re where we need to be. We’re a one seed,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said about the Purples’ regular season, which included a rare loss to a district opponent in an 18-10 setback to Warren Central. “We have home field for a couple weeks. I’m not sure we ever said one word about being undefeated. Our goal is to be at our best when November gets here. The most important thing is what’s ahead of us right now.” And ahead of the Purples is Hopkinsville, a 3-7 team which won one district game but lost four games by 13 points or fewer. “It’s been a strange season for Hopkinsville,” Wallace said. “You watch them on film and they have good size, good athletic ability - but they’ve found a way to lose. They’re gonna come in here with nine or 10 seniors starting on defense and a defense that’s been very effective against good teams. “They were expected to feed off their defensive efforts and if they can frustrate us and keep us from scoring points, the game will turn into a physical match that could be really tight. This is not going to be a normal one (seed) versus four (seed) that we’re accustomed to. We’ve had a lot of running-clock games in the first round - this is not going to be a running-clock game.” The contest figures to trend toward the physical side, with more defense than offense. “We’ve had a decent week of practice. We have emphasized to our guys the importance of bringing a very physical nature to the game (tonight),” Wallace said. “We all go about our business around here with a firm reminder that a poor effort or poor execution will end the careers of a number of seniors. I hope we’ll use that as the proper motivational tool to get use prepared from a mental standpoint.” Outside of a 44-7 loss to Fort Campbell - the No. 1 team in Class 2A - the Tigers are allowing just 15 points a game. “They have good size with their interior folks and they run a scheme we haven’t seen much very often with a lot of blitzing,” Wallace said. “I think we have a good plan for it, but you can always have good plans. Until you go out and prove your Xs move a little quicker or hit a little harder than their Os - it’s not gonna work.” The Purples regained a bit of their swagger last week in a 49-0 rout of Barren County in Glasgow. “It’s about us - it’s not necessarily about who we’re playing,” Wallace said. “We’ve got to have a level of intensity and a physical presence that promotes your athletic ability. No team can afford to be caught to be playing at less than their maximum ability at this point and expect to win.” If victorious, BGHS will host the Owensboro-Grayson County winner Nov. 13. Hopkinsville, with a win, would travel to the winner of that game. “They’re better than a 3-7 team - and I’m not just saying that,” Wallace said about HHS. “They just haven’t finished off games. If our defense plays well, we really have a chance of limiting them in terms of them being able to score points.” Bowling Green High School
  Fri 10/30/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 49 - Barren County Trojans: 0 Purples still have district title hopes By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News Friday, October 30, 2009 On Oct. 23, Bowling Green had a chance to win a district title against a county rival on Senior Night. After 48 minutes, however, the Purples were on the short end of an 18-10 score and Warren Central was celebrating in the stands at El Donaldson Stadium. “The better football team won - and going back and watching the film didn’t change that that much,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said. “Our quality of play was just not up to our standards, and our responsibility as coaches and players is to be focused come game time. Quite honestly, we got what we deserved.” Bowling Green (7-2, 1-1) is now back to square one and still needs a win to secure the No. 1 seed in the Class 5A state playoffs - and also to avoid falling all the way to fourth place in the District 2 standings. The Purples travel to Barren County on what’s expected to be a nasty night of weather. “They got guys that play hard and I’m sure they’re kinda feeding off of what happened to us last week,” Wallace said of Barren County. “It gives them a ray of hope and I’m sure the weather gives them another added bonus that it might slow us down. It’s our challenge to go over there and play at our best.” Led by Colton Phelps - a quarterback who Wallace calls “a dangerous and multi-dimensional threat” - the Trojans (3-6, 0-2) are coming off their third win of the season - 41-20 over Ohio County. Phelps has rushed for 395 yards and 10 scores while throwing for 975 yards and eight TDs. Receiver Jess Hunt has caught 28 balls for 439 yards and five touchdowns. Barren County’s defense has allowed 32 points a game and has been outscored 92-6 in both district contests. In their three wins, however, BCHS has allowed just 18 points a contest. “We would like to be able to spread them out - the field conditions may limit what you can do,” Wallace said. “A lot of that will be depend on what kind of weather we get, what the field conditions are - there are things that we’ve game-planned that we feel like would be productive for us, but we’ll just have to wait and see.” The Purples have won eight straight over Barren County with the Trojans’ last win coming in 1985. Bowling Green won last year’s game 54-3. Barren County High School
  Fri 10/23/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 10 - Warren Central Dragons: 18 Dragons hope to play spoiler at BG By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News Friday, October 23, 2009 Warren Central and Bowling Green renew their crosstown rivalry tonight at El Donaldson Stadium. For Bowling Green, the contest is a showcase for 22 seniors who will play in their final regular-season home game, and also a chance for the Purples (7-1, 1-0 Class 5A, District 2) to win a seventh straight district title. For the Dragons (5-3, 2-1 Class 5A, District 2), it’s a chance to play the villain and ruin it all. “I’ve been waiting for it,” Warren Central’s Edin Hadzikadunic said. “It’s my senior year and I’m putting every thing out there. I’ve been waiting for this game for a while.” Bowling Green has beaten Warren Central seven straight times, and it’s safe to say the Dragons enter as underdogs. Warren Central can still hope for a home game in the state playoffs, but it’s a longshot - the Dragons need a win over BG and for Barren County to beat the Purples next weekend. “I’m glad they look at us as the underdog,” Hadzikadunic said of Bowling Green. “So far we’re having a good week in practice - it’s been the best week we’ve had so far. We’re looking forward to playing them.” Warren Central’s loss Oct. 16 at Grayson County was the second in three games for the Dragons, who started 4-1. “They did a great job of scouting us and coaching,” WCHS coach Mike Rogers said about the Cougars’ 21-13 victory. “We like to go wide a lot and the field was extremely wet, so that made that difficult. “And then we just didn’t play well. They physically whipped us up front. We just gotta get tougher and coached a little bit better. We’ve worked extremely hard at that this week.” Meanwhile, the Purples dominated Doss 51-6 on Oct. 16 in Louisville on just 282 yards of total offense. Seven different players scored for BG. “I don’t think you stop them - I think you try and limit the big plays,” Rogers said. “Good teams you’re not gonna stop. You don’t stop them completely. What you wanna do is a make them earn first downs. Normally, when you do that consistently on drives, high school teams and high school kids make mistakes along the way somewhere. We’ve had a lot of trouble playing sustained, disciplined, smart, assignment football. We’ll have to do that to be anywhere close in this game.” Added Hadzikadunic: “We put in some new stuff. Everybody’s got a responsibility and so far everyone’s been following up on it. One person can’t carry the whole team so we’re planning on everybody getting to the ball and having a team effort.” Bowling Green won 45-14 last year at WCHS. But as is often the case with rivalry games, the week leading up always seems a little bit different. “Our mantra is treat every week the same - but I’d be less than honest to say this is just another week,” Wallace said. “You’re talking about groups of young men that, in some cases, live very close to each other, in some cases are kin to each other and in almost every case they see each other. It’s a pride situation. Our seniors have never lost to anybody here in town. They don’t wanna go out in their career the last time they play a local school losing the football game.” The BG senior class, which will be honored at 6:40 p.m. tonight, has compiled an overall record of 32-8. “It goes back to January and how we approached the offseason and what positive leadership we got,” Wallace said. “It helped develop the character of this football team to one that was going to take things very seriously and have a great work ethic. I’m proud of them for that. There’s a great tradition here that the seniors in this program just seem to grow up and understand how to take the reins and lead in a mature fashion.” Jay Beard and Jake Hodges are scheduled to return to the lineup for Bowling Green tonight. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Bowling Green High School
  Fri 10/16/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 51 - Louisville Doss Dragons: 6 After break, BG wary of veteran Doss Dragons By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Friday, October 16, 2009 It’s a mysterious situation for Bowling Green tonight when the Purples travel to Louisville to face Doss, a team largely unfamiliar to southcentral Kentucky. Coming off its bye week, BG (6-1) will step out of district play to face a squad that advanced to the quarterfinals of the KHSAA Class 5A state playoffs a year ago and boasts 22 seniors. Yet Doss is only 3-4. “They’re big, fast, scary lookin’,” Bowling Green coach Kevin Wallace said. “They’ve had great success there the past couple years. They’re one of the five teams on our schedule that was in a regional final last year. Their struggles this year have been a result of turnovers and shaky play in the kicking game. We’d love to take advantage of those things, but you can’t ever count on that going into a football game.” Nor can the Purples count on being back to game speed once the whistle blows tonight. A long layoff could be just what BG needed come playoff time. Tonight, though, Wallace hopes the layoff wasn’t too long - even though all signs during practice this week have indicated the Purples haven’t missed a beat. “Toss a coin,” Wallace said. “It always something as a coach that you fear - taking too much time off. The flip side is, this could be the midpoint of the season if we go as deep into the playoffs as we’d like to. It gives our guys an opportunity to get away, get fresh, get healthy - get a mental break. I think the mental part is much more important than the physical.” Since the Dragons had their open week on Aug. 21 - the first week of the season - they have beaten North Bullitt, Valley and Waggener and allowed just 12 points total in those three wins. The win over Waggener broke a three-game losing skid. “With the kind of success they had last year, that means there’s an awful lot of people on that football team used to winning and used to having good things happen to them,” Wallace said. “Not for one moment did we expect to turn on the film and not see good players and not see good team speed and players capable of winning.” The issue has been turnovers. When DHS and its offensive line can’t get its ground game going, they turn to the pass. That’s where the trouble starts. “When they throw the football, we want to bring pressure,” Wallace said. “They have a tendency to just kind of chuck it up when they get pressured. They have a really good running back and a big offensive line. So, given a wet field, I’d be quite certain they’ll try and utilize their size and ability to run the football.” Doss is allowing 24 points a game, but of the 168 points they’ve surrendered, 142 came in losses to highly regarded squads Butler, John Hardin and Bullitt Central. “It’s a lot of adjustments to sets where they’re going to play unbalanced and put a lot of people to the strong side,” Wallace explained. “They’ll play a little more man coverage than we’ve seen and it brings a little bit more of a challenge from a coaching standpoint because it’s something you don’t see very often. I’m hoping the things we’ve put in the mixing bowl and come up with are things that will cook up pretty good (tonight).” Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. CDT. Louisville Doss High School
  Fri 10/2/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 42 - Grayson County Cougars: 14 Purples won’t take Cougars for granted By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Friday, October 2, 2009 On paper, Bowling Green will be heavily favored tonight when Grayson County visits El Donaldson Stadium. But the visitors from Leitchfield aren’t expected to just roll over for the Purples (5-1). Grayson County, at 6-0 overall and 1-0 in Class 5A, District 2, has outscored its opponents 192-14 in the past four weeks and has the potential to give BG fits. “Nobody would believe this - but I don’t think there’s anybody that our staff and players respect any more than Grayson County,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said. “Every time we’ve played them, they are a team that competes from the time the game starts until it ends.” It boils down to talent and numbers, Wallace explained. The Purples, No. 2 in Class 5A in The Associated Press poll, just seem to be able to make bigger plays more often than the Cougars, ranked No. 7. But that won’t stop GCHS from trying. “I don’t think they’re gonna come in here intimidated and I don’t think they’ll come in here and beat themselves,” Wallace said. While the Cougars are rolling, Bowling Green ran into a speed bump last week at Trinity, where the Purples were shut out in a 9-0 loss - their first of the season. “If you spend time looking backward, someone’s gaining on you,” Wallace said. “We’re totally focused on Grayson County - we have been since Monday. We took a good look at Trinity and it forced us to evaluate some things we were doing with personnel. We’ll learn from it, move forward and hopefully get better because we’re playing outstanding teams.” In the grand spectrum, the Trinity loss on a misty night in Louisville does little to change the outlook for the Purples. Tonight is the District 2 opener for Bowling Green, which turns its focus to winning a district title. “If we had not had the experiences we’ve had with (Grayson), that would really scare me. But I don’t think for one minute this team is gonna look past Grayson County,” Wallace said. “The score last year (47-6) is not really reflective of the frustration they gave us. They kept the ball away from us a lot … and they were able to get first downs and milk the clock and shorten the game. I think that’ll be their plan (tonight).” Grayson County is averaging 46 points a game and has rushed for 1,730 yards. Six players have scored on the ground, led by Aaron Deviney (579 yards, eight TDs). Quarterback Hunter Gary has thrown for eight scores and has yet to throw an interception. “They’re gonna come right at us, they’re gonna pound us, run the veer, try to be physical up front, run their counter-gap game and their boots off that,” Wallace said. “They’ll play-action and hope that we bite. Plus, they play good defense and blitz an awful lot. They have four really good defensive players that will give us trouble.” The Purples will counter by trying to run their no-huddle package to score quickly. If that doesn’t work, things could get iffy for the home fans in a hurry. “The longer they can keep the ball out of our hands, the better chance they’ll have on winning the football game,” Wallace added. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Bowling Green High School
  Fri 9/25/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 0 - Trinity Shamrocks: 9 A singular focus Purples motivated, confident in trip to Trinity By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Thursday, September 24, 2009 Bowling Green has one objective - and one objective only - on Friday night: Beat Trinity. There will be no moral victories in Louisville if the Purples (5-0) come up short against one of the state’s football powers. “I feel pretty confident that we can get the job done,” wide receiver Sam Howard said. “They’re a really good football team, but if we just come out and do our assignments I think we have a pretty good chance of winning. If we can hang with this team, we can hang with any team in the state and they’re, by far, one of the best teams.” The Shamrocks (1-3) are off to a shaky start, but their record is a bit deceiving. The Class 6A program has lost to Lawrence North, Ind., and Ohio powers Elder and St. Xavier. Trinity beat duPont Manual 27-0 on Sept. 4. Kentucky pollsters have taken note of Trinity’s stout interstate schedule, however, and the Rocks are still considered one of the commonwealth’s best teams. Trinity is No. 3 in Class 6A in this week’s statewide Associated Press poll. Bowling Green is No. 2 in Class 5A. “The two teams that we’ve seen them play against are Elder and St. X, who - if you take the Massey Computer Rankings - are in the top four in the country,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said. “I think (Trinity’s) lack of size was a real disadvantage in those games.” But Wallace thinks size could be an advantage for the Rocks on Friday. Nevermind the fact the Rocks have been outscored 100-34 in their three losses, Wallace said - Trinity is still Trinity. “Structurally, there’s nobody like them that will be on our schedule,” Wallace said. The Shamrocks had rushed for 301 yards and passed for 507 going into last week’s game against St. X in Cincinnati. Led by junior quarterback Brandon Kragthorpe (son of the University of Louisville head football coach Steve Kragthorpe), offensive lineman Jesse Schmitt (who has committed to Purdue), kicker Nick Robertson (committed to Louisville), running back Jack Tenzca and guard Tadgh Reidy, THS has all the weapons to put points on the board. “Offensively, they do so many things in terms of how they get lined up - you gotta make sure you get aligned properly,” Wallace said. “Then they seem to get their receivers in really good places and have an understanding of how to run their passing game. Their play-action game is exceptional. They’re just a difficult offense to prepare for.” It’ll be a challenge for the BG defense, no doubt, but the Purples sound ready for the task. “We need to stop the big plays, No. 1, and we need to wrap up and just play our responsibilities,” said defensive lineman Josh Blaine, who has 23 tackles and a fumble recovery this season. “I’m excited. I think we have a good team. I think we’re all capable of playing on that level. I think we have a chance to win it. I think we can earn a lot of respect.” Bowling Green will not only have to contain THS, but will have to keep its healthy offensive production going as well. The Purples are averaging 211 rushing yards a game and throwing for 124. Last week against Owensboro, LaVance Anderson and the ground game took over, pounding out 236 yards and three touchdowns. In week three at Franklin-Simpson, Chandler Sears and Scooter Hollis combined to throw for 251 yards and four touchdowns. That means the Trinity defense will have its hands full as well. “They’re really mechanically sound,” Howard said of the Rocks. “They play hard every single snap. They play hard and we’re gonna have to play to their abilities.” Howard has caught eight balls this season for 215 yards and two touchdowns. The senior always seems to make his presence known when the Purples have the ball. “I just try and go 110 percent every play,” he said. “(The quarterback) just has to give me a good ball and I’ll go make a play. I’ll do what I can do.” The 5-0 start by the Purples is their best since 2004, when the team started 11-0. Trinity won last year’s game 17-0. “Our guys look forward to it,” Wallace said of the matchup. “This is the fifth straight year that we’ve played St. (Xavier of Louisville) or Trinity. I think our guys look forward to the challenge. These games have been a great learning experience for us - both for our players and our staff to find out more about our football team.” And for Bowling Green to walk away with a win, Howard put it simply: “We’re gonna have to play harder than they do - every single snap.” Louisville Trinity High School
  Fri 9/18/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 26 - Owensboro Red Devils: 21 BG-O’boro playoff result won’t factor into rematch By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Friday, September 18, 2009 On Nov. 21, Owensboro walked away from El Donaldson Stadium with a 28-21 win, eliminating host Bowling Green in the second round of the 2008 Class 5A playoffs. Considering the magnitude of the stakes that night, it’s easy to think that game and that result will be a mental factor as the teams enter tonight’s rematch at BGHS. Well, think again. “That game won’t do nothing for us this game,” Owensboro coach Joe Prince said. Said BG coach Kevin Wallace: “It boils down to us playing the way we’re capable of playing and we won’t have to be concerned about what last year’s result was.” So that’s the approach both sides bring to the field tonight for a contest that promises to be another good one. The Purples (4-0) come in ranked No. 2 in Class 5A by The Associated Press, while Owensboro (3-0) sits at No. 3. Bowling Green is allowing just under five points a game, while the Red Devils are allowing just 12. “We have speed - like Bowling Green we have speed,” Prince said. “The two teams are very similar in a lot of ways. It could very well be a defensive battle, but it could be a 21-20 defensive battle. “We both have good defenses, I think. We both have speed, but if you mess up, it could be six for either team at any moment. Should be a great game.” The Devils’ game centers around two exceptional athletes on each side of the ball. Offensively, quarterback Kal Prince has rushed for 335 yards and seven touchdowns while throwing for 368 yards and three scores. Meanwhile, linebacker Khiry Maddox has two interceptions for touchdowns, two fumble recoveries and 16.5 tackles. “They’re a big, talented football team with an experienced quarterback,” Wallace said. “They are exactly what we thought they would be. We knew they had a lot of good players coming back from last year’s team. I think they’re the most talented team we’ve played to this point in the season. The same thing can probably be said about us for them.” Wallace said that the Devils’ offense feeds off Prince, both through the ground and the air. Shutting down the versatile signal caller won’t ensure the Purples a win, but it will help. “They’re very fortunate that they get to surround him with quality athletes,” Wallace said. “He is a vital part of how they move the football, both running and throwing.” And when BG has the ball, finding Maddox is imperative. “You have to know where he’s at and you have to get a body on him,” Wallace said. “But they have such good size up front and the way they slant makes it difficult for you to get up on the linebackers and then Maddox gets to roam free. And then in our passing game, we gotta make sure we don’t throw it to him. He had two pick-sixes last week (in a 47-0 win over Daviess County) and always seems to be around the ball.” A couple of X-factors tonight could be the weather and a flu illness. Tonight’s forecast calls for rain and the flu seems to be hitting every high school team in the country. On the field, though, the outcome will probably hinge on turnovers and unforced mistakes. “It’s a good rivalry and the game really sets up for later on if we were to meet in the playoffs,” Prince said. “I think we’ll be able to get fired up enough for it. The team that makes the most mistakes will probably be the team that gets beat.” Bowling Green High School
  Fri 9/11/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 64 - Warren East Raiders: 0 Bowling Green High School
  Fri 9/4/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 51 - Franklin-Simpson Wildcats: 9 Bowling Green renews old rivalry with Franklin-Simpson in top-10 showdown By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Friday, September 4, 2009 11:26 AM CDT The Purples (2-0) make the short trek to Franklin to face a familiar foe in the Wildcats. The two schools have met 67 times. “You can go back to just about any generation and find people who played football in this community and in the Franklin community and they give you almost blow-by-blow descriptions of some of the important games of their era,” BG coach Kevin Wallace said. “I’ve been fortunate to have been involved in some superb games since I’ve been here.” Tonight’s showdown could fall into the “superb” category if both squads play to their capabilities. Bowling Green enters the contest ranked No. 2 in Class 5A by the Kentucky Associated Press, while the Wildcats come in at No. 9 in Class 4A. “For us, it’s more than about making statements - it’s about staying on an incline of improvement,” Wallace said. “We’re gonna be tested by a team with really good offensive foot speed that does its best in its wing-T offense to out-flank you and create mismatches and get their athletes in space. They’ve done a nice job of that in their two games.” Both defenses have been stellar to this point as well. The Purples have allowed just nine total points, while FSHS has allowed 33 - 13 of which came in the final minutes in a 28-27 win over Russellville in week one. Kickoff at James Mathews Stadium will be at 7 p.m. Franklin-Simpson High School
  Fri 8/28/09 7pm Bowling Green Purples: 45 - Owensboro Catholic Aces: 6 Bowling Green meets Owensboro Catholic in battle of top-10 squads The Purples (1-0) face Owensboro Catholic at 8 p.m., after Warren East (0-1) battles Apollo at 5:30 p.m. For Bowling Green, last weekend’s season-opening win over Christian County looked dominant - on paper. But coach Kevin Wallace realizes his team, ranked No. 2 in Class 5A by The Associated Press, got a few breaks and the defense played exceptionally well to bail out his offense. “We don’t like turnovers in general - and we really don’t like them when they cost points,” he said. “We had two turnovers that cost us points and we had too many plays with blown assignments. I was really pleased defensively. I was very pleased, for the first game, the way we played on special teams. Between those two, I think we dominated field position. ... I don’t think we dominated the game, but we dominated field position. “That made it tough on Christian County because they had to travel the entire length of the field to score - we weren’t required to do that.” The Purples turned the ball over inside their own 20 twice and another fumble inside the 5 forced BG to kick a field goal. Conversely, BG recorded a safety on a kickoff, returned an interception for a touchdown and scored its only offensive TD on a 19-yard pass from Scooter Hollis to Jake Hodges. Now Bowling Green turns its attention to Owensboro Catholic. The Aces (1-0), ranked No. 8 in Class 2A, are a familiar foe. There have been preseason scrimmages in years past against BG, but the two have rarely met when it counts. “We know that they play hard and they’re well coached - we know they’ll come really well-prepared,” Wallace said. “It’ll be a challenge because they bring more of a balanced offense than we’ve seen.” Catholic escaped its first test with a 42-41 win over McLean County last weekend, stopping a 2-point conversion with 40 seconds left on the clock. The Aces surrendered more than 300 yards of offense but gained more than 300 themselves. “Their one scrimmage and their one game have been against teams that are run-oriented,” Wallace said. “We haven’t seen them defend the pass very much on film. Hopefully, we can find some areas to move the ball.” KWC - Owensboro
  Sat 8/22/09 8pm Bowling Green Purples: 22 - Christian County Colonels: 3 Purples get stiff test in opener Christian County returns talented trio; Dragons to face Southwestern By CHAD BISHOP, The Daily News, Saturday, August 22, 2009 Bowling Green’s football team will have its hands full in its season opener tonight when the Purples face a talented Christian County squad in the Rafferty’s Bowl at Western Kentucky University’s Houchens-Smith Stadium. The Colonels of CCHS finished as Class 5A runners-up last season, falling to Highlands 35-15 in the state title game. This season, Christian returns three of the state’s top players in quarterback Malcolm McDuffen, running back Vashun Banks and wide receiver Bubba Tandy. The question is, will coach Kevin Wallace’s team be ready? “If we’re not, we better check our pulse,” he said. “You start work in January - you lift, run and practice - it’s always a targeted date when you look at your opening game. Multiply that with playing the quality of opponent we’re playing and getting a chance to play up at Western - there’s a lot of positive things about Saturday.” Last season Banks rushed for 1,618 yards and scored 22 touchdowns to go along with 196 yards receiving. Tandy caught 36 balls for 630 yards as a sophomore and both epitomize the speed and athleticism of Christian County. “They’re very fast - that’s the first thing that jumps out at you,” said Wallace. “They’re very impressive in their speed on defense as a unit. They play extremely hard and get a lot of people to the football.” If the Purples can make positive progress on offense, slowing down the Colonels will be a matter of fundamentals. “First thing we better do is tackle,” said Wallace. “If you miss tackles against people with foot speed, they’re gonna make huge plays. We have to have a positive turnover ratio, create positive field position with our kicking game and find a way to get our offensive line on bodies. We can’t allow them to run away from us. If we do those things, we have a chance to have some success.” Houchens Industries - LT Smith Stadium @ WKU
  Fri 8/14/09 6pm Preseason Scrimmage - Apollo Bowling Green High School
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