UK's Eric Quigley of Pewee Valley plays for the NCAA men's singles tennis championship at 11 a.m. Central today. Back at Crestwood South Oldham High School, Quigley won 66 consecutive matches--including the 2005, '06, '07 and '08 KHSAA championships. He was the first Kentuckian to win four straight high-school boys' singles state titles since Gary Plock of Louisville Ballard did so, 1971-74, immediately following the four straight championships of Louisville Saint Xavier's Tim Cooper. (Cooper followed his basketball Jones, however, and played on U of L's 1972 Final Four squad.)
Slaughters last week said goodbye, presumably forever, to its school after 95 years of operation. It hadn't been a high school since 1964. The blue-and-gold Panthers never won a regional basketball championship.
More frugal than we even realized.
"200.00 reward is offered for the return of a wallet that was lost yesterday at Columbia Walmart. It's black and sequined with lips on the front of it. There was only 2 dollars in it and I'm not concerned with that, but there was also a fake necklace in it that was given to me by my husband and if anyone knows where it is or has any information on it, I would greatly appreciate it."
"200.00 reward is offered for the return of a wallet that was lost yesterday at Columbia Walmart. It's black and sequined with lips on the front of it. There was only 2 dollars in it and I'm not concerned with that, but there was also a fake necklace in it that was given to me by my husband and if anyone knows where it is or has any information on it, I would greatly appreciate it."
That Lowell Thomas thing is OUTSTANDING!
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ReplyDeleteIt's like watching tennis on the moon.
ReplyDelete3-3 in the first set in Athens, Ga., between my main man from Pewee Valley, Eric Quigley of UK, and the nation's No. 1-rated player, Steve Johnson of Southern Cal ...
ReplyDeleteAgainst the silent NCAA feed from Henry Feild Courts, I'm listening to Strauss. 2012: A Tennis Odyssey.
ReplyDelete4-4 ...
ReplyDeleteJohnson breaks Quigley's serve: 5-4, in favor of the favorite, in the first set ...
ReplyDeleteJohnson wins the first set, 6-4.
ReplyDeleteKyle Tucker @KyleTucker_CJ
ReplyDeleteQuigley can't break back and drops the first set 6-4. Big-time uphill climb now for UK senior vs. defending national champ.
11:54 AM - 28 May 12
Of course, he lost the first set in the semis, too.
Quigley up, 2-1, in second set; Johnson, up one in best-of-three-sets match, to serve ...
ReplyDelete2-2 ...
ReplyDeleteJohnson breaks Quigley's serve. It's 4-3 in the second set, and our man, Quigs, is down one set in the best-of-three match ...
ReplyDeleteJohnson up in second set, 5-3, closing that game with big second-serve ace.
ReplyDeleteQUIGS! Holds Johnson without a point in the next game, so it's 5-4.
ReplyDeleteMy main man from Pewee Valley must break the nation's No. 1 player here, or the match is over ...
Johnson 40-0, serving for the match ...
ReplyDeleteThat's match. Johnson collapses to his knees, and Quigley walks around the net to congratulate the NCAA champion.
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