Tree(s) Today/#Stamps/The Freakin' Weekend (2020/1974)

First, it's almost Saturday in 2020, and you know what that means: It's about time to get our stamps on!™

Second, my YouTube Watch Later queue is working again, and that makes everything better. 

Third, I've got some 1974 media (pictured with Ella) backed up and ready for consumption, and so what I'm saying is this weekend is about to blow up!

Oh, Kentucky

If you want to get your week off to a depressing start, check out Thomas Capps's (excellent) report for Channel 6 on the runaround that sick former Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers are getting from the U.S. Department of Labor and its Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program.

For the moment, at least, what is said to be Kentucky's oldest continuously running fair is no more.

Bad jobs news from Elizabethtown and Raceland. Good from Leitchfield. Hiring in Hardin (I love The Brass Lantern).

I've talked before about the fantastic meeting coverage in today's journalism. Well, I'm not sure that anyone does it consistently any better than Michael Monks in The River City News. His blow-by-blow from a Bromley city-council meeting reads like a freaking Dragnet:

"Effectively at 6:45 tonight, Ludlow is going to make the next fire run?," Chief Keller asked.

"As soon as I call them," Mayor Denham said. "I'll call them shortly when I get done with this."

"OK," the chief said, with a laugh.

Just fantastic.

Spring break is over at Kentucky's public schools, and The Courier-Journal has the 411 to bring your tan-and-fine self back up to Louisville-and-environs speed.

Bowling Green's Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science has selected the high-school sophomores who would make up its Class of 2021, and they hail from 54 of Kentucky's counties. Over its 11 years, Gatton has invited students from all but three Kentucky counties. 

Groundbreaking is set for tomorrow for the Henderson County Public Library expansion ("light refreshments"!).

What's next for 112 W. Broadway in Mayfield?

Oh, Kentucky

$25K to "Grow Rural Education" in Ballard County.

Solar-powered wine, from Pulaski County.

"Load your guns, lock your doors," says the sheriff in Martin County.

Rallying for Paradise.

Kentucky's infrastructure report card: C-minus.

Retiring in Kentucky? Keep looking.

Kentucky is big for Sasquatch sightings, with Anderson County leading the way, per an interesting Marie Mitchell column for the Richmond Register.

Turning to sports, John Wall is coming back, and Matt House reportedly couldn't leave.

Hiring in Madisonville and Central City (part-time MCC faculty in all sections).

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Bent Mountain (and elsewhere in Pike and Letcher counties), Florence and Hickman.

Owensboro and most of Daviess County have been without running water, but the local municipal utility says process is being made.

The Versailles First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) mission team is reportedly stranded in Haiti. "Everyone is safe," says the pastor.

Per Venita Fritz in the Marshall County Tribune-Courier, it's more school resource officers, metal detectors and clear backpacks in the short term and, hopefully, more mental-health counseling in the long term for the local schools.

Mike Farmer in Shepherdsville's Pioneer News hails the Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken baseball leagues for their innovation in tournament formats and suggests they now ought to take a fresh look at their policies and lack thereof around heat index.

A former Highlands High Bluebird and Centre College Colonel has a new focus: "Can I better enable Marines to be better Marines?" Neat Chuck Keller feature in Fort Thomas Matters.

Rest In Peace, John W. Allen (1934 - 2018)

So when the Cuba Cubs won the Kentucky High School Athletic Association boys' basketball championship in 1952, they advanced to the state tournament by beating the Wickliffe Blue Tigers, 54-42, in the final of the First Region tournament at Murray College. Per (indispensable) Bob Mays, here were the scores leading up to that championship:

-- Symsonia Rough Riders 42, Brewers Redmen 38 (quarterfinals)
-- Cuba 74, Clinton Central Red Devils 39
-- Wickliffe 62, Bandana 47
-- Bardwell Indians 71, Sharpe Green Devils 58
-- Cuba 61, Symsonia 34 (semifinals)
-- Wickliffe 74, Bardwell 62

Wickliffe's first-round win over Bandana followed a 63-55 win over the same team in the District 2 tournament championship at Paducah Tilghman High. This was the "(l)ast year for Bandana, Barlow-Kevil, Ballard County, Blandville and Wickliffe (highs, as) they became known as Ballard Memorial the next year," per (again) (really, super) Bob Mays.

One of the players on the Bandana team was John W. Allen, a boy originally from Guthrie, all the way over in Todd County. And he must've been pretty good, because then he went on to play three seasons for the Paducah Junior College Indians (including one for future trail-blazing Vanderbilt University coach Roy Skinner). He completed his degree at East Texas State Teachers College, and then he moved back home to western Kentucky and coached the Ballard Memorial Bombers (it appears he might've been an assistant coach). 

By 1957, things were coming together for the consolidated Bombers of Ballard County. The team failed to win even a single Second District tournament game in its first four seasons of existence. In 1957, however, it played Tilghman to triple overtime before losing, 67-65, in the district final, and advanced to the semifinals in the First Region. Things were looking up in La Center.

But life happens. Back when he was in Texas, John W. Allen had met a woman, Wanda Boyd. In 1957, they married, and, that fall, John W. Allen began a 35-year career of coaching and teaching in Texas high schools. He never moved back. Mr. and Mrs. Allen had children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Texas, and he embraced the new teams of his adopted home--the Dallas Cowboys, launched in 1960, and Texas Rangers, arriving in 1971--while staying true to his old-standby University of Kentucky Wildcats.

Mr. Allen died a week ago today. He was 83. Rest in peace.

Oh, Kentucky

Paducah Sen Danny Carroll, whose district includes Marshall County, says gun control won't stop school shootings "these go beyond things we can solve in Frankfort."

Says people need to change the way they talk to each other. pic.twitter.com/F4RZHtxgea

— Ryland Barton (@RylandKY) January 24, 2018

 

Standing with the Marshals.

On tourism in Elkton.

Bullitt County: "an exciting mix between 'No Country For Old Men,' 'Deliverance,' and 'The Shining.'"

Louisville is amid a Community Mikvah crisis.

Good jobs news from Guthrie.

Jerry's is no more in Bowling Green, but this might not be the end of the story.

Pennyrile is souping up for spring.

Wipes of all types — even ‘flushable’ ones — wreaking havoc in city sewer system https://t.co/Eo40tR2OuX pic.twitter.com/lAWiFaddGC

— Nelson Co. Gazette (@NCGBreakingNews) January 22, 2018

Oh, Kentucky

Good jobs news from Carrollton.

You know, until about 10 years ago, I had never even heard of "heirloom seeds," but now I have a bunch of them in the garage freezer.

No, I did not know how Hart County got its name.

They're planning to get together in Kevil on Oct. 24.

The eighth-graders are celebrating at Hickman County High.

KY Poet Laureate Frederick Smock works with AP students. #Royals #amwriting @MCHSRoyals1 pic.twitter.com/yRzdJ2ieoj

— MCHS Royal Decree (@MCHSRoyalDecree) September 29, 2017

Meanwhile, in other news from the University of Louisville, ...

Oh, Kentucky

William Farley in Whitesburg's Mountain Eagle reports that Letcher County's tourism strategy emphasizes sprucing up its existing attractions.

Amanda Manning in La Grange's Oldham Era reports on a Goshen oncologist's compelling reasoning, following his exploration of a remote South Pacific island, behind his 70-percent belief in the fate of Amelia Earhart.

The renovation of Madionsville's city-park playground is huge hyper-local news for the Kentucky desk.

Good jobs news from Calvert City, Frankfort and Owensboro.

HP SPECIAL REPORT: 'Orange and Black! Orange and Black! These are the colors we will back'

Breaking ... Terry Hutcherson's essential Heath High School Class of 1960 Facebook page has been examining the 1930s of late (everybody's thinking about the 1930s these days), and, today, it has broken news that Heath High School's team colors changed (!) to black and gold--check that, "gold and black"--along about 1937.

Here's part of a page from the 1936-37 Heath yearbook ...

And here's a page from the 1937-38 annual ...

Congratulations, Queen Tanner, and well done, Mr. Hutcherson! The HP will continue to monitor developments at his Facebook page and advise as events warrant.

Kentucky High-school Football, Class 2A Round of 16

Pretty good games top to bottom in Class 2A. Three highlights:

-- This round is where Murray surprised Owensboro Catholic last season--at OweCath then, too--so one would imagine the Aces will be mighty fired up for the rematch in Region 1. 

-- The DeSales' state-championship defense goes on the road to 8-3 Glasgow in Region 2. 

-- Newport beat Walton-Verona by 36-26 this season, but that was at Newport and all the way back on Aug. 29. Tonight's Region 3 semi is at Walton.

Previous reports:

-- Round of 32 preview and wrap

Kentucky High-school Football, Class 2A and A First-round Wrap

In both of these tournaments, home teams won, except in a few instances where a third-place finisher in a district won at the second-place finisher in the other district within a region. And, in pretty much all of those cases, the visiting team had been ranked higher in the state throughout most of the season, anyway.

Here are the Class 2A first-round results:

-- Hancock County 26 at Caldwell County 63,

-- Barlow Ballard Memorial 18 at Butler County 14,

-- Union County 37 at Murray 71,

-- Crittenden County 0 at Owensboro Catholic 52,

-- Washington County 0 at Glasgow 42,

-- Green County 0 at Louisville DeSales 63,

-- Bardstown 52 at Metcalfe County 20,

-- Christian Academy-Louisville bye,

-- Covington Holy Cross 14 at Walton-Verona 57,

-- Gallatin County 6 at Newport 45,

-- Erlanger Lloyd Memorial 54 at Carroll County 32,

-- Newport Central Catholic 43, Trimble County 0 at Covington Holmes,

-- Betsy Layne 24 at Danville 60,

-- Middlesboro 7 at Prestonsburg 29,

-- Leslie County 27 at Lexington Christian 45 and

-- Somerset 20 at Pikeville Shelby Valley 30.

Here's the updated Class 2A bracket.

Here are the Class A results:

-- Horse Cave Caverna 24 at Mayfield 63,

-- Fulton City 12 at Bardstown Bethlehem 52,

-- Louisville Kentucky Country Day 7 at Russellville 39,

-- Fulton County 16 at Louisville Holy Cross 58,

-- Dayton 0 at Frankfort 48,

-- Eminence 12 at Bellevue 61,

-- Ludlow 19 at Paris 55,

-- Bracken County 0 at Fort Mitchell Beechwood 62,

-- Jenkins 0 at Williamsburg 69,

-- Berea 14 at Harlan 48,

-- Pineville 0 at Campbellsville 39,

-- Lynn Camp 0 at Hazard 49,

-- Phelps 0 at Raceland 69,

-- Westwood Fairview 48 at Hi Hat South Floyd 32,

-- Eastern Allen Central 8 at Paintsville 41 and

-- Nicholas County 0 at Pikeville 51.

And here's the updated Class A bracket.

Kentucky High-school Football, Week 5

First, let's back up a little further than this past weekend's action in Kentucky high-school football. The Bluebird backers up in Fort Thomas didn't much care for it last December when a Covington Catholic fan found funny the Class 4A runnerup finish by Highlands.

“@BWolber: @JMikeGriff_17 lol highlands lost” let me know when cov cath gets one. pic.twitter.com/sVYoZwRuff
— JMikeGriff (@JMikeGriff_17) December 9, 2013

OK, now back to the now ... strike up the band in Mount Washington! Bullitt Central beat Elizabethtown, 28-27, in overtime Friday. The Cougars are now 5-0 and ranked 10th in Class 5A. (Bowling Green, 5-1 after a 63-0 win at Barren County, remains No. 1.)

Cougar marching band taking the field pic.twitter.com/0Iewx08sgx
— Bullitt Co. Sports (@BullittSports) September 26, 2014

At this point Friday evening, the Bombers of Barlow were still undefeated. But Ballard lost, 58-18, to visiting Caldwell County in a Class 2A clash. The Tigers of Princeton are 6-0 and ranked second in the state in 2A.

Caldwell vs. Ballard Memorial in 40 minutes pic.twitter.com/3T3qYp0Otf
— Mike Stunson (@Mike_Stunson) September 26, 2014

No. 1 in 2A remains the defending state champ, Louisville DeSales, which won at Bardstown, 39-14, and also is 6-0. 

It's time for football in Bardstown! @HSGTLouisville pic.twitter.com/fQKWK67VBe
— Whitney Harding (@WHAS11Whitney) September 26, 2014

Adair County is still winning. The latest win in Columbia was 40-19 over Russell County. The Indians are now 5-0, and this week they cracked the 3A poll at No. 10.

#FridayNightLights: Enjoying thrill & excitement of Adair-Russell Co. high school... https://t.co/kN3lPjpDow pic.twitter.com/ZdvGPdBahP
— DuaneBonifer (@DuaneBonifer) September 26, 2014

Edmonson County hoped to take down No. 1 in 3A, but it didn't happen. South Warren is 6-0 after a 40-0 decision in Brownsville.

Edmonson Co about to take the field as the Wildcats host the Spartans #fridaynightlights pic.twitter.com/jNZqmYDTgl
— ESPN KY.com (@ESPN_KY) September 26, 2014

Paducah Tilghman, now ranked eighth in Class 3A at 2-4, picked up its second-straight win--this one, 28-6, at 6A Henderson County.

Friday Night Lights - Paducah Tilghman @ Henderson Co. Go PT! #KHSAA pic.twitter.com/1HX1rbA6bZ
— Blaine Lasher (@blainelasher) September 27, 2014

Big win for Class A No. 2 Pikeville: 31-20 at Class 2A No. 9 Middlesboro. Pikeville is 6-0; Mayfield remains No. 1 in Class A with a 4-1 record.

Pikeville leads Middlesboro 21-7 at half. pic.twitter.com/g3rEQhcfSF
— Football RoundUp (@FBallRoundUp) September 27, 2014

Big win for Newport Catholic Central: 28-0 at previously unbeaten Erlanger Lloyd Memorial. This was the Thoroughbreds' first game of the season in their Class 2A. NewCath, at 1-4, and Lloyd, at 4-1, are both receiving votes for the poll but are not ranked.

From @JWeberSports : NewCath blanks Lloyd, 28-0 http://t.co/q8j3awBZpN #nkyfb pic.twitter.com/h38TIEKplm
— Enquirer Sports (@ENQSports) September 27, 2014

A back-and-forth affair at Madisonville-North Hopkins ended with a 29-22 win by Owensboro. The Red Devils are now 5-1 and ranked third in 4A; the Maroons are 3-2 and eighth.

TJ James' jump over TD for @SrHighFootball pic.twitter.com/l5H9rMp3bj
— The Homers (@thehomers1027) September 27, 2014

Madville gets another turnover this time an INT. Madville ball around their 20 yard line pic.twitter.com/VXoumIEDuU
— The Homers (@thehomers1027) September 27, 2014

Madisonville gettin LOUD pic.twitter.com/U5yZAmkqaq
— The Homers (@thehomers1027) September 27, 2014

Meanwhile, down in southcentral Kentucky, Franklin-Simpson drove over to Russellville and won, 21-20. F-S is 4-1 and ranked sixth in Class 4A; Russellville is 5-1 and ranked fifth in Class A.

#FSHS Cheerleaders getting the crowd fired up to start the 4th Quarter! Cats up 21-20! pic.twitter.com/cSMGIKyrUi
— Jim Flynn, Ed. D. (@jflynnfswildcat) September 27, 2014

Louisville Male, the state's top-ranked Class 6A team, beat Ballard, 50-13.

Gallery | Male vs. Ballard http://t.co/mLfYBLAFdC @kyhighs pic.twitter.com/f55lrnHVzA
— C-J Sports staff (@sports_cj) September 27, 2014

Nobody at CovCath was laughing after their team lost, 42-7, to Highlands. The 5-0 Bluebirds are ranked first in Class 4A.

More from @RickBroering on Highlands' 12th consecutive defeat of CovCath: http://t.co/FruCIVQKYr #nkyfb pic.twitter.com/qy2ZcuJONm
— Enquirer Sports (@ENQSports) September 27, 2014

Few people in the United States seem to be having as fun of a fall as is Damien Harris of Berea. On his latest Friday in the spotlight, he ran for the winning and pretty much every other score in Madison Southern's 54-51 win over visiting South Laurel. Plus, at halftime, he was named homecoming king! MadSouth is 5-0 and remains third in 5A.

Damien Harris' had 7 TDs and was homecoming king. And his HS has coolest abbreviated uni name. http://t.co/BYxrfrbMZD pic.twitter.com/eeJxBVbWVA
— Matt Stone (@mattstonephotog) September 27, 2014

Finally, it was great to hear that Coach Haskins was released from Paducah's Lourdes Hospital on Sunday, two days after he collapsed on the sideline during McCracken County's 72-27 win over Fort Campbell. His and our Mustangs are 5-0 and fifth in 6A.

McCracken Co AD Kris Garrett confirms that Mustangs football coach Jack Haskins is being released from hospital today pic.twitter.com/yk11lNr0p3
— WPSD Sports (@WPSDSports) September 28, 2014

Kentucky High-school Football, Second Round of Playoffs

I was up at the Madisonville Community College library yesterday, and I checked out a book called Kentucky Transportation. It came out in 1992, and I think it was published by the state transportation cabinet, but it has four of those official welcome-to-the-book letters with the signatures of important people--one each from the governor (Brereton C. Jones at the time), the transportation secretary (Don C. Kelly), UK's president (Charles T. Wethington Jr.) and the director of the Kentucky Transportation Center (Calvin G. Grayson). So this book is really, really an official deal. Its tagline, on the cover, is, in (almost) all capital letters:

A 200 YEAR CALENDAR OF HISTORY--1792 to 1992

TRACES, TRAILS and HIGHWAYS--RIVERS, RAILS and AIRWAYS

And its first sentence is, "Kentucky has always been a State of Transportation." That's not in all capital letters, but, even still, you know a book's going to be a big, official deal when it opens with a sentence like that one. 

For this week's preview of the second round of the KHSAA-football playoffs, I'm just going to hurry up and type in all the games and post this, and then it seems like it will be fun to read at this book in context of thinking about all of these places and these games. I don't know. We'll see. Anyway, I'll just put whatever I learn from this book in the comments over today and the weekend. 

And you thought all I did was sit around watching Trapper John, M.D. reruns.

Class A

Louisville Holy Cross (6-5) at Mayfield (10-1, No. 1 in the most recent Associated Press poll for Class A, defending state champion)

Russellville (8-2, No. 3) at Bardstown Bethlehem (10-1, No. 9)

Bellevue (7-4) at Frankfort (8-3, No. 7)

Paris (9-2) at Fort Mitchell Beechwood (7-4, No. 5)

Pineville (7-4) at Williamsburg (8-2, No. 10)

Campbellsville (4-7) at Hazard (10-1, No. 6)

Paintsville (8-3) at Raceland (9-2, No. 4)

Allen Central (2-8) at Pikeville (10-1, No. 2)

Class 2A

Union County (9-2, No. 8) at Caldwell County (11-0, No. 1)--Way back on Aug. 31, the Union County Braves lost to the Caldwell County Tigers, 57-20, in the Kentucky National Guard Warrior Bowl in Marion. Since then, the Braves have won nine of 10--the only loss being 27-26 at Owensboro Catholic on Oct. 18. Last week, Union whipped Barlow Ballard Memorial by 42-7. Now they get what Michael Stinson in Henderson's Gleaner called "roughly the equivalent of a rematch with a grizzly bear." Union coach Steve Carter told Dan Schumerth with The Union County Advocate that his primary emphasis is eliminating a series of special-teams mistakes that plagued the Braves in the August game with the Tigers in Marion. Caldwell is the defending state runnerup for Class 2A, and the headline in Princeton's Times Leader on the game story after the first-round, 55-6 win over Hancock County read, "NEXT!" This is my fan-bus road trip of the week.

Murray (7-4) at Owensboro Catholic (9-2, No. 5)

Louisville DeSales (10-1, No. 3) at Glasgow (10-1, No. 4)

Bardstown (9-2, No. 7) at Christian Academy-Louisville (9-1, No. 2)

Carroll County (6-5) at Gallatin County (9-2)

Walton-Verona (9-2) at Newport Catholic Central (7-4, No. 6, defending state champs)

Somerset (6-4) at Middlesboro (9-2, No. 9)

Danville (6-5) at Prestonsburg (6-5)

Class 3A

Monroe County (8-3) at Paducah Tilghman (6-5, No. 9)

Fort Campbell (5-6) at Bowling Green South Warren (10-1, T4)

Bell County (7-4) at Louisville Central (8-3, T4, defending state champs)

Corbin (9-2, No. 7) at Wayne County (11-0, No. 1)

Notable Rematch In The 2nd Round: Corbin(9-2) @ Wayne County(11-0) *Wayne County defeated the Redhounds 6 weeks ago 35-28.
— KY High Football (@KYHighFootball) November 13, 2013

Russell (7-4) at Bourbon County (11-0, No. 3)

Garrard County (7-4) at Mason County (11-0, No. 6)

Pikeville Pike County Central (6-5) at Breathitt County (7-4)

Lawrence County (8-3) at Belfry (10-1, No. 2)

Class 4A

Bowling Green Warren East (7-4) at Owensboro (8-3, No. 8)

Madisonville-North Hopkins (6-5) at Franklin-Simpson (7-4)

Nelson County (8-3) at Shelbyville Martha Layne Collins (9-2, No. 5)

North Oldham (8-3) at Louisville Western (6-5)

Mercer County (7-4) at Boyle County (11-0, No. 2)

Lexington Catholic (8-3, No. 6) at Russell County (10-1, No. 7)

Ashland Blazer (8-3) at Fort Thomas Highlands (10-1, No. 1, defending state champs)

Covington Catholic (9-2, No. 4) at Paintsville Johnson Central (11-0, No. 3)

Class 5A

Bowling Green Warren Central (6-5) at Graves County (9-2, No. 10)

Christian County (5-6) at Bowling Green (10-0, No. 1, defending state champs)

“@purplehayes9: S/O to the senior football moms for the nice surprise this morning! #14 #GameDay pic.twitter.com/2SohjUOg5u”
— The Purple Spirit (@BGHSPurplesNews) November 15, 2013

Shelby County (6-4) at Elizabethtown John Hardin (9-2, No. 3)

Grayson County (5-6) at Bullitt East (10-1, No. 8)

Franklin County (10-1, No. 6) at South Oldham (8-3)

Hebron Conner (8-3) at Anderson County (9-2, No. 5)

Hazard Perry County Central (6-5) at Pulaski County (11-0, No. 2)

"I see... The Bad Moon Risin'.... I see... Trouble on the way..." #team30 pic.twitter.com/WKp4y5ZEQe
— Pulaski Football (@PulaskiFootball) November 15, 2013

Berea Madison Southern (9-2, No. 4) at Harlan County (8-3, No. 7)

Class 6A

Cecilia Central Hardin (10-1, No. 8) at McCracken County (9-2, No. 7)--Coach Orville J has been trying to win a state championship for a long, long time.

Henderson County (9-2) at Meade County (9-2, No. 9)

Campbell County (8-3) at Louisville Butler (9-2)

Edgewood Dixie Heights (8-3) at Independence Simon Kenton (11-0, No. 3)

Louisville Manual (9-2, No. 4) at Louisville Trinity (5-5, No. 5, defending state champs)

Louisville Saint Xavier (7-4, No. 6) at Louisville Male (10-1, No. 2)

Lexington Bryan Station (5-5) at Scott County (11-0, No. 1)

Lexington Paul Laurence Dunbar (6-5) at Lexington Henry Clay (8-2, No. 10)

Previous reports:

-- 2012 wrap;

-- Week 0 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap and lookahead to Week 1;

-- Week 1 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap and lookahead to Week 2;

-- Week 2 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap and lookahead to Week 3;

-- Week 3 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap and lookahead to Week 4;

-- Week 4 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap and lookahead to Week 5;

-- Week 5 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentukcy wrap and lookahead to Week 6;

-- Week 6 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap and lookahead to Week 7;

-- Week 7 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap, standings and lookahead to Week 8;

-- Week 8 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap, standings and lookahead to Week 9;

-- Week 9 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap, standings and lookahead to Week 10;

-- Week 10 roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap, standings and lookahead to the first round of the playoffs;

-- first-round roundup and GoHeath's western-Kentucky wrap and lookahead to the second round.