Male Jamboree

Our 2nd scrimmage was against Butler High School in Louisville. The final score was 56-56 but Butler won 3 of the 4 quarters. We shot 17-41 from the field for 41% and 14-30 from the foul line for 46%. The difference in the game was our 3 point shooting as we hit 8-21 for 38%. We got out rebounded by a 30-21 margin and gave up 13 second chance points on 11 offensive boards. We forced 22 turnovers while committing 20 of our own. Butler shot 24-57 from the floor for 42% but only 2-22 (9%) from 3 point range and 6-13 from the foul line for 46%.

Bennett Skaggs, Wes Smith and Hunter Gary led the team with 4 rebounds a piece while Travis Johnston and Bennett Skaggs led us with 5 assists each. Lance Buckler and Bennett Skaggs both took 2 charges during the game.

Scoring:
Travis Johnston-15
Wes Smith-14
Tyler Saltsman-12
Lance Buckler-5
Hunter Gary-5
Bennett Skaggs-3
Brady Clemons-2

Pre-Season Hoop Scoop on K105

Below is the link to the K105 radio show that aired on Saturday, November 29th. It is a preview of the girls and boys varsity teams.


http://www.k105.com/media

Click on cougar sports and coaches corner to get to the program.

North Hardin Scrimmage

In our Cougar Jamboree we defeated North Hardin by a score of 63-55. We were led in scoring by Travis Johnston with 21 points and Wes Smith with 14.

We played each quarter like a game and both teams won 2 quarters . We won the first quarter 14-6, North Hardin won the second quarter 20-19 and the 3rd quarter 12-9, while we won the 4th quarter 21-17.

We shot 18-54 from the field for 33% and only made 17-30 from the free throw line for 57%. We were able to play very good defense and took 6 charges.

We will play North Hardin again in the Fairfield Inn Tournament at Apollo on Dec. 22nd at 2:45.

Scoring:
Travis Johnston 21
Wes Smith 14
Lance Buckler 8
Tyler Saltsman 7
Bennett Skaggs 6
Hunter Gary 5
Seth Bratcher 2

Thanksgiving Practice Schedule

On Wednesday, Nov. 26, we will practice from 10:00 to 12:30.
We will take off on Thanksgiving Day.
On Friday, Nov. 28 we will practice from 10:00 to 12:30.

The junior varsity and varsity will leave on Saturday, Nov. 29 at 1:30 to play at Male High School in Louisville. The jv plays at 4:00 and the varsity will play at 5:30.

COUGAR JAMBOREE

The 9th annual Grayson County Pre-Season Jamboree will be held on Saturday, Nov. 22nd. We have 5 games scheduled for the day. The schedule is below.

11:00 Glasgow vs. Atherton
1:00 Mclean Co. vs. Bardstown Bethlehem
3:00 Breck Co. vs. Allen Co. Scottsville
5:00 Owensboro Catholic vs. John Hardin
7:00 North Hardin vs. Grayson Co.

This is a huge fundraiser for us and we need everyone to come out and watch the games. Admission is $5 bucks for 1 game or all day.

Meet the Cougars' Night

The annual Meet the Cougars' Night will be this Friday, Nov. 21st. The chili supper will begin at 5:00 and the activities for the night will begin at approximately 6:00. This is a fundraiser for our girl's basketball team so I would encourage everyone to attend.

We also have team pictures scheduled for Friday, Nov. 21st at 3:45. This is an early release day from school so arrangements need to be made for the players to be back at this time. It is ok for the players to stay after school in the locker room.

Fall Sports

We would like to wish our cougar basketball players that are still participating in fall sports good luck this weekend. We have several players in football and cross country. The football team will host a playoff game for the first time in 26 years when we take on the Hopkinsville Tigers at 7:00 Friday night. Our cross country team finished second in the regional meet last weekend and will be running Saturday in the state meet in Lexington. We wish both teams good luck.

Another Change for Freshman/JV schedule

Our Freshman/JV game set for Dec. 8th at home against Hancock Co. has been moved to Monday, Dec. 1st at home. The freshman game will begin at 6:00 and the JV game will follow.

We also moved the Dec. 18th Freshman/JV game against Ohio Co. to Jan. 5th.

I will make the corrections below in the schedule.

Open Practice/Parent Meeting on Nov. 13th.

We will be conducting our last open practice on Thursday, Nov. 13th from 3:00-5:30. Immediately following this practice we will have our Parent meeting to discuss a variety of topics prior to the season starting. It is very important that you make every effort to attend. The information given out will be very useful to you and your child. If you can't attend the open practice then please make it to our meeting. The meeting will start at 5:30 and should be over by 6:30.