The boys and girls 53rd District Tournaments got underway last night at Letcher County Central.
In last night’s play in games that you heard live on 103-9 The Bulldog with Bull Creech and Tripp Stamper, the girls played first, and it was the Jenkins Cavaliers over the Cordia Lady Lions 35-23.
Our Papa John’s Pizza Player of the Game was Jenkins’ Ashley Fields.
Jenkins girls will now advance to play #1 seed Knott County Central tonight at 6:00pm in the first semifinal.
Game two tonight and the second semifinal game will be #2 seed the Letcher County Central Lady Cougars facing #3 seed June Buchanan around 8:00pm.
Tonight’s two girls winners will meet for the 53rd District Championship on Thursday night at 7:00pm.
In game two last night it was boys action with Cordia over June Buchanan 69-36 for the win.
Our Papa John’s Player of the Game in that game was Andrew Neace.
Cordia will advance to play #1 seed the Knott County Central boys Wednesday night at 6:00pm in semifinal game one.
In boys semifinal game two on Wednesday around 8:00pm #2 seed Jenkins will battle #3 seed Letcher County Central for the third time this season. Jenkins won the first two regular season games over LCC.
The boys two winners from Wednesday night will meet for the boys 53rd District championship game Friday night at 7:00pm
All games will be played at Letcher County Central High School.
We will broadcast every game of the 53rd District Tournament this week right here on the Bulldog with Michael Watts, Bull Creech and Tripp Stamper.
The Precision Inc Pre-game Show for tonight’s girls district semi-finals will begin at 5:30pm.
The girls 14th Region Tournament begins March 3 and will be played at Hazard and the boys 14th Region Tournament begins March 5 will be played at Knott County Central.