estill 6th grade “lady engineers” win kba championship · coach shaun hale and assistant brian...

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Lessthantwomonthsagothe last ever Estill CountyLadyPatriots6thgradeteamfinished 1st in the seasonand were tournament win-ner,bothforthefirsttimeinschool history. Now, many

of the same players, play-ingundertheirnewmascot,the Lady Engineers havewon the Kentucky Basket-ballAcademy’sFallLeaguechampionship. Coach Shaun Hale and

assistant Brian Riddellcoached the first ever 6thgradeLadyEngineersteam.Estill Patriot coaches wereMike Long, Bob Young,Lori Collins and RuthHughes.

Estilllostthreegamesinseasonplaytofinish7-3andthird in the league behindElkhorn and RockcastleCounty,bothofwhomtheylosttointheregularseason.TwicetoElkhorn.

Butitwasadifferentsto-ryinthepostseasontourna-mentasEstilldefeatedE.J.Hayes, 34-14, and Rock-castle,31-24,togetintothefinals.Inthechampionship,theLadyEngineerswon34-

Estill County Lady Engineers -- 2015 KBA Middle School Fall League ChampionsLeft to right, head coach Shaun Hale, Mia Hale, Sarah Baker, Macy Reed, Ava Hale, Tournament MVP Mariah Riddell, Emma Winkle, Mackenzie Miller, Hannah Baker, and assistant coach Brian Riddell. Not pictured, Ana Gonzalez. (Photo courtesy of Shaun Hale)

Estill 6th Grade “Lady Engineers” Win KBA Championship31overaverygoodElkhornteamthathaddefeatedEstilltwice. MiaHaleledagainstE.J.Hayes with 14 points andMariah Riddell scored 9.Riddell was the top scorerforEstillagainstRockcastlewith14.Haleadded9andMacy Reed scored. Rid-dellpoppedin17pointstosecurethewinagainstElk-horn.Haleadded8. Most believe this is thebest 6th grade Estill teameverandwitha24-2recordasLadyPatriotsand10-3inthe KBA and named 2015KBA Middle School FallLeague Champion, there’snotmuchtoquestion.Con-gratulations,Estill!

KBA TournamentQuarter FinalsEstill, 36 ..... EJ Hayes, 36Estill scoring: Macy Reed, 4, Mia Hale, 14, Hannah Baker, 5, Mariah Riddell, 9, and Emma Winkle, 4.Semi-FinalsEstill, 31 ..Rockcastle. 24Estill scoring: Macy Reed, 7, Mia Hale, 9, and Mariah Riddell, 15.ChampionshipEstill, 34 ..... Elkhorn, 31Estill scoring: Macy Reed, 2, Mia Hale, 8, Hannah Bak-er, 4, Mariah Riddell, 17, and Emma Winkle, 3.

Regular Season1. Elkhorn .............9-12. Rockcastle Co. 9-13. Estill Co. ...........7-34. Morton ..............7-35. Woodford Co. ..5-56. EJ Hayes ..........5-67. Farristown ........4-78. Paris .................3-79. LTMS ................1-9

10. Leestown .........1-9

by MIKE WISEMANEstill Tribune Sportswriter The 2015-16 edition oftheEstillCountyLadyEn-gineershaveheldtheirowninthefirsttwoweeksoftheseason with a record of 3winsand3losses. Coach Brian Hall’s sec-ond Lady E’s team has al-readyhadtheirshareofupsanddownsintheyoungsea-son. Speaking of young, thisteam could be one of theleast experienced in recentmemory. Four freshmanseeregularactionwhilean-choredbyonlythreeseniors,TaylorYoung,SarahBarnes,andSavannahWallace.Al-though inexperienced, thisteam will fight to the end. A season opening winagainst Model gave theLadyEngineerssomeearlymomentum while juniorforward McKenzie Flynnhadagamefortheagesasshepouredin27pointsandpulled down 17 boards tolead the squad to a 63-48win.Juniorfrontcourtmate,SidneyDanyeurhelpedthecausewith5pointsand7re-boundsandfreshmanAme-liaFarmeradded9pointstothetally. Inexperience and youth

would rear their ugly headin the season’s first loss toMagoffinCounty.Anearly18 point hole and 21 turn-overs would spell an Estillloss. Freshman guard Me-gan Bellamy would shootthe lights out with 5 threepointersandateamleading17pointsandfellowfresh-manTaylorDuechlewouldadd 8 points. Danyeur putin 9 points and grabbed 8rebounds. Estill would travel toJacksonCountynexttopar-ticipateinthePRTCClassicandtakeonthehostschool.AhardfoughteffortwouldfalljustshortasEstillwouldlose, 50-47. Senior SarahBarneswouldleadtheteamwith 10 points and Flynnwould gather 14 reboundsforthenight. A trip to Menifee Co.would be up next for theladies and Bellamy wouldhave another nice nightand share scoring honorswith Danyeur as they bothpoured in 18 points. Estillwould hold a seven pointleadatthehalf,buttheturn-over bug (27) would showup again and the Lady E’swould drop this one bythescore67-59.FlynnandDanyeurwouldbothsnatch

11reboundsandsophomoreguard Savannah Brewerwouldadd7points. A long trip toBuckhornwouldfinallyyieldavictoryfor the ladies and stop a 3game losing streak. Dany-eur and Flynn would bothhavehugenightsandseniorTaylor Young would helpthescoringbyputtingin12points on the night. Dany-eur would lead Estill with23pointswhilefindingtimeto grab 8 rebounds. Flynnwouldnotbefarbehindasshe scored 18 and pulleddown9boards. OnSaturday,EstillwouldhostTatesCreekforanafter-noongameandcomeoutontopofthisoneaswellwitha50-40victory.Flynnwouldhave a nice game with 17and 11 and Young wouldadd9points aseightLadyEngineerswouldscratchthescoringcolumn. EstillwilltraveltoRock-castle County on Tuesdaynightasthefirstgameofagirls/boys double header.The Ladies’ next homegamewillbeTuesday,De-cember22asLeslieCountywillcomecallingfora2:30game. Come out and sup-port the Lady Engineers!!!GOBIGBLUE!!!

by MIKE WISEMANEstill Tribune Sportswriter OnTuesdaynight,CoachJon Bentley’s Engineersweresearchingfortheirfirstwin of the season againstRockcastle in Mount Ver-non. Their record (0-6) canbedeceivingastheyhave4lossesbyfivepointsorless.Mixin2twopointlossestoWolfe County and an OT

loss to East Jessamine andthese guys could easily beover.500. Caleb Bonny leads theteam with a 26.8 ppg av-erage. Eighth grader JoeBentonputsin8pointspergame, Robert Tipton adds7.6pointsand7.6reboundspergame. Michael Abner chips inwith6.8pointsandHunterOsborne gives the team

3.2 points and 6 reboundsa night. Lane andAndrewDoty score 3.7 and 3.0 re-spectively and Trey Rich-ardsonadds1.3. Come out and supporttheEstillCountyEngineersBoys Basketball!!! Theirnext home game will be adistrict clash in a double-headerwiththegirlsonFri-day,January8thagainstLeeCounty.

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Lady Engineers Open Season With 3-3 Record

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Engineers SearchingFor 1st Win of Season

Estill Lady Engineers junior guard Kaley Treadway puts up a shot against the Lady Commodores of Tates Creek as Estill picked up a 50-40 win on Saturday.

Junior center Sidney Danyeur (#33) is heavily guarded as she puts up a shot on Saturday against the Tates Creek Lady Commodores.