Still waiting on a leader – or a tie

This horrid winter of 2011 has played havoc on a lot of things here in southern Kentucky, with the most noticeable being the school calendar and the related missed days due to snow and ice.

As of press time Tuesday morning – with students at home once again following the latest dumping of white junk – schools had seen cancelled classes some 14 days.

Of course those snowfalls have also caused the cancellations and postponements of several basketball games throughout the season, but the one that most 16th District roundball fans were hoping would be played this week, wasn’t even a Clinton County game.

The boys’ race for the top seeded bracket position is still up in limbo and is dependent on the Russell County Lakers vs. Metcalfe County Hornets game in Edmonton that was set to be played Monday night. The snow that fell Monday evening left travel conditions hazardous, thus forced officials to postpone the game.

Looking at the calendar, and with only 10 days or so remaining in regular season play, and with yet another snow producing system moving toward us, things are starting to get sticky.

A Russell County win means the Lakers are the top seed, and will face Cumberland County in opening round 16th District Tournament play, leaving Clinton and Metcalfe County to face off in the first round.

A Metcalfe County win puts the first place position in a three-way tie, and likely a coin toss or some other means of breaking the tie would be necessary to determine which team sits in the coveted No. 1 seeded position.

The game has to be played – it’s just a matter of when the two schools will be able to get the contest in.

Says here – these two schools should investigate changing the contract date of this particular game. More than once this game has been the determining contest in how the brackets look and more than once we’ve had a similar situation to this year’s postponement. They didn’t ask me, but there it is anyway.

Rumble at the Castle.

Not talking about it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, so here goes. By now, everyone has heard about – mostly blown out of proportion – the skirmish that occurred at halftime of last Tuesday night game between the Bulldogs and the Trojans of Monticello.

I’ve been doing this a long, long time – sitting on the sidelines in one fashion or another at Clinton County basketball games, and this is a fact: Players will fight on the floor from time to time when a basketball game is involved.

Actually, the seasons I remember when we didn’t have a skirmish or two are far fewer than those seasons when there were punches thrown.

Last Tuesday’s brouhaha – folks, it just wasn’t that bad. No one got hurt bad, and the coaches and faculty on hand did a good job of separating players and keeping the situation from getting any worse.

I’ve certainly seen worse and as I noted earlier – accounts of how it came down have been blown way out of proportion.

Unless I stop doing this today – I’m betting I’ll witness another fight on the floor in the future.