Friday, April 10, 2009

Ballard's ever-growing tournament ...

Kevin Estes, Ballard Memorial's girls' basketball coach, reports that his school's pre-Christmas tournament will expand from eight teams to 16 for next season, and with a very competitive field.

Several other area schools — Marshall County, Paducah Tilghman, Heath, Hickman County, Lyon County and Fulton City — will join the fray, as could a powerhouse program from Tennessee.

Knoxville Webb, which has won state titles in two of the last three seasons in Tennessee's private-school division, has verbally committed to play in the tournament but hasn't signed a contract yet. Also in the mix are Tennessee schools Lake County (a Class A quarterfinalist last year), Union City and Beech from suburban Nashville.

Also entered are Kentucky squads Allen County, Todd Central, Logan County, Hart County and Bourbon County. The tournament is scheduled from Dec. 21-23. It will be a standard bracket-style tournament with games played in both the high school and middle school gyms.

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