OLIVE HILL It was a collision course destined to happen as soon as the draw for the 16th Region Tournament bracket was announced.

OLIVE HILL Rowan County is roaring in the postseason once again.

Following the normal calendar of football, the pigskin-crazed communities of Ashland and Bell County would have had at least a week, if not a whole offseason, to salivate over a tantalizing matchup of two of the most accomplished and respected programs in eastern Kentucky.

OLIVE HILL Players and coaches for the Russell volleyball team said overconfidence was one of the things it wanted to avoid in the 16th Region Tournament.

OLIVE HILL Boyd County was a runaway train Monday night in the quarterfinals of the 16th Region Tournament against Fleming County.

OLIVE HILL East Carter started its match as well as it finished on Monday night.

OLIVE HILL Down 23-20 and two points away from elimination, Rowan County had its opponent right where it wanted.

CANNONSBURG Corbin coach Armando Cima admitted he wanted his team to slow down in the opening minutes of the boys soccer state Elite Eight matchup with Ashland on Monday night.

FLATWOODS John Perry thought Russell had done it.

MAYSVILLE Boyd County cross country coach Becca Chaney knew the challenge facing the Lions and Lady Lions entering Saturday’s Class 2A, Region 6 championship at Mason County.

CANNONSBURG Noble Eleazu was in the right place at the right time. Consequently, Ashland is one of the state's final eight.

FLATWOODS Russell has engineered its best soccer of the season at the right time. Estill County experienced the full force of a re-energized group of Lady Devils on a chilly and brisk Saturday afternoon.

RACELAND The north end of the field at Ram Stadium still has some magic left in it.

WESTWOOD “We’d sing the song,” a half-joking Scotty McCoy hollered to the Betsy Layne sideline and bleachers, “but we don’t know it!”

MOREHEAD The family that runs together has fun together.

Hours after winning the 16th Region Tournament boys soccer final on Thursday night, Ashland coach Preston Freeman said he knows “less about (semi-state opponent Perry County Central) than I know about anything in this world. I literally have no clue.”

MOREHEAD Bailey Brashear wants the pressure.

ASHLAND Boyd County proved the finish is much more important than the start Thursday night in the 64th District Tournament final at Anderson Gymnasium.

CANNONSBURG Back in September, Ashland halted East Carter’s 16-match win streak against region opponents. On Thursday night, the Tomcats loosened the Raiders’ 16th Region stranglehold in the postseason.

RACELAND As weird as 2020 has been, there’s something eerily and frustratingly normal for Russell’s 63rd District volleyball opponents.

CANNONSBURG Forget Russell’s 2-8-2 record entering the 16th Region Tournament.

One of the many jobs high school coaches must do that they aren’t explicitly paid for is moonlight psychologist.

CANNONSBURG East Carter’s Ammos Witter has a new nickname after scoring the game-winning kick from the mark Tuesday night in the 16th Region Tournament boys soccer semifinals against Boyd County.

CANNONSBURG Ashland’s Calyx Holmes could not help but to dance to the 1977 Bee Gees hit single “Stayin’ Alive” Tuesday night in the 16th Region Tournament boys soccer semifinals as the song played during halftime.

ASHLAND The players on the court weren’t the only ones to feel the nerve-racking moments of postseason volleyball at James A. Anderson Gym.

WEST LIBERTY East Carter’s volleyball team will concede the five straight losses to rival West Carter.

CANNONSBURG The fog encapsulating Boyd County's athletic complex grew as thick as the tension in the final 20 minutes.

CANNONSBURG Just when her team needed it the most, East Carter got the Bailey blast.

PAINTSVILLE This was an unexpected matchup.

CANNONSBURG Menifee County put on a defensive clinic for nearly 90 minutes Saturday night in the opening round of the 16th Region boys soccer tournament at Boyd County.  

CANNONSBURG Ashland coach Preston Freeman could not have been happier with the start his Tomcats had against Greenup County in the opening round of the 16th Region boys soccer tournament.

CANNONSBURG Rowan County returned to the site of what its coach called its worst game of the season for win-or-go-home soccer on Saturday morning.

CANNONSBURG Russell's girls soccer team hit the crossbar or the posts at Boyd County three times in the first 17 minutes on Saturday afternoon.

GRAYSON Bo Jackson’s “Bo Knows” commercial from 1989 covered nearly every sport imaginable.

ASHLAND Class 3A’s ninth-leading rusher had 30 yards on the ground at halftime on Friday night.

Dr. Marshall Banks was a high school basketball player of local note in the 1950s and the first African American scholarship athlete in the Ohio Valley Conference at Morehead State in 1958, but his impact went beyond that.

WESTWOOD Fairview had trouble flipping the field on Friday night. The Eagles couldn’t flip the script against Raceland.

MOREHEAD The only things missing from West Carter’s latest volleyball revival were the tent, choir robes and hymnals.

RUSSELL Down a point in overtime against Class 6A Simon Kenton, T.J. Maynard didn’t hesitate to roll the dice and go for the win.