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Along with Puckett, White County has another signee. Stuart Mitchell has signed with Vol State. I think they will both make White County proud.

It was announced at graduation last night that Aaron got a $167,000.00 scholarship to Swanee

Aaron will be attending a very good school and will be playing basketball for Swanee . He is very lucky to be getting a very good education and also get to play basketball. A very, very good scholarship.

Can coaches sign players in April or is it a dead time?

Where are the seniors from Oakland going to be playing for next year. It seems that not many of our district have commited or signed.

From Dekalb County two of the best in the state are Payne Denman and Austin Garrett.

Siegel Grad you have done one really great thing this year. You have turned people against Siegel that had been rooting for them every year when they went to regions. The boys can't help it but I am so glad they will not be playing any more. You can pick another team to build up and another to tear down. Kerry is good but he is no super star. I don't know how he got MVP over the guy from Lebanon for he was not near as important to his team as the Lebanon kid was to his. I think the boro coaches get together and do whatever they want and pick whoever they want on all district teams.

Before I say this please know that this is no put down but purely for information. You say Dunn got a full ride. Did he not get anything on his grades, financial aid or lottery scholarship? Most players have all these figured in and the basketball program supplies the rest to make for a full ride. Dunn is a really good player. Just a little small for D1 but he sure can shoot the ball.

where are all these great -players going to school next year?

Does anyone know why Yslas was moved from under the goal. The girl was the key to winning but when she didn't get the ball the girls lost. The girls team was quite like the boys team last year. They didn't play ball together. A girl could be open and she would be overlooked and the ball thrown to someone else. Don't know these girls but I do know Yslas could have won several games if the ball had been given to her.

To all of you who pray, please pray for Aaron Puckett tomorrow. He will be having surgery on his knee tomorrow. This district would have been different if he had not gotten hurt but he will be playing for a very good school next year. We wish him the best that life has to offer. He is a very smart young man with a 3.9 and his act was out the roof also. He is a quiet , nice young man and would never say the ugly things that a lot of posters put on here. He just sees the best in everyone.

Yeah it will be sad if Puckett can't make it as all district and can go to a D l school.

I agree with you that Hammonds is the best player now playing but if Puckett had not gotten hurt he would have been the MVP of the district. If he had not gone down against Oakland they could never have beaten Sparta. Puckett has the talent and is a very smart young man. He just had a very bad run on luck. After his surgury he will make some college, wherever the choses to go, a very good player.

He gave it his all with boys swinging from him. When he went down he had eight points. White co had 10 fouls and Oakland had 1. late in the game they tried to call picky fouls that would not effect the outcome of the game to make it look more balanced. The game was either 4 or 6 points when he went down in favor of Oakland but its all over for Aaron until college.

The way I figure it is that its time Stewart started knocking down his threes, Josh has come on, Cory is just waiting for everything to fall in place and the big man is back.

SWAMI I think you have made a BIG mistake on the Oakland, White Co game. I think the warriors are going to come home happy.

Is it true that Puckett will give it another try tonight?

Looks as though he will be ready to go on 1/16. With the experience that some have gotten during his injury they should be a really good team by tournament time. We're looking for a sub state at home this year....... Don't count White County out yet.

He did have surgery yesterday but when they got in there it was not as bad as they had thought. Talk about a good Christmas present this young man got the best. They did what they had to do, I don't know all the details yet, but they cleaned it up and hopefully he will be ready to go again in about a month. Still enought season left to make for a really good second half. Dr. Roberts had told him that he would be out for the season but got a pleasant surprise when he operated. A lot of prayers went up for this young man and still do for a full complete recovery.

Look for some surprises in White County if Puckettt really is going to get to come back.

why?

He did. I don't know why he doesn't dunk it in games unless the coach just doesn't want him to.

Aaron Puckett ...White Co. AAA offensive leader Kerry Hammonds..Siegel AAA Chase Dunn AA

Very serious....Lets hope and pray for rehab and not surgery. He really bruised and tore it up. This was his year to show just how good he is and has been and now it looks as though he may not get the chance. His mother did the same thing to her knee when she was a senior in high school. She had surgery and went on to play college ball. So sad when you invest so much of your life into something and something like this happens. Torn acl

Dekalb County is on their way to the state. They won their region today with the top two medalist Payne Denman shot a 68 and Austin Garrett had a 72. They beat Station Camp by 1 stroke.