BigPoppa

TSSAA allows 8th graders to participate as long as they are housed in the same building as the high school, I believe that LCS would meet that criteria. More alarming for LCS is that the TSSAA requires a 2 year moratorium before allowing a new team to be eligible for post season play. If LCS were to join next year that would not do any good as they will turn back into a pumpkin after losing #22 Smith this year and the big 3 in #10, #15, and#50 next season. Current TSSAA guidelines would make #22 Smith ineligible this season which makes a big difference for LCS. I believe #12 would fall under the same guidelines as well.

Finals from today at the final day of the 23rd annual John Overton High School Holiday Tournament; John Overton 74 Stewarts Creek- 70 MBA 77 Marshall County 57 Harpeth big over Summit Stratford over Giles County in a physical, exciting, close game AND.... Lighthouse Christian School, Antioch, TN 79 Dunbar High School, Dayton, OH 73 in the championship game! The title stays in Middle Tennessee for yet another year. 2013 Champ Lighthouse Christian School over Dunbar HS, Dayton, OH 2012 Champ East Literature Magnet, Nashville TN over John Overton High School 2011 Champ Raleigh-Egypt High School, Memphis, TN over John Overton High School 2010 Champ John Overton High School over Westwood HS, Memphis, TN 2010 Champ John Overton High School over David Lipscomb High School, Nashville, TN 2009 Champ John Overton High School over David Lipscomb High School, Nashville, TN

Lighthouse played great tonight! Made shots, played good defense, got a few calls and deserved the win tonight against Dunbar High School from Dayton, Ohio coached by former NIL basketball great and former area coach Peter Pullen 79-73. I also suspected that the Lighthouse clock would finally strike midnight tonight but they played great. #50 Davis took 5 shots in the first quarter and converted them into 5- 3's and 15 of LCS 17 points. Dunbar never got comfortable with the whistle tonight and could not get into a groove with their pressure defense tonight. Lighthouse should clearly be listed in the Tennessean's midstate top 10 next week and they deserve it. Lighthouse is not a TSSAA sanctioned school so we will never know how far they could go this year (or next). I do not believe they should see many challenges in their schedule during the second half of the season. Moral of the story is..... Never play a Chirstian school on Sunday, God shined down on the Lions tonight, great win for the school and they deserved it against a good team!

Top players in JOHS Holiday Tournament; Dunbar- Many, but PG one AJ Harris stands above the rest. Lighthouse- #50 Tripp Davis, #22 Davis, #10 Napier, #15 Napier Marshall Co- #15 Walker, Sain MBA- Duncan Smith Overton- #0 Jonathan Stovall, #1 D'Anthony Wilson Summit- #23 Giles Co- #24 Stratford- Tyquez Itiat, the 2nd most impressive player in tournament!

Saturday's Results; Stratford wins big over Stewarts Creek Overton by 12 over Summit MBA in overtime over Harpeth Lighthouse Christian in a good very athletic game over a stubborn Giles Co Dunbar HS, Dayton OH boat races Marshall County

Here's the Sunday schedule in the 23rd annual JOHS Holiday Tournament 3:30 PM @ Oak Hill School Summit vs Harpeth 6:30 PM @ Oak Hill School Stratford vs Giles County 2:00 PM @ Overton High Overton vs Stewarts Creek 5:00 PM @ Overton High MBA vs Marshall County 8:00 PM @ Overton High Lighthouse Christian School vs Dunbar HS, Dayton OH

09:00 AM John Overton beats Stratford 65-62 10:20 AM Lighthouse Christian beats Stewarts Creek big 01:00 PM Giles County over Summit in a close one 03:40 PM Marshall County over Harpeth big 06:20 PM Lighthouse Christian big over John Overton 09:00 PM Dayton Dunbar OH beats MBA Saturday 12/28/2013 Match-ups 09:30 AM Stratford vs Stewarts Creek 12:30 PM John Overton vs Summit 03:30 PM MBA vs Harpeth 06:30 PM Lighthouse Christian vs Giles County 09:30 PM Dayton OH Dunbar vs. Marshall County

Bump

1. Brentwood 2. Ravenwood Big gap to everybody else.

Lighthouse Christian School is coached by Vic Wharton who is the grandfather of Vic Wharton III and also is the father of former University of Tennessee and John Overton High School great Brandon Wharton.

John Overton High School will be hosting it's 23 annual Holiday Tournament this year. The tournament features both boy's and girl's teams. Here is the boy's bracket. Who do you believe will walk away with the championship? December 27, 2013 9:00 AM Stratford vs. John Overton 10:20 AM Stewarts Creek vs. Lighthouse Christian School 1:00 PM Summit vs. Giles County 3:40 PM Marshall County vs. Harpeth 6:00 PM Stratford/Overton winner vs. Stewarts Creek/ Lighthouse winner 9:00 PM MBA vs. Dunbar High School, Dayton OH December 28, 2013- Semi- Finals December 29, 2013- Finals

Lighthouse is pretty good! Also heard that BA cancelled their regular season game with Lighthouse afer Lighthouse beat the brakes off of them earlier. I'm sure BA had some players missing for football though.

Hunters Lane (assistant) Maplewood (head boy's coach) Covington (head boy's coach) Liberty Tech (head boy's coach) Lost in 2010 T$$AA AA Finals Independence (assistant) Oakland (assistant) Columbia (head girls coach) Replaced at Liberty Tech by Jarrett Jones (current Antioch boys coach) who lead them to T$$AA state championship in 2011. Bodenhamer is a good dude, tough district to win in though!

Penny Collins

Yes, we have a tournament each year and had one of our best gates ever. Our reward was we had to give 19% right off the top to our governing body. What did we get from them in return for over 2 grand? Four plaques to award to our championship game participant$. Those were some expensive plaque$ indeed!

Championship Game East Nashville Magnet 70 John Overton 48- Terry Holt with 28 leads the way. Third Place Game BGA big over Whites Creek Consolation Games McAdory AL 61 Lighthouse 48 Stratford 67 Summit 50 Tyquez Itiat 25 points USN 64 Harpeth 46

JOHN OVERTON HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT DAY #2 Semi Final Matchups John Overton 70 Whites Creek 32 East Nashville Magnet 39 BGA 36 OT Championship Game- 9:30 PM Saturday 12/29/2012 East Nashville Magnet vs John Overton (East wins a onne point game between the two teams last Thursday at East Holiday Classic) Consolation Bracket Stratford beats Lighthouse in OT Harpeth beats Summit handily McAdory AL beats a scrappy USN team by 10 Consy Matchups for Saturday 12/29 930 AM Lighthouse Christian vs McAdory AL 1230 PM Summit vs Stratford 330 PM USN vs Harpeth

Day #1 Results 915 Harpeth 51 Lighthouse Christian 49 OT 1145 John Overton 69 Stratford 64 215 Whites Creek 51 Summit 49 OT 445 East Nashville Magnet big over USN 715 John Overton 57 Harpeth 54 945 Battle Ground Academy 67 McAdory AL 55 Friday's Matchups 930 PM Lighthouse Christian vs Stratford ( Consolation Bracket) 1230 Summit vs Harpeth (Consolation Bracket) 330 USN vs McAdory AL (Consolation Bracket) 630 John Overton vs Whites Creek (Semi Finals) 930 BGA vs East Nashville Magnet (Semi Finals)

Thursday 12/27/2012 BOYS BRACKET 915 AM Lighthouse Christian vs Harpeth High School 1145 AM Stratford vs John Overton 230 PM Summit vs Whites Creek 445 PM USN vs East Nashville Magnet 715 PM Lighthouse/Harpeth winner vs Stratford/ John Overton winner 945 PM McAdory AL (Birmingham) vs Battle Ground Academy

I meant to say in the earlier post that this could be the year that 11-AAA sends two teams to the sub state.

The play day is actually tomorrow, Saturday 11/10/2012. Lots of good teams playing, should be a good day of basketball!

Should be a good district this year with some good teams. 1. Brentwood- Only lost Monatgue. Lots of depth and quality players and great coaching. 2. Hillsboro- They 6'8" post player that signed with TSU is back, lots of inside depth and SR guards. Top 2 spots could flip. 3. Indy- New coach, good returning team, will Wharton play basketball too? 4. Franklin- On a bit of a down tick, Matthews will be their best player. 5. Ravenwood- Look to be playing better as a team this year. 6. Centennial- Should be much better but how will all of the unfortunate events this fall affect the team? Is Shipley coaching the team? This could be the year that 12-AAA sends 2 teams to the sub-state!

Sonn is in!

11 AAA 1. Brentwood 2. Ravenwood (they are very close though) 3. Indy 4. Hillsboro 5. Centy 6. Franklin 12 AAA 1. Hunters Lane (Prolly wont lose a 12 AAA game) 2. Overton 3. McGavock 5. Cane Ridge 6. Antioch 7. Glencliff

Championship Game Memphis Raleigh-Egypt 67 John Overton 63 John Overton down by 22 in 3rd Quarter rallies late for overtime but Raleigh-Egypt's inside game lead by 6'5" Billy Rosenberg and 6'7" Jatodd Lewis lead a balanced attack to hold off John Overton's quest for 4 tournament titles in a row. 3rd Place Battle Ground Academy 66 University School of Nashville 51 Jordan Smith's 23 points lead BGA past an undermanned and gassed USN team that battled all the way. 5th Place Harpeth 61 Springfield 49 High flier Ethan Hurt's 13 and Jess Morris 12 lead a well coached Harpeth team past Springfield who were lead by Chris Lunsford's 19 points 7th Place Whites Creek 67 Glencliff 42 Joshua Carruthers 16, Jerren Moore 12, and Eric Reed 12 lead the Creek past undermanned Glencliff lead by Bruce Pinkerton's 13 (4 threes) and Jalen Simpson's 10. Another Great Tournament Final with two consecutive overtime finals in a row! We will be back Thursday 12/27, Friday 12/28 and Saturday 12/29 for the 2012 John Overton Holiday Tournament. Come on out and support high school basketball in the MidTN area!