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Butler County Middle School basketball season came to a close Friday night at the GRVC Tournament.  After snow prevented the event from happening last Saturday, both seventh and eighth grade teams traveled to Breckinridge County Friday night.  The seventh grade team took the floor first to play the number one seed in the tournament, Hancock County.  A very skilled Hancock County team jumped out to an early lead, putting 20 points on the board in the first quarter.  The Bears struggled to find the scoreboard and get the ball down the floor against the Cougars tough full court press.  The Cou

 Sometimes when you do something, and fail miserably at it, you're able to at least learn a bit from it. That's how it's been with me and my miserable attempt to pick 70% off this season's NFL games correctly.

I really did fail miserably. I think my final winning percentage was somewhere south of 65%, and most of what I thought I knew about the NFL fell by the wayside. However I learned some things, and I think I'm a better NFL fan because if it.

The Butler County Bears efforts to defend their 2013 3rd Region All “A” Championship fell short in the semi-finals on Thursday night, when they fell to the McLean County Cougars by a final score of 74-64.

The Bears started strong, bolting out to an early 7-2 lead in the first quarter, behind a hot start by Zeke Woodcock. However the three-point shooters for McLean County began heating up, as the Bears struggled to finish around the basket. By the end of the first the Bears trailed 14-11.

A year after establishing an overall deer harvest record, Kentucky hunters did it again.
The 2013-14 deer season in Kentucky ended Jan. 20 with a total harvest of 144,404 animals. That represents a gain of more than 9 percent over the previous record set during the 2012-13 season.

UPDATE:  Tonight's boys' semifinal games in the Touchstone Energy All "A" Classic have cancelled and rescheduled for Thursday night.  Owensboro Catholic will face Whitesville at 5:30 p.m. and Butler County will play McLean County at approximately 7:30 p.m.  This weather-related schedule change will combine both the boys and girls championship games on Friday night.  The Owensboro Catholic-McLean girls' championship game will be at 6.  The boys' championship game will follow and will feature the Catholic/Trinity winner against the Butler/McLean winner.

The Butler County Middle School boys' basketball team and cheerleaders recognized its 8th grade members last week.  The BCMS Bears defeated Glasgow 42-36 on 8th Grade Night before a packed middle school gym.  8th grade players an cheerleaders, as well as their parents, were honored in between the 7th and 8th grade games.  

After three long weeks, the Butler County Middle School Bears basketball team finally took the floor again for three home games.  Action began Monday night as the Bears hosted Muhlenberg North.  The Bears were rusty from their long absence from the hardwood and it showed.  It took three quarters for the Bears to get the cobwebs cleaned and start playing ball, but it was too little too late, and the Bears fell 41-30.

The love of basketball has been a Butler County tradition for many years, and that love is being taught early through our county's Jr. Pro program.  Every Saturday from December through March one of the elementary schools is packed with cheering parents and enthusiastic kids learning the fundamentals of basketball. 

Butler County senior guard Zeke Woodcock hit a shot to put the game into and another one to win it - a three-pointer at the buzzer - to propel his team to a dramatic 59-58 win over visiting Franklin-Simpson on Tuesday night.  Woodcock turned in a stellar performance, finishing the game with 24 points, 13 rebounds, and four assists.  Zack Burden added 15 points.