Beech Tree News Network

Butler County Boy’s middle school basketball will come to a close this week, but hopefully not before the Bears bring home a championship trophy on Thursday night.  The Bears have had a successful season and ended with a 14 – 5 record giving the Bears a number one seed going into the tournament.  The Bears squared off in tournament action on Saturday, January 26th against a Breckinridge County team that they hadn’t seen all year due to a cancellation so the Bears didn’t know what to expect.   The Bears started out a little sluggish in the first quarter and found themselves down by 2 at 9 -7

The Butler County Boys Basketball team would like to take this opportunity to thank Butler County for all the support that we have had, especially during our “All A Classic” run.  It was truly inspiring to see the students, staff and faculty line the halls of Butler County High School and Morgantown Elementary.  Thank you to Mr. O’Driscoll, Mr. Gruber, Mr. Woodcock, Mr. Flener for making that possible.  We would also like to thank Mr. Tuck and Mr. Freeman at Butler County Middle School, as well as all the faculty, staff and students for the pep rally they had for us.

The Butler County Beagle Club had its winter Beagle Field Trials Derby this past Saturday on the 216 acre fenced in  grounds of the United Beagle Gundog Federation located near Jetson in Butler County. The UBGF has 78 Clubs in 34 States The Compound features a 5,000 square foot modern clubhouse, outbuildings, 114 new kennels and hundreds of wild rabbits. This Event drew 66 local and out of state beagles and their handlers to compete for prizes, bragging rights and to practice for one of the several Nationals Events held here.

The annual Reds Caravan Tour will be making its regular stop in Bowling Green on Saturday, Jan 26, at the Greenwood Mall.  The free event will allow autograph opportunities with past and present players and staff of the Cincinnati Reds.

FRANKFORT -- Butler County's All "A" run came to close on Thursday morning in Frankfort as the Bears fell 69-68 to the Russell Red Devils, winner of the 16th Region.  

Butler County placed two players in double figures with sophomore guard Zach Burden leading the way with 23 points off the bench; Zeke Woodcock added 14 points.  Alex Hall cleaned the glass with 15 total rebounds - 8 offensive and 7 defensive.  

Butler County Middle School boy's basketball hasn't seen much action in 2013 due to cancellations and school being dismissed for illness.  Both 7th and 8th grade teams have had four games in the new year with the 8th grade team coming out on top all four times.  The first game of the new year was against Muhlenberg North at their place, which the Bears took easily with a score of 43 - 36.  Two Bears got into double digits with Blake Graham scoring 17 and Bailey Anderson getting 14.  Ty Burden had 6, Kyle Casey 3, Chandler Franzell 2, and Kaleb Casey 1.

Kentucky deer hunters will have lots of ground venison for chili this winter, roasts to bake with onions, celery and vegetables and back strap chops to grill during the summer.
That’s because a record deer harvest was posted for the 2012-13 deer season, which ended with the close of archery season on Jan. 21.
Hunters bagged 131,388 whitetails of which 56 percent were male and 44 percent female. Firearms hunters reported taking 95,612 deer while archers harvested 18,705 deer. Muzzleloader hunters took 14,583 deer and crossbow hunters, 2,488 deer.

The Oak Ridge Lady Warriors celebrated their first place win and the Oak Ridge Boys placed second this past weekend at the ORCA tournament! The girls defeat Glasgow Christian Academy and Victory Knights. Glasgow took home 2nd with Victory coming in 3rd. A large crowd came out to support the teams.

The Butler County Bears and Lady Bears traveled to South Warren on Saturday for a doubleheader. We decided to let the pictures tell the story.  The Bears dropped a 74-42 decision at South Warren High School but Coach Dockery had made the decision to give his starters the night off in anticipation of the All "A' championship game on Sunday. 

Butler County fell behind early, rallied to take control of the game, sputtered a bit down the stretch, but came back in the clutch to defeat Owensboro Catholic 69-67 in overtime to win the Touchstone Energy All "A" Third Region tournament at Hancock County.  With the win, the Bears advance to the Touchstone Energy All "A" State Tournament at Frankfort.  Butler County (14-8) will face Russell High School (16th Region winner, 18-4 overall record) on Thursday, January 24 at 10:30 a.m. CST.