Page 14, The Estill County Tribune, July 16, 2014 Estill Needs To Fill Three Head Coaching Positions Volleyball position is now critical with start of practice season Estill County High School County four years, then was planning on teaching at ALWAYS handled them- trict champion. McKinley’s well despite what their re- is short three head coaches Wolfe County one year be- Estill during the upcoming selves with class. He him- teams went 1-7 in games cords may have indicated. following the resignations of fore coming to Estill. Last school year. However, he self was class act both on played in the region. His best, and only winning Estill Engineers head base- year, his Engineers team was offered a higher paying and off the floor.” He coached some excel- record in volleyball, was in ball coach Gene Combs and finished 24-11, winning position at Southern, accord- “He will be missed in lent players during his ten- 2009 when they finished Mark McKinley who was both the regular season, 8-0 ing to Estill principal Blain Estill County,” added Click. ure but the team failed to 18-16. Teams in 2010, 11 head coach for both volley- in the district, and winning Click, and subsequently ac- “He did a great job!” attract enough players some and 12 were runner-up in ball and girls . the 56th District champion- cepted the offer. McKinley coached Es- years and were hampered by the 56th District. Basketball season is still ship over Powell County, One die-hard Estill fan till basketball for 10 years, injuries at times and forced Click last indicated that a few months away, but the 12-1. said he really had hoped starting during 2004/05 to play younger players. he and athletic director Ar- volleyball job is pressing. The Engineers defeated that Combs could continue when the Lady Engineers Coach McKinley’s vol- thur Ballard had identified The first allowable practice Perry County Central, 12- to work at Estill because he were in their last year in the leyball teams attracted quality coaches for these was on Tuesday, July 15th 1, and Knott County Cen- thought he did a great job. 10th Region. players better than did his positions but had nothing and teams can begin play- tral, 3-2 in nine innings, to McKinley just finished His team reached the basketball and performed definite yet. ing regular season games reach the championship his 10th season as Lady En- region for the first time in just over a month away on game; however, Estill never gineers head coach but has 2006 as runner-up of the August 18th. got it going against Hazard taken a job in Wayne Coun- 56th District. The Lady En- Combs has taken the in a rain-delayed contest at ty so that he can help his gineers, guided by McKin- Community News head baseball coaching job Buckhorn and lost 11-1 in aging father on his nearly ley won districts in 2007, Mail announcements to The Estill Tribune, at Madison Southern after five innings. 2,000-acre farm. 2009 and 2011. They were only one season at Estill. Combs had continued Click said McKinley runner-up also in 2008, 6135 Winchester Road, Irvine, KY 40336 He was a veteran coach teaching at Montgomery “was well known through- 2010 and 2013. Call (606) 723-5012; Fax to (606) 723-2743; having worked several County while serving as out the region for having His best record was 1in or E-mail it to years at Lee County before baseball coach at Wolfe very disciplined teams who 2011 when his team fin- coaching at Montgomery County; then at Estill, but played within a system and ished 17-12 and was the dis- Info on Class Members Needed 1984 ECHS Class Reunion The Class of 1984 planning book page and leave your ad- Bob Watkins’ Sports In Kentucky committee has been working dress on there or private mes- hard on planning a fun-filled, sage for Vicki or Belinda. Summer Ball buzz in Bluegrass: Coach K to Brohm to Big Blue best team ever? 30-year class reunion. Go ahead and mark your Please call or text Belinda calendars for September 12 of course) and comparisons With all due respect to Hmmm. Fox Puckett at (859) 358- & 13. All the details will be for season 2014-15. soccer fans, an e-mail re- The worth-repeating as- 1403 or Vickie Miller Sin- in the letter we will mail to A non-partisan measure ceived Monday reflects the sessment here is number gleton at (859) 582-8138. you, and we will also post it of how special Kentucky’s emotion of most Ameri- five. Coming off back-to- You can also join our on our “ECHS Class of ’84” team could be: Willie Cau- cans, I think. back 2-10 seasons, five “ECHS Class of ‘84” face- facebook page. ley Stein, “I’m sorry. I tried to wins, four at Common- and Marcus Lee will come watch the World Cup wealth Stadium in the sea- Thursday-Saturday, July 24th-26th off the bench. Championship (Sunday). son’s first half, should keep Summer ball. UK fans I watched and watched attendance numbers up for on internet sites have for- and watched and nobody visiting Mississippi State Back Porch Homecoming gotten the eat-crow of the scored. I finally gave up. and Georgia in the second The Estill County Historical for the month of July: “Anne 40-and-oh rant a summer I saw later that Germany half. and Genealogical Society will Rainey Clark” should be ago, The new buzz: Will scored in the 113th minute Still, Vanderbilt and host the Back Porch Home- listed as “Nancy Ann Rainey our McDonalds All-Ameri- to win. Good. Louisiana Monroe present coming “the Internet Gang” Clark”. can-decorated Wildcats this “I just cannot watch it. an interest dynamic each. at the Research Museum on The Estill County Picto- Bob Watkins season be best in UK his- Boorrrrinnng!” The Commodores have Broadway from Thursday, rial History, WW II Book, the tory? crushed Kentucky the last July 24 through Saturday, July School Book, and the two vol- Summer ball buzz. Whoa. CALIPARI Qs two seasons. 26, 2014. umes of the Cemetery Books July-August in Kentucky A 30-something age Kentucky basketball La-Monroe returns 17 This will be a time when are still available. is keep-the-pot-boiling time limit can dim a look into coach put starters, nine on defense people from various states, in- for basketball fans. history. The comparison- forth 20 questions he be- from a 6-6 season. cluding Kentucky, can come Around Louisville, Car- makers here settled on the lieves a high school pros- to Irvine for research of their dinal buzz – Russ Smith has 1996 NCAA championship pect should ask his prospec- AMONG MY family history. signed an NBA contract. winner. tive college coach. FAVORITES DEPT. The August Meeting at the .... And, college basket- A better question for Most are typically self- Friday, July 11, marked Library will be Tuesday, Au- ball’s premier coach, Mike Summer Ball would be: In serving, but these are worth the 54th anniversary for gust 5 at 6 p.m. (Notice that Krzyzewski weighed in. its glorious history, which repeating. publication of To Kill A the time has changed to 6 p.m.) “Louisville brings the ACC is Kentucky’s best basket- √ How many players Mockingbird. A novel by The program will be given by a great brand. This is one ball team ever? have graduated from your Harper Lee published in Jerry Rose on the history of that will make headlines in Trip wire word here is program over the last four 1960 is, according to a lit- Ravenna:. It is based on the business journals.” team. An NCAA title ban- to five years? erary poll done five years recent book entitled: RAVEN- Around Western Ken- ner is not necessary. √ How many of your ago, best novel of all time. NA: L&N Railroad’s “Gem of tucky U., football’s Jeff Best Team(s) ever from players were insured To date, Mockingbird has a Rail Terminal and Town in Brohm is revving up Hill- here: 1. Rupp’s Runts through the disability pro- sold more than 30 million East-Central Kentucky. topper fan base with em- (1965-66), 2. Fabulous Five gram last season? If none copies world wide. This The 2014 calendar is now phasis on recruiting in- (1948-49), and first team to were, why not? week, July 15, a new book available at the Museum on staters. What to watch: play in Memorial Colise- √ Where does your Aca- – The Mockingbird Next Saturdays. There should be Brohm lands a quarterback um, the 1950-51 Wildcats demic Progress Rate re- Door: Life with Harper Lee, a correction in the calendar the caliber and quality to finished 32-2. tention rank among other is on the market. Written by match that of his coach. Stars of those teams? schools? 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