Both the Logan County High School and Olmstead Middle School girls basketball programs have issued statements about their summer experiences,
culminating in the Georgetown camp. First, from LCHS:
After completing spring/early summer individual workouts the Logan County Lady Cougars looked like the inexperienced and young team they are in their
summer games against Warren East, Warren Central, Greenwood, and University Heights. There were flashes of promise as offensive execution and
rebounding improved steadily throughout the summer along with seeing the individual work the players had put in come to fruition.
The Lady Cougar Basketball Program wrapped up its summer workouts with the team attending Georgetown College Team Camp. The Georgetown Camp was
selected by this year’s seniors (Kate Brooks, Meg Brown, Polly Cowan, Jaylin Jones, Shannon MacAllister) as they remembered having a great time there
and expressed a need for the younger players to continue developing through the fundamental camp workouts. The Lady Cougars looked like a M.A.S.H. Unit
upon arrival as one senior was lost to recurring issues with a previous concussion, another senior was lost for the camp due to an injury sustained
while playing, a varsity sophomore was plagued with nagging injuries, and they were without a starting senior post player (MacAllister) attending the
Governor’s Scholar Program.
“Things like this happen in sports and life: at your job someone is on vacation, a couple of co-workers get sick or injured, they don’t shut down the
company, you press on. We pressed on. The younger players stepped up their game. We were extremely fortunate that the Olmstead team allowed us to use
some of their players or we would have had to pull the plug on the jv games at camp. At one point I looked out on the floor and we had one senior, a
sophomore, two freshman, and an eighth grader,” stated Coach Scot MacAllister.
The first games were a Who’s Who of state caliber basketball for the Cougars of Logan. Playing South Oldham (regional semi-finalist), Scott County
(regional finalist and state tournament previous year), Floyd Central of Indiana (25-2 two years ago and semi-state), there was no time to consider who
was or wasn’t wearing a Logan County uniform. The Cougars once again showed some great offensive execution and improved rebounding while dropping all
three games. Jaylin Jones stepped up as the consistent scorer/team leader, and Kara Lyons showed the entire camp that a small guard can lead a team in
rebounds through sheer determination and technique.
Logan County picked up three wins over Madison Southern and Winfield (West Virginia) with freshmen Kapreshia Powell and Maegann Hardison coming into
their own as scorers and varsity players. “KP and Maegann both did extremely well at camp as we relied upon them to score, break pressure, and defend.
Maegann and KP have basketball smarts that come from putting time in the gym working on their games and playing against better competition. The nice
thing about them is they are only freshman making varsity contributions and we have them for the next four years,” said Coach MacAllister. “We saw
improvement across the board; Polly Cowan hit some shots from the outside and in the post prior to her injury, Kate Brooks hit a few three’s to go
along with her manic drives, Laura Hunt stepped up to give Jaylin some breaks at the point, hitting shots and running the offense, Megan Lindsey
rebounded like a girl possessed, Madison Alvis posted up and hit shots, Deja Thompson and Hannah Statton hit shots in the jv games.
"A great surprise for us was the varsity and jv play of the Olmstead players; Rachel Barnett played significant varsity minutes consistently getting
6-8 points and 6-8 rebounds per game, Cierra Johnson looked like a Lady Ram version of Dirk Nowitski, Taleia Mason and Logan Williamson played like
they wanted to push Jaylin Jones for her starting spot at the point. As a coaching staff we were pleased with the development and improvement of the
players. Special thanks go out to the Olmstead coaches Daniel Alvis and Chris Wilcutt, as they have been teaching the younger girls our system, which
allowed the Lady Rams to step right into jv and varsity games knowing what to do.”
The Lady Cougars also won the Champions of Character Award for camp along with the Olmstead Lady Rams. The players from Logan County combined to
perform at the camp talent show and were the hands down winners with Carlie Alvis leading the way, performing as Michael Jackson to the song
“Thriller.”
The following report is from Olmstead:
Olmstead goes 10-1 at Georgetown
Eleven young ladies from Olmstead School and Lauren Batten from Adairville School represented the Olmstead Lady Rams and participated in the Georgetown
College Lady Tiger Team Basketball Camp on June 17-20.
Overall, the camp consisted of 25 teams (high school varsity, JV, and middle school squads) from three states. The Lady Rams competed in 11 middle
school ballgames over the four day camp, and several of the Lady Rams were afforded an opportunity to participate in extra games and play up for the
Logan County Lady Cougars in the high school varsity and JV divisions. The Lady Rams competed against local teams from Scott County as well as a team
from Louisville, and the team finished with a record of 10-1.
In addition to the games, the girls were split up each morning into position groups, and received three hours of group instructions in fundamentals,
perimeter play or post play. Also, the Lady Rams participated with the Lady Cougars in the camp talent show, and they were the hands down winner
performing their own version of the “Evolution of Dance.”
The hard work and great attitude of all the ladies from Logan County resulted in both
teams sharing the camp’s Champions of Character Award.
Team members included Carlie Alvis, Claire Wilson, Ginny Edwards, Lauren Batten, Molly Latham, LeeAnn Coots, Logan Williamson, Keechera Palacios,
Cierra Johnson, Taylor Borders, Taleia Mason, and Rachel Barnett. Coaches were Daniel Alvis and Chris Wilcutt.
Middle School Scores
June 17
Olmstead 31, Royal Springs Middle School (Georgetown) 5
Mason 4, Williamson 2, Borders 6, Palacios 1, Johnson 6, Latham 5, Batten 2, Coots 2, Edwards 3
OMS 30, Crosby Middle School (Louisville) 26
Mason 1, Williamson 7, Borders 2, Johnson 6, Barnett 12, Team 2
OMS 28, Georgetown Middle School 12
Mason 4, Williamson 2, Palacios 6, Johnson 2, Latham 2, Alvis 2, Coots 2, Barnett 6, Team 2
June 18
OMS 42, Georgetown Middle School 14
Williamson 14, Borders 10, Latham 8, Batten 6, Wilson 4
OMS 31, Royal Springs Middle 9
Williamson 7, Borders 6, Palacios 10, Latham 2, Batten 4, Wilson 2
OMS 53, Scott County Middle School (Georgetown) 22
Mason 3, Williamson 2, Borders 8, Palacios 8, Johnson 10, Barnett 8, Batten 4, Alvis 4, Coots 2, Team 4
June 19
OMS 35, Scott County Middle School 26
Mason 1, Williamson 7, Borders 2, Palacios 4, Johnson 5, Barnett 15, Team 1
OMS 27, Crosby Middle School 22
Mason 2, Williamson 2, Borders 10, Johnson 6, Coots 2, Barnett 4, Team 1
Georgetown Middle def. OMS (Scoring unavailable)
June 20
OMS 29, Crosby Middle School 24
Mason 8, Williamson 2, Borders 4, Johnson 5, Latham 4, Palacios 6
OMS 28, Royal Springs Middle 20
Mason 2, Williamson 4, Borders 2, Palacios 4, Edwards 1, Latham 1, Alvis 2, Coots 8, Wilson 4