The Logan County Cougars go into tonight’s final regular season district game at Franklin-Simpson with an impressive record in the 2025 portion of the season.
Coach Josh Frick’s team is 16-9 overall after a slow start, but the Cougars are 13-2 since the holiday break ended, including winning the past six games. They’ve scored 65 or more points in 10 of those wins and have fallen below 60 just once—that in a 69-58 loss to South Warren. The most points they’ve given up is 70 twice and seven times they’ve held the opposition to 53 or fewer points.
Seventeen Cougars have played in varsity games, 13 of them in 10 or more. Ten players are hitting more than 40 percent of their field goal attempts overall.
The Cougars have won seven straight district games, starting with last year’s district tournament. They go into tonight’s game at 5-0. Franklin is 4-1 in the district with that lone loss to the Cougars. But it was a lopsided loss with LCHS winning 83-53. Coach Dee Spencer’s Wildcats are an uncharacteristic 7-13 overall.
It would appear that the Cougars will be the top seed in the district tournament regardless of who wins tonight, since Logan’s record against Fourth Region teams is 8-3, as compared to Franklin’s 5-7.
Cougar senior center Samson Hightower has put together a super season. He is averaging 19.9 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. He was honored recently for having scored a thousand points, all but 19 of which have come in the last two seasons.
Games Played: Olijah Woodard, Samson Hightower, Davis Switzer, Nicholas Blann, Nicholas Thomas and Tyler Johnson 25 each; Brady Hinton 24, Jaxon Tichenor 21, Damani Goodloe 18, Kameron Burr 13, Emir Ginez-Salpa and Jonathan Baker 12 each, Jeramiah Washington 10, Maliq Ford 9, Elijah Sells and Christian Helle 4 each, Braden Little 2
Scoring Average: Hightower 19.9, Switzer 8.8, Blann 7.8, Thomas 6.2, Tichenor 5.7, Hinton and Johnson 5.4 each, Goodloe 4.1
3-Point Goals: Hightower 54, Thomas 35, Johnson and Tichenor 23 each, Switzer 13, Goodloe 4, Ginez-Salpa 2, Hinton, Woodard and Washington 1 each
Free Throws Scored: Hightower 129, Switzer 52, Hinton 32, Johnson 19, Thomas 18, Goodloe 12
3-Point Percentage: (minimum 10 attempted) Tichenor 41.1, Goodloe 36.4, Hightower 25.5, Johnson 29.5, Thomas 29.2, Switzer 28.3
2-Point Percentage: (minimum 10 attempted) Blann 60.3, Burr 60.0, Tichenor 59.0. Hightower 54.5, Switzer 49.2, Goodloe 49.0, Johnson 45.1, Hinton 43.5, Woodard 43.3, Thomas 37.2
Free Throw Percentage: (minimum 10 attempted) Hightower 77.7, Davis 83.2, Johnson 73.1, Blann 65.8, Thomas 64.3, Goodloe 54.5, Hinton 52.5, Tichenor 30.8
Rebounds Per Game: (minimum 2) Hightower 7.8, Hinton 6.9, Blann 5.1, Switzer 3.1, Johnson 2.4