Lynch boys basketball

The 1981 Lynch High School basketball team is pictured. It was the last team in school history before merger with Cumberland High School.

June 18, 2020

1981 Rick Morris 7-21
1980 Lonnie Morris 19-9
1979 Lonnie Morris 20-7
1978 Danny Johnson 11-15
1977 Danny Johnson 10-12
1976 Danny Johnson 12-17
1975 Roger Kirby 15-13
1974 Roger Kirby 17-9
1973 Ed Miracle 18-8
1972 Ed Miracle 13-12
1971 Ed Miracle 21-6
1970 Ed Miracle 16-13
1969 Ed Miracle 15-12
1968 Ed Miracle 6-17
1967 Ed Miracle 20-16
1966 Ed Miracle 18-8
1965 Ed Miracle 19-7
1964 Ed Miracle 18-6
1963 Ed Miracle 4-23
1962 Bill Bosch 4-19
1961 Bill Bosch 9-21
1960 Ed Miracle 14-13
1959 Ed Miracle 16-12
1958 Ed Miracle 17-12
1957 Jim Summers 18-12
1956 Jim Summers 16-4
1955 Doyle Troutman 8-19
1954 Homer Bickers 18-13
1953 Sam Potter 19-9
1952 Sam Potter 20-8
1951 Sam Potter 13-12
1950 Sam Potter 21-6
1949 Sam Potter 9-17
1948 Sam Potter 13-16
1947 Sam Potter 5-24
1946 Sam Potter 15-9
1945 Sam Potter 9-16
1944 Roy Eller 6-19
1943 C.H. Kennedy 13-16
1942 C.H. Kennedy 14-16
1941 C.H. Kennedy 9-19
1940 W.N. Cusic 18-11
1939 W.N. Cusic 18-11
1938 C.H. Kennedy 22-9
1937 C.H. Kennedy 24-4
1936 C.H. Kennedy 16-8
1935 C.H. Kennedy 13-14
1934 C.H. Kennedy 19-7
1933 C.H. Kennedy 6-13
1932 C.H. Kennedy 7-19
1931 C.H. Kennedy 27-7
1930 C.H. Kennedy 19-7
1929 C.H. Kennedy 11-11
1928 C.H. Kennedy 9-7

(Won district in 1980, 1975, 1974, 1966, 1964; runner-up in 1981, 1972, 1971, 1967, 1965, 1951, 1942; regional runner-up in 1971, 1964)

 

Members of the final Lynch High School basketball team of 1981 were in attendance at the Harlan/Harlan County basketball game recently at Harlan County High School. Harlan coach Derrick Akal was a freshman on the team. Team members included, from left, front row: Donnie Wilkerson, Harden Peeples, Bruce Crosby and Akal; back row: Richard Washington and Bruce Mitchell. Lynch defeated Cumberland in the 52nd District Tournament and lost to Cawood and Mr. Basketball Phil Cox in the finals. Lynch fell to Clay County 78-58 in the first round of the 13th Region Tournament in 1981 at Knox Central, the last basketball game ever played by the Bulldogs. Mitchell was an all-state guard on the 1981 team and went on to sign with Eastern Kentucky University. Washington and Akal went on to play on the district championship team at Cumberland High School in 1984 and then played college basketball at Tennessee Wesleyan.