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Harlan County Heat capture tournament title in Gatlinburg

February 23, 2025
The Harlan County Heat, a local seventh-grade AAU team, won the 2025 Teammate Basketball’s Hardwood Classic Tournament over the weekend in Gatlinburg. Teams from six states competed. Harlan County split two games in pool play, defeating the Tennessee Cougars 2030 63-15 and falling to North Alabama Lakers 36-34. The Heat defeated the Central (Va.) Warriors 63-22 in bracket play, then downed TMT Elite (Ga.) 35-32 in the semifinals before avenging their only loss with a 33-28 win over the North Alabama Lakers. Team members include, from left, front row: Brycen Saylor, Blake Johnson, Carson Sanders, Hudson Faulkner and coach Eddie Creech; back row: coach Jason Sanders, Trey Creech, Taylor Daniels, Caysen Farley and Easton Engle.
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The Harlan Monarchs (sixth grade) won all five games over the weekend in the Hoops For Heroes Tournament at Berea. The Monarchs defeated North Laurel 29-14, Jackson County 23-20, Richmond Titans 28-3, Lincoln County 29-17 and Anderson County 19-7. Team members include, from left — Adleigh Creech, Crissalynn Jones, Andrea Napier, Jocelyn Miracle, Torrie Sundy, Addy Cochran, Morgyn Belcher, Natalie Creech and Blakely Snelling
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Former Cawood all-stater Greg Coldiron, who later served as a high school basketball coach, was back in coaching this season as an assistant for the Wallins basketball teams led by his grandson, Treyce Spurlock, who starred at Harlan County High School and later played at Morehead. Coldiron was the first all-state player at Cawood High School and first Kentucky All Star from Cawood, both in 1978. He went on to play four seasons at Morehead State University, and then returned home to begin his coaching career. He was an assistant coach at Cawood under Mike Jones when the Trojans won a 52nd District Tournament title in 1986 and finished as 13th Region runner-up. He became the head coach at Cawood in the 1990 season and led the Trojans to district titles in 1991 and 1992. He later led Powell County to a 14th Region title. He was also a head coach at Maysville and Russell County.
Back on the bench
Rosspoint Team members include, from left, front row: Carson Sanders, Trey Creech, Braxton Duncan, Blake Johnson, Myles Jenkins and Eli Joseph; back row: Jackson Mackowiak, Bentley Alred, Andrew Fee, Hudson Faulkner, Nathan Barger and Bryson Kelly.
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James A. Cawood Team members include, from left, front row: Tanner Daniels, Matthew Ledford, Cameron Chappell, layden Brock, Evan Coldiron, Seth Johnson, Kasen Ely, Caiden Hensley, Mason Rhymer and Mark Sargent; back row: Carson Kazy, Brantley Burkhart, Logan Mills, Brandon Jones, Brylee Southerland, Tucker Daniels and Evan Daniels.
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Trey Creech and Taylor Daniels worked together on defense in middle school basketball action earlier this season. The Harlan County seventh-grade team fell by two points to eventual champ North Laurel in the semifinals of the regional seventh-grade tournament on Saturday at Knox Central.
North Laurel rallies to edge HC in seventh grade regional semifinals
Harlan County guard Easton Engle scored 10 points to lead the Black Bears in a win over Leslie County on Wednesday.
HC seventh-grade team wins twice against Leslie County