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Ashland Tomcats sports history and highlights with host Mark Maynard, a Hall of Fame sports journalist in northeastern Kentucky. A deep dive into the history of one of Kentucky's greatest high school programs. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mark-maynard/support
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Mark Maynard, the host of Tomcat Tales, takes his turn on the hot seat as Sarah Lynch Nausbaum does the interviewing for this one. Let's hope he can handle the heat.
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The is the third and final segment with Jeff Hall, one of the greatest players to ever come out of the 16th Region and a two-time 16th Region championship coach at Ashland and Rose Hill. He was also the Associated Press Coach of the Year after taking the Royals to a 27-4 record in his first season when phenom O.J. Mayo was only a seventh-grader. There were some interesting times at Rose Hill, which went 51-13 in his two seasons.
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David Patton played baseball and basketball for the Tomcats during the 1950s when athletes were plentiful. He went on to become a college basketball coach at East Carolina for three seasons where he was the Southern Conference Coach of the Year in 1974-75 when the Pirates went 19-9 and defeated Baylor during the regular season.
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Jeff Hall talks about the 1990-92 Tomcat basketball seasons.
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Jeff Hall talks about his two years of coaching the Ashland Tomcats basketball team from 1990-92.
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First of two podcasts with Jeff Hall, the former Fairview High and University of Louisville basketball star. He played on the 1986 U of L national championship team - the only area player to own a Division I championship ring. He brought great pride to Westwood and the entire 16th Region as a key player who scored 1,294 points in his four-year career. He started every game, averaging 10.3 ppg. for the 1986 champion Cardinals. His point total would have been 2,000 had the 3-point shot been in play when Hall played.
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A sitdown interview with Rob Lynch, who did his part in a family legacy of athletic excellence for the Ashland Tomcats. Rob led the Tomcats to the 1992 16th Regional title, ending a drought of a dozen years, and was also a key player on the Ashland American Little League state champions in 1986.
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Charlie Stephenson grew up during the Golden Era of Ashland Tomcat sports in the 1960s. But for a number of reasons, he could never quite crack the varsity rosters. However, what many might consider failure he used as fuel to keep playing the games he loved and eventually land a 30-year high school basketball coaching gig in Florida that includes multiple championships.
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Frank Sloan's coaching career with the Ashland Tomcats including guiding girls track and field, junior high football and basketball, high school basketball, baseball and soccer. It spanned 32 years and a whole lot of victories, including lead Ashland to regional championships in three different sports. He is ninth on Kentucky high school's win list in soccer with 267 victories and led the Tomcats to the Final Four in that sport in 2004.
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Jason Strader is one of the most memorable point guards in recent Tomcat history, directing a 26-7 season that ended in the Sweet 16 in 1992. That snapped a 12-year drought of no regional titles for Ashland. Strader has remained true to his Tomcat heritage and is currently coaching the 8th grade team, which includes his oldest son, at Ashland Middle School.
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Jeff Tipton had a dream to wear the Tomcats' maroon-and-white on the basketball floor. He played for Tomcat coaching legends Paul Patterson and Ernie Simpson, twice going to the Sweet Sixteen where he was a shining star under the brightest lights.
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Marty Thomas scored 1,873 points in his Tomcat career from 1991-1994, playing on two 16th Region championship teams, scoring a team-record 54 points in a single game and putting in 30 points in a remarkable 14 games. His 27.7 scoring average as a junior is also the best single season mark. He's a great representative of Tomcat sports.
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A candid conversation with Coach Tony Love, who just led Ashland's football team to the Class 3A state championship and an undefeated season.
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When Mike Johnson graduated in 1989 after three years as a starter with the Tomcats he was the leading rusher in school history. That record has since been broken but Johnson has not been forgotten. Listen as he shares about his career, including the famed 1988 loss to Covington Catholic in the Class AAA semifinals.
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Greg Jackson was a running back and outside linebacker on one of Ashland's most feared teams, the 1975 JAWS State At-Large champions, who rolled out a 14-1 record. Hear Greg and Coach Herb Conley, the architect of the famous Tomcat team, talk about the win over Paducah Tilghman and the loss to St. Xavier in the Kentucky "Super Bowl" in an emotional converation.
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A conversation with Ashland Tomcat broadcasting great Dicky Martin, a legend in Kentucky high school sports section as the Voice of the Tomcats for 45 years. He has seen a little bit of everything in an incredible career but nothing matters more to him than his Tomcats.
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From seldom-used freshman to first-team All-State as a senior for the Ashland Tomcats, Rick Sang proved how hard work can make the player and, in his case, a lifetime career in the game of football.
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David Brown was the daring quarterback who guided the Tomcats wishbone attack to the 1990 state championship. Winning a state title was nothing new to him. He did the same in Little League and Babe Ruth. Meet a true champion in all kinds of ways.
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Greg Conley played football and basketball for the Tomcats from 1980-1983. He is the son of Tomcat great Herb Conley. Try living up to that legacy. Greg did his best to do just that.
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Chris Hutt was one of three 1,000-yard running backs in the Ashland Tomcats' 1990 state championship football season. He rushed for 175 yards and three TDs in the 35-13 victory over Lincoln County to complete a 14-1 season. Hutt came back a season later and took the Tomcats to the regional championship game. He is one of the greatest running backs in Tomcat history.
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