Lady Neers Over Demons

Atmosphere; I always like making road trips in the 8th Region. You just get a sense of community. Williamstown, home of the Demons, fit that bill tonight as the Lady Neers travelled down 75 for District 32 action.

When you step into the Williamstown gym, it makes you think about how basketball was back in the 50’s.  They have got the most obnoxiously good pep band maybe in the State of Kentucky, (although blowing their horns in the ears of the visitors borders on an infringement of sportsmanship) cheerleaders that cheer, students who cheer to the cheerleaders and sit behind the opponents bench heckling the players, and of course the local Mr. Williamstown himself who does a stupendous job of screamin like a demon wearing out the referees. I found myself bopping to the band’s rendition of Billy Idol’s Mony Mony, Jingle Bells and of course the blaring W-town fight song that is now engrained in my head for the next 24 hours. The band is doing a new thing now where every band members blows into their instrument as hard as they can while the director does an airhorn pulling motion to make it sound as if a train is coming through the gym; my ears are still ringing. After the game was over, one of the cheerleaders grabbed the microphone and sang the school’s anthem while the band accompanied. The band closed out the night by playing My Old Kentucky Home.  Pretty neat stuff.

In the games, the hometown Demons were feisty tonight. The SK JV’ers started a little slow but cruised out to a 50-20 win. Scoring was very balanced as K-T Joooones paced the Neers with 11 points. 

In varsity action, Williamstown kept pace with the Pioneers through midway in the second quarter before Cookie and Abby started the scoring barrage of drives and lay-ups. I think you could say that atmosphere thing spilled over in the game. At one point in the second quarter, the Neers were whistled for 15 fouls to Williamstown’s 2. Interesting. Coach Stowers shuffled players in and out which took a toll on the Demons. Although Williamstown put up a good fight, the Pioneers pulled away large as expected and cruised to a 69-33 winning score. 10 or 14 Neers scored as Christina Cook led the way with 18 points and Abby Owings put up 14 points which almost all came in the first half. 

SK will host one of the top ranked team in the 8th Region this Saturday in the South Oldham Dragons.