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Building from kindergarten up
Wrestling will be ‘off the wall’ BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN WARFIELD — Martin County Youth Wrestling Coach Andrew Chaffin is building from kindergarten up. His Cardinal team has won three out of the last five state championships and Saturday finished the 2021-2022 season as state runner-up. “It’s been a good year,” Chaffin said of his…
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Fannin fifth in state
BY ROGER SMITHMOUNTAIN CITIZEN CORBIN — Martin County Middle School wrestler Brayden Fannin finished fifth in the 121-pound weight class at the KFWC Middle School State Championship held Saturday at the Corbin Arena. The Region 4 champion, Fannin went 3-2 on the day, pinning Landon Windeler of Highlands in 32 seconds to claim fifth place.…
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Tennis teams largest ever
New coach excited to watch players develop BY BRADY DANIELSMOUNTAIN CITIZEN Martin County High School boys and girls tennis teams are loaded with youth and a high ceiling. This season, MC has a new coach in Justin Penix, who served as an assistant coach for the past four years. Penix is fielding the largest tennis teams ever.…
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Lady Panthers fall in state opener
TVHS fails to repeat as Class A champion BY KYLE LOVERNFOR THE CITIZEN CHARLESTON, W. Va. — The Tug Valley Lady Panthers’ attempt to win back-to-back state championships failed as Tucker County nipped the Mingo County squad 46-45 in the opening game of the West Virginia Girls State Basketball Tournament played at the Charleston Civic…
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Robin Harmon Newsome one of Kentucky’s best
Basketball legend has many great memories BY KYLE LOVERNFOR THE MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — When area sports fans talk about the best basketball players to come out of Martin County, Robin Harmon-Newsome is one of the first names to come up.
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Dingess is Mr. Basketball candidate
BY LISA STAYTON MOUNTAIN CITIZEN INEZ — Martin County’s Brady Dingess is one of 19 nominees announced Friday for boys’ high school basketball’s highest honor, Mr. Kentucky Basketball. Dingess was voted 15th Region Player of the Year by the Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches, the first-ever from Martin County. The players of the year make…
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Inez won its first state title in 1941
Coach Russell Williamson squads some of the best of era BY KYLE LOVERNFOR THE CITIZEN INEZ — One of the most successful high school basketball teams of the early years of Kentucky High School basketball was the Inez High School Indians of Martin County. In 10 remarkable seasons, from 1932 to 1941, Coach Russell Williamson…
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Inez Indians won state title in 1954: Squad made Eastern Kentucky proud
BY KYLE LOVERNFOR THE CITIZEN INEZ — It could have been a movie script similar to “Hoosiers” where a small Indiana high school won a state basketball championship against a much bigger urban school. The 1954 Inez High School basketball team did just that going up against much bigger high schools on their way to…
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STATE-BOUND! Cardinals win Region 15 to end 37-year drought
BY RONNIE HICKMAN CITIZEN SPORTS EDITOR PIKEVILLE — How sweet it is. The Cardinals are heading to the Sweet Sixteen state basketball tournament, ending a 37-year boys’ regional championship drought in Martin County. The Cardinals defeated a good Lawrence County team 65-61 to claim the 15th Region championship title Monday night at Appalachian Wireless Arena…
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