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Thoughts that came up while thawing and drying out this weekend …

It isn’t often that a team that doesn’t win its district gets a much needed breather in the first round of the state football playoffs, but Anderson County made the most of that big break Friday night. The Bearcats took control early and got some of the kinks of the program’s first three-game losing streak since 2005 out of their system.

The second step to a championship is almost always tougher than the first.

For Anderson County, though, that difference is like adding 100 pounds on the bench press between sets. It’s not an impossible task, but much more difficult.

After easily dispatching of light-weight Iroquois in the first round of the state Class 5A playoffs last week, the Bearcats travel to Louisville to play District 3 champion Doss. Kickoff is set for Friday, Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m.

It will be the first-ever meeting on the football field between the schools.

LEXINGTON – Austin Dillow knew that running in the state cross country meet was going to be different but little did he know how much of a change he was in for Saturday at the Kentucky Horse Park.

Fighting temperatures that plummeted into the 30s, a stinging rain and a slippery course, Dillow turned in a respectable 18:37.13 over the 5K course.

“I have never run in weather like this,” said Dillow, an Anderson County High School freshman who was competing at the state for the first time.

Thumbs down to the state’s transportation cabinet for still not having 45 mph speed limit signs on U.S. 127 Bypass. Extending the speed limit past the new elementary school made good sense, but it’s hard to understand why the cabinet yanked out the 55 mph signs just past the park entrance and didn’t replace them with 45 mph signs. The only warning northbound drivers receive that the speed limit is reduced is at Carlton Drive just south of Kroger. Those who enter 127 from Broadway, Highway 44 or any of the smaller streets and head north have no way of knowing the limit.