Latest / The Mountain Eagle / 11.13.25
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Now we turn to the Mountain Eagle to read news
- 0:04from Weisburg. Your reader today is build an Arsenal. We
- 0:09will begin with the edition dated November twelfth, twenty twenty five,
- 0:14which the publishers have donated to RADIOI as a reminder.
- 0:19RADIOI is a reading service intended for people who are
- 0:22blind or have other disabilities that make it difficult to
- 0:25read printed material. The first item is a photograph and
- 0:32the caption is taking a risk so the rest of
- 0:35us can stay safe. A bridge inspector uses repelling gear
- 0:41to reach the superstructure under the old Red Star Bridge
- 0:44south of Blackie on Kentucky seven. Construction is underway now
- 0:49to build a new bridge beside the old structure, which
- 0:52has been deemed unsafe by the Kentucky Department of Highways.
- 0:57Speaker 2: The next headline is.
- 1:00Speaker 1: Hiring architect for old hotel project. The Whitesburg City Council
- 1:06was expected to award a contract Tuesday night for an
- 1:10architect to do design for next phase of the Daniel
- 1:13Boone Hotel. A meeting was scheduled for a five thirty
- 1:18pm yesterday to open proposals and score them. The city
- 1:22was expected to award the contract after that Mayor Tiffany
- 1:26Craft said three companies submitted proposals for the project. The
- 1:31building was gutted and new floors and roof constructed in
- 1:35twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, but there wasn't enough money
- 1:39available to complete the project. Plans for the new grant
- 1:43called for replacing the windows to seal the building from
- 1:46the weather, and renovating the first floor for retail space
- 1:51and possibly some limited lodging. Craft said on Tuesday that
- 1:56the last time the city looked at the cost, more
- 1:58than a year ago, the window rose alone were more
- 2:01than two hundred thousand dollars. Kraft said she hopes the
- 2:06city can complete what it had planned, but it will
- 2:09have to open proposals to see what architects think can
- 2:12be done for the money the city can spend. I
- 2:16don't know if that will be the first floor because
- 2:18we still have to do the plumbing and electrical work,
- 2:20Kraft said, I don't know how far that three million
- 2:24dollars will go. The building is the largest in downtown
- 2:29Wisburg at about sixty feet by one hundred and sixty
- 2:32feet with four floors, including the full basement.
- 2:37Speaker 2: When it was opened the weekend of.
- 2:38Speaker 1: July fourth, nineteen twenty, the Daniel Boone Hotel had cost
- 2:43about one hundred thousand dollars to build and furnish about
- 2:46one point two million dollars in today's dollars, a bargain
- 2:50basement cost by modern standards.
- 2:53Speaker 2: Stabilization of the building alone begun.
- 2:56Speaker 1: In August twenty nineteen and completed in early two thousand,
- 2:59two twenty, cost more than one million dollars. At the
- 3:04time that Daniel Boone was built, it was a first
- 3:06class hotel in a town that still had dirt streets
- 3:10and farm animals in downtown. In addition to rooms to rent,
- 3:15it featured a banquet room where many weddings and meetings
- 3:18were held, a cafe, a barber shop, and several offices.
- 3:24An open atrium allowed sunlight from a skylight to reach
- 3:27to the bottom floor. That skylight was eventually the literal
- 3:32downfall of the building. Part of the glass in the
- 3:35skylight was broken and allowed water into the building, damaging
- 3:39three wooden floors below it. The roof and all three
- 3:44floors eventually collapsed into the basement. The stabilization, finished in
- 3:48twenty twenty, didn't include a skylight in an attempt to
- 3:52avoid a repeat of the previous problem. Instead, plans done
- 3:56then called for reinforcing supports for the roof, with an
- 4:00eye toward building a rooftop patio.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Later.
- 4:05Speaker 1: The hotel operations ceased in the nineteen seventies. Mountain Comprehensive
- 4:10Health Corporation used it for its first clinic beginning in
- 4:14nineteen seventy six, and the county rented it as a
- 4:17temporary courthouse from nineteen ninety seven through nineteen ninety eight
- 4:21while the nineteen sixty four courthouse just down the street
- 4:24was being renovated. The building sat empty for a number
- 4:28of years until the Dollhare family gave it to the
- 4:31city in two thousand and nine, and it has been
- 4:34unoccupied ever since. The Leiger Fiscal Court renewed a memorandum
- 4:40of understanding with the city on Thursday to act as
- 4:43the pass through agency for a three million dollar legislative
- 4:47earmark awarded last year. The grant is to the county,
- 4:51but the city owns the old hotel and applied for
- 4:53the grant. The agreement will allow the county to pay
- 4:56the bills, but the city is in charge of the project.
- 5:03Speaker 2: The next story is hearing.
- 5:06Speaker 1: On motion to dismiss suit by judge's widow is January seventh.
- 5:12A judge has set a hearing for January seventh on
- 5:15a motion to dismiss the wrongful death lawsuit filed by
- 5:19the widow of the late Judge Kevin Mullins against three
- 5:22Leccher County deputy sheriffs and two other motions pending in
- 5:26the case. Pike Circuit Judge Eddie Coleman, acting as special
- 5:32Lecture Circuit judge in the case, signed the order Tuesday.
- 5:36All the parties involved agreed to the order beforehand. Kimberly
- 5:42Mullins filed the suit in September against former sheriff Mickey
- 5:46Steins and deputies Jason Eccles, Lashawna Fraser, and Christine Bowling.
- 5:52Steins was caught on security video shooting and killing Judge
- 5:56Mullins on September nineteenth of last year. Steines, Eccles, a
- 6:02court security officer, Fraser, the sheriff's department bookkeeper, and Christine Bolling,
- 6:08a clerk in the office, were all included in the
- 6:11suit filed by missus Mullins. She argued in the suit
- 6:15that the three department employees should have known the sheriff
- 6:18was mentally ill and stopped him from killing the judge.
- 6:22The three employees filed a motion to dismiss the charges,
- 6:25saying there is no allegation that the three knew he
- 6:28planned to kill the judge, and that courts in the
- 6:31past have ruled there is no duty to warn. The
- 6:35order signed this week give Steines until November twelfth to
- 6:38file answers that are responsive to the complaint, and Missus
- 6:43Mullins will have until next week to respond to those
- 6:46and to the filings by the deputies, and the defendants
- 6:49will have until December nineteenth to answer her responses. The
- 6:55next story is man sentenced to fifty years for two
- 7:02A wood Rock man charged in the death of his
- 7:04pregnant ex girlfriend has been sentenced to fifty years in
- 7:09prison after pleading guilty to murder and fetal homicide. Lawrence
- 7:15Eugene Holcombe, forty one, pleaded guilty in four separate cases,
- 7:20but murder and fetal homicide were the charges that carried
- 7:23the highest sentences. All the sentences are to run concurrently,
- 7:28meaning he will spend a total of fifty years in prison.
- 7:33Speaker 2: My reading of the new law is, if you.
- 7:35Speaker 1: Have already been convicted of felony and get convicted of
- 7:38another felony with a gun, you're not eligible for parole
- 7:42at all.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Lecture.
- 7:43Speaker 1: Commonwealth's attorney Matt Butler said. Holcombe was charged in September
- 7:49twenty twenty three with killing Vanessa Collier Holcombe after forcing
- 7:54her into the woods off Flipfield Drive, a narrow one
- 7:58lane road that runs between Bogg's Hollow at King's Creek
- 8:02and Ingram's Creek at Limefork.
- 8:05Speaker 2: The accused fled into the woods.
- 8:08Speaker 1: Vanessa Halcombe and Eugene Holcomb are apparently not related, but
- 8:11had previously been involved in a romantic relationship. Lawrence Holcombe
- 8:17had a long history of domestic violence before the murder.
- 8:21He served several years in prison for firing a shotgun
- 8:25toward his then wife and nine month old child in
- 8:29twenty twelve and setting fire to the house while they
- 8:32were inside. He was already wanted on two felony warrants,
- 8:38including strangulation of his ex wife, Mickey Holcombe, when he
- 8:42killed Vanessa Collier Holcombe. The nine one one dispatch center
- 8:47in Hazard received a call reporting a shooting on Slintfield's
- 8:51Branch and when Kentucky State Police troopers arrived, they found
- 8:56Vanessa Halcombe had been shot at close range in the
- 8:59face on a logging road in the area. Sources say
- 9:04her then current boyfriend had gone up the road to
- 9:06look for her.
- 9:07Speaker 2: And had been shot at but wasn't hit.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Eugene Holcomb allegedly then turned the gun on Vanessa Halcombe
- 9:15and shot her point blank before disappearing into the woods.
- 9:20Vanessa was about four months pregnant when she was killed.
- 9:24Kentucky State Police called helicopters in to search for the suspect,
- 9:29and police spent the night canvassing neighborhoods in the Line
- 9:32Fork and King's Creek area and searching the hills. Residents
- 9:37across the western end of the county were on edge,
- 9:40with some notifying police if they had to leave their homes.
- 9:44Police searched the immediate area wood Rock, Rock, Sanna, and
- 9:48Crays's Branch at Letcher on that Thursday night and Friday,
- 9:52and then asked the public to report any sighting of him,
- 9:55advising that Holcombe was to be considered armed and dangerous.
- 10:00He was located in an outbuilding about eight p m.
- 10:04September twenty ninth, Hiding in an outbuilding on Hobart's Bottom,
- 10:09a dead end road that turns off Spring Branch at Jeremiah,
- 10:14Kentucky State Police troopers from Post thirteen in hazard Electric
- 10:18County Sheriff's Department, Whichburg Police Department, and Lectra County constables
- 10:23kept the building surrounded until the Special Response Team arrived
- 10:27with its bear Cat armored vehicle and attempted to call
- 10:31Holcombe out of the building using a public address system.
- 10:34He did not respond, but apparently called a family member,
- 10:38told her he loved her and that he wanted to
- 10:41be cremated. Police sent a drone into the building shortly
- 10:46before two a m. September thirtieth, after a six hour standoff,
- 10:51and discovered Halcombe unresponsive. After a flashbang, grenade and cs
- 10:57gas were used to make sure he was down. Police
- 11:01at the scene gave him narcan and caused an ambulance
- 11:04to transport him to the hospital. He was released from
- 11:08the hospital October one, twenty twenty three, and placed in
- 11:12the Lecter County Jail. Halcompleted guilty to murder, domestic violence,
- 11:18first degree fetal homicide, first degree robbery, two counts of
- 11:22tampering with physical evidence, four counts of first degree wanton endangerment,
- 11:27possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, first degree strangulation,
- 11:32first degree wanton, endangerment of a police officer for dragging
- 11:36a Kentucky State Police trooper with his car, reckless driving,
- 11:41and first degree fleeing or evading police stemming from two
- 11:45other incidents before the shooting. A charge of first degree
- 11:49assault was dismissed. Imprisonment for the charges will run for
- 11:54a total of fifty years. Halcombe has had several run
- 11:59ins with the law. Sources say other incidents have been
- 12:03reported to authorities, but there were no arrests. In one case,
- 12:07in which another man was shot in the leg, a
- 12:10grand jury declined to return an indictment. Sources said Halcombe
- 12:15was also a respondent in a civil suit filed against
- 12:18him and Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance as a result of
- 12:22a fatal car crash at Isom on April third, twenty
- 12:26twenty one.
- 12:28Speaker 2: According to the.
- 12:29Speaker 1: Police report at the time, Holcombe drove out of Kentucky
- 12:32seven North into the path of a car driven by
- 12:35Deborah Tolliver. The resulting crash killed her husband, eighty five
- 12:41year old Jackie Tolliver, who was a passenger in her car.
- 12:45Deborah Tolliver's individual claim against Holcombe was dismissed this year.
- 12:51Butler said he is very, very glad that Holcombe chose
- 12:54to plead guilty. It gets him out of the jail here,
- 12:58gets him off the county's dime, and sends him to prison.
- 13:02Butler said in the next story, advice will be offered
- 13:08on how to fight Kentucky Power's latest request for a
- 13:12rate hike. Lawyers with the Appalachian Citizens Law Center will
- 13:18hold a public meeting Monday night, November seventeenth to inform
- 13:22people what the rates increase requested by Kentucky Power means
- 13:26and what they can do to oppose it. Kentucky Power
- 13:29is seeking to hold public meetings around its service area
- 13:32to plead its case for an increase, but ACLC executive
- 13:36director Wes Addington said those aren't enough. I was just
- 13:41concerned that we wouldn't get the word out to all
- 13:43of the community, and we decided to have a public meeting.
- 13:46Addington said, we will be presenting on what their proposal
- 13:50is and presenting not only their rates, but all these
- 13:53various other charges people have on their bills. Addington said
- 13:58the rate increase is appear to be more severe for
- 14:01people who use less power and less severe on large users.
- 14:06If you're a light user or a person on fixed income,
- 14:09this is going to be affecting you the most, he said.
- 14:14Hundreds of people have filed comments with the State Public
- 14:17Service Commission opposing the application by Kentucky Power to increase
- 14:21its rates by fourteen point nine percent, just three months
- 14:26after raising rates six point three seven percent to pay
- 14:29off bonds. If the new rate is approved, increases this
- 14:34year alone will amount to more than twenty percent. This
- 14:38comes after a five point sixty six percent rate increase
- 14:42in twenty twenty four and an eleven percent increase in
- 14:45twenty twenty three. While there was no rate increase in
- 14:49twenty twenty two, the company admitted to overcharging its one
- 14:53hundred sixty thousand customers by three million dollars in January
- 14:58of that year. Now, business, industrial, and residential customers alike
- 15:03are fed up, and they flooded the comment's email inbox
- 15:07at the Kentucky Public Service Commission, begging for relief and
- 15:11demanding answers. Addington said those emails and letters to the
- 15:15p SC are imperative if people want to stop the
- 15:18rate increase. It's incredibly important for people talk to the
- 15:22Public Service Commission.
- 15:24Speaker 2: He said.
- 15:26Speaker 1: Residents can still file responses to the rate application on
- 15:29the internet at p SC dot k Y dot go v.
- 15:36The chair of the Commission is Angie Hatton, formerly the
- 15:39state representative for the ninety fourth district, which includes Letcher County.
- 15:44Ac LC will be holding its meeting from five thirty
- 15:48to six thirty p m. November seventeenth at Neon Whits
- 15:53ten seventy six, Kentucky three seventeen across from Fleming Neon
- 15:57City Hall. The next item is the caption of a
- 16:02photograph much needed bridge project underway. The Red Star Bridge
- 16:09has been beating up car tires and shock absorbers for years,
- 16:13but will soon be replaced with a new bridge. Bridge
- 16:17engineers declared the eighty five year old structure unsafe in
- 16:20twenty twenty one, and construction began this August. In this photo,
- 16:25a crane prepares to do some heavy lifting eighty feet
- 16:28above the north fork of the Kentucky River. The project
- 16:32will cost an estimated six point five million dollars and
- 16:37the next headline is water plant soon to be converted
- 16:41in gathering spot for Blackie folks. A lectrifiscal court has
- 16:47awarded a contract for demolition of water treatment equipment at
- 16:51the old Blackie Water Plant. The building, located on Main
- 16:55Street in Blackie, will be converted to a community center
- 16:59after the camp. He tried but was unsuccessful in getting
- 17:02an affordable bid to lift and renovate the old Blackie
- 17:06Community Center, which was located next door. Originally built in
- 17:11the nineteen eighties, that building was severely damaged by the
- 17:15July twenty twenty two flood. Money from the Federal Emergency
- 17:20Management Agency to rebuild it depended on it being raised
- 17:24several feet to get it out of the floodplain. Now,
- 17:28the county plans to remove all the mechanical equipment in
- 17:31and around the Blacky Water Treatment Plant and start over
- 17:34with the empty metal shell. The floor level of the
- 17:38water plant is several feet higher than the surrounding property,
- 17:41making raising it unnecessary. The court voted at a special
- 17:47called meeting on Thursday to pay b. Brock Construction twelve
- 17:51thousand dollars to demolish and remove the equipment from the plant.
- 17:56The bid was the lowest of three received. The highest
- 17:59bid was two hundred ninety nine thousand dollars. The project
- 18:03is demolition of the water treatment facility. Only the building
- 18:08will be kept and turned into the new community center.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Once the equipment is removed.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Trace Creek Construction of Lewis County will design and build
- 18:18the center, acting as the construction manager. Trace Creek is
- 18:22already working in Electric County and has done the construction
- 18:25work on all of the Electric County Public schools facilities
- 18:29that were damaged by the twenty twenty two flood. The
- 18:34next story is state's tallest bridge, honors Lettra County native.
- 18:41The tallest bridge in Kentucky, taller than the Statue of Liberty,
- 18:46now bears the name of Electric County man who spent
- 18:49his career working for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. The Harold
- 18:54Caudle Memorial Bridge on US four to sixty in Pike
- 18:58County officially opened Upcober thirty first at a cost of
- 19:02twenty six million, nine hundred thirty one thousand, four hundred
- 19:05seven dollars. State and local officials asked that the bridge
- 19:10be dedicated to Caudle, who died in twenty seventeen. A
- 19:15native of the Cumberland River area of Letcher County, Caudle
- 19:18worked for thirty years at the Pikewville district of the
- 19:21Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. His sister, Ronda Owens remembers him as
- 19:26a quiet man who would have been embarrassed by the
- 19:29attention of having a bridge named for him. It wasn't
- 19:32Usk that asked for this bridge to be named for him,
- 19:35it was the people who worked with him, she said,
- 19:38noting that other employees at the Department of Highways called
- 19:41him Papa and pressed for the bridge to be named
- 19:44in his honour. The bridge is actually two bridges crossing
- 19:48Pond Creek. The eastbound bridge is named for Caudle, while
- 19:53the westbound bridge is named for retired U. S Army's
- 19:56staff Sergeant Donta Price, a veteran of the Gulf War
- 20:00who died in two thousand fourteen at age forty two.
- 20:04Both bridges were directed to be named by the Kentucky
- 20:06General Assembly. Missus Owens said her brother was giving of
- 20:12his time to help others, both at work and outside.
- 20:16When he was dying of cancer in twenty seventeen, she
- 20:19said he gave strict orders to his family that if
- 20:22anyone came in or called, he wanted to know immediately
- 20:26and if he was asleep, to wake him so he
- 20:28could talk to them. Even then he gave all his time.
- 20:32Owens said the bridge is one thousand feet long and
- 20:37crosses the stream, a county road, and the railroad at
- 20:42three hundred twenty four feet above the creek bed. The
- 20:45bridge is eighteen feet nine inches taller than the Statue
- 20:48of Liberty. Somebody so quiet, so bashful, and didn't want
- 20:53any attention. Now his name is going to be on
- 20:56the tallest bridge in Kentucky.
- 20:58Speaker 2: Owen said.
- 21:00Speaker 1: Cattle was a nineteen seventy graduate of Weisberg High School,
- 21:04and he started college that fall at Southeast Community College
- 21:07in Cumberland. Owens said another brother, Darryl Caudle, still lives
- 21:12at oven Fork. A sister, Randa Miller, lives in Moorhead.
- 21:18According to the publication Roads and Bridges, the state used
- 21:22an unusual construction method to build the bridge, more popular
- 21:27in Europe. Incremental bridge launching is ideal when a bridge
- 21:31is very high and access via traditional cranes is difficult
- 21:35or impractical. The publication says the bridge, the tallest bridge
- 21:40in Kentucky and one of the tallest in the nation,
- 21:42was constructed by Bush and Birchett Incorporated of Allen, Kentucky,
- 21:47says Roads and Bridges, coming in at three hundred twenty
- 21:50four feet. The height and the rugged terrain of the
- 21:53project's site posed unique challenges for the contractor. Being three
- 21:58hundred twenty feet tall and only one thousand feet long,
- 22:01the slopes on each side of the bridge were extremely steep.
- 22:05Paul Burchett, co founder of Bush and Burchett, toll Roads
- 22:08and Bridges. This made conventional erection almost impossible. Bush and
- 22:14Burchett partnered with Engineered Reading to build the steel bridge
- 22:17on the embankment and incrementally moved the girders into position
- 22:22on the eight sets of peers. Burchett told Rhads and Bridges,
- 22:27this was the first time a girder launch has ever
- 22:29been performed in Kentucky, and I was glad to be
- 22:32a part of it. The next story is elcc's season
- 22:39ends in heartbreaking loss. Letcher County Central's twenty twenty five
- 22:44season came to an end with a heartbreaking twenty eight
- 22:47to twenty seven loss to Knox Central in the first
- 22:51round of the playoffs. ELCC outgained Knox Central in total
- 22:56yardage for the game, but were stopped twice inside the
- 22:59Knoxie Central ten yard line. In the second half, the
- 23:03Cougars showed the fight they had all season by scoring
- 23:06late in the game to close the gap to a
- 23:08single point. The two point conversion attempt failed, however, and
- 23:13elsc ended the season with a six and five record.
- 23:18It was a tough way to lose a hard fought game.
- 23:21ELCC coach Junior Matthews said, our kids played their hearts out,
- 23:26but we came up short. After Knox Central received the
- 23:31ball to start the game, the Cougar's defense stood strong
- 23:35and forced a three and out. However, the Lecter Central
- 23:39offense could not get anything going and punted right back
- 23:42to the Panthers. After Knox Central drove the ball down
- 23:46the field, quarterback Elijah Carey rolled out of the pocket
- 23:50and found receiver Evan Taylor for a touchdown. The two
- 23:54point conversion was no good, but the Panthers took a
- 23:57six to nothing lead. Midway through the first quarter. With
- 24:02LCC back in possession of the ball, quarterback Gunner Holbrook
- 24:06threw a shovel pass to Colton Stidham to move the
- 24:09ball into Knock's Central territory. Back to back runs by
- 24:13Garrett Howard knitted a first down. Howard followed with an
- 24:17eleven yard run up the middle. Two plays later, on
- 24:21third and short, Britt Strogel had a tough run to
- 24:24gain enough for another first down. On the next play,
- 24:28Howard took the ball into the end zone from nine
- 24:30yards out. A bad snap led to the point after failing,
- 24:35but the Cougars tied the score at six to six
- 24:38with one four left in the first quarter. After the
- 24:43LCC defense forced a punt knock, central linebacker Gavin Jordan
- 24:47intercepted a pass. The Panthers then went on a methodical
- 24:51twelve play drive, culminated with a one yard touchdown by
- 24:55Kerry on a quarterback sneak. Running Back Zach Carroll ran
- 24:59in the two points conversion to give Knox back the
- 25:02lead at fourteen to six. Facing third down and needing
- 25:07seven yards for a first down, Holbrook showed his composure
- 25:11and checked a pass down to Howard for a first down.
- 25:14Then Holbrook did a great fake and kept the ball
- 25:17for a long run into Knock's central territory. Three plays later,
- 25:22and facing fourth down and six yards, Holbrook had to
- 25:25scrabble and dragged two defenders to gain just enough yardage
- 25:30for the first down conversion. Garrett Howard then gained eleven
- 25:35yards on a run up the middle, which led to
- 25:37Holbrook scoring on a one yard quarterback sneak. Howard went
- 25:41untouched for the two point conversion to make the halftime
- 25:44score fourteen to fourteen. Elsiec got the ball to start
- 25:50the second half. Stergell gained seven yards on a run
- 25:53on the first play of the drive. Then Stergill caught
- 25:56a pass out of the backfield and used a spin
- 25:59move to gain to twe twelve yards. Holbrook used a
- 26:02play action pass to find Keaton Fields for a long
- 26:05gain into the red zone. Stergill showed great patience after
- 26:10taking a handoff, and a hole eventually opened up for
- 26:13a six yard touchdown run. Emma Adams made the extra
- 26:17point to put the Cougars up twenty one to fourteen.
- 26:20With ten to eleven left in the third quarter. NOC
- 26:24Central returned the kickoff just past midfield. On their second
- 26:28play of their drive, Carol burst through the LCC defense
- 26:31for a forty two yard touchdown run. The conversion attempt
- 26:35failed to keep the score twenty one to twenty in
- 26:38favor of the Cougars. With LCC back on offense and
- 26:42facing third down and seven yards to go for a
- 26:45first down, Mason Stephen caught a pass on a slant
- 26:49and was stopped just short of the line to gain
- 26:53LCC was forced into a turnover on downs after their
- 26:56fourth down attempt failed. ZC stood tough on defense as
- 27:02lineman Brody Griffith had a sack to force a turnover
- 27:05on downs for the Knox County offense. With LCC's offense
- 27:10back on the field, Howard burst up the middle for
- 27:12a long run deep into Panther territory. Eventually, the Cougars
- 27:17went for a first down on fourth and one at
- 27:19the Knox Central nine yard line, but were stopped short
- 27:22for another turnover on downs. After punts by both teams,
- 27:28LCC defensive back Caleb Osbourne picked off the carry pass
- 27:33and returned it to the Knox.
- 27:34Speaker 2: Twenty nine yard line.
- 27:36Speaker 1: LCC again went for the first down on fourth and
- 27:39short from the nine yard line and failed to gain
- 27:42the yardage. Again, Knock Central's tailor broke behind the Cougar's
- 27:47defensive coverage and caught a pass from Kerry for a
- 27:50seventy yard touchdown. The conversion attempt was good to put
- 27:55Knock Central up twenty eight to twenty one. With four
- 27:58point fifty left in the game, elsie C drove the
- 28:02ball all the way down the field and scored on
- 28:04a six yard touchdown run by Howard. The two point
- 28:08rushing attempt was stopped short, and after the onside kick
- 28:12attempt failed, the Cougar season came to an abrupt end.
- 28:18Elsie C finished the season with a six.
- 28:20Speaker 2: And five record.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Quarterback Gunnar Holbrook will be returning for his senior season,
- 28:25and with promising players coming from the middle school ranks,
- 28:29the future of el SEC football is bright. This concludes
- 28:35the reading of The Mountain Eagle. Your reader has been
- 28:38billed and arsenal. Now please stay tuned for continued programming
- 28:43on behalf of everyone here at Radio I.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Thank you for listening and have a good day.