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It's the first time in three years that Charlie and I haven't gone "bowling" for New Years with our Big Blue Cats. We just moved into our new house, and while we love the Big Blue Nation, we are a little tired from all the move coupled with holiday activities. So this year, we rounded up our college crowd and had them over for an evening of Wildcat football.

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Things looked pretty grim in the first half of the Liberty Bowl. East Carolina came out trash talking and looking like aggressive warriors....well alright marauding Pirates ready to pillage and plunder. UK was less amphed up.

When one of my guests arrived late she asked, "Are you sorry you didn't going bowling?" I sure had an answer. If the first half is an indication of the second half...well I am tickled to be setting right here in my barn watching the game.

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Thank goodness, for Coach Rich Brooks! He is a straight shooting coach, and surely he must have put a fire under our boys...because the second half looked like a totally different team. Our Cats brought home a third consective bowl victory!

We Pike Countians were sorry to see David Jones, a Belfry native, put on the sideline with injuries...especially after his spectacular run down the field. However, we are Big Blue Proud of our Kentucky Wildcats making a spectacular recovery. The strongarm charge as Ventrill Jenkins made the top ten bowl plays on ESPN.

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Joyce Pinson is a University of Kentucky alumni who enjoys Kentucky Sports including UK football. Joyce is a Kentucky Health Insurance Agent.

We are back!

I must apologize for our abscence from the Kentucky sports scene blog. It's tough to build a house, move into a house, host Thanksgiving for 18 in the middle of moving, and now getting the house decorated for living...let alone the holidays. Not to mention, we run a Kentucky insurance agency belong to a number of civic organizations, and of course cover local Kentucky sports through WPRG. It's been an exciting but hectic time for us.

Look for Charlie Pinson  Kentucky sports commentator and Mark Frantom Kentucky sports camera man extrordinare to be on hand tonight at the Shelby Valley High School matchup...and this weekend at Pikeville College.

Thanks for your patience.

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Joyce Pinson  is a Kentucky independent insurance agent who is responsible for keeping up with Charlie Pinson. It's a hectic job, but she tries real hard!

Kentucky Wildcats and Secretariat You Gotta Love It!

Can you say "GO BIG RED" and still love the Wildcats?

You betcha! Hats off to Nike, the University of Kentucky, and Penny Chenery Secretariat's owner for combining the championship mystic of Kentucky basketball and Kentucky horse racing. Big Red, is of course the nickname for Triple Crown winner Secretariat.

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Have you seen the new Kentucky Wildcats basketball uniforms? Trimmed down to a more form fitting silhouette (Thank you...you shouldn't play basketball in a billowing sack dress) the new uniforms boast a tone on tone checkerboard pattern in a nod to Secretariat's signature racing silks. Blue on blue for on the road, and white on white for home games at Rupp. At the waistband, the 8 square check is repeated at the "belt buckle" area with 7 squares filled in with championship years. The eighth left blank for our upcoming championship. Go Big Blue!

On the left shoulder is a small black band reading "Mr. Wildcat" a tribute to Bill Keightley. The K in Kentucky is also black, as a remembrance of the best bench warmer we have ever had! We miss you Bill!

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Back at Derby time, former UK Coach Tubby Smith was quoted in several papers as being saddened as he and Bill Keightley used to attend the Derby together. I think maybe Bill is up there smiling, pleased we remember him...but that we also honor a Kentucky tradition and passion, horse racing.

So as we move forward into the new season of Kentucky Basketball, don't look at me cross-eyed if you see me shouting "Go Big Red." After all, Secretariat is my favorite equine and for my favorite basketball team to reference him just makes me swell with Kentucky pride.

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Joyce Pinson  is an alum of the University of Kentucky. She loves Kentucky Wildcat Basketball. She is a contributor to the Secretariat Bronze Fund statue that stands at the Kentucky Horse Park.

Kick it A Mile Kyle gets National Rep

Chilton, Take 3 times 2

PC kicker named NAIA Special Teams POW for third time

PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Special, indeed.

When it’s all said and done, it won’t be too much of a stretch to call Kyle Chilton the most decorated player in the brief history of Pikeville College football.

The decorations got even more colorful for Chilton on Monday. Hours after being named Mid-South Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for the second straight week and third time this season, Chilton took another honor.

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He was named the NAIA’s national Special Teams Player of the Week.

On Saturday Chilton accounted for all of Pikeville’s points in a 14-6 loss to U.Va.-Wise, booting field goals of 46 and 45 yards.

Chilton, a 5-11, 170-pound junior from Clearwater, Fla., is no stranger to the honor. In fact, it’s the third time he’s been the national recipient of the award in his career. He won it twice as a freshman.

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“Kyle is an outstanding football player,” said Coach Mac Bryan. “With all due respect to the other terrific kickers out there, we think he’s the best in the country. And when we say that, we mean it – he’s the best on any level.”

Chilton is all over the Pikeville College record book. He holds the record for the longest field goal in school history, a 61-yarder in 2006, and also has the second and third longest ever. In 2006, he made 14 of 23 field goals, both school marks. He once tried five field goals in a single game, which is the record. As a punter, he has the third- and fourth-longest in school history.

And in the career section of the record book, he appears nine times, including two places he stands alone at the top – in punts inside the 20 with 35, and the one he set on Saturday, when his first field goal gave him the record for field goals made in a career. He now has 29.

On Saturday, he averaged 44.4 yards on five punts, including one that sailed 55 yards.

Chilton has been named MSC Special Teams Player of the Week six times in his career.

As a freshman, he was honored after leading the Bears to an overtime win over Cumberland University. He hit a 50-yard field goal as time expired to put the game in overtime and then another to win the game.

Four weeks later, he closed out the season with the 61-yarder at WVU Tech and was honored by both the MSC and NAIA again.

He won the conference honor last week as well, when he kicked a 49-yard field goal and was 3-of-3 on extra-point kicks in Saturday’s 42-24 loss at Union College. In addition, Chilton punted five times for an average of 37.6 yards.

For the season, Chilton is tied for the league lead in field goal percentage, having hit 6-of-8 (75 percent). He’s also third in the conference in punting at 40.7 yards per punt. His punting average is 10th in the country.

Chilton and the Bears will play their final home game of the 2008 season on Saturday when they host Georgetown College. Senior Day festivities will begin shortly after 1 p.m., with kickoff set for 1:30 at the W.C. Hambley Athletics Complex.

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This article provided by Pikeville College Sports Information Director, Rick Bentley.

Charlie Pinson  has been in Lexington taking  Kentucky insurance  classes for the past several days. He looks forward to Saturday's Pikeville College Senior Day, with anticipation. Catch Charlie on WPRG-TV 5 as "The Voice of the Pikeville College Bears" or in his office where he really is a Kentucky insurance agent.

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Top Kicker Chilton named player of the week by MSC

PIKEVILLE, Ky. – It’s not exactly been an ideal season for the Pikeville College football team, but placekicker/punter Kyle Chilton has kept a slow, steady pace.

It’s not going unnoticed; on Monday, Chilton was named the Special Teams Player of the Week in the Mid-South Conference.

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Chilton, a 5-11, 170-pound junior from Clearwater, Fla., was honored after kicking a 49-yard field goal and going 3-of-3 on extra-point kicks in Saturday’s 42-24 loss at Union College. In addition, Chilton punted five times for an average of 37.6 yards, including one that buried Union inside its 20-yard line.

Chilton is having a solid if not flashy season. He is 4-of-6 on field goal attempts this year, and is 13-of-14 on extra-point tries. His 25 points leads the team and is 10th in the league.

“We just haven’t scored enough to give him very many opportunities,” said Mac Bryan. “Anytime we get close we feel like we need to go for it to get the touchdown and not kick the field goals. We’ve probably cost him more kicks than we’ve let him try.”

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Chilton is also the punter for the Bears, and is averaging 40.2 yards per punt this season. He has trapped the opponent inside the 20 11 times. When he did so on Saturday, it was the 33rd of his career, passing Don Paul Branham as the all-time leader in the category.

His average is good for third in the MSC.

Chilton was the winner of this award after the Week One loss at Brevard College. On that night, he was 2-of-2 on PATs and hit a 29-yard field goal in a 20-17 loss. In addition, he punted eight times for an average of 41.4 yards on Saturday, including three inside the 20. He had punts of 48, 50 and 56 yards in the loss.

It is the fifth time in his career he has been named Special Teams Player of the Week in the Mid-South Conference. He has been tabbed the national player of the week on two occasions.

Chilton and the Bears will be back in action on Saturday afternoon when they host No. 11 U.Va.-Wise at the Hambley Athletics Complex. Kickoff is set for 1:30 p.m.

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Bethel ruins Homecoming with 42-10 win

PIKEVILLE, Ky. – Sophomore tailback Justin Woodard ran for 175 yards and a touchdown Saturday afternoon as Bethel College spoiled homecoming at Pikeville College with a 42-10 win.

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Woodard carried the ball 24 times in the win, only the second in six outings for the Wildcats, who were preseason No. 6 in the NAIA poll and a national quarterfinalist a year ago.

Pikeville fell to a dreadful 1-5.

Bethel wasted no time getting on the scoreboard, going 51 yards on seven plays with the final 41 coming on a pass from senior quarterback Chad Lamping to senior wide receiver Will Cripps. It was the first of two touchdown passes Lamping would throw to Cripps and the PAT by senior Sean Fraser made it 7-0 with only 2:15 off the clock.

The Wildcats led 14-0 after Woodard’s one-yard scamper ended an 89-yard drive in the first period, and it was 21-0 after freshman tailback David Brown scored from 13 yards out to close an 83-yard drive.

Pikeville got on the scoreboard late in the first half when junior Kyle Chilton made a 24-yard field goal.

The third period was more of the same for Bethel. Lamping hit senior Joevaris Carter on a five-yard pass, Brown scooted in from five yards out and Lamping found Cripps for 21 yards to make it 42-3 by the end of the third period.

Pikeville scored its only touchdown on a 15-yard pass from sophomore Dan Wideman to freshman Lamar Brown with 12:48 left to close out the scoring. It capped a seven-play, 70-yard drive.

Woodard’s efforts led a 254-yard rushing day for the Wildcats, who averaged 6.2 yards per carry. Lamping was 12-of-22 for 191 yards with three touchdowns. His favorite target was Carter, who caught five for 79 yards, and Cripps, who had 71 on only three catches.

Pikeville, meanwhile, had a season-best 206 yards on the ground, with Wideman picking up 78 on 16 carries. Senior tailback De’Rail Sims finished with 65 yards on only nine carries.

In the air, Wideman was 17-of-32 for 182 with two interceptions and the one score. Montrel Jones caught five for 40 yards, while Brown’s touchdown was one of four catches for 58 yards.

With the five catches, the freshman Jones has 40 on the season, tying him for the second-most in a season since Pikeville began varsity football in 2001. He is 11 shy of teammate Justin Lamb’s single-season mark of 51, set in 2006.

Bethel’s defensive attack was led by defensive back Johnathan Deberry’s 10 tackles. Nine of those were solos and he had one of Bethel’s interceptions. Junior DB Antonio Wardlow had eight tackles, all solos, with one tackle for loss, an interception and a blocked field goal.

Pikeville got six tackles from junior linebackers DeVaughn Whitley (four and two) and Kenny Harris (two and four). Harris added a sack for a nine-yard loss.

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Due to business obligations, Charlie Pinson  has been unable to contribute his comments on Pikeville College's Homecoming game. We thank Pikeville College SID Rick Bentley for the updates.

"Bear-ly getting by" Pikeville College slips by KY Christian in OT

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Leaving the office at 3 o'clock is not an easy thing to do; but travel to Morehead we did with the Pikeville College Bears yesterday. Rick Bentley, Shane Murray and myself headed to Morehead KY for the match up between the Bears and KY Christian's Knights.

In this week's "Bear Facts" show on WPRG-TV 5, Coach Mac and I were cautiously optimistic with predictions for the showdown in Morehead. And the game, well it was a close one...with the Bears pulling out their first win of the season in Overtime.

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We didn't get home until about 3 AM this morning; and my wife says I am a "Grumpy Bear" but let me tell you when Pikeville College Football wins I am happier than a Bear with a tree full of honey! GO Bears!

Here's the wrap-up of the game courtesy Rick Bentley, Pikeville College SID

MOREHEAD, Ky. – Pikeville College snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, and needed nearly everything it had to keep Kentucky Christian from picking up its first varsity win.

Pikeville (1-3) knocked off Kentucky Christian 20-14 in overtime Thursday night, but the story of the final isn’t nearly as interesting as the road to the final.

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Trailing 14-7, the Bears got the football back with 1:47 left in regulation inside their own one yard line. They faced fourth-and-10 at their own one when sophomore quarterback Dan Wideman hit freshman receiver Montrel Jones for a 20-yard gain. After carrying for 10 yards and throwing an incomplete pass, Wideman was chased out of the pocket and scrambled 48 yards before being chased out of bounds at the Knight 21 yard line – and then was hit running out of bounds, moving the ball to the 13.

On the next play he threw over the middle where junior Nick Jamerson made a diving catch in the middle of the end zone with only 11 seconds left. Junior Kyle Chilton’s PAT sent the game to overtime tied at 14.

The Knights had the ball to start the extra period and had it first-and-goal at the two before tailback Jake Hughes lost a fumble which Pikeville sophomore Jamar Porter recovered to turn the ball back over to the Bear offense.

On the first play, Wideman scooted around the left end and sailed 25 yards into the end zone for the win.

Of Pikeville’s 436 yards of offense on the night, Wideman was responsible for 410 – 312 passing and 98 on the ground.

Pikeville fumbled a punt after stopping the Knights on their first offensive series and KCU took over at the 24-yard ling. The drive ended on the sixth play when freshman quarterback Beau Dailey hit sophomore tailback Ronnie Smith from 11 yards out. Matt Prewitt’s PAT made it 7-0 with 11:46 left in the opening period.

The Bears moved the ball down field before Wideman was hit on a sack and dropped the football. Freshman linebacker Kevin Mix picked it up and ran 67 yards for the score to make it 14-0 with five minutes left in the opening period.

It turned out to be the final points of the night for the Knights, and for the longest time, looked as if it would be enough for a team in search of its first win in school history.

Pikeville recovered a fumbled punt to get the ball on the KCU 14-yard line late in the first period, and on fourth-and-three sophomore De’Rail Sims carried for a seven-yard touchdown, with Chilton’s PAT making it 14-7 with 13:52 left in the half.

It stayed that way until the touchdown with 11 ticks remaining in the game.

Wideman was 26-of-47 for 212, hitting Jones eight times for 130. Jamerson’s touchdown catch was his sixth for 62 yards. Wideman carried 16 times for hit 98 yards.

KCU (0-4) ran the ball 42 times for 162, with Hughes picking up 81 on 21 carries. The quarterback combination of Dailey and Ricky Phillips was 19-of-33 for 227 yards. Sophomore Austin Hunter caught five for 32 yards, with Paintsville product Ron Blume catching three for 42 yards.

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Wonder where Kentucky sport cameraman and Kentucky Insurance Agent  Mark Frantom was during the Bears vs Knights showdown? Mark was being installed as the President of the Pikeville Kiwanis Club. In a surprise moment, Mark was also awarded Pikeville Kiwanian of the Year! We are proud of Mark, who manages our Pikeville Ky office of Charlie Pinson Insurance KY.