Pike County Grade School Champs 1952
Dorton Wildcats Seventh & Eight Graders Pike County Champions Virgie Eagles Jr. High Runners Up
PIKEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL’S ROAD TO THE 1952 KENTUCKY HIGH SCHOOL STATE TOURNAMENT
Read from the pages of THE PIKEVILLE DAILY NEWS The Regionals Begin Meet the Fab 6 Pikeville panthers of 1952 Woodrow Preston Russell Porter Morris Stratton Lee King Ralph Gilliam Ernest Prater Pikeville Basketball Schedule 1951/1952
Pike County Basketball 1954/55 Score Book
PUBLIC SCHOOL BASKETBALL IS A MOUNTAIN INSTITUTION. It has often been said that business deals and new acquaintances in eastern Kentucky are often made at one of two functions, a basketball game or a funeral. Anthony Hawkins, a regular contributor of material to the Pike County Historical Society website, came up with this middle school…
Vern Bickford, One of Hellier’s Finest
Photo is courtesy of The Elkhorn City Heritage Council.
John O’neil
Thanks to Doug Kretzer with The Mountain Sports Hall of Fame for the photos and content. In Search of John O’Neil In April a friend and one of the great historians in the Big Sandy Valley sent me a message saying he and others were building a Pike County History website and asked if I…
Praise Baseball Team
This is part of the Praise Baseball team. Named from left to right: Ben Wright, Frank Wright, Booker Wright, Benton Wright, and Charlie Wright. Photo is courtesy of The Elkhorn City Heritage Council.
