Thursday, January 12, 2012

Coach Hughes' Corner

It has been a while since I was able to give some time to this web-site. I have had some other things going on and really busy. Now that it is getting close to baseball, I am back at it.

As a referee, I see a lot of local and not so local teams. I have compiled a list of my Top 5 in both boys and girls that I have refereed. Since I can not and will not referee a Purdy High School game, I have to leave them off the list. Remember, these are teams I have had the privilege to referee.

Coach Hughes Top 5 boys basketball teams

1. Kickapoo
2. Lafayette out of St. Joseph MO
3. Wheaton
4. Billings
5. Bentonville

I have not refereed Southwest, Mt. Vernon or Carl Junction this year. They may jump up there when I get that opportunity.

Coach Hughes Top 5 girls basketball teams(this is tougher because I haven't had as many girls games as boys)

1. Carthage
2. Pittsburgh KS
3. McDonald County
4. Neosho
5. East Newton

This list will dramatically change after the next few weeks when I will see Mt. Vernon, Webb City, and a few Springfield area teams.


I spend my winter refereeing basketball and enjoying my family. This year I had the opportunity to enjoy a lot of hours deer hunting with my boys. Trey spent 4 hours hunting and seen deer both times he hunted and connected on a young 7 point buck. Travis spent over 30 hours hunting with me and never seen a deer. Hunter also spent a lot of time and didn't get a deer. He seen some, but couldn't close the deal. Sometimes it is the way it is. I was fortunate enough to fill both of my tags with a doe and a buck this year and have provided some meat for our family. The deer burger is already gone, but we have steaks, jerky, and roast left. Looking forward to next year to give Travis another opportunity.

Looking forward to some late season basketball games and leading up to baseball season.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, home town much???? Billings below Wheaton???? I don't see that.

Oh Well, untrained eye on my part I guess.

January 12, 2012 at 4:42 PM  
Blogger jhughes said...

Well, like I said, this is my observations. Southwest beat both, Billings and Wheaton have about the same record. In my opinion Wheaton has the best player, where Billings has the most players. I almost had them flipped, but went this way. Mainly, because of the 2nd place finish over 3rd place in the Southwest Holiday Tournament

January 13, 2012 at 8:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

cheat'n wheaton

January 13, 2012 at 1:00 PM  

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