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Trophy incident sees slew of shrugs
By Keith Taylor and Bob Flynn
March 12, 2010

BOWLING GREEN — The George Rogers Clark boys basketball team forgot to bring its runner-up trophy from Maysville last week.

The Cardinals inavertedly left the trophy following a stunning 62-60 loss to Mason County last Monday. Corey Rogers also left his jersey behind in the locker room. Rogers was in a training room following the setback that ended the team’s successful season.

The oversight apparently left some in Mason County wondering what happened.

According to a story in the Maysville Ledger-Independent, a janitor found the trophy in the Cardinals’ locker room. The team returned with individual runner-up plaques, but the trophy was accidently left behind.

The idea that the incident was anything but accidental left Clark officials perplexed.

“It was not left there on purpose,” George Rogers Clark Athletics Director Jackie McCloud said Thursday night. “I don’t know what happened. It was accidently left in the locker room. It wasn’t left on purpose. Our (boys) basketball team had a great year, and they played well all year long. We didn’t play well that night. We got beat, and we’re going to go forward. The trophy being left there doesn’t make or break what happened. It was an accident.”

The Cardinals finished the season with a 26-7 record, while the Royals will take on North Hardin in the boys Sweet Sixteen at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Rupp Arena.

Mason County High School principal Steve Appelman told the Ledger-Independent that he has not had had time to contact officials at Clark about leaving the trophy.

“Truly, we’re so busy getting ready for the state tournament, I haven’t had time to talk to (GRC),” Appelman told the paper.

McCloud and GRC Principal Gordon Parido attended the George Rogers Clark Lady Cardinals’ contest against Ohio County Thursday night in the KHSAA Sweet 16 at the E.A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green, where the Lady Cardinals were making their first appearance in the event since 1995.

Parido, who first heard of the incident Thursday morning when someone showed him the newspaper article said, it was an accident, nothing more.

“It was simply a mistake, there’s no doubt about it. You’re not going to leave a hundred dollar jersey in the locker room to try to prove a point to someone else,” Parido said. “Things happen, unfortunately. I don’t think there was any intentional message there.”

Parido, who coached basketball for 15 years, said normally someone goes back through the locker room before the team leaves, but this time that didn’t happen. The missing items weren’t discovered until the team returned to Winchester.

The year didn’t end like the team had hoped, but Parido said it had been a very successful and positive year for the basketball l team, and the forgotten jersey and trophy shouldn’t diminish that fact.

Contact Keith Taylor or Bob Flynn at ktaylor@winchestersun.com or bflynn@winchestersun.com

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