Cannelton (Ind.) High School gets first win in TWO YEARS!

[jksander]

http://www.perrycountynews.com/articles/2007/01/29/sports/s1.txt

Interestingly, this was Cannelton (the 2nd smallest school in Indiana, enrollment: 64) beating New Harmony (the smallest school in Indiana, enrollment: 56). Crazy, crazy, crazy. Even in an era of "Class Basketball" in Indiana, these tiny schools refuse to consolidate with larger local schools because they all think they can still become (eventually) another Milan (or Hickory, depending on whether you know Indiana basketball lore or are just a fan of Hoosiers).

Incidentally, I attended Perry Central High School, about twenty miles north of Cannelton in tiny Leopold, Ind. Our school (consolidated in 1966 from about forty tiny "town schools") had 9th-12th enrollment of 500 or so, despite being located in a town with a population of 82.

[Cooleyvol]

A friend of mine just left Cannelton as Postmaster to return to Tennessee.

[jksander]

Small world My aunt, Gayle Strassell, is mayor of Tell City, which I'm sure makes Cannelton folks hate her, since there's still the intense rivalry between the two towns (even though it's damned near impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins anymore). lol ...

[jksander]

Oh, btw, it's too bad but Cannelton followed their miracle win on the 26th with an abysmal 54-88 loss to 1A Restoration Christian. It's kind of sad that they're too weak a team to even compete on a mediocre level with schools as small as they are. Even sadder: the best year they've had in recent memory was in 1997-98, when they went 9-15 but somehow managed to knock off New Harmony, NE Dubois and Evansville Day in the sectionals to make the school's first regionals in decades. But when a 9-15 team makes it to regionals, it's hard to get excited. Even had they won the state title, they would have had a losing record. It'd be like Testicle Tech going 4-24 in the NCAAs and winning an auto-bid for a crap conference, getting into the "play-in" game and "earning" a spot against a #1 seed.