#2 Louisville Ballard beat #1 Scott County 69-64.

#3 Shelby Valley thumped #6 Mason County 72-51.

Small school champion Shelby Valley meets Ballard tonight for the title.

Here you go Al

Shelby Valley stunned Ballard 73-61 in the Sweet Sixteen championship Saturday night in front of 15,048 fans in Rupp Arena.

The Cats become the first mountain team to win the title since Paintsville in 1996.

Ashley Hatfield led the winners with 21 points and 8 rebounds. Elisha Justice a had 17 points. Taylor Newsome had 17 points and 9 rebounds. Cody Varney had 13.

Shelby Valley hit 21 of 23 free throws to wrap up a 32-4 season.

Thanks, John!

Everytime there's rumbling about Kentucky's one-class basketball tournament, a little school like Shelby Valley (enrollment 570) wins the tournament. They're the first Class A school to win it since Paintsville in 1996. Painstville was also runner-up in 1998, the last time a Class A school made the championship game.

Shelby Valley's star, Elisha Justice, turned down a scholarship offer to Charlotte. He'll walk-on at Louisville instead.

Ok. I was about to look up if University Heights ever won one. They had a stretch of strong teams 5 - 10 years ago. This is why 15,000 - 20,000 attend the Sweet Sixteen every day

Yes, University Heights won a championship earlier in the 90's. The difference being that they were a private school and could attract students from anywhere.

Shelby Valley is a public school. Interestingly, Shelby Valley's coach, Jason Booher, survived the deadly 1981 Carollton, KY bus crash that killed 27 children. His best friend Chad Witt was one of the victims. Larry Mahoney, driving drunk, drove 5 miles the wrong way on I-71 and crashed into the bus which was returning from a church outing at King's Island Amusement Park.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrollton,_Kentucky_bus_collision

The mother of one of the victims founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving.