South Warren falls 28-14 to Trinity (Louisville) in 2025 UK HealthCare Sports Medicine State Football Finals
LEXINGTON, Ky. – After going unbeaten through the first 13 games of the season, South Warren travelled to Lexington to face the ultimate test: the Trinity (Louisville) Shamrocks in the Class 6A 2025 UK HealthCare Sport Medicine State Football Finals.
This game had a lot at stake for both teams, South Warren looking for its first state championship since 2021 and fourth overall in program history, and the Shamrocks looking for their third in a row, and they looked determined, starting things off quick by scoring in the first minute of the first quarter on a 51-yard run by Shamrock RB Ashton Taylor.
South worked its way down the field on the following drive but was unable to cash in on the redzone attempt, as a 30-yard Spartan field goal went just wide right.
There was a bit of time that followed where both offenses struggled, but before halftime, it was another pair of explosive plays, one a big run, the other a big pass, which led to two more touchdowns for Trinity, and heading into the midway point it was 21-0 for the reigning champs.
A fresh life was breathed into the Spartans in the third quarter, as the opening kickoff was taken all the way to the endzone by Isaiah Bridges, and a deep pass from Camden Page to the hands of Jake Carter kept the matchup within two scores.
In the end, however, that would be the final margin as the rest of the way, Trinity was able to prevent South Warren from scoring inside of the redzone, and it’s a three-peat for the Shamrocks, who win Saturday evening by a final score of 28-14.
Postgame, South Warren head coach Brandon Smith shared his thoughts.
“We came here to win. There’s a lot of teams that come here to take pictures when they get in this matchup, and that wasn’t our message,” Smith said. “We came here to win and that was the game plan. I thought we had some opportunities, and to me, that’s all you can ask for is to give yourself opportunities to make plays, we just didn’t quite make enough of them.”
“I’ve been around the block once or twice now, I’m not as young as I used to be. I think after you have success and you have experience, what you enjoy is a little bit different. I think the enjoyment comes out of how close you can get a team to maxing out their potential, and in terms of this team and maxing out their potential, I mean, they got about as close as you can possibly get. So, to me that is very satisfying.”
For Coach Smith and the Spartans, it’s a 13-1 record to finish out the season, which makes for a pretty good first impression on Class 6A football. The program assuredly has a lot to look forward to with the future of this program.
