Seven and one.
Those were numbers that went together the entire basketball season for the Franklin County Lady Flyers.
It had been seven seasons since Woodford County lost a district game.
Franklin County became the one to end that streak, beating the Lady Yellowjackets in December.
Woodford County was the top seed in the district tournament for seven straight years.
FCHS was the No. 1 seed this year.
The Lady Yellowjackets had won seven consecutive district tournament titles.
On Friday Franklin County ended Woodford's seven-year reign as district champion, winning 57-34 in the championship game at the Frankfort Convention Center for its first district tournament title since 2000.
It appeared the Lady Flyers might end Woodford's streak last year, when they led Woodford by three points with less than two minutes remaining in the title game.
Woodford rallied for the victory, and that loss has stayed with the Lady Flyers since that night a year ago.
"Last year was hard," FCHS senior Kehla Baker said. "We really wanted to win for our seniors last year, Annika (Ramcke) and Nikki (Bistline). They worked so hard.
"This year we won it for us," she added, "but we also won it for the other years, too. We felt like we did it for all the past years coach (Joey) Thacker has been here. We did what Franklin County is supposed to do. It feels great."
The seeds of this season's success were sowed after last year's district loss.
"They promised each other when they stood on the baseline at Woodford County last year, "We're never going to watch Woodford County cut the net down again,'" Thacker said about his seniors. "This year they kept that promise to one other."
FCHS' seniors are Baker, Meagan Downs, Kathryn Clark, Alison Hamilton and Lesley Gormley.
"Considering I didn't get to play because I got hurt in the first quarter, it was still hard because we wanted it more and it didn't come out the way we expected," Downs said about last year's title game.
"It motivated us a lot," she added, "and losing to Western Hills this year made us a better team."
Franklin County lost at Western Hills 46-43 in January for its only district loss this season.
"It motivated us the whole year," Clark said. "We wanted to win it (the district tournament) this year, but if we hadn't lost last year and not lost to Western Hills this year, I don't think we'd have been as motivated.
"We would have been motivated," she added," but not as much get revenge, beat the other team motivated."
Last year's final score in the championship game was 41-39. It's a score the Lady Flyers couldn't get away from this season.
"We've had that score posted everywhere," Baker said. "Coach Thacker put a net on all our lockers and said is this the only net you'll cut down this week. He used a lot of motivational things.
"It was posted in the locker room, on scouting reports, marker boards, everywhere."
On Friday it was both Franklin County teams cutting down the nets.
"This team has grown a lot," Thacker said. "When we lost to Western Hills on Jan. 4 it was a blessing in disguise at the time. We made it as hard as we could make it on them, and they responded every time."
Both Franklin County teams defeated a team for the third time this season when they won Friday's championship games.
"Yesterday I left a net hanging on every locker with last year's district score," Thacker said, "and the question, "Is this the only net you'll cut down this week?' They responded the way they're supposed to respond to that kind of motivation.
"I told them I knew they'd hear rumblings about it's hard to beat someone three times in one year, but not if you're hungry," he added. "After we lost to Western Hills, as far as our practice and being goal oriented, we were a different team."
"We have the district championship board in the locker room," Baker said, "and the last year we'd won was 2000. Ever since I've been in high school I think one year we're going to get it, and we did it."
Flyers end drought
Franklin County's boys team captured its first district championship since 2000 when the Flyers defeated Western Hills 53-51 in Friday's tournament final.
"We knew we had to step our game up," FCHS junior Ryan Conner. "It was a little harder talking because of the longer court.
"We knew this was the eighth year where we hadn't won it," he added. "It means a lot."
With Friday's win, the Flyers picked up their 20th victory of the season and finished the season with an unblemished 8-0 record against district opponents.
All-tournament teams
FCHS' Meagan Downs won the Sally Gaines Memorial Award and DeRon Hicks won the Gary Moore Award as the tournament's most valuable players.
Also named to the all-tournament team, for the girls, were Clark, Finnja Ramcke and Andrea Howard of FCHS; Dana Green and Rachel Williams of Frankfort High, April Lancaster and Tara Arnold of Western Hills, and Kelsey Swan, Ariana McWilliams and Alyssa Lucas of Woodford County.
Besides Hicks, the other players named to the boys all-tournament team were Barrett Meyer, Andy Donovan and Conner of FCHS, Matt Hyatt, Jay Van and Ryan Belcher of Western Hills, Jordan Morgan and Micah Goff of Frankfort High, and Dominique Johnson and Brandon Raider of Woodford County.
Cheerleading awards
The district championship went to Woodford County, and Western Hills was the district runner-up.
Franklin County takes a 19-10 record into its 11th Region tournament game Tuesday at home against Dunbar.