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All the VHSL cares about is the eastern side of the state, much like government. That's why they changed the bracket setup in 1A-3A so that region C and D can no longer meet up in the state finals. They did not like it on the girls side when C\D were continuously dominating.

This article showcases arguably the best team Dotson has had in addition to other area players that have played college ball. This area has already had the bulk of girls basketball talent in the state.

https://www.timesnews.net/sports/2005-06-season-one-to-remember-for-uva-wise-womens-basketball/article_4a506cca-4203-5155-ab32-1cd999ae42b0.html

Wise has had a lot of college players over the years at UVA wise, Emory, Tusculum, Milligan, etc. Sarah Helton from the 2000's set the UVA Wise scoring mark during her time there. In your next post you change that to D1 players, one of their best all time players, Logan Reynolds, played 4 years at JMU. Gate City has had multiple college players just over the last 3-4 years with Sarah Thompson playing D1 at ETSU. Ridgeview has two players at Pikeville right now and a third was recruited heavily by them but chose not to play. Honaker has 1 McNulty playing in college currently and the other should be once she graduates. Nolley is getting offers, not sure if she has committed yet. Patrick Henry had 3 girls go on to play college ball from their last good run. Abingdon has had 2 D1 players with Grace Hess and Peyton Carter. Taylor Gilbert and Sarah Walter's played at Emory, Emily Breeding played at Bluefield. A couple other girls had options but chose volleyball instead. A few years earlier, Taylor Blevins played at Emory and set their all time scoring mark. With some research, I could find a lot more. These are just some from recent memory. This past summer we went to team camps at Emory, Concord, and Elon. In all three, we only played one team that could compete against Wise, Ridgeview, Botetourt, and Carroll County.

You evidently have hard feelings from that situation because you clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about. Reynolds had proven all season to be a very good player. She is as quick as any girl in the area, one of the best on ball defenders, handles the ball well, rebounds great for her size, and has only gotten better as the season progressed. Her defense against Lord Botetourt in the 4th quarter alone helped win that game. She picked up their best shooter who had hit 5 threes and kept her from getting the ball back. As for playing time, she's earned every second of floor time. IMO, if she wasn't on the team, the rotation in tight games would just be one less player. I will take less playing time and a Region championship over a 5 win season anytime.

I agree that 2 fouls on Ervin were legit, one was questionable and one was laughable. The coach left her in the game the whole time and she actually became a liability for about 3-4 minutes. She couldn't play defense or try to rebound at all and had to hold back on offense because of a possible charge call. It got worse after halftime. The officials done a complete 180 and targeted Magna Vista. It seemed like someone may have called them out during the break and they had to make up for the first half.

They will most likely clear the facility after the 1A games so they can keep the money separate from the 2A gate.

The sad part is that you could probably take top players from region C/D this season on one team and JM still wins easily

Watched part of this game. Carrico was a little off in the first half until she scored her 1,000 pt. After that, she started scoring more often. She's tough to guard, just has no help.

1. Yes, Abingdon has 2 female assistants. 2.The girl had to be carried off the floor. 3. TJ was not the opponent, he was the tournament host and principal. 4. You obviously don't like Abingdon either. 5. If you think it's being "nice" for the staff of the host school to help an injured player off the floor then you may be as pathetic as the situation.

Abingdon player got hurt during the game and Wise doesn't have a trainer available and no EMT's on site. If that's not a prerequisite for hosting tournaments it should be. Nobody even offered to help getting her off the court. TJ just stood there with his hands in his pockets. Pathetic.

I agree. Abingdon is a baseball school with countless kids who either stop playing other sports or do the very least possible to say they played multiple sports. Look at Mac, he is told to have been great at football but he chose to dedicate fully to basketball. But, some of the best to ever go through the area played multiple sports and excelled at all. Calvin Talford and Heath Miller could have played all 3 major sports at college level without a doubt, 4 if you consider track. Thomas Jones was a really good basketball player as well as James Mitchell. Julius Jones was great at track, etc

I agree with both of you to some degree. My son's core group played together from a very early age. 2 different youth teams developed for Abingdon youth basketball that eventually merged into 1 team around middle school. They played together every summer and their chemistry was a big reason for their success. With that being said, Abingdon is a baseball school and that either pulls kids away from basketball or at least dominates their summer. It's very hard to get enough kids to field a full summer team.

Exactly They must not be intimidated by his antics like swva area officials. I have heard 3 different refs comment that they hate doing central games and try to avoid his side of the floor.

Ben Campbell was Dotsons puppet in this one. And Jeter made 2 calls that got changed because Campbell and Crocket were standing in front of Dotson listening to him. Then they run over and change the calls.