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No question, winning brings out players, but there is something more to it in my opinion. I think winning for a long time matters and Richlands has done that, but still, Gate City has been good for a long time and even longer than Richlands with more titles. This leads me to believe, your Head Coach's ability to sell the program to the town and kids at a young age is equally an important factor. It explains why Richlands has more kids out each year compared to Gate City. GC has had coaching turbulence compared to Mance being there a long time, and winning, but also selling the program and building interest. It sounds like the same thing is happening at Graham with their new coach. Their numbers will likely incease the next few years. With the above written, I am talking about programs of similar size. A school like Robinson in NOVA or Landstown in the Tidewater area are huge schools and will likely have out more kids than Div/Class 2 schools if they have a half way decent program. In these two examples, they certainly do. In the case of Richlands, credit winnig and winning for a long time, but also credit Mance's ability to build enthusiasm and interest in the town which is fueled by winning, but there is still that "it" factor for the coach.

Washington County falls to the team out of the Philippines, 9-0. This Philippines team has only surrendered one run in the tournament so far. Washington County will face team out of British Columbia (Canada) in the consolation game on Sunday, 11 a.m. They lost to this team in the opener of pool play. Nice showing for the locals regardless out of the outcome.

Cooke's aren't considered "good" either, not by a long shot...

Having seen Cooke multiple times, I'll give my assessment on the two later in the season after I've seen Beck lol.

Beidleman is back but Chapman deciding not to play hurts is on both sides of the ball but oh well his decision. Other than beidleman we will be very young in backfield but very talented...future looks very bright in spartanland

Our JV team this year is bigger than 3/4 of the team's numbers on here so far.....

Gonna have to start making it a requirement for all new players to bring their pads with them

Tricitiessports.com doesn't count. Lol