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Just wanted to bring some attention to the Scholastic Bowl teams in Southwest Virginia. Scholastic Bowl is an academic competition sanctioned by the VHSL. The kids involved in this play a season that runs from late September to mid February. The time and effort they put in rivals any of the major team sports. SW Va. teams have represented this area admirably in the last couple of seasons. In 1A, Honaker has won back-to-back state championships. In 2A, Central has a state championship and a runner-up finish and Gate City and Tazewell each have a fourth place finish. This season, in 1A Grundy and Honaker are both poised to make a run at the state title while Tazewell, Gate City and Central are all contenders for the 2A title. There are many other teams playing Scholastic Bowl in the region and the competition is getting better. If you get a chance, I recommend going to a match and supporting these kids. They work every bit as hard as the players in the high profile sports and they toil in relative anonymity. The matches are exciting and the kids appreciate it when their community supports them.

You lost this argument before and you’re about to lose it again. First, you’re in the wrong forum. Second, it’s an impressive win, but at the end of the day, it is a 1-score win to a FOUR-LOSS team that was blown out by #3 in its last game. UCF is a Top 10 team. It is by no statistical measure (aside from wins and losses against a schedule that would make VT basketball blush) a Top 4 team.

Central may be the best coached team around. Robin Dotson is an incredible coach.

I will add this when your playing the better teams vs the better teams many times it comes down to Coaching. The Galax girls are well coached and I will say I am very impressed with Pm Coaching staff. They are extremely displine and he seems to have the pulse of the team spot on. Ridgeview is well coached as well.

I'm not sold on Eastside yet either. I think they looked pretty good but really mostly 1 player stood out. That's not gonna win against the best teams. I'm planning to go see them play Union next time around. I see where Eastside took 40 foul shots before and union fouled out 3 people ? That sounds a bit odd and one sided. I sit beside a ref for about a quarter yesterday at emory and Henry. Apparently he's done a lot of PM games and some summer games. He told me this summer at someone's team camp PM beat Abingdon by 20. Of Course that's team camp stuff and I'd bet not everyone played for either team. I would love to see some of these top schools from each division go at it. Could be a lot of fun to watch. Yes your not the only one talking about Galax depth or lack there of. I think that will hold them back. I'm very interested to see how they do next time out vs the george wythe girls. I understand george wythe is down but they beat Galax pretty bad a week or so ago. Looks like the way these teams are playing that the rankings may certainly change week to week. Lots of strange things happening on the school board right now happy new year SWVA enjoy your families take it from me they grow up quickly and fly away

Yes, I also think this is fun. It’s a challenge to see who knows the girls teams the best, and who is lucky enough to guess correctly. If Abingdon plays good team ball then I can’t see anyone in SWVA playing with them. They have experience, loads of talent, depth and size. From what I’ve seen from Galax they lack depth and consistency at this point in the season. They did lose to GW by 20. I don’t think Eastside will lose to them next time they play Eastside did beat Union. Although ES shot like 30+ more free throws than Union. 3 starters from Union fouled out and ES won by like 5. They play again in a couple weeks. I’d have to bet Union wins by +10. I agree It is possible for Honaker to upset ES. This is PM’s year, if they don’t win this year, there will be a lot of very disappointed PM fans, Just like all the GW fans from last year.