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Just got threatened by the Grayson Co. administration over blowing the train horn 😂

I think the Union fans need to calm down a bit. Your season isn't over by any means. You lost to a team that has a legit shot at winning region. You still for the most part control your own destiny. Plus its pretty obvious that there is no clear cut favorite to win the region (maybe Graham). The playoffs around here in 2d should be really good. Especially the semi and championship round,. Then we will sacrafice that team to Appomattox for Peace on Earth!

I am going to say something as someone from Big Stone originally and someone who has spent time away. I support the kids at Union. But to be quite blunt, they made a terrible effort tonight. Union has a great football program. It’s great what they have going on. And it’s fun more often than not to watch them. But the fans have got to quit acting like the team is unbeatable. Union is clearly not unbeatable and it’s high time people in Big Stone and Appalachia realize that. They made uncharacteristic mistakes. There were players trying to be heroes. Refer to the muffed punt. He should have let it roll. But you live and you learn. Central outplayed Union and they deserved every bit of that win.

I know y'all too good a people to actually do it but would've been funny as hell if he blew it every time the admin even opened his month to speak.

I said Galax had a coaching advantage. I stand by that statement.

Coach Allen called off the dogs in the second half.

Yes because Thomas would in the game to score a meaningless TD vs the Graham JV.

Just a few thoughts from last night. GHS coaching staff and players made one heck of an in game adjustment to stop VH's offense. Looked as though it was going to be a track meet at first. Bradshaw is still the fastest on the field that I've seen so far this year. Again, Graham cut down on the dumb penalties!! It was one of those games that even though you have a big lead you didn't ever feel comfortable until there just wasn't enough time for a comeback. V-High is a very good team with some great athletes. Graham is just playing great football and clicking on all cylinders now. Looking forward to see how the G-Men match up at Pulaski!

Copied this from the Facebook group I run, Mountain Empire High School Sports Discussion. Wanted to post it here as well. October 15, 1999. 22 years ago today, two of the most memorable high school football games ever in Southwest Virginia played out roughly 10 miles away from one another. The Haysi Tigers fell behind 28-0 to the Pound Wildcats in the first half of their game at Dotson-Mullins Field. The Tigers would pull off an improbable comeback winning 34-28 in OT. Meanwhile at Carroll Dale Stadium in Wise, the JJ Kelly Indians were pulling off a monumental upset at home against the Powell Valley Vikings. The Big Stone Gap crew were in the midst of a 34 game winning streak and showed no signs of slowing down over the first half of the 99 season. The Indians played ball control all night and stunned all of SWVA winning 19-14. The aftermath of that night is well known. Pound would recover from the loss to Haysi and make it all the way to Lynchburg to play in the Class 1, Division 1 state title game, losing to Surry County. The Vikings downfall would continue as they fell in the first round of the Class 1, Division 2 playoffs to the Clintwood Greenwave. Haysi would fall to Honaker also in the first round of the Class 1, Division 2 playoffs. Kelly, even with the monumental upset of the Vikings, failed to even get to the postseason, finishing with a 6-4 record. To all of my SWVA folks in the group, were you at either game that night? What are your memories of either game? Or, if you were at another game, talk about that. Lol. It's the one night I vividly remember even years later, since I was at both games back and forth.

Being on the outside looking in at both programs during the game tonight. I don't see what GW could have done much differently on offense. Galax just shut them down be in the running game, runs to the outside was chased down all night and everything up the middle was stuffed constantly. The most successful play was the QB read where he lept the ball and ran around he end a couple times and that's because the DE bit on the dive. The passing game was a bit better, your QB was rusty rightfully so but Glaax had good coverage most of the night. On defense you had guys in position many many times but just got ran over or juked out. Galax had receivers running open all night the QB just missed them or was dropped. It was a scheme it was an out athlete in that regard. And as far as seeing heat Galax has In a few years you are probably going to be severely disappointed as their Jv is stacked. Is there a dripnoff from Dixon to Allen? Absolutely, as there would be with 90% of anybody that followed him. Although the drop off will not be as step as many would hope. Galax just has talent that reloads every year. I hate to say it but we are all going to have to go through Galax for the foreseeable future to win the region.

From King William, VA King William 62, Defending 3A State Champion and undefeated Lafayette, 41 King William is for real guys. I favor them over Draft, Poqouson, Buckingham, and Nottoway to represent the East in the state title game. They lost to Goochland early in the season with 8 players out due to Covid. For anyone familiar with eastern VA, it's well known that Lafayette is no joke.

I honestly don’t mean this to be offensive to the George Wythe faithful. Y’all have been saying for two years, Allen can’t coach. Riding high on Dixon’s former players. I believe 12 of the 38 players on the current roster actually played for Dixon. At some point, reality has to set in.

First class. Goodluck rest of the way.

31 yard touchdown run by Clements Graham - 56 Virginia High - 17 1:10 left in 3rd

Both!

Jeez, that's rough. I'd hate to be Tazewell's next opponent. Oh wait...

Kickoff return by Bradshaw. 4th touchdown of the game. Graham - 35 Virginia High - 17 11:22 left in 3rd

Roll Tide!

Knew it wouldn’t last long. Go GMen!

Oh! What’s that?! VHS SCORED ON THE MIGHTY G-MEN?!? It can’t be, can it @CPF?!?

Looks like no matter who wins Region C we are going to be traveling to D again. Holaton or Chilhowie.

I think if Graham and Virginia High played 100 times, VHS would score all 100 of them.

Herbert Hoover will be tough for Bluefield to beat this year. Independence, Poca and Point Pleasant are right there with Bluefield, but the Beavers likely could take all 3 of them. Hoover will be difficult

Yep, they need at least 1 more game.

I fully agree with you about Nelson. Will say this tho. Appo played alot of the bench and kept clean uniforms in the game for 2nd half and stil managed to score and keep Nelson scoreless. Appo is starting to click better and in the next few weeks with no injuries or covid issues i fully expect to see a team more than ready for playoffs. Hate to bad mouth Nelson, i have to give them a ton of respect as they never quit and played with heart and left their all on the field, great bunch of young men.

Nelson County is disastrously bad, so little can be gleamed from that.

You made a ridiculous prediction, and it turned out to be ridiculous. Eat the crow and move on.

Ryan hates the Beavers with a purple passion like most non-Beaver fans do because Bluefield has been shi#kicking the Blues and most teams far more times than not for about 70 or so years. BW, I was being facetious. I agree with you on Ridgeview and Bluefield. I do think Bluefield will score a bunch, but so will Ridgeview. I think Bluefield wins it 35-31, and true, 35 isn't calling for the fire dept by any means. No offense to the young Bulldog team which plays hard, but Ridgeview is a whole other beast. Living so close to Bluefield, I've seen them start ugly before, and just as the season goes, they look completely like a different bunch of kids in their unis. The Bluefield team this year is absolutely loaded with talent and this group has been talked about for a while. There is just no way they are going to replicate how they looked against Graham. Again, credit Graham as Graham now looks like 2018, but Bluefield has to much talent to not be good. Their defensive line will prevent them from winning a state title. It won't be their offense or secondary. I said this with Tazewell, it's a bad matchup just like it is for Ridgeview. I know Ridgeview can run it some, but they still strike more effectively with the pass and Bluefield secondary is lightening fast and a pass oriented team is playing into the Beavers hands. Like Tazewell tonight, the pick sizes were a given.

Tomorrow night @7

It was most likely the death of someone that is close to a player.

Yes our AD is a giant tool. Small in stature and big large idiocy. I apologize on our behalf, if the game hadn't been close they wouldn't have said anything. On another note explain what happened in the game as I went to Galax /GW game. As I figured it would be a blow out here in Independence by Giles. Very surprised.

You damn right. No further comment from me on that. Lol. I'll just say I'm blessed to be where I am. I could go for hours though.

Been on the other for 13+ and I'll keep it that way. Haha

Yea not sure what happened tonight!

Kids at GW, man my buddies kids go there and I watched for first time. Coaching leaves something to be desired! Not sure about play calling at all!

Yeah pretty rough.

Watch out for Marion, they have a lot of momentum. Scored 14 unanswered against Richlands.

Ahh the area that’s hot, dirty, and stinks lol

Nice.

24-7 Central

Central 24 Union 7. 10:27 to go in the game

Same play. Same outcome. DB sagging off in 1 on 1 coverage. Quick pass to Bradshaw. Makes him miss and turns on the jets. 36 yard TD Graham - 21 Virginia High - 7 2:57 left in 2nd

https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/fulltext/2021/08000/ivermectin_for_prevention_and_treatment_of.7.aspx This was shared with me by a relative who is an RN. She was sent the article by a doctor at the VA. In addition, I know many people (personally) not TV folks who were prescribed this by local physicians at the onset of Covid, none of them ended up hospitalized. I am vaccinated but I also believe others have to right to decide whether the vaccine is right for them & doctors should be free to treat their patients with Covid the way they think is best. I absolutely agree there should be a bigger focus on therapeutics because vaccinated and unvaccinated folks are contracting Covid.

There are lots of products / meds that are used in animals and humans for the same reason and for different reasons. Insulin is one. They just vary the concentration between human and animal. Ivermectin is another. Is it horse de-wormer? Yes. Does it have other useful purposes in humans? Yes. The part that is troubling to me is that someone is controlling the media to the point that whenever an alternative or proactive treatment is showing positive treatment to Covid the Liberal slanted media (perhaps on orders from above) immediately describes in such a negative way and pathetically distorts facts. Then they have to back off when several months later the treatment that they attacked is actually approved as one way to help either prevent or lessons the effects of Covid. It just smells as if they are trying to push that the one and only way to attack covid is thru the vaccine and all others are some kind of voodoo.

I feel like it may different this time around. They are so lucky to have Joey come back home and he has already made a huge impact and he is the type of coach you don't want to lose.

True, but you have to compare Lee High to not just the 3 teams with 0-13 records. You have to compare Lee High to........Lee High. In the last 3 seasons, they have won only 2 football games since the year of 2017 prior to starting this current season.

I agree with you. Carroll can coach. He's pretty sharp, a great motivator, and looking at Lee's scores up to this point and East Montgomery's, that game is supposed to be very close. I think he's already making impact at Lee High. It wouldn't surprise me if he had them competitive again in 2-3 years. I don't know if they will be what they once were back in the day, but they are going to clearly be much better than they have been.

I would say to give HC Joey Carroll a little credit! Burton was a nice building block even if they aren't as good as some thought they would be.

I would bet a frosty!!