Marion is playing Grayson at Marion's Homecoming. Stephen James, Marshall Doss, and Tim Smith are all coaching in the game and Steve Wright is on the Marion sideline with Fellowship of Christian Athletes duties.
All of whom are participating in an impromptu 20 year reunion of Marion's 2001 State Tournament team (Wright and James were coaches, Smith and Doss were players).
GC is going to have to block their tails off, and Marion is going to have to limit turnovers. Marion's front 7 is very stout and is more than capable of catching Jenkins in the backfield, but if he gets to the second level, forget about it, he's gone. Meanwhile, Marion has to establish a run game to take the load off of the passing game. Marion has excellent receivers, but if you're forced to run four verticals on every 3rd down due to being shut down on first and second, it makes the defense's job easy.
I think it'll be a very entertaining high-scoring game, just maybe not a "68-40" level high scoring game like last year.
I can assure you, not a single player has COVID! And the Coach is the only one that has tested positive! There are two other coaches that do not have vaccines, and players who haven't been vaccined were sent home!!
I swear I'm not trying to be argumentative; I really don't have the slightest of clues as to what's going on at VA High other than what I've been told, so you're as likely to be correct as anything else I've heard, but Keith Perrigan is saying there were three positive tests in a public press release on behalf of Bristol City Schools.
VA High doesn't have a single player that has COVID!! Unfortunately, it was a Coach, and he was in protocols all last week before being tested. Hope Lebanon comes through ok! I don't understand the Health Department, and quarantines!
The press release from Perrigan stated that there are three positive tests. They could all be coaches, I don't know, but it doesn't seem to be as simple as a coach got covid, quarantined, and no one else got it.
I was very optimistic about Lebanon's potential in the Hogo after their season last year, but goodness gracious, that's out the window at this point. It would certainly appear that this is going to be long season for the 'neers.
Hats off to Northwood for playing and finishing this one. I don't care that Marion is down, there is no reason why Northwood, with 13 healthy players, should be playing a 2A school with 47 players. Smith showed a lot of class in his decision making, but until Northwood's numbers improve, this series needs to go back to being in hiatus.
This was the most awkward game I've ever seen in my life; the final score doesn't indicate what a horribly unfair mismatch it was.
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2nd half under way in Marion. Coaches have chosen to forgo the "35 point rule" and begin continuous clock. Marion's 29 point advantage and Northwood's lack of players is good enough. Panthers down to 13 healthy players.
Me too. With everyone Burton returned, they've been disappointing.
Chilhowie was without their starting runningback, which, if anyone knows anything about Chilhowie, should have been enough to spot Burton 14 points. I don't know that it's a condemnation against Burton, or if Chilhowie is that much improved.
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I challenge everyone with NFHS to go watch the last two minutes of regulation in the first half. I have never seen anything this comical.