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We used to start at the low water bridge at Fries and ride up to the shot tower and back. Fries also traveled to JJ Kelly to face Doug Bates and the Indians in the state baseball semifinals and lost a close one IIRC.

Absolutely. I miss seeing him at The Down Home in Johnson City since we moved to Florida 7 years ago.

It's a line from a great Scott Miller song... Lo Siento, Spanishburg, WVa. Well the TV's off because there's nothing on all the hometown fans are in the stands since the team won state because the coach was great and they hired him down in Peterstown But he didn't win so he's back again this next bag of kids could not commit they were big enough but not that tough and thought the single wing was a passing thing I guess the will to win is oft forgotten when old times there are oxycodon Lo siento, Spanishburg, West Virginia

Didn't they hire the coach from Spanishburg back in the day?

I've been to a couple of games there. It's probably been 15+ years since I've driven through, and I can't imagine there's much left. Charley James and Don Williams coached there. Here's a snippet that I found online about some St Charles history. http://leecountylegend.net/images/LEE_COUNTY_LEGEND_ST._CHARLES_4.pdf

A personal note on the Stone Castle. One of my friends and I went to the season opener sometime in the mid-late 90's when THS was hosting Cherokee. THS was comfortably ahead after the 3rd, so we decided to cut out because the Bristol race hauler parade was getting ready to start. We were in an old S-10 truck that my buddy drove to work, and we left the parking lot. We got to the red light, and it looked like the parade had already started, so he hooked a left and we got in behind an SUV that was towing a bass boat. My buddy said that a couple of hundred yards ahead, we could turn down a side road and get out of that mess. It turned out that the SUV towing the bass boat had pro fisherman Bill Dance sitting in the back of it, and directly behind us was the giant motorized Food City shopping cart. We were stuck in the hauler parade. Matters took a turn for the worse when we got to the street he wanted to turn down and it was blocked....as were all of the other side streets. Then, we got to the sections where the big crowds were. There was a cop standing close to where we were, and my buddy yelled and asked him how we could get out of there. The cop responded with "how the Hell did you get in it?" My buddy told him we had left the Castle after a football game, and the cop busted out laughing and told us to just keep going. We decided to relax and ride it out, so we started waving to the ever growing crowd. Some guy in the crowd asked me who I was, and I told him I was Greg Biffle's 3rd cousin. We rode that parade all the way into BIR before security was able to help create a spot where we could pull out. They thought it was hilarious and one even said we should've stayed in it and got out on the track. I was surprised how cool law enforcement and security were with us. If that happened today, we'd probable be dragged out of the truck and beaten or tasered. That was definitely a night to remember. Too bad we had cell phones with crappy cameras back then.

I'll go with Floyd Co.

Probably not, at $8K a year. However, like any private school worth their sheepskin, scholarships are available, depending of course, on a prospective student's academics and/or athletic prowess.

Sneedville is a pretty good haul from the Ewing/Rose Hill Metroplex. Even further than Ben Hur. Someone mentioned JF White Academy. I had forgotten them, and maybe that's the 3rd school that @TwhscoachT was talking about.

I've been to countless stadiums across nine states, and in terms of distance and poor sight lines, the only place that comes close to it is Cardinal Newman HS in West Palm Beach, who compounds their problem with a tiny visitor section that is angled so poorly that unless you are STANDING on the top row, you won't see much of anything that happens, and they also have a 5 1/2 foot fence around the field that is filled with banner ads, so unless you're 6' tall or better, you aren't seeing anything there either. But yeah, Central is a little worse. I went to a game there maybe in 2016, and I was wishing I brought my binoculars.

Not SWVA, but.... Venice 48 Miami Northwestern 42 in OT Two of the three best teams in the entire state, and both went on to win titles in 7A and 3A. Both were loaded with size and speed, but in this back and forth affair, the star was the kicker from Venice who hit from 53 in the first half, and nailed one from 44 as time expired to send the game to OT. I believe he signed with USF or UCF. Big crowd and good atmosphere too. Glades Central 23 Pahokee 16 in OT The Muck Bowl lived up to it's legendary status. Large crowd that had the feel of a big PV - Appy game between schools only a few miles apart. Glades Central took the lead in OT and stopped Pahokee at the goal line on their possession.

That was my initial thought. I wondered how many would go to Cumberland Gap or Middlesboro. Who is the 3rd school?

It was shockingly close. IIRC, it was GC's closest game of the year.

I wonder how many here have seen Dublin play? I got to see them play against Gate City in 1970.

I laughed WAY too hard at this.