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Gate City is mostly healthy and playing well, the future is bright for the Devils and Marion is well Marion! Gate City 34-14

Union will score 50 easy!

Abingdon Pulaski County Princeton Grundy Union Graham Tazewell Marion James Monroe George Wythe Montcalm Fort Chiswell Narrows Hurley Eastside Thomas Walker Holston Honaker Patrick Henry Texas Tennessee Georgia Tech Air Force Georgia Louisville Appalachian State West Virginia Washington LSU Kanas City Baltimore Indianapolis Philadelphia Cincinnati GOTW: Ridgeview 44 Galax 46 Rye Cove 69

Well the regular season is over and what an odd regular season it was, with multiple teams missing games due to weather. The Big 3, in 4A all are legitimate state title contenders ( Greeneville, Elizabethton and Anderson County) and will eliminate each other by the semi-final round. I will focus on the local teams and will update it weekly until the "locals" are gone! In 1A. Cloudland (6-4) hosts Greenback (4-6) on Roan Mountain the other side of the bracket has the Huskies of North Greene (4-6) travels to Oliver Springs (7-3) and the other 1A team Unaka (2-8) plays it's last game of the year at Coalfield. In 2A. Polk County (4-6) makes the 3 1/2 hour bus trip to Hampton (8-2), the winner plays the winner of South Greene (8-2) @ Bledsoe County (8-2) and the other Region 1 team Happy Valley (7-3) hosts Oneida (7-3). In 3A: Johnson County (6-4) takes the long trip to Kingston (7-3), Austin East (3-7) makes the drive to beautiful Erwin to take on Unicoi County (7-3) and Chuckey-Doak (6-4) make the ill-fated drive to Alcoa (9-1)! Maybe the team could just Blacksburg Alcoa and take the Alligent Flight to Sanford, FL for the weekend! In 4A: The Bareknuckle Cage Fight is about to throw down! Greeneville (8-0) takes on Fulton (2-8), Elizabethton (8-1) takes on Carter (6-4), and Sullivan East (6-4) travels to Anderson County (6-4). If Betsy' and AC win then the Cyclones travel to AC next week. In 5A: Tennessee High (7-3) hosts Powell (7-3) and Boone becomes the Sacrificial Lamb for Knox West (9-1) In 6A: Dobyns Bennett (5-4) makes their first road exit at Bearden (7-3) and Science Hill (7-3) hosts Maryville (6-4) at Kermit Tipton Stadium in Johnson City and finally in 6A West Ridge (5-4) gets the long ride to Bradley Central (10-0 to visit Tennessee Commit Boo Carter!

Abingdon is a PHYSICAL football team, they will beat you up! The QB is sneaky good and like to possess the ball and hold it. In the GC game GC had the ball exactly 3 times in the first half for a total of less than 5 minutes. They play like the old Appy teams, size and ball control! I think Union athletically is far superior but Abingdon will be more physical. I like Union to score late and win just too many athletes to stop!

Union Pulaski Princeton Radford Gate City John S. Battle Graham Virginia High Marion Bluefield Roanoke Catholic Galax Narrows Hurley Twin Valley Eastside Rye Cove Twin Springs Patrick Henry Rural Retreat Honaker Virginia Tech West Virginia Oregon Louisville Miami Appalachian State Marshall Tennessee James (the best FBS team in Virginia) Madison Minnesota NY Giants Jacksonville Houston Los Angeles GOTW: Grayson County 63

Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it and take it from a long suffering Blue Devil fan good coaching can't take the place of not having enough talent! It's amazing when the talent increases the coaching does too.

Gate City has been fighting injuries for several weeks, especially since the Abingdon game! No excuses just need to build depth and they are very weak on the OL-DL.

Princeton Radford Union Gate City Ridgeview Graham Tazewell Virginia High Bluefield Bland County Fort Chiswell Giles George Wythe Grundy Thomas Walker Twin Springs Rural Retreat Holston West Virginia Tennessee Wake Forest Marshall Southern California North Carolina Washington Oregon State Cincinnati Las Vegas Philadelphia Buffalo GOTW: Honaker 69

If Union doesn't score 60 it is a loss!

Gate City has issues but Lee Has more issues! Gate City 34-21!

Abingdon Salem Princeton Radford John S. Battle Lee High Rural Retreat Tazewell Bluefield Grayson County Giles Narrows Grundy Thomas Walker Twin Springs Rye Cove Holston Texas LSU Virginia NC State FSU Alabama Georgia Louisville Buffalo Atlanta Cincinnati NY Jets San Francisco GOTW: Union 55 Bonus Picks: Sevier County over Morristown West Southwind over Memphis Overton Knox West over Anderson County Brentwood over Centennial Collierville over Cordova

Every freaking year for the last 5 years!

I have seen games at every active stadium in Southwest Virginia at one time or another in my 40 years of fandom. My memories range from the horrible to fantastic. There was a quaintness to Cummins Stadium and the Popcorn was next level! Haysi was kind of dumpy and had terrible sightlines. The cream of the crop as far as facilities are Virginia High, Mitchell Stadium, Richlands and Ridgeview. The coziness of Bullitt Park and Legion Field where you literally sit within feet of the bench is what stadiums should be! Riggs was great too as far as atmosphere!

But, but those underclassmen were suppose to dominate the Mountain 7 for the next 8 years in every sport!

Abingdon PH-Roanoke James River Princeton Tennessee High John S. Battle Lee High Ridgeview Union Graham Tazewell Bluefield Twin Valley Fort Chiswell George Wythe Giles Northwood Eastside Thomas Walker Honaker PH- Glade Springs Oregon State Boston College Texas Louisiana State Duke Tennessee Pittsburg TCU Marshall Denver Philedelphia Minnesota San Francisco Kansas City GOTW: Radford 60 Bonus Picks: Alcoa over Knox West Elizabethton over Dobyns Bennett Anderson County over Clinton

Ask the folks from Lee County how that has worked for them.

Union could start their JV and beat Twin Springs by 28! The Titans are a good story but this chapter will be a nightmare!

I seen the play from the 45 yard line visitors bleachers and I don't think he ever had possession of it! I don't expect the officiating to be perfect and I think the call would have been okay either way! They don't have the benefit of replay and have to make a judgement call! I got some funny looks from my hometown fans for GC but I don't think he ever caught the ball!

No!

Excited for the game, going to Bullitt for the first time in quite awhile! I expect a good, hard fought quick game!

But Central has the best JV team in the history of the VHSL!

Abingdon Christiansburg Carroll County Princeton Radford Patrick Henry Ridgeview Graham Richlands Ft. Chiswell Galax George Wythe James Monroe Honaker Holston Twin Valley Rye Cove Twin Springs Chilhowie North Carolina State Florida State Marshall Oregon Utah Alabama West Virginia Tennessee Oregon State Ohio State Penn State Detroit Buffalo Seattle Dallas Las Vegas GOTW: Gate City 46

That is Central's quote for every sport!

Just my $0.02 on the game Gate City is banged up a little and Union is hot and coming off a huge win (Congrats Bears!) talent wins games but last year GC outcoached Union twice! I think Union is the better team but it is a rivalry game and anything can happen.. Union 21-Gate City 20...