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I just want to wish the G-Men the best! Make Southwest Virginia proud! I know Graham has the talent and coaching to bring back the title. We need another team in Club 5!

I just want to wish the G-Men the best! Make Southwest Virginia proud! I know Graham has the talent and coaching to bring back the title. We need another team in Club 5!

The TSSAA 2021 Season is over. The Finals were completed over the weekend. The weather was nearly perfect all weekend with high's in the 70's. Congratulations to all the winners here are the summaries of all 9 games.
On Thursday the Division 2 Teams took the field. In the 1A game Donaldson Christian beat Nashville Christian 31-7: It is DCA's 4th State Title. In the 2A game Lipscomb Academy beat Christ Presbyterian 27-0, it was Lipscomb 1st title.
In the 3A game The McCallie School  of Chattanooga beat Montgomery Bell Academy 28-7. It was McCallie's third title in a row and 4th overall.
On Friday in the 1A Game: South Pittsburg beat McKenzie 24-21, it is South Pitts 6th State Title and first since 2010. South Pittsburgs coach quit on the team after their first game to become a DC in the CFL.
                 In the 3A Game:  Alcoa beat East Nashville 45-14. Alcoa has won the last 7 straight 3A titles and it's their 20th overall.
                In the 5A Game:  Powell beat Page 42-34. Jordyn Potts outdueled Jake McNamara (Colorado State Commit) (they combined for 615 yards passing and 8 TD's) It is Powell's first state title!
On Saturday. In the 4A Game: This was a classic. Tullahoma beat two time defending state champion Elizabethton 21-14 in 2 OT's. Tullahoma's Ryan Scott was the MVP he was 12-16 for 124 1 TD, and ran 16 times for 88 yards and 1 TD. Bryson Rollins finished his brilliant
                  career at Elizabethton Rollins finished 16-26 passing for 131 and a touchdown and a interception on the first play of the 2nd OT for Betsy, and ran 35 times for 138 yards. Tullahoma had back to back 0-10 season's on 2015 and 2016. It is Tullahoma's first state title.
                      In the 2A game.: Westview beat an outmanned and outclassed Hampton 55-14. Ty Simpson (Alabama commit) was the MVP he was 5-10 for 99 yards and 3 TD's and ran for 181 yards on 10 carries and 2 TD's. 
                     In the 6A game: Oakland beat Summit 43-26. This game marked the first time that defending state champions teams played for a title ( Summit won the 5A title and reclassified this season). Georgia commit Jordon James was the MVP 
                                                 he carried the ball 27 times for 232 yards and 2 TD's. Oakland now has won 2 championship in a row and 6 overall.
                                                
Congrats to all the Champions and it's just 36 weeks till kickoff!!!

The Elizabethton game was an instant classic... for those who didn't watch the game here locally Saturday on the CW, and if you have NFHS, it would be well worth your time to go out of the way and watch it.
I normally hate the low scoring affairs, but this one had me on the edge of my seat the whole second half/OT.  One of the best games you'll ever see.

The TSSAA 2021 Season is over. The Finals were completed over the weekend. The weather was nearly perfect all weekend with high's in the 70's. Congratulations to all the winners here are the summaries of all 9 games.
On Thursday the Division 2 Teams took the field. In the 1A game Donaldson Christian beat Nashville Christian 31-7: It is DCA's 4th State Title. In the 2A game Lipscomb Academy beat Christ Presbyterian 27-0, it was Lipscomb 1st title.
In the 3A game The McCallie School  of Chattanooga beat Montgomery Bell Academy 28-7. It was McCallie's third title in a row and 4th overall.
On Friday in the 1A Game: South Pittsburg beat McKenzie 24-21, it is South Pitts 6th State Title and first since 2010. South Pittsburgs coach quit on the team after their first game to become a DC in the CFL.
                 In the 3A Game:  Alcoa beat East Nashville 45-14. Alcoa has won the last 7 straight 3A titles and it's their 20th overall.
                In the 5A Game:  Powell beat Page 42-34. Jordyn Potts outdueled Jake McNamara (Colorado State Commit) (they combined for 615 yards passing and 8 TD's) It is Powell's first state title!
On Saturday. In the 4A Game: This was a classic. Tullahoma beat two time defending state champion Elizabethton 21-14 in 2 OT's. Tullahoma's Ryan Scott was the MVP he was 12-16 for 124 1 TD, and ran 16 times for 88 yards and 1 TD. Bryson Rollins finished his brilliant
                  career at Elizabethton Rollins finished 16-26 passing for 131 and a touchdown and a interception on the first play of the 2nd OT for Betsy, and ran 35 times for 138 yards. Tullahoma had back to back 0-10 season's on 2015 and 2016. It is Tullahoma's first state title.
                      In the 2A game.: Westview beat an outmanned and outclassed Hampton 55-14. Ty Simpson (Alabama commit) was the MVP he was 5-10 for 99 yards and 3 TD's and ran for 181 yards on 10 carries and 2 TD's. 
                     In the 6A game: Oakland beat Summit 43-26. This game marked the first time that defending state champions teams played for a title ( Summit won the 5A title and reclassified this season). Georgia commit Jordon James was the MVP 
                                                 he carried the ball 27 times for 232 yards and 2 TD's. Oakland now has won 2 championship in a row and 6 overall.
                                                
Congrats to all the Champions and it's just 36 weeks till kickoff!!!

Sorry to hear about the troubles, if you need anything just message me. I can offer a prayer and conversation outlet if you need to talk!

Good teams worry about train horns.  Great teams worry about their December plans.

Is he a holdback? Sorry, someone had to ask. 

Tennessee does have a separate division for the privates. The split that they have today all started with the TSSAA fined and placed on probation Brentwood Academy for recruiting and Brentwood sued and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court. Brentwood Academy was the prominent large football power in Tennessee from the time the school opened in 1969, they won 9 3A titles (the largest classification at the time) between 1969 and 1997. The split came 21 years ago for the schools that offer financial aid and the rest of the private schools left to form their own division in 2018. TSSAA labels it D2. and has three classes (1A-3A) and gave Tennessee a total of 9 State Champions. Football is the only sport that is split into more the 3 Classes, everything else is a three class system. There are rumbling that the TSSAA want to go back to a 4 or 5 class format in the future, which will probably happen! 

It's Finals Week!!!! The long and winding road reaches the end starting Thursday in Chattanooga at Finley Stadium
The D2 (private schools) get things started Thursday. In D2 1A: Donaldson Christian (12-1) plays Nashville Christian (11-2), 2A has CPA (12-1) playing the Trent Dilfer coached Lipscomb Academy(11-1) and 3A has McCallie (12-0) playing MBA (9-3) 2A game time is 12pm, 1A is 4pm and 3A is at 8pm. 
The Public Schools get thing rolling Friday at Noon. 3A plays first as Alcoa (13-1) plays East Nashville (10-4) at 4pm in the 1A title tilt South Pittsburg (10-2) plays Mckenzie (14-0) and the night cap has Powell (12-2) playing Page (13-1).
 Saturday has the 4A championship game at noon when Elizabethton (12-1) plays undefeated Tullahoma (14-0) Betsy is trying to win it's 3rd state title in a row, in the 2A game at 4pm Hampton (12-2) plays 13-1 Westview and the 6A game gets the 8pm primetime game when undefeated Oakland (14-0) plays undefeated (14-0) Summit. 
All game times are Eastern Time and all the games will be broadcast on WCYB 5.2 the CW, in the Tri-Cities. 

The Food City Deli in Bluefield is better than just about anything in town except that little Italian place downtown close to the railroad yard, Applebee's! I guess the Wendy's drive thru line was too long!

Alcoa vs. Riverheads would be a great game or even Alcoa vs. Appomattox would be quality too. 

Well it's semifinal week and an unprecedented event will take place in Carter County. With 3 semifinal games all within 18 miles of each other! Kind of like the old days of Southwest Virginia. 
In 1A: South Pittsburg (9-2) visits Cloudland (12-1) Cloudland's only loss this year was to Hampton. The other side of the bracket is Trenton Peabody (12-1) @ 13-0 McKenzie.
In 2A: Trousdale County (12-1) makes the 4.5 hour trip to Hampton (10-2) to take on the Bulldogs. Hampton had an incredible come from behind win over Oneida. The other semifinal 12-1 Westview travels to 12-1 Riverside.
In 3A: 12-0 Giles County will be 12-1 Alcoa's next victim and 12-0 Dyersburg travels to 9-4 East Nashville in the other semifinal
In 4A: The trifectas final game is 12-1 Upperman visiting the 12-1 Cyclones of Elizabethton. The other side of the bracket is a battle of unbeatens Haywood travels to Tullahoma.
In 5A: Knox Powell (11-2) plays Knox West (11-2) and 12-1 Page hosts 8-5 Henry County
In 6A: Oakland travel Maryville in a battle of 13-0 teams and Summit (13-0) travels to Hendersonville (10-3) 
The Division 2 Title games are already set. These games are set to be played on December 2 in Chattanooga.
In 1A: Donaldson Christian(12-1) takes on Nashville Christian (11-2) In 2A: CPA (10-2) plays Lipscomb Academy (11-1) and 3A: McCallie (12-0) plays MBA (9-3) 
I am hoping for a Carter County sweep but Hampton and Cloudland have very tall tasks. Good Luck to all involved and Happy Thanksgiving To One and All!
 
 

In 2019 Kempsville of Va Beach ended a 63 game losing streak dating back to 2013 but still only went 1-9. Two years later they are 9-1 and in the Region Final vs Green Run. Their only loss was a close one (13-21) to Green Run early in the season. Nice to see that you can turn around a program,

Ridgeview will win a state title soon.
It just won't be this year.

Enjoy yourselves for another year!!

Alcoa vs. Riverheads would be a great game or even Alcoa vs. Appomattox would be quality too. 

Maryville is in Region 2 6A. They moved to region 2 when the last reclassification took place. 

Check with Allegiant out of Asheville and the good looking kid fixing the airplanes is our son. He is now the lead mechanic, soon to be the chief mechanic! Flight costs $109 and takes an hour and forty nine minutes to West Palm Beach.
 

Check with Allegiant out of Asheville and the good looking kid fixing the airplanes is our son. He is now the lead mechanic, soon to be the chief mechanic! Flight costs $109 and takes an hour and forty nine minutes to West Palm Beach.
 

Cold as hell on that hill

Elizabethton @ Greeneville Friday Night at 7. 1 vs. 2 again.  

Greeneville-Knox Fulton with my son! first game we have been to together in three years.

Enjoy it sir.

Greeneville-Knox Fulton with my son! first game we have been to together in three years.