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Sorry havok 
i just become acclimated with the area again a couple years ago and do have strong ties and strong roots in the Deep South. As you all know by now I have ties to Honaker. However I don't live quite that far south now and have enjoyed keeping up with girls basketball the past few years. 
I really enjoy ranking the teams in this west division that the site tracks. If everyone would rather me only track the south division then ok.  I like keeping up with all of them though. I thought some on this site might enjoy knowing or hearing what is out there 
The Roanoke area has some strong teams that have been fun to keep up with as well 
One of my nephews does a lot of referee and I have friends involved all throughout most of the west sided teams areas. I just enjoy following the action. 
If this board is mainly for Deep South talk or SWVA talk only I completely understand 
 

Than go comment on the football board 😃
 

Than go comment on the football board 😃
 

I'm extremely sorry guys I know my lack of posting let the girls division of the board down 
I found myself rehabbing for a little while at one of the best nursing facilities ive ever been to.  All is going well now. 
Theres just no way I can catch up with all the action I missed. I've tried to do some score board catch up but to much has happened 
i will pat myself on the back though and say quite a few teams in the top 10 went very deep in their respective divisions 
my final top 2 was central and PM and looks like both are playing for the title.  From what I can read both seemed favorable to win. 
A major shock and disappointment was how the tiger ladies finished up. I really expected those young ladies to make the final 4 in the west. But let's remember they are extremely young. 
I plan on making the trip to VCU as long as my sweet daughter makes it in from PA to drive me.  Looking forward to a great weekend of basketball. There's no finer rehab than that . 
For the ones of you with teams left to root for I say good luck. 
 

I'm extremely sorry guys I know my lack of posting let the girls division of the board down 
I found myself rehabbing for a little while at one of the best nursing facilities ive ever been to.  All is going well now. 
Theres just no way I can catch up with all the action I missed. I've tried to do some score board catch up but to much has happened 
i will pat myself on the back though and say quite a few teams in the top 10 went very deep in their respective divisions 
my final top 2 was central and PM and looks like both are playing for the title.  From what I can read both seemed favorable to win. 
A major shock and disappointment was how the tiger ladies finished up. I really expected those young ladies to make the final 4 in the west. But let's remember they are extremely young. 
I plan on making the trip to VCU as long as my sweet daughter makes it in from PA to drive me.  Looking forward to a great weekend of basketball. There's no finer rehab than that . 
For the ones of you with teams left to root for I say good luck. 
 

I'm extremely sorry guys I know my lack of posting let the girls division of the board down 
I found myself rehabbing for a little while at one of the best nursing facilities ive ever been to.  All is going well now. 
Theres just no way I can catch up with all the action I missed. I've tried to do some score board catch up but to much has happened 
i will pat myself on the back though and say quite a few teams in the top 10 went very deep in their respective divisions 
my final top 2 was central and PM and looks like both are playing for the title.  From what I can read both seemed favorable to win. 
A major shock and disappointment was how the tiger ladies finished up. I really expected those young ladies to make the final 4 in the west. But let's remember they are extremely young. 
I plan on making the trip to VCU as long as my sweet daughter makes it in from PA to drive me.  Looking forward to a great weekend of basketball. There's no finer rehab than that . 
For the ones of you with teams left to root for I say good luck. 
 

I watched that game. Honaker had a really bad shooting night. Played mostly Freshmen the majority of the game and was down two with 30 seconds left. 
Grundy is a pretty good 1A team. They have  atleast 9 kids that can play a little. Friday night they looked as good or maybe better than ES in my opinion. 

I watched the Union ES game. Union still isn’t hitting on all cylinders, but they are gradually getting better as the year goes on. 
Honakers youth showed during the Grundy game.  They may still break into the top 10 before the year is over. Nomatter the  future looks really good for your Honaker Team.
 

I've saw cburg once this year and I agree they have a good team. Have some talent.  I think they can compete in D3 this year based on some teams I'm watching. 
The Roanoke times has them listed high in their top 10. I can't remember where but they are receiving attention 

Last night after seeing this I have to raise an eyebrow at this and wonderful about the message a coach is sending.  I immediately question the coach at hand for this ( that was my first thought ) 
 
I just like you has the same original reaction. 
 
I've seen Ridgeview play 3 games and agree they are a very solid team.  I'd take PM by double digits 
 
so my final thoughts are that seeing a score like that was a little mind blowing and you question a coaches intentions at first glance. However after digging a little deeper today it appears the team is so deep that most of the back ups would start on most teams throughout the region. ( I read this online from a guy that covers the ODAC  he stated that the entire bench could play minutes for the odac schools )  and the starters would all easily start for the ODAC.  Apparently they have 2 ligit D1/D2 recruits as juniors . 
It's hard finding much info on PM. There is apparently no local news paper in BUENA VISTA.  I found a news gazette that covers the area but there's not an abundance of stuff on line.  What I did read was impressive.  
It appears this group of kids played ball for several years together much like the northwood girls story I read from a couple years ago.  PM played that same northwood team with mostly freshman and lost in the state finals or maybe semi finals . Then last year they won the state with a predominantly sophomore roster.  
I'm not so sure they aren't the best team in any of the 1 2 3 or 4 A  programs I've seen  
I haven't seen everyone but the ones I have seen PM could play with or beat any of them. 
However with all this being said the book is still out on this score  I'd like to see how the game was handled.  I'd like to watch them play a couple more games if possible. 
My first thought and my first gut feeling tells me it's ridiculous and uncalled for. But if they are that deep then maybe it's nothing you can do about it.  
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. As I would also caution a program for running a score up. If that's indeed what happened. However if your that good do you teach your kids to let someone else score ? 
I would say absolutely not.  This will be worth tracking this year.  
 
Lastly i I don't think the Highland team is that good  sounds like they have a struggling program 
 

UPDATE 
1 Abingdon ( big game tomorrow ) 
2 PM ( beat 3A RCHS 76-13 tonight ) 
3 Ridgeview ( big game awaits ) 
4 central wise 
5 carrol county 
6 Patrick county 
7 Christiansburg ( 30 point win over cave spring tonight ) 
8 floyd county 
9 Galax ( 3 point win over bland Tonight. Way to inconsistent with the lack of depth ) 
10 Eastside 
 
outside looking in UNION. 
Probably should be on the list but I want to make sure the Eastside loss was a fluke first. Game against Gate City ( demolished by PM) and Abingdon on Friday will help tell their story. 
 
 
 
 

I'm not sold on Eastside yet either. I think they looked pretty good but really mostly 1 player stood out. That's not gonna win against the best teams.  I'm planning to go see them play Union next time around.  I see where Eastside took 40 foul shots before and union fouled out 3 people ? That sounds a bit odd and one sided. 
I sit beside a ref for about a quarter yesterday at emory and Henry. Apparently he's done a lot of PM games and some summer games.  He told me this summer at someone's team camp PM beat Abingdon by 20. Of Course that's team camp stuff and I'd bet not everyone played for either team. 
I would love to see some of these top schools from each division go at it. Could be a lot of fun to watch. 
 
Yes your not the only one talking about Galax depth or lack there of. I think that will hold them back. I'm very interested to see how they do next time out vs the george wythe girls.  I understand george wythe is down but they beat Galax pretty bad a week or so ago.  
Looks like the way these teams are playing that the rankings may certainly change week to week.  Lots of strange things happening on the school board right now 
 
happy new year SWVA enjoy your families 
take it from me they grow up quickly and fly away 
 
 
 
 

I will add this 
when your playing the better teams vs the better teams many times it comes down to Coaching.  The Galax girls are well coached and I will say I am very impressed with Pm Coaching staff. They are extremely displine and he seems to have the pulse of the team spot on. 
Ridgeview is well coached as well.  
 

Thank you 
give me time I'm socially illiterate ?