Burrall’s Pearls

Do any of these players have college offers? If so where?

9 minutes ago, BigWinners said:

Better than Battles ace or Abingdons best? He must be dominant then. 

He throws harder than Moore. That’s what concerns me from a Union standpoint. I always forget Abingdon, I’ve not seen them. I’m referencing the 2A schools. Key to beating Grayson is contact. Their defense is shaky.

Union would much rather play Graham. Grayson has a strong baseball tradition and one pitcher who is better than anyone in M7. 

Seems to be the trend at PV/Union the last 10-15. When football is rolling b-ball is just ok when b-ball is rolling football is ok. Reminds me of the Tyler Vernon years when he didn’t play football but the b-ball team made the state tournament. 

Maybe the kid just wanted to play basketball?

Evidently the officials voted out their assigner and longtime official Johnny Poole is the new man in charge?

Will this have any impact on the officiating?

Aaron Williams interviewed this week from my understanding. He put in an application at some other places but from what I’ve been told he really wants the Abingdon job. He could make them dangerous in the M7.

Will this lead to any players transferring to Union?

11 hours ago, Unchained said:

Such an amazing run. All of SWVA should be mighty proud of these ladies and their class act leader.

Best coach in SWVA history, not even sure it’s debatable at this point.

Baseball is the most competitive sport in far SWVA on the male side. I expect that to continue this spring, our area has produced some really good players recently. It’s interesting to watch around here, many have adopted this launch angle philosophy which has led to great success for the better players and has led to complete failure for the others.

Rarely if ever discussed on here but man what a run these last two years. Back to back trips to the Final 4 and to do it after losing all they lost last season. Pretty incredible, I wouldn’t be surprised if Wise isn’t a sellout Tuesday.

5 hours ago, Beamerball said:

Already 2 games at Wise anyway, no need to extend things later.  Those 3-4 game ideas, especially on a weekday, are the worst.

Don’t disagree, would’ve made more sense to play AA at Va High and A at Wise or vice versa.

Seems to me it would’ve made more sense to have A at one venue and AA at another, wouldn’t matter which gym had which. 

So both their boys and girls teams could be coming to Region D and play at different sites on the same day? Way to stick to it to them, why isn’t GC playing at UVA-Wise? That would alleviate this issue.

Nothing happened with racist twitter accounts, nothing happened when McClung was intentionally fouled, nothing happened when Central was going to let anyone dressed in all white in free when Union had 3-4 black starters, nothing will happen now. 

Sick place, sick people I blame the communities for continuing to support these antics. Stand up, don’t be a lemming!

I agree. I have no issue with the kids, it’s the coach. Sad situation that won’t end. Why don’t the parents or supporters raise enough stink to force a change?

Never ends with Central. Nobody in Wise has the guts to stop it. Embarrassing for the entire area, shame. I have the upmost respect for the other programs at the school. Boys basketball is just a mess and it will never end. I can only hope injuries are avoided for the kids involved. 

Congratulations to Central on a big W, outplayed and out hustled Union. Still don’t understand why #20 doesn’t play more for them.

Officias swallowed their whistle their at the end, not sure it would’ve mattered way Union was played. They just got out worked and didn’t respond to the physical play.

Yes, I’d arrive early. If the past is any indicator a large congregation of Central fans sit behind their bench regardless if that’s the home side or not. 

How does Grayson fit in, are they having a good year? I guess hypothetically if Central lost to Union and Battle next week they could miss regional?

What does this do for regional seeding?

As for the game, did Central play small and play the Bishop kid or play big?

On 1/25/2019 at 11:00 AM, Ryan4VT said:

If Richlands hadn’t lost Horn before the season even started and Simmons for the year, I think Richlands could compete with those two. 

Horrible year for injuries, Central and Union have each lost their best player to go with the injuries at GC and Richlands. Shame, you only get 4 years to play high school ball. Kids won’t ever get this time back.

Warriors by 10 plus. TJ has them playing well at the right time, they’re going to be a dangerous team in the tournament. 

Watched them against Lee the other night, they seem to play better when the Bishop boy (I think that’s his name) plays. He killed us and although he didn’t score much against Lee the flow of the game is just better. He’s an athlete and causes problems. Assuming they can rebound, Central is better playing small in my view.

10 hours ago, Ryan4VT said:

Why don’t you go be an official then? They need more bodies in all sports. Don’t complain, be a part of that change! 

My school doesn’t get gift possessions from the AOA on inadvertent whistles, so maybe I have a different view. 

In all seriousness, I’ve got no gripes with the basketball officiating this season. Yet, the point remains, you can’t have the same people doing all four games when it’s that big of a game. I know that wasn’t the case throughout the region last night. 

Good effort by both teams. Kudos to Compton and Vermillion making some big buckets. Boys games were very entertaining, girls were not. 

GC won the game on the glass and at the 3-point line. 

The officials didn’t impact the game in terms of win/loss for either team, period. With that said, sending a crew to ref 4 games when it’s 1 vs 2 in a AA district is absurd and the AOA should be ashamed of itself. Not fair to the officials who officiated the coaches or the players.

Best of luck to GC the rest of the way.