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Kudos to the Va High kids for not backing down.  Listening to these announcers try to validate what JM is doing is sickening.  They, and the VHSL, should be ashamed of themselves for doing what they're doing.  That wasn't a true 2A championship game that was just played.

41-23 at the half with JM leading.  All the respect in the world to Va High.  Man, this bunch is something.  Mozzell (probably off on the spelling) could give a total of 2 rats arses about JM and how great they are.  That kid can play.   I know it sounds crazy and sure, VH is losing, but to be down by 18 at the half and holding them under 45 points is actually pretty darn impressive.  It will get worse in the 2nd half though as VH has major, major foul trouble.

They made it there 48 or so other teams can’t say that! That’s an accomplishment to be proud of no matter the final score today. 

Wise central starting to separate 

15-12 wise end of 1st

This just my personal opinion and I could be wrong cause I've never spoke to the head coach at jm ever, I think he really doesn't care about these 2a championships, I believe he's trying to build his resume, getting national coach of the year last season along with multiple 2a titles, then interviewing for a d1 program they're going to look at his accolades he's heading for the big pay day, then he'll leave jm in the dust, it's just sad at the moment the rest of 2a has to suffer right now until he gets where he's going 

JM could sweep Class AA boys & girls! They might as well become a gloried prep school and just travel the nation playing likewise programs. If they had any ethics, they’d petition to play up to 6A. That’s where they belong if they’re going to be a public school. It would at least more competitive for them. 

Logan is only a soph. He's about 6'5". He played qb and wide receiver on the football team at Gretna. The whole team played football and it took them awhile to get going this season. All this according to the Gretna scorekeeper. Coming from a Dogs fan, Gretna is very athletic, good defensively and well coached. They like to play in transition and are always looking to push the ball up the court. Martinsville was able to control the tempo for the most part but we were unable to hit enough shots to pull it out. It was a 2 point game with a minute to go last night but Gretna scored the last 6 points for the win.

As for Graham and GC.  Credit to Todd Baker.  He pulled off some high level stuff in my opinion.  Used his athleticism as much as possible to counter GC's size and strength, but also saved his athleticism and the press until the 4th quarter because Graham has a limited number of guys that play, so didn't want to gas them.  That was like landing an airplane or balancing a tightrope based on the timing, when to do, how to do it with the guys he had, etc.  Wizardry was pulled in GC last night by Graham's head man.

Same as Graham and VH.  It's their region title.  Radford and Floyd are eliminated.
For the Graham-VH winner or loser, it sounds like it's about the same.  Seems like all 4 teams left are very close and anything goes.  I guess I would rather play at home instead of away, so the region title games do matter because that home court advantage might be the tiny difference in 4 pretty darn evenly matched teams it seems.

It was their region championship. Gretna won 41-33. 

If Graham gives them 12 points again right off the bat, it’s going to be tough to pull out a win. Graham is capable of winning but not letting the Bearcats have a run like that at the beginning of the game. 

Graham went up 8-0 to start the game, then led 21-16 at halftime, then jaydyn carrico blitz Graham with 19 in the 3rd quarter, she had 9 at halftime and ended up with 36, Graham won every quarter but the 4th, the M7 is just on a different level in girls but still the best game of the night 

To your credit Wise Central did beat VA High fully loaded 

Kaiden Swortzel is a TE at The Citadel. Rylan Swortzel (#24) is still there. They have a younger brother Gavin (#44) that is a freshman and talented as hell. The younger Swortzel is already bigger than his brothers.
Floyd is a very young team but with a lot of players in that 6'-1" to 6'-5" size range. Rylan Swortzel is the only senior on the roster. 

Va High would easily win the region championship had Ethan Carpenter not got hurt, that loss is huge, now it makes that region tournament unpredictable. Yes VA High won the SWD tournament but that was somewhat delusional, the Cats jump out to a 21-4 lead and held on for dear life Graham cut it to 3 an just ran out of gas using so much energy storming back. I don’t have a real prediction but like most are saying all 8 are within 10pts or so within the other, probably all 8 have a realistic chance in advancing to state 

From the outside view its no comparison, father is better than son.
Reason being is Ahmad had to play hard to get the looks he did from scouting and wasn't taking plays off or giving half efforts.  Xay has the capacity and capability of far exceeding him but until he gives it his 100% I don't think there is a debate on it.

Father by far. Elite players don't get held to Minus 1 yard games. 
 
 
 

I’m definitely no expert. I’ll have to mull that one over and maybe get back to you in a few weeks. Somebody else with a much more extensive knowledge base and unbiased opinion might be willing to chime in on this one. (Yeah, I know I’m dodging the question) 😂

I agree Bradshaw is NFL talent, nobody in the state of VA including 6a can stop him 1 on 1, Stevie and Delaney are good players but Bradshaw is on a different level, I personally don't keep up with track but was told in Regions Bradshaw finish 4th behind 2 or 3 va high guys, I knew Stevie was one and started guessing who the other 1 or 2 were that beat him.
I'm a Bearcat fan but this was the last time I've ever been to a va high football game it was between 2014-16 I had a nephew on the team and it was Va high vs TN high week, I got there early and a friend of my nephew who played for TN high I caught up with him before the game started and he said we're going to stomp yall tonight (which they did) but he said I want you to pay attention to the Va high student section because there is so much talent in there to make this a down to the wire game. I will never forget it there was 10-14 kids that should have been on the field but yet was in the stands complaining about how Va high sucks and I'm sure that trend continues today 

I know Stevie was definitely one of them that beat Bradshaw so maybe it was Donnie that also beat him and that would put Donnie as a freshman, Bradshaw just appears faster because he's on a better team but switch roles and put Stevie on Graham and Bradshaw on va high and Stevie would score 7x on this poor Bearcat defense