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J.J. Kelly 21 Coeburn 6 Middlesboro, KY 33 Lee High 10 Tennessee High 28 Virginia High 17 Thomas Walker 68 Ervinton 0

What about you? I can name a few myself, but so sorry they didn't pick your Jackets though... ;)

These have been pretty common across the area today. Some of the gas station employees here were told that, at least earlier today, they weren't able to release any more fuel to trucks in Knoxville. Saw this from yesterday..... http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/28263699.html And today.... Gas prices head toward $5; continued supply problems expected http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/sep/12/knoxville-gas-prices-rising-hurricane-threatens-su/

Over $4 and $5 down this way in some places. Saw a report on the news of one place in Johnson City at 5.59 or something close to that.

They're computer rankings (like Gilliam's, Massey, etc.). Like with some others, the first weeks are taking in more from the previous season(s). Take note also, that like with Gilliam's the out of state opponents have no rating. http://www.vhsl-reference.com/index.cfm

Bassett 35 Hidden Valley 22 Pulaski County 24 Franklin County 10 Abingdon 34 Richlands 28 Marion 28 Graham 21 Tazewell 28 Carroll County 8 Holston 28 Bland 14 Floyd County 28 George Wythe 14 Game of the Week Gate City 22 Lebanon 20

If you haven't already seen them, here's the Kingsport and Bristol paper's photo sections.... KTN http://timesnews.net/section_photos.php BHC http://tricities.mycapture.com/mycapture/index.asp

Well, Hanna pulled up....but now we got Ike... http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/at200809_5day.html#a_topad

Lee High 34 Harlan (Ind.), KY 0 -final

Floyd 27 Patrick County 22 Pulaski County 35 Patrick Henry-Roanoke 15 Salem 28 Brookville 15 Graham 27 Blacksburg 21 Richlands 28 Powell Valley 7 Christiansburg 36 Giles 20 JI Burton 34 JJ Kelly 13 Game of the Week Radford 24 George Wythe 21

Finals... Castlewood 20 Thomas Walker 12 J.I. Burton 57 Appalachia 6 Coeburn 53 Ervinton 14 J.J. Kelly 26 Pound 0 Lebanon 34 Powell Valley 12

J.J. Kelly 26 Pound 0 -2: 15 left in the 4th Castlewood 20 Thomas Walker 0 -8:18 left in the 4th J.I. Burton 49 Appalachia 0

Castlewood 14 Thomas Walker 0 -halftime ....Nevermind on the PV/Lebanon score..heard two different ones...

Models still taking Gustav right into Louisiana. Some of them showing it as a strong Cat. 5 hurricane coming right into N.O. Hanna earlier looked it would get caught up in a trough coming off the east coast later and shoot off to the east but they're starting think it will get pushed to the west and south as the upper-low near it slides to the south and weakens, threatening Florida, the Keys, Bahamas, etc. Scary thing for the Gulf coast folks is one of the models has it eventually threatening the same places Gustav may affect.

And with the track, very likely to become a major hurricane.... Its still way too early to say much and the projections could change. That track will probably push gas prices up too of course.... Current NHC official track: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ Computer model projections..

45 minutes away isn't exactly at their "back door". And who are they going to play in KY that's closer? Harlan Co.? And? Middlesboro and Bell County are like going to Gate City, actually a longer trip. You say every school hates going to Lee, at least they only have to come here once, wonder how Lee feels? Powell Valley doesn't have much of a drive, guess they hate it too though. And the drive to places like GC and Wise certainly isn't bad. What makes the drive so bad? But hey its good to know that its bad for them and must not be so bad for Lee to make a return trip or go anywhere else. I thought the plan was for SWVA to break off from the state anyway, guess we won't be alone :D

Looks like all those pics (or most of them) are from the '84 season.

Sorry about that, I was trying to direct link to those two pics (one because they were the only with color I think and two because the site has a bit of a pop-up problem, as its probably been around a while). http://www.theoldbobcats.741.com/ *You'll have to close the first pop-up if it shows up, then on the left hand side scroll down if there's just adds there and the links to the pics should be down through there. Its just some old Bobcat pictures and articles from newspapers. Don't think this one doesn't has any pics, just the past records.... http://www.penningtonhighschool.com/ The middle school team did have a good team this past season. Dropped that first game badly but played them very well the second time in the championship game. One of those players is starting for Lee this year (was the running back that had over 120 yards).

That was a consideration before the consolidating all 5 of the schools. They had thought about having a "Lee West" and "Lee East" scenario but it didn't go through, and I think Thomas Walker's decision to keep their school may have played a role in that. Speaking of consolidation and all that, Wise County is currently fighting a battle over it, but three of the towns don't want it while the rest do. If they went through with it, then that would shake things up some, I believe depending on how they did it there would be a school two the size of or larger than Lee. And of course, consolidation is a rumor in just about every county over here with the population decrease county-wide and in the schools. The idea you mention has been tossed around since, but with all that I wouldn't do it, not to mention they shouldn't do that to themselves just because everyone else is falling off and having to consider it. Can't blame them for not seeing this all happening back then. Pennington was the Bobcats. The colors were black and gold...what they are now with the middle school. Middle school http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeei54i/bobcatfootball20072/index.html Pennington High http://www.theoldbobcats.741.com/bob7.jpg http://www.theoldbobcats.741.com/bobcat1.jpg Jonesville was the Bulldogs. I'm assuming their colors were blue and gold (or maybe its yellow) like they are now also with the middle school. http://www.leectysch.com/JM/Default.htm

You'll find more discussion on them on the Clinch Mountain forum or the LPD board..and apparently a better way to avoid where this topic is going too ;) Nah, they can stay with it, but you will be able to more there, just not as much on here that know a lot about them. CMD http://z8.invisionfree.com/Clinch_Mtn_District/index.php?act=idx LPD http://www.hostboard.com/LDPforum/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/ubb/postlist/Board/1/page/1 As for what I think. It was a very good game, one of the better ones in a while. Penalties were a bit of a problem and hopefully the o-line will improve as the season goes on. They just got to cap off those drives with a score. That's a lot of yardage to have and not put points up, however, give a lot of credit to PV's defense for stepping it up when it counted. They've got some good players back and some coming up, I think they'll pull through for a pretty good season at least.

And they went to Pulaski Co. once in football too...so. That's indoor track... Travel became an issue OVERALL when the Highlands started to fall apart. Pretty sure there used to be more teams in it, correct me if I'm wrong? ;) And most recently to escalate the problem, Va High was heading out, with Marion and Abingdon wanting to join the SWD, it was looking like Lee was going to have to join the SWD (which would've really made travel bad) with them or trying another shot at dropping to "A". What were these other sports that went "downhill"? Sports they've been good at, still are, and the ones they been bad at...still are. With the exception of a couple, like football and baseball is improving, but both due to changes in coaching and such.

You had better look again. Honaker has around 440 students. If Honaker had 400 then Lee would be twice the size of them and the could appeal and drop to D-1 status. Considering there are only 7 AA schools "around here" and about 3 fall below single A status and choose to play up....that's not a good one to throw out. Also 3 of those are bigger than Lee, Richlands is not much smaller. Some of those may be looking to drop down to single A at some point soon anyway. Heck, with consolidation, there's going to be even more twice the size of the CD and BDD schools, it doesn't take much with those schools falling off. The program isn't awful, now. Why is it that Lee had to drop because football was bad???? Other sports were doing just fine and still are. The program became "so awful" as you put it, because they had a drop off in talent and a good long time coach in Don Williams retired, leaving Lee in a search for another coach. As most know, they didn't do a very good job of finding someone else to do a good job, they had about 4 or 5 coaching changes through that time up until Bobby Sanders was hired. It didn't what classification they were in, they still were going to be bad, being single A wasn't going to help it (interesting that was mentioned considering the strength of some of the single A schools). They were getting beat by single A schools then...Gate City, Powell Valley, Lebanon, etc.

Gretna 28 Martinsville 14 Carroll County 20 Patrick County 13 Abingdon 34 Patrick Henry 20 Blacksburg 36 Giles 29 Richlands 27 Honaker 13 Gate City 31 Tazewell 14 Chilhowie 35 Fort Chiswell 20 Powell Valley 21 Lebanon 14 Game of the Week Bluefield 28 Graham 20

Enrollment figures from the VHSL... http://www.vhsl.org/MoreAboutVHSL/RR.htm ..basically the same. They were under 700 though. The numbers fell off and they're single A because when they dropped and as it is now, they fall into single A status.

Whooohooo...leading the pack. :D