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Bassett, Castlewood, Chilhowie, Clintwood, Coeburn, Honaker, James River, Lebanon, Martinsville, Northwood, Patrick Henry, St. Paul and Twin Springs all have schedules up on highschoolsports.net. APPALACHIA: December 11 Rye Cove Home December 12 Jenkins Home December 15 Gate City Home December 19 J. I. Burton Home December 22 Rye Cove Away December 26 - 29 Coal Classic Home January 2 J. J. Kelly Away January 5 Coeburn Away January 9 Pound Home January 10 Jenkins Away January 12 Powell Valley Home January 16 Clintwood Away January 19 Gate City Away January 23 J. J. Kelly Home January 26 Coeburn Home January 30 Pound Away February 2 Powell Valley Away February 6 Clintwood Home February 9 J. I. Burton Away RYE COVE: November 28 Pound (Benefit Game) Home 6:00 December 1 J. J. Kelly Away 6:00 December 5 Sullivan North Away 4:00 December 8 Lee High Home 4:00 December 11 Appalachia Away 6:00 December 12 J. J. Kelly Home 6:00 December 15 Lee High Away 4:00 December 18 Coeburn Home 6:00 December 22 Appalachia Home 6:00 December 26, 27, 28 Coal Classic Away TBA January 2 Sullivan North Home 4:45 January 5 Ervinton Home 6:00 January 9 Castlewood Away 6:00 January 12 St. Paul Away 6:00 January 16 Twin Springs Home 6:00 January 19 Thomas Walker Home 6:00 January 23 Ervinton Away 6:00 January 26 Castlewood Home 6:00 January 30 St. Paul Home 6:00 February 2 Twin Springs Away 6:00 February 9 Thomas Walker Away 6:00 TWIN VALLEY: Dec. 2 Belfry Ky. @ Shelby Valley High School Dec. 12 St. Paul Away Dec 18 Grundy Home Dec 21 Midland Trail Tournament Away Dec 22 Midland Trail Tournament Away Dec 23 Midland Trail Tournament Away Dec 27 Ramey's Holiday Classic Home Dec 28 Ramey's Holiday Classic Home Dec 29 Ramey's Holiday Classic Home Dec 30 Ramey's Holdiay Classic Home Jan 02 St. Paul Home Jan 05 Haysi Home Jan 10 Grundy Away Jan 12 Honaker Away Jan 13 Oak HIll Academy Red Away Jan 16 Hurley Home Jan 20 Oak Hill Academy Red Home Jan 23 Council Away Jan 26 Haysi Away Jan 30 Honaker Home Feb 02 Hurley Away Feb 09 Council Home

BHC's Highlands preview: http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/sports.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2006-11-22-0012.html

Lee High's schedule: 11/29 @ Cawood (KY) 12/1 Thomas Walker 12/5 @ J. I. Burton 12/8 @ Rye Cove 12/12 @ Sullivan Noth (TN) 12/13 @ Powell Valley 12/15 Rye Cove 12/22 vs. Gate City, at Twin Springs 12/23 vs. Twin Springs, at Gate City 1/3 J. I. Burton 1/5 @ Abingdon 1/8 Middlesboro (KY) 1/12 Virginia High 1/16 Cawood (KY) 1/17 Powell Valley 1/19 @ Marion 1/24 Sullvian North (TN) 1/26 Abingdon 2/2 @ Virginia High 2/6 @ Thomas Walker 2/9 Marion

I was listening to the game and heard they got an unsportsmanlike penalty for celebrating after one of their scores in the second half, did I hear that right??. And excessive celebrating for scoring on the second team?!?!?

[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] WGTH dropped on me. [/ QUOTE ] We had a "situation" earlier and had to switch some stuff around, so I can't send AND listen tonight. Did you get us back, and how's it holding up? [/ QUOTE ] I'm trying to listen, but it's still dropping in and out on me.

http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/news.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2006-11-12-0026.html Escaped inmates considered armed and dangerous Sunday, Nov 12, 2006 - 08:47 PM The search continues for two escaped inmates who police believe are armed and dangerous. Pennington Gap Police tell us Bryan Scott Rowe and James William Culbertson Jr. walked away from work duty just after 9:00Saturday night. The two men are charged with felony escape. Authorities say that the men are believed to have ties to Tazewell County, Virginia and Orlando, Florida. If you have any information on their whereabouts call the Lee County Sheriff's Office at (276) 546-1162. There's a pic of the two here: http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/news.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2006-11-11-0031.html

Abingdon and Tunstall will advance to the finals. Tunstall def. Carroll County 3-0 (25-12, 25-14, 25-20) Abingdon def. Tazewell 3-0 (25-15, 25-16, 25-16)

Highlands: 1. Abingdon 2. Lee 3. Va High 4. Marion

Grundy and Abingdon split in the regular season, and Abingdon beat Richlands both times they played.

I wish Lee could hold onto the football.

Va High 7 Lee High 6 early 2nd quarter

[ QUOTE ] Others receiving votes: Courtland 5, Liberty-Fauquier 3, Smithfield 3, Lee High 3, Lafayette 2. [/ QUOTE ] Whoohoo!!! lol

http://timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satelli...1sports%21preps GROUP AA Rec. Pts Pv 1. Salem (7) 8-0 88 1 2. Richlands 9-0 76 2 3. Sherando (1) 8-0 66 3 4. Harrisonburg 9-0 65 4 5. Amherst (1) 7-1 54 6 6. Louisa 8-0 53 5 7. Park View-Ster. 7-1 26 7 8. Lee-Staunton 7-0 21 8 9. Powhatan 7-1 18 9 10. Hidden Valley 7-1 12 10 Others receiving votes: Courtland 5, Liberty-Fauquier 3, Smithfield 3, Lee High 3, Lafayette 2.

John Battle too....district game.

Really don't know what to expect from Lee. They didn't perform like I thought they would against Kelly, maybe that had something to do with the weather and the officiating, and/or that they weren't able to keep postseason hopes alive by beating Abingdon. I'm sure that was a killer. Who knows... Va High has a lot more to play for with playoff hopes. Eccleston tourched them last season, will have to be different this time around. Lee's still making one too many mistakes. A couple of their rb's have been bothered by injuries and the running game has suffered as of late. However, they've gotten better overall though from the beginning of the season (and previous seasons), a pleasently suprsing second half turnaround by the team. Been pleased with what Sanders has done, looking forward to what's to come. Some talented younger players on the team and coming up through the ranks. Would like to say Lee, but realistically I have to say Va High 34-14. Hope I'm wrong though haha.

Morehead State and Richmond aren't D2.

I thought those schools all had single A numbers with the exception Lee, and maybe Va High???? And everyone knows the situation Lee is in.

He suffered a shoulder stinger. Beamer said that Adibi, Ore, and Hall should all play. Harper is questionable though. http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/sports.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2006-10-25-0010.html

Matt Perdue, signed with Appy State.

How does he compare to the quarterback that played for Lee High last season?

[ QUOTE ] Powell Valley 39 Gate City 21 I'm not sure if that's a final or not...just heard the score on the Richlands postgame [/ QUOTE ] That was the final.

So, that means Coach Sanders is wrong about Lee having a chance??

http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/sports.apx.-content-articles-TRI-2006-10-18-0005.html ABINGDON – Former high school football coach Ray Gregory would not comment Tuesday on the loss of his coaching contract and his future plans. The Washington County School Board voted late Monday to fire Gregory as head football coach at Abingdon High School and to transfer him to a teaching position at another school. The vote followed a month of controversy that saw Gregory suspended after parents complained about his treatment of their sons. Reached by telephone Tuesday, Gregory said he would not comment until after a meeting next month with lawyers and the school superintendent. "I’d like to have my say," he said, "but just not right now." The board went into a three-hour executive session late Monday to discuss Gregory. When they emerged, just before 11:30 p.m., they voted 6-0 to terminate the coaching contract. Board member Elizabeth Lowe abstained because her son plays on the Abingdon High School football team. The board also voted 5-0, with Lowe and Buckey Boone abstaining, to transfer Gregory to a teaching position at Wallace Middle School. "I can’t comment on it," said School Board Chairman Curtis Burkett. "I know that people think I’m being evasive, but as an employee of the system, he’s entitled to privacy, and we have to respect that privacy." Superintendent Alan Lee also refused to comment. Gregory, a graduate of Patrick Henry High School, returned to Washington County last year to coach Abingdon after more than two decades coaching college and high school teams around the country. The team is 4-4 this season. His mother, Barbara Gregory, said he’d planned to stay and eventually retire here. The murmurs among Ray Gregory’s relatives and supporters, as they awaited the decision Monday, were the same that have rippled through the community since he was first suspended with pay last month. Player parents and Gregory’s relatives wondered aloud Monday what he did and whether the School Board would explain its decision. Gregory yelled at players who removed their pads before the end of a 53-0 losing game on Sept. 15 against Richlands. Some parents of players have said he cursed at their sons; Ray Gregory’s parents say otherwise. About two dozen of his supporters attended the meeting; no critics spoke. "I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say a curse word," said his father, Danny Gregory, adding he raised his son with discipline – a trait he says is important in football. School officials have kept quiet on the subject, as has Ray Gregory. "If my son had been at Patrick Henry or any other high school, this never would’ve happened," Barbara Gregory said. "It’s because it’s Abingdon." In 21 years of coaching, she said, her son never had a problem. "This is a witch hunt after my son," Barbara Gregory said. "He’s been under the microscope from Day 1." She said that when a group of parents first met with high school Principal Jeff Noe on Sept. 18, she was told her son would never coach another day at Abingdon High School. Frank Kilgore, Ray Gregory’s attorney, said that because high school coaches are at-will employees, they can be fired from coaching at any time, with or without reason. Thus, he said, Gregory has no legal recourse with regard to his coaching position. Kilgore said, however, there have been no formal findings of wrongdoing. "It can happen to any coach across the state of Virginia at any time," Kilgore said. "I think that given his experience in coaching, it won’t be hard at all for him to get another coaching job." Kilgore also said he is communicating with the School Board attorney to lift a restriction preventing Ray Gregory from being present on school property. Gregory’s son, A.J., is a junior and a member of the Abingdon football team. "If my son was fired from this position for yelling, then you’d better fire every coach in the county," said Barbara Gregory, Ray Gregory’s mother. "Everyone’s laughing at Abingdon because of this." But his aunt, Peggy, said the rest of the story will eventually be known. "It’s gonna come out," she said. "Just keep your ears open. It’ll all come out."

Thanks.

Take Ellis along with him.