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Bluefield 54 Westside 8, just started the fourth quarter Montel Leggett 75 yard run for TD. He now has 247 yards. Would like to see him get 300 yards, but I expect the reserves will be coming in now. Bluefield took a knee on the PAT so as to not run up the score.

Bluefield 48 Westside 8, 49 seconds into the 3rd quarter Leggett with a 49 yard run, Mariotti missed the XP.

Bluefield 42 Westside 8 at the half. Will Bluefield break 60? Bluefield already has 317 yards of rushing, 343 total yards of offense.

Bluefield 42 Westside 8, about halfway through the second quarter

OT. I like the current format, but not giving the ball at the 10. Would prefer to see it at the 25. Make the teams work harder for it. As for the endzone being dead, I thought it used to be live in either WV or VA like 20+ years ago. Made for different rules for Bluefield-Graham depending on that year's home team. I remember seeing a kid for Bluefield, in a state championship game, have a complete mental shutdown...kickoff went past him, laid there around the 5. It's like the kid thought it was a punt, he got away from it. Think this was against Mussleman. And even the Mussleman kids went down and "downed" the kickoff, and it became their ball, first and goal.

Agree. Four coaches in four years is almost a guarantee that whoever takes (or whoever took) over will go through a lot of bad before being able to establish good. Think about it...those seniors have never had two consecutive years of the same offensive or defensive scheme. If the same coach can stay 3-4 years, the freshman can make it to seniors and have (hopefully) mastered whatever system is in place.

Princeton apparently thumped St. Albans pretty well. We'll take the bonus point. I'm just shocked to see how bad some traditionally good (or mediocre, in the case of Princeton) teams are doing. James Monroe is horrid. St. Albans used to be decent.

Your guess was pretty close, as the final was 49-12. Bluefield could have really put a hurting on them, Simon showed a lot of grace and took it REALLY easy on them in the second half. So much so, at the end of the game, Bluefield could have scored again, and they took a knee several times and turned it over on downs. This game could have easily been 63-6. Beavers look insanely fast...River View simply had no answer for the speed. Oh, and the kickoff thing got fixed. Freddy abandoned that group huddle thing on kickoffs and spread the kids out. Finally. And it worked. Don't think a kick was returned past the 30 yard line.

Just realize, who/what you're arguing with here...

Don't know why Simon is so determined to keep using it. Seems to be a nightmare...bet we've given up more kickoff returns for touchdowns already than we have in an entire year. And even when they don't run it all the way back, have had a lot make it over the 50 yard line. Kind of explains why he repeatedly used the onside kick against Princeton (I think that was it). Better to give up the ball at the 45 or midfield each time.

Could have been a whole lot worse. Well, maybe. Bluefield's last two scores were both interception returns for touchdowns. They were up 49-21 when those two happened, but they really throttled back after that. This Bluefield team clearly has an explosive offense. Only had 36 plays on offense for something like 420+ yards of total offense. Gate City ran 60-some plays (66??). The first GC touchdown was apparently a kick return, so their offense scored 14 points out of those 60-some plays.

Just realize, folks weren't rooting against you guys...just hoping that Tazewell could win their first. I think this Tazewell team is gonna win this year, showed a LOT of character to come back at the end of the game like they did.

Crap...Lebanon hit the FG in triple OT. Hate that...thought the Dogs had it this time!

+1 I hate seeing the rut they've fallen into down there, with the revolving door on coaches. They need something positive to happen.

Great job beating Battle, Southbound! Oh wait... Richlands? Gonna be ugly.

Great start indeed! So good to see the G-Men back to the days of old. Doug who? :D Think about that, Princeton. You're a AAA team in WV, and you got beat by a single A team in Virginia. LOL. Can't lie...wish Bluefield could have a do-over on that Graham game. But still...glad both teams are looking so good!

What's the score???

Bluefield 63 Gate City 21 still in the third quarter Another interception return for a TD for Bluefield. It's not exactly running up the score when you intercept it and take it back for a TD, is it??

Bluefield 56, Gate City 21 near the end of the third? Not sure...they didn't say Justin Carter 61 yd interception return for the TD

Bluefield 49 Gate City 21 4:48 left in the third quarter Leggett 13 yd TD run. His 12th TD of the year. So...can Gate City score 4 touchdowns the rest of the way???

Bluefield 42, Gate City 21, about 5 minutes left in the third quarter GC scored, but listing to Screamin' Brock and Joe Jarvis, no idea what happened. Then again, I am mentally tuned out.

Bluefield 42 Gate City 14 9:38 left in the third quarter 8 yard TD run for DJ Stewart

Sure wanna see Graham win this one. I'm a Bluefield grad, root for Graham all but one game a year...even wanna see Tazewell get back to better days. But Princeton? Wouldn't mind seeing them go 0-10 every single year.

Bluefield 35 Gate City 14 halftime Bluefield isn't rocking it on D, they're letting GC drive the field too much, but they do tighten down when it gets inside the 20.

Bluefield/GC thoughts Screaming Brock sees a flag thrown in the backfield, suggests that it may be a pass interference. At least Jarvis told him that it wouldn't be that, that it was thrown in the backfield. Bluefield stinks on kickoff coverage. Guessing it has something to do with that bunch formation they always use. Either an onside kick, a squib kick, or a return for touchdown.