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Scorigami!!

Your honor, the defense rests

Virginia High 28
Richlands 24
Final
 
First win at Ernie Hicks Stadium since 1990

THE Benjamin School fans are a trip. The team makes a big play or scores, it's a polite golf clap. No band, no loud music on the PA. Of course, their athletic facilities were built with a generous donation from PGA great Jack Nicholas, so maybe it's a noise rule he requested. 🤔

THE Benjamin School 28
Pahokee 0
5:15
3rd
65 yard TD pass to Wake Forest commit Jacob Cosby-Mosely 

They don’t start playing until they go down 20

They don’t start playing until they go down 20

Three area teams remain undefeated:
Radford (7-0) 
Grayson Co. (6-0)
Montcalm (5-0)

Side note -
Montcalm has scored 244 points this season and have only given up 6.
They are averaging 49 ppg on offense & 1 ppg on defense.
If you’re wondering why they have only played 5 games so far it’s because they have a game scheduled against Craig Co. later in the season on a Monday. They will play 10/20,10/23, & 10/27.

Virginia High beat Richlands last season

Where to start?  I'm sadden to see the Blues season with no wins.  I think the 2nd half at Tazewell broke their spirit.  The season  with Virginia High shows the Cats with improvement, but still work to do.  The Blues team needs to prove they aren't cellar material.  They need to dig deep within themselves  and come away with a win Friday.  It won't be an easy task.  Task calls for a deep down effort, beyond what has transpired this season, and a reckoning of will to walk away with the win Friday night.  
GO BLUES!!!
 

Virginia High beat Richlands last season

Well I use the same sources that you guys do for current scores and often get conflicting reports. I am going to change it to 50-6 cause that is wha the KHSSA has on the Phelps page at this time. The game was in KY so what KY says goes. https://scoreboard.12dt.com/scoreboard/khsaa/kyfb23/89887

Virginia High beat Richlands last season

Virginia High beat Richlands last season

My sources tell me that Montcalm has given up 12 points this season. Are you providing us with false information? Kidding, not that it makes a difference 😂

Three area teams remain undefeated:
Radford (7-0) 
Grayson Co. (6-0)
Montcalm (5-0)

Side note -
Montcalm has scored 244 points this season and have only given up 6.
They are averaging 49 ppg on offense & 1 ppg on defense.
If you’re wondering why they have only played 5 games so far it’s because they have a game scheduled against Craig Co. later in the season on a Monday. They will play 10/20,10/23, & 10/27.

It looked like Virginia High agreed with some of the posts here and thought they would have the advantage up front and would be able to match up with Tazewell’s athletes on the outside. 
 
The Bulldogs defensive front seven forced 20+ negative plays for Virginia High’s offense & forced 3 turnovers. 
 
Virginia High’s defense ran a lot of single coverage on the outside receivers. Tazewell’s Logan McDonald finished with 9 catches for 211 yards & 2 touchdowns. 

I thought RV played a great game considering how undermanned we were.  This team will grow but I see a second round exit from the p,ayoffs this year.  Which is very good considering what was lost to graduation last year.  
Our fans are great, but some of you need to calm the _ _ _ _ down.  Union was not holding on every play and jumping offsides every play.  The better team won tonight. And don’t yell at the other side when a kid is hurt, when you’ve been trash talking a player the entire game from the stands because you’re 40 and sound like a jack a$$.
O’Quinn played a good game but the interception in the 1st qtr was a bad decision.  I’m wondering if he may be on the field too much.  Qb is his top responsibility. (Except according to a few fans who wanted him benched tonight). I’m still waiting for their explanation on that one. 

1. Nathan Tanner. His experience and success at coaching speaks for itself.
2. Toss up between Ricky Cook/Austin Cooper. Ricky is one of the best to wear red and I like the emotion he shows. The kids respect him. Austin has head coaching experience. He had some good seasons at Hurley before coming back to Giles as an assistant. From following him on fbook I could tell the impact he made because the Hurley community was devastated when he left. However he is the varsity basketball coach so I’m assuming he would have to give it up since football season runs into basketball season. 
 
3. Trey Freeman. I’ve won many National Championships and Super Bowls on NCAA14 and Madden 23.

2003 Graham-State Semi-Finalist---7 Years later----> 2010 Graham 1-9
2010 Gate City-State Champs-------7 Years later----->2017 Gate City 1-9
2016 Richlands-State Runner-up----7 Years later---->2023 Richlands-Hoping for 1-9
 
 

Greenbrier West takes down Number 1 Ranked WV Single A James Monroe by a score of 25-7.  JM suffers its first loss of the season.

Godwin 7, Thomas Jefferson 0. 6:47 left in the first quarter. 

My father and Don were close. Don is well known not just in Tazewell and Tazewell County, but was well know in VT circles. He once served on the VT Board of Visitors and the man paid several kids tuition out of his own pocket to attend VT. He was huge in development for Tazewell, VA, and he was instrumental in getting the VT School of Pharmacy started. Don was a class act. A former marine. He will be missed by many and did some solid work on this earth and left his mark, and he came from blue collar and humble beginnings. RIP old Bulldog, Don Dunford.

It’s not just about scheduling bigger or better teams, It’s about scheduling games that you know you can win against teams that can also win at least a few games. 

for example - 
this year’s Tazewell team lost to Riverheads and (3A) Princeton. The best case scenario if both of those teams win out they will have 19 wins between them. 
Losing to those two teams nets you 33 points at the end of the season.
& on the other side -
Tazewell has beat Richlands & Grundy (2a points for both). Let’s say in the absolute worst case scenario those two teams finish with 1 win total. 
Beating those two teams net you 38 points at the end of the season in that scenario. 

Beating a 1-9 1A & 0-10 2A team is better than losing to a 9-1 2A & 10-0 3A team by 5 points. 
 
Ridgeview (strictly talking about playoff seeding) wouldn’t benefit nearly as much by losing to a 6-4 Bluefield team as they would scheduling & beating teams like Twin Springs, Rye Cove, Eastside, etc. 
Of course in a perfect world you want to play better competition to better your team but the current VHSL points format is not set up that way.

After doing a very brief glance at projections, a 9-1 Union has a slight chance of outpointing a 10-0 Radford. This is one of the games that can determine that, so I'm changing my pick.
I'll be wearing orange and navy Friday, but I'll have kelly green in my heart. Go Dawgs!