Look at Martinsville. 1-8 and still 16 seed, With 138 points and they will get 20 points for just showing up against GW-Danville. I guess they really get the extra points because all they play are larger schools. They play 1 2A school(Dan River) and the rest are 3A,4A, or 5A. If they had of not played Dan River and picked up the only Piedmont team they don't play,6A Franklin Co., they would be 1-8 with more points than they have now. There program is going thru a really tough time now, but how can a 1-9 team still be in the hunt for a playoff spot, no matter who you have been playing. Seems to me the system needs some tweaking!!
Magna Vista 22 Tunstall 16. MV scored with 1:06 to make it 22-16,Tunstall drove the length of the field and from MV's18 yard line with 0.8 seconds left threw a pass and completed it but the receiver was stopped on the 1 yard line.
Great game by both teams. Tunstall led 16-7 with 5:50 to go but MV scored twice in 4 minutes to pull out the win.
Just like in 96-97,when a district was going to be moved out of region 3 to reg. 4,the Roanoke area schools whined and complained until it ended up being the Piedmont that went west. Sqeaky wheel gets the grease again, and the funny thing is we can holler all we want to and now no one has to listen. It's a done deal!! Magna Vista should play all the Rockingham Co. NC schools they can; they are a lot closer drives to get there and it's all about saving money isn't it??
G-men cut the lead to 37-35 with just a few minutes left in the 3rd quarter, but after a Bulldog timeout the Dogs outscored Graham 28-4 over the last 10 minutes of the game.
Tunstall is 4-17 with 3 of their wins against winless Patrick Co., so it can't be about keeping bad teams out. Surely Cave Spring,Grundy and Marion are better than Tunstall.
Martinsville's band is not a competition band. They have been a great band for years and years doing exactly what they did last night, entertaining the crowd. They don't do the competition scene. Bassett's band is our areas band for competition. Mavahi's band is just fun to watch and to listen to!
Hey PDFAN longtime no see. Dont worry about them WARRIORS they will be fine. MV will win 50-7. The HOLE is a bad place to play. Abingdon will get introduced to some football tonight. The WINE AND CHEESETTS wont know what it them. WARRIORS WARRIOS HOO HOO
Wah Wah great to hear from you,hope the Warriors don't let me down tonite. Don't seem that long ago when we were having some good times down in "The Hole". Time flies by though, got 1 married off and the other is as good as married. Hope to have some Warrior grand kids running around soon(LOL). Hope things are well with you, give us a holler sometime!!
I laugh at most prediction on this board because of their love or hate affair for that team. Some just can not stop being a “fanaticâ€
Abingdon has some speed... just depends on the position unfortunately. Marion had a good defense setup and wet/cold/muddy conditions that limited what Abingdon is good at. Abingdon is not a good running team. It's not bashing on their RB or online, but it goes both ways. AHS running back sometimes loses sight of cutback lanes and holes because he's to focus on the defender, and the online sometimes just completely misses their block. They are better pass blockers (which usually is the other way for most oline)
Abingdon is going to have to score some points Friday night because their defense will have a hard time stopping Magna Vista's run. Abingdon's front 7 is going to have to keep the ball inside and infront of them. However, Abingdon can score and move the ball if they open things up. Widner and Dawson both have good speed that can cause magna vista problems... Give Hess time and Abingdon can keep it close.
What's great about high school and college is that these are 14-18 year old kids and anything can happen in one night. That's why it's so exciting.
Magna Vista will blitz alot,they have all year. They have very good speed on both sides of the ball. Very few if any players go both ways so they usually play at a quick pace the whole game. They never huddle on offence so they keep pressure on opponents D most all night. Not only do they run the ball well, but Taylor has thrown for 1400 yards and around 15-16 td's this year. With that being said I agree that with 14-18 year old kids anything can and usually will happen. That is why the games are won or lost on the field and not on the computer screen!! Again safe trip to "The Hole" and good luck to the Falcons!
PS Get some rest on the way down to Ridgeway, it is a long walk from the locker rooms to the field(1/4 of a mile or so). Not good planning when they built the school!
Don't know alot about the Falcons other than Hess is a good QB. Do they run their "O" mostly out of the spread? Also what kind of D do they run, and do they have alot of team speed? Should be a good game Friday, and to all the Falcon fans making the trip to Ridgeway have a safe trip and we will see you at "The Hole" on Friday night!!
The Falcons might have to come to Ridgeway to play Magna Vista in "The Hole" before they think about going to Salem. Ask any Richlands fan from the early 2000's, Magna Vista will not be an easy out for anybody in the first round. Good luck to the Tornado nation in your run to another championship, sounds like you guys are poised for another strong run. I always enjoyed the games when my Warriors played Richlands. The kids played hard against one another but after the games alot of class was shown by both teams and their fans. Again good luck to all teams in the upcoming postseason!
Trojans score 4 in the bottom of the 5th or 6th inning(forget which one) to take the win. Turner went the first 5 for Tunstall strinking out 7 and Mantiply threw the last 2 innings striking out 4 of the six he faced. Mantiply will probably pitch the next game for the Trojans.
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The 4.2-4.3 guys from Buckingham must have missed the bus for the trip down. Way to go Devils, not bad for a bunch of
non-athletes. Guess ya'll just have football players down there!! Good luck next week!