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After watching the Gate City- Martinsville game, if they do play in the semis I would hardly call a GC win an upset. Just hope next time the Dogs don't get into foul trouble so early. Holland has been in foul trouble very little this year, like maybe 3-4 times, and 2 of them were this weekend. Mavahi can't afford that going foward.

Why is Dan River, who is a 2 seed from the west having to travel to 3 seed Greensville Co in the east?

DR's big man Harris broke his finger about 3-4 weeks ago, don't know his status for tonite is. Has alot to do with the way they have struggled the last 6-7 games

Just in this region alone they moved games the last 2 years. Martinsville and DR have won the semis the past 2 years at Floyd in '14 and at Richlands last year then they moved the championship games to Magna Vista both years.

Graham tried to make it as tough to get the ball to Holland as they could. Pretty much the Dogs settled for 3 after 3 and couldn't throw it in the ocean. They finally banked a three in late to tie , hit a ft to go up one and survived on a late Graham turn over. One thing they will do is play tough D. Most they given up in one game this year is 60 to Northside, most were held below 50.

G-Man you are right about the Dogs away from home. Loss by 3 @ Radford after beating them by 20 at home, loss by 4 @ GW-Danville after beating them by the same margin at home, and loss to a 1 loss Northside team by 8 @ Roanoke College after leading the whole game but the most important part, the last 3:15 of the game.G-Man if you remember last year I said that Mavahi would have trouble with Graham because of Graham's great guard play, this year I say that GC can give the Dogs fits because they have more than 1 good 3 point shooter. They have several after seeing them last night against Richlands. In the 3 losses by the Dogs this year the same theme came up, they got hurt by multiple 3point shooters. Martinsville is going to try and turn you over, run and run some more and get it inside to Holland. They are senior heavy and these sr. Have been to the final four the last 2 years. GC is very capable of winning this game if they shoot well.

Just an outside view without a dog in the fight. Not alot of fouls called in the 1st half and the game had a good flow. I thought the game changed early in the 3rd on the hard foul on Barnes. The refs looked liked they wanted to make sure they kept things under control, and started to call alot of fouls they had let go in the 1st half. Overall was a good game by 2 good teams and Martinsville will have their hands full with Gate City. Mavahi won tonite over Appomattox 92-47 and Devontae Holland scored his 2000 point tonite. Gate City will be a stiff test in Wise Friday.

Wish we were leaving earlier, I would love to stop at the Iron Skillet at the Damascus exit and hit the buffet but then I probably couldn't make it to the game if I did. Oh the things me and mhsalum Sr. do for Mavahi. Hopefully we can take care of business tonight and we can see y'all in beautiful downtown Wise Friday night. Good look to everyone tonight and safe travels, Ryan make the trip, you'll regret it if you dont!

Not saying Mavahi will win any thing, but unless he got lost on his way home last night the Dogs pg was fine and healthy as of 9:30 last night. The Dogs have alot of games to worry about before they get to the east participants. The only east team we played last year was Greensville Co and we pulled away in the 2nd half to win by 15-18 and have 7 of our top 8 players back. But we have got to get by Appo, GC, Union and Graham and also DR and Richlands before the east comes around. But first comes Glenvar tonight. Wish the GC-Union game was on tv so I could dvr it and watch when I get home. Good luck to all teams left, especially the Dogs on their search for # 15.

Mavahi 35 Floyd 12 3:00 to go 1st half

Seems like the teams in swva are bigger and more physical than the Dogs, and also will have a certain home court advantage with the games at Wise. The Dogs know what to expect with Graham, a well coached team that plays hard buzzer to buzzer, but have no idea what GC,Union have. They did play Richlands 2 years ago when when Richlands boys were all freshmen so if they meet it will be intetesting to see how much better they are as jrs. But of course all of this is subjective because everybody has to win next Tuesday to be able to make it to Wise on Friday. Good luck to everyone, I know Mavahi will need it.

Union beating Martinsville will not be an upset. If they play it will be at Wise, we all saw last year when Martinsville traveled to Richlands to play Graham they were out of their comfort zone. Their 3 losses this year were at Radford,at Roanoke college (Northside), and at GW-Danville. They do not play as well on the road, and as good as Union obviously is, traveling 3 1/2 hours to play them will be an extremely tough thing to do. On top of that according to their own fans they are not as good as they were last year, so sounds like they are going to have a tough time with GC, Union, Graham, Richlands or whoever they play from SWVa, if the Dogs get that far. Theyll first have to get thru DR, Appomattox or Buckingham before they can come to Wise

What Bulldog fans did you talk to? They lost 1 player from last year who avg, about 3-4 points a game and have everybody else back, plus 2 guys up from their jv who are very good. Graham played them very good last year by packing in on Holland and letting the Dogs shoot 3's all night, and we couldn't throw it in the ocean. Also Graham's 2 senior guards controlled the game when the G-men had the ball and they about pulked off the victory. Probably the worst the Dogs shot from outside all year, but it was pick your poison, Holland would have put up a bunch against them but they took him out of the game. I have alot of respect for Graham after last year, they are well coached and played very hard, they were a banked 3 pointer, some missed ft's and a turnover away from going to Richmond last year. G-men are a class act and if we can get there hope to see them in Wise in a week or so.

Graham probably should have beat Martinsville last year but that's kind of been the Dogs Mo for years, teams get close but can't put them away.I go way back to the 60's and there has only been a few of their 14 championship teams that were truly dominant. The teams in SWVa definitely have a good chance to advance this year because they are some obviously really good teams, Gate City and Union just to name a couple, but it's just hard to beat them come playoff time.

Was a really good game. Mavahi led by as many as 14 in the first half and led by 7 or 8 with about 4 to go in the game but the Northside pressure and foul shooting took over and they pulled out the win. Mavahi had 1 starter foul out early in the 4th and another get hurt in the 1st half, and this really handicapped them in the final minutes. No excuses though the Vikings are 19-1 for a reason, they are a very deep and talented team. They just wore the Dogs down, but this game will do them more good than the 80-35 blowouts we've been having.

Top 2 teams from each conference advance to regionals, 4 conferences equals 8 teams.

What we were told, 37-38 1's will play the 2's at home as will 39-40. Then the winners will play at UVa-Wise in the region semis and depending on who wins Wise will host the finals also.

37-Dan River and Buckingham or Appomattox 38- Martinsville and toss up between the rest but I would guess Floyd Co

Radford wins the rematch 52-49. Tough defensive game on both ends of the court tonight, but Radford pulls it out by hitting 11 3's. Finley with 25 led Radford, and the Bobcat's D held the Dogs Holland to 14.

Martinsville slowly pulled away all game long to beat Radford 61-41. Holland had 24 in his matchup with the Aussie exchange student. The freshman point guard was very impressive for Radford all night and finished with 17. Mavahi was just overall to quick for the Bobcats tonight. Return match in Radford on Jan 4th

Should be a good one tonight in Martinsville. The Dogs return 6 of there top 7 players from last years state championship team, but Radford handed Mavahi one of their losses last year 50-49 on 2 free throws with a couple of seconds left. Should be a good battle inside between the 6'8" exchange student and Martinsville's 6'7" returning 2A player of the year Devonnte Holland.

I do remember the 96 MV-Bassett game. A big rivalry game down here in PD land. I will bet you that Coach Bateman of MV would have never thrown a game especially to the Bengals. The head coach at Bassett at that time had coached with Bateman for years at Drewey Mason and MV and knew Bateman's O and D like the back of his hand. EHC87, you remember Coach Moran don't you? Also MV turned the ball over several times in the red zone contributing to the lost. VHSLhelper I also remember that 97 game against Graham. Graham's D-line stayed in MV's backfield the whole night and the Qb took an absolute beating that night, I knew him well and it was about 3 days before he knew where he was at.

Must have been 96, seems I remember MV came to Mitchell in 97 and lost to Graham in the playoffs. I think that's right because that same school year(97-98) we came and played the G-Men in the regional championship for basketball and won and the next week we went on to win the state championship. For the life of me I can't remember who we could have lost to. Not saying it didn't happen, just don't remember. If you do, please let me know, I like thinking back to the old days, at least as long as my memory still works half way decent.

UVA, not saying it didn't happen but I've been going to and have missed only a few MV games since the school opened in 88. I don't ever recall MV throwing a game. Do you recall who they "threw" the game to? Also congrats to Abingdon on their big win tonight, to go to Northside and win is not an easy task. Good luck next week at LB. Guess we will have to get ready for a track meet with Staunton River. Hope we can score enough