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Congrats to senior Brittany Allen for making First Team All-State!!

"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos." Changes? That's what wrong with the world today. People wanted changes and they got them. Go back and give the kids what they EARN. Not a doubt in my mind Caleb deserved POY. I'm not saying their can never be an exception to the format. But do you honestly think certain coaches don't call other coaches and strike a "deal" before the meeting? You vote for mine I vote for yours?? The chances of an athlete coming thru like Caleb is very rare, bringing politics into an All-Conference meeting is way more likely. It is no different than a beauty pageant.

Morgan Hall is a great player, great athlete and even better of a person. Here's my take on it and I don't really care if any agrees or disagrees. The old format in my opinion needs to be put back into place. If you win regular season conference you automatically get player of the year, 2 other first team picks, 2 second team picks. Second place team gets 2 first team picks and 2 second team picks, and so on. It takes all the political bs out of it. You have immature coaches that may vote against another teams player because you've beat them the last four years. Some people may say well that's not fair. If you truly have a Conference Player of the Year on your team they should win regular season. Plain and simple. This is not the ACC this is high school. A good player will make his or her teammates better. The other team will be so fucsed on that player it will open up opportunities for others. When other teams collapsed on Britt she dished off to others usually Sarah Compton for wide open layups. She was boxed n one almost every game. Sometimes coaches, players, and parents get to fixated on points. Britt was a great scorer but much of her game was overlooked. Papers always talked about her points and not enough about leading every game in assists and steals. Just my take but there again Morgan is a GREAT player and at the end of the day is all overhyped anyways.

Richlands head coach, Dennis Palmer, was named BDT Pocahontas Coal Association Coach of the Year. Great job Coach Palmer!!

Congrats to Brittany Allen (Winthrop Commit) for being selected on the First Team All-State Team. Great job Britt!!!

Congratulations to Brittany Allen on being selected SWD Player of the Year. Also congrats to Cassidy Richardson for First Team All SWD and Makenley Davis for second team. Great job Lady Blues!!!

Three straight years Region IV Division 3 champs!!! Great job!!

No they are a very scrappy team but young. Lady Blues had a very sloppy game and didn't show up to play.

They may have lost some games but overall record is better than last years. Lebanon has a great team with a lot of talent, Twin Valley killed the lady blues last year twice as did Carroll county. We had many reasons for wanting a new coach. Would love to sit n "chat" face to face to fill you in since you seem so interested. I will even serve you some of the famous kool-aid. By the way....yes last year was a great year for the GIRLS winning region but no matter how bad they do this year it will never be as bad as his 0-24 season!!

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Hammerhead do us all a favor take that hammer and knock your ass out with it. We all know who you are and we find it very comical that you are posting these ridiculous comments to get a rouse out of everyone. Not one person got on the forum about them winning and congratulated them anyways so everyone go ahead and fall for this loosers tasteless tatics and state how the girls don't have a chance in hell of winning this weekend. The girls and true fans of the Lady Blues are aware of the competition they will be facing. This will not stop them from playing their hearts out just as they did against Patrick County. So this being said, girls congrats on winning the first ever regional championship in the history of Richlands. WE are proud of you guys!!!

I personally don't think hand check is as bad of a problem as a defensive player being allowed to ride someone to the point of pushing them out of bounds and reaching. I've seen more no calls on reaching this year. My question is if a defensive player completely comes across a ball handlers body and reaches in while having no contact causing the dribbler to loose control is that a foul?

Scoring points and winning is one thing, placing embarrassment on teams getting beat by 50 is another. Summers county is hands down better than any team they've so far faced. I don't think it would look near as bad on the coach if he would call off the press after they get up by 30 and play the entire bench. Its no fun when you are on the receiving end of it

If that's the case then sorry, my bad. I was told by what I thought was a pretty reliable source otherwise. BigD is right. We will be lucky to even be able to play tournament games this week let alone makeup games. So sick of snow.

Better check your sources on your voting tallies there. I believe their were two votes against ending the season with Richlands being one of them. This could be a never ending debate. No one expected Grundy to beat Graham but no one expected Tazewell to beat Richlands either. Getting home court advantage and a first game by for the first place seed def has its perks. I can see why Graham wouldn't want to play and yet I can see why Richlands would want to play. In one game Richlands can go from third seed to tied for first thats a big jump. I say get the two coaches together and let them deicide or better yet let the boys vote on it.

So will Graham have to play Richlands now? Seems like Richlands should get the chance to tie for first place.

Yes it is still on. JV boys play at 6 and varsity at 7:30.

I believe Richlands boys are the #2 seed.

Richlands jv girls is #1 in district. Not sure about boys.

Now that schools have been called off will this game still take place? Is the boys varsity playing first and if so why?

Wow. Seems like some people from Richlands are down on one of their own or maybe cause he is better than their Johnny sitting the bench. I think a congratulation to Gunner would have been perhaps......more appropriate. Guess that's to much to ask for. Some people get their kicks on putting down or ruining a kids best night of his life. I heard the coach did a pretty good job getting everyone playing time. I even heard everyone scored. Maybe you guys would be happier with Coach Walker. Just saying.

No they are clear. They should've had school and they should've played tonight. I believe the administrators around here are still taking a Christmas break.

Is Richlands the only team in the area that has played only 2 games for varsity and 3 for jv? I heard that Tazewell and Graham have played several more. They postponed the games tonight again. At this rate they will never get all the games in.

Considering he is leading scorer for the Blues 99% of the time I would say he knows what he is doing. As far as the long sleeve shirt, a few college players are starting to wear them now. Not much different than wearing socks up to your knees.