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This looked like a fantastic game to see. I am glad that Brookville recovered from the big win we had there last year and had a Great season. It looks like they grew from the game last year and have a team to be very proud of. It came down to the end like the game we had against Rockbridge county a few years ago for a title and they had the big interception as well to ice the game. I was pulling fo them as we have played them several times the last few years and they had not got thier title until this year. Way to go Bees!!

Way to go Clintwood!! It is very nice to see a title in SWVA this year and you guys make us all proud here in this end of the State.

I hope Kirvin's injury is not too bad. But it sounded like a bad one. I will be pulling for Brookville all the way. This is one Richlands fan pulling for the title to stay on this end of the State. I think they are well balanced and can throw the ball very good. This is usually a good test for defenses at this level and they should be able to compete pretty good. GO BEES!!

I think this one should be a great game. Brookville's quaterback has another year under his belt and I am sure he is on top of his game by now. (a junior I belive now) I figure that Brookvilles passing game will give Cave Spring a true test. Not sure how big thier wide outs are but if they are big then cave will struggle to stop them as it appeared that they might have been more susceptible to Richlands if McGlothlin had been able to play entire game. Sam Wright was fantastic against Richlands and he does not look like a player who has off games. This I belive is a toss up game and I always give the home team the advantage then. Cave Spring 35 Brookville 34.

Yea Lance I agree. You do a lot of work keeping this site going and I do appreciate it. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Congratulations Cave Spring and bring the title back to region 4. Of course good luck next week against Brookville next week first, then bring the title back to region 4. Wright is a fantastic running back and should be heavily recruited in college. He can definetly play next level. I think Takem Hedgeman (Monticello) was as good as Wright was but he was a beast as well. We were just beat by a better team tonight and thats OK. Congratulations Blues Seniors on a fine career for the Tornado. I have enjoyed watching you and hope the best for you guys in the future. You have played some good football and entertained me for several years on Friday nights.

NOT THE ORIGINAL BARRY SANDERS If Barry Sanders had played behind the Dallas O-line when Emmit Smith did he would have averaged over 2000 yards per season. Emmit ran through holes you could drive a truck through. Barry Sanders was the best to ever play the game period. Barry played behind lines that would have been outclassed by the dominant college teams of those days like Nebraska , Southern Cal. and Florida State. I am a huge Greeen Bay fan since 1967 when I met Carroll Dale and never liked any of the teams in the old Black and Blue division but I can't deny Barry Sanders of his due. He had more class than anybody playing today as well. He never celabrated his accomplishments and never tryed to show -up (GRANDSTANDING CRAP OF TODAYS PLAYERS ,95% AT LEAST) the competion except for his play on the field. Truely the best to ever play. Barrys son is good but not as good as dad was. Its hard to imagine that father and son could be numbers one and 2 in terms of best ever. That said I hope he does go to an old Black and Blue team like the packers.

Hats off to the officials at the Richlands --Tunstall game. I think they did an excellent job. They even got together and discussed a couple of calls to get them correct. They actually got out of the way and allowed the teams to play ball. Only calls made were obvious and had to be called. Does anyone know where they were from.

I agree 100% Lance. I think we will beat them with the game here in Richlands especially. But I do think it will be close. Its hard to blow out a team that runs the ball well and does not turn it over much. I think our kicking game may be a big advantage based on what I have read on the VA preps site over the year. It also appears that we are much more balanced on offense than they are. The one thing that could kill us if we don't value the ball is turnovers. This is an intangible that you can't predict but we do sometimes give the ball away like the other night against Tunstall ( 2). I would love to see us keep that stat a big fat 0 against Cave Spring.

These are very impressive numbers even if the competition was bad but I know several of these teams are very good football teams. I hope we can slow him down and keep them from running at will. It will be a huge test for our defensive line and linbackers to keep him in check. It may just be a game of outscoring each other and who has the ball last. Should be a Great game to see. I love to see close games as we don't get many in Richlands due to the people we have access to play down here in SWVA. I wish we could pick up Salem or Christiansburg or even Blacksburg somehow. They are much closer than Patrick county and they have excellent programs year in and year out. This would help us also to be ready for the level of competition we have in the playoffs. I personally think if we had better competition throughout the years we may have a another title or 2 in our books. Its hard to simulate good competition in practice.

Well said!!! If our players have as big of egos as some of our fans then we could lose easily. We need to work harder in practice than we have all year and remember that this is a very good team. Remember how we blew out Brookville last year to only come up short the next week against Poquoson. It happens to teams that don't take every game serious. The time for chest thumping is after ALL of the games are pl;ayed and we have another title.

A lot of great points made on here and almost all of them have merit. One thing nobody has mentioned is the infiltration of Prescription drug abuse into our area. All areas of the state have this problem but not to the extent of our region. We have more people hooked on Oxy and such as any area of the state. These people only produce kids which will probably follow in mom and dads example, sad but true. They will never contribute to society and only take from it. They definitely don't produce many good students, football players, and/or athelets of any kind for that matter. If we ever get an answer to this trend for Southwest Virginia being a drug infested area things will change here for the better. Football will pick up and so will the integrity and economy of the area as well. I would not dought that many of the thugs which taunt players and refs are druggies as well. They live amoung us and some are very hard to recognise.

I think that the 5 hour guess in much closer than the 2 and a half hour drive guess , especially for a bus. I just pray that everyone gets to Richlands and back in a safe manner. The big drive Tunstall faces is an advantage for us here in Richlands. Just the way it is. Good Luck to both teams and God Bless.

I agree 100%. BEST OF LUCK UNION. Heres a Richlands fan pulling for you to make a deep run. Leave it on the field and play with class as usual for you're heritage. Be safe on the big ride as well.

Just keep up the good work Lance. I agree about personal attacks on players and you have done a good job on this as long as I have been coming on here. I realize you put in a lot of work so we can get on here and voice opinions and gather info from one another. Its just good fun as long as people keep it in context and don't get personal about players. Most guys on here are pretty mature and just like to ride each other occasionally. We have a few who act thier age (2) but thats OK as well. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK LANCE