V-Cats

First 4-0 start for Rye Cove since 1989

Abingdon George Wythe Virginia High Gate City Tazewell Patrick Henry Berkeley Springs, WV Rural Retreat Floyd County Narrows Grundy Honaker Hurley Twin Springs Rye Cove Lebanon Virginia Tech West Virginia Virginia No. 12 BYU No. 22 Penn St. Appalachian State Marshall No. 15 Tennessee No. 24 Texas A&M Washington New England Baltimore Las Vegas Green Bay G(s)otW Galax 47 Graham 39

Rank Team Points Previous This Week 1 Graham (16) 277 1 @ #2 Union 2 Union 237 2 vs. #1 Graham 3 Princeton (5) 207 3 OPEN 4 Ridgeview (1) 205 4 OPEN 5 Radford (2) 177 6 @ #6 Galax 6 Galax 174 5 vs. #5 Radford 7 Pulaski County 118 9 OPEN 8 George Wythe 112 11 @ Carroll County 9 Wise Central 67 8 @ #12 Virginia High 10 Narrows 59 NR vs. Giles 11 Bluefield 52 7 @ Berkeley Springs 12 Virginia High 40 NR vs. #9 Wise Central Also receiving votes: Tazewell 30, Grayson County 20, Rye Cove 19, Gate City 14, Patrick Henry 13, Lebanon 11, Giles 8, Abingdon 5, Holston 5, Twin Springs 5, Holston 4, Montcalm 4, Rural Retreat 4, Honaker 1, Hurley 1, J.I. Burton 1, James Monroe 1, Lee High 1 Dropped out: Abingdon (7), Tazewell (12)

Still sticking with the traditional 12 team format this week but I'm open to switching to two separate 7-team polls for 1A & 2-4A Responses due Wednesday at 9 PM https://forms.gle/JGXDK6XgLYKhHidNA

Good teams win, great teams cover

Central has looked good this year, despite losing to Ridgeview last week Meanwhile Virginia High surprised everyone with their defense last week in shutting down Patrick Henry's rushing attack. I think Central does eek out a win here but we should be in for a good one

I definitely didn't expect this kind of game from our defense but I'll happily take it I still think PH is the top dog in 1D but I was expecting a game more like last year's shootout

What would y'all think about a separate 1A & 2-4A poll? Probably do Top 7 for each

I just added the Others Receiving Votes to the poll post I definitely *didn't* forget that this morning

Pulaski County Abingdon Galax Princeton Radford Ridgeview Holston Union Graham Marion Tazewell Rye Cove George Wythe Rural Retreat Narrows Hurley Castlewood Lebanon Twin Springs No. 1 Alabama Arkansas Notre Dame Texas A&M No. 24 Tennessee Illinois West Virginia Florida Virginia Tech No. 9 Baylor Cincinnati Carolina Green Bay Kansas City LA Chargers Tampa Bay GotW Virginia High 64

SWVA Sports Top 12 Rank Team Points Last Week 1 Graham (30) 555 1 2 Union (1) 437 4 3 Princeton (12) 391 10 4 Ridgeview (2) 373 2 5 Galax 310 3 6 Radford (1) 275 7 7 Abingdon 243 6 8 Bluefield 213 5 9 Wise Central 156 NR 10 Pulaski County 112 9 11 George Wythe 104 12 12 Tazewell 90 8 Others receiving votes: 87 Patrick Henry 66 Giles 40 Narrows 26 Marion 19 Holston 14 Rural Retreat 13 Chilhowie 13 Rye Cove 13 Virginia High 10 Grundy 8 Grayson County 4 Castlewood 4 Honaker 4 J.I. Burton 3 James Monroe 3 Lebanon 2 Mount View

Largest margin of victory for Princeton against Bluefield since 1986

Last year's game was on WCYB and finished as a 66-40 barnburner victory for the Cats PH has looked great in the first two games and VHS has clearly taken a step back but is still loaded with talent and athletes on offense I'm taking VHS 49-42

Colonial Heights has been to the playoffs three times in my lifetime I am a 27 year old man

That was the 2005 Division 3 state championship game when Richlands was favored against Turner Ashby and lost

I want to know how this game came about, there's almost no regular season cross-pollination between SWVA and RVA teams, but I'm really excited to see how the Dogs fare

Responses due Wednesday at 10 PM https://forms.gle/Un274CEwKVnEMASy5

Great game from our guys to bounce back after the Tazewell loss, Poku especially looked great on offense and defense Battle has improved from last year but there is just so much that needs work there, down to the fundamentals. I think Ricker is a good coach, he's just in one of the two hardest jobs in Region 2D (along with Lee)

SWVA Top 12: Week 2 1 Graham (27) 400 2 Ridgeview (4) 328 3 Galax 270 4 Union (1) 269 5 Bluefield (1) 267 6 Abingdon 231 7 Radford (1) 186 8 Tazewell 161 9 Pulaski County (1) 104 10 Princeton 93 11 Richlands 78 12 George Wythe 70 Also receiving votes: Wise Central 50, Narrows 44, Patrick Henry 40, Giles 34, Holston 13, Lebanon 13, Rural Retreat 13, Twin Springs 11, Marion 10, Virginia High 9, Rye Cove 8, Carroll County 5, Grundy 5, James Monroe 5, Mount View 3, Castlewood 2, John Battle 2, Lee High 2, PikeView 2, Chilhowie 1, Thomas Walker 1

Pulaski Abingdon Carroll County Bluefield Radford Central Virginia Lee Ridgeview Union Graham Narrows George Wythe Galax Honaker Thomas Walker Montcalm JI Burton Northwood Patrick Henry Rural Retreat GotW Twin Springs 58

They're horse thieves and cattle rustlers And they still whine about '92

IMHO the lopsidedness of that rivalry had more to do with a disparity of money in the programs and the size of the schools but VHS being a revolving door of coaches for 20 years definitely didn't help. I (and many other alumni) still have mixed feelings about it ending; I wish they would at least scrimmage each other annually but that's hard since the TSSAA starts a week earlier than us

Responses due Wednesday night at 11 https://forms.gle/afWTndqurveEebY18

The biggest surprise of week 1 was the same as every year -- benefit game performance often has little resemblance to the regular season

Some call it the Battle of Bristol (which would probably work now that the V-T Game has died) but City-County Bowl has been what I've always heard it called