ThomasDenton

Yes, Logan Honaker will be back next year for Battle (he's a junior this year). I know Coach Wright and his staff can/will build a good team out of what they have returning and coming up. Next season will also be a good test for VHS's new head coach to see how well he'll work in this situation.

I didn't mean the schedule was changing. It'll be the same teams, but everyone seems to be getting better each year. I remember last year when Battle made it to the semi finals and everyone was talking about how down EVERYONE was except for Battle. Now, the teams that Battle has on their schedule are getting better (there were a lot of young teams last year and they're all getting experienced now while Battle will be fairly young next year).

I wouldn't say that VHS and JSB's success is done. I don't know about VHS's athletes, but Battle will be young next year and with competition getting much better, it'll be a tough season. But the younger kids Battle has played with a lot of heart this season and I think they can win some games and get back to a good winning season the next year (I'm not ruling out a winning season this coming year, but like I said, it'll be tough).

Well, they got the two most popular conferences for this are in the big game, but I believe people were expecting something more along the lines of Bama/VT, lol.

I don't know about Altavista, but Essex doesn't have that many fans at their own home games (even in the state tournament), so this championship game crowd might not be nearly as big as it would be if it were Haysi vs Fort Chiswell.

I know of a lot of people in this area who wanted to see an ACC vs SEC national championship. Guess they got their wish this year.

Posted this in the updates thread when I meant for it to go here: The Fort/Essex game reminds me of the Battle/Essex game last year. We brought so many fans that they had to move half their home side bleachers to the visitor side and our fans filled the stands over an hour before kickoff while Essex fans only really started filing in literally 20 minutes before kickoff. Refs were pretty bad last year too. Essex had the ball first and on the first play threw an interception, but the refs threw a flag after the play was done and called Essex on false start and gave them the ball back. I'm not really surprised if this game is going the same way (and it's a shame because Essex has a really good team to begin with). The fans were super nice though...I have to give them credit for that. Essex had some really good athletes last year and a lot of speed. Battle's defense was super aggressive last year and won some games, but couldn't stop Essex (we did have some key injuries both before and during that game, but without that it still might have been a loss....they were tough and it didn't help that the refs were all from the surrounding area, as the game's announcer told me).

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This is a game a lot of people (myself included) wanted to see early on.......but then we got distracted by the Haysi/Altavista game field drama, lol.

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I could have sworn that there was some kind of talk about a football game in this thread somewhere.......VHS @ Richlands wasn't it? lol. My prediction is that this game will come down to the 4th quarter. IMO it'll be close and I could honestly see either team pulling it out, but I'll go with Richlands in this one. Home field advantage and a lot of recent experience with the playoff atmosphere. I think VHS has a good coach and good athletes (the Gretna game shows what they are capable of) but the Bearcats need a few years UNDER THE SAME COACH before they get where they need to be. Talent is great, but experience goes a long way from the coaches to the players.

Yeah, if it comes to any computer/electrical stuff, count me out.

I service my own vehicle......I don't trust anyone.

You're right that it's not good for business being so close to VHS and doing that. I've known some of the people that work/worked there and lots of the people that are regulars there (that either buy there gas/tobacco/alcohol there regularly or just stop by to hang out) and it seems to me like they have more connection to Battle than VHS despite their location. That could be the reason.

Battle got a delay of game penalty once not too long ago because the band's halftime show was too long. When we went to Lee this year, there band ran out the clock for pregame entrance and halftime and the refs added time to the clock...though it was there senior night, so there was a lot going on.

What was it? Is it the Exxon at Exit 5? I drive by there every day on the way to work (and usually get gas there), but haven't noticed anything.

Finally on the board. XP no good. GC is just owning the game on both sides of the ball. Our line play is not very good at all so far. Hopefully we'll figure something out soon.

Matney will be back (was cleared just before the Union game last week from what I was told) and I'd say Harlow will be back considering that he was in full pads the whole game last week after his injury (though if he's back, I don't know if he'll be 100% or not). Obviously the Blaylock boys are done for the season. I don't know about anyone else at the moment.

Most of the ones I've seen were black on both ends and orange/brown in the middle. That's been about 99% of them. I did see one or two solid black ones a month or two ago. How does the whole prediction thing work anyway?

Ah, ok. I was assuming that the NC school played 10 clear regular schedule games. Didn't know about the extra game situation.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around this. How is it a problem specifically? The NC team should be designated in a VA group by size (count them as 1A, 2A, etc.), then get the points for playing them and points for the win (if the VA team won....I don't know who beat who), then rider points based on the NC team's W/L record. Should be simple, right?

Just a thought, but how close was the officer when he opened fire and where exactly did he shoot, the cab? Couldn't he have tried to shoot out the tires or do something else to disable the vehicle instead of shooting the kid? I've heard a lot of people ask the same questions about the woman who police shot and killed in DC not too long ago.

I'm really impressed with how hard the Trojans are fighting, especially the younger players who have had to step it up and fill some holes.

Battle was up 12-0, but now trail Union 14-12.

We've only lost 2 in a row.