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Tough job if he's going to Person County. Rural school forced to play the schools in the Raleigh-Durham and Greensboro areas. To give you perspective, Person typically plays GW Danville or Halifax as a "break" from the gauntlet they face within their conference.

Maybe it's just me but Philly has spent generational money the past two seasons on high-end free agents. If 86 wins is all that money buys them, it would be poetic justice. Baseball needs some form of a salary cap and has for years.

Galax beat Pulaski 1-0 Wednesday. Pulaski was the only team to beat Galax in regulation last season.

I feel pretty certain Harper will. No fan-base in sports are as terrible as the ones in Philadelphia. On a splendid side note, Harper's contract will expire in 2031, at which point the Mets will still owe Bobby Bonilla 4 more years on his contract from 1998!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know a thing about M7 soccer but Galax returns almost everyone from last season's state championship team. Galax will be going after a third consecutive state championship and state title #5 in 6 years.

Josh Spurlin (138 pounds) and Caxton Vaught (160 pounds) both won individual titles for Galax. Spurlin won his 4th consecutive. Ty Townsend finished 2nd at 120 pounds.

Fort's principal was the principal at Rural Retreat at the same time Akers was coaching at Rural Retreat. I have no insight into the relationship but it can't be a coincidence. Unless Josh Wingate didn't want the job, he earned the opportunity to have the interim tag removed and see what he could do with Fort's program. This will prove to be as bad a hire for Fort as Tom Hale. It's sad too because Fort has some ridiculous talent coming into the high school over the next couple of years. Just my opinion.

Mr. Dowling was the Assistant Principal, coached the basketball team and taught social studies and civics at the small school I went to in Fries. I had him every year from 5th grade through the beginning of high school. @Optimal62also had Mr. Dowling for many years so, he may be able to shed some light as well. I won't get all the details correct but I will do my best. I was between 11 and 14 years old when this happened. He was one of a dozen or so finalists to be the teacher on board the Challenger. Obviously, he didn't win the competition but he did get some perks after some understandable delay given the tragedy. As a finalist, he got to represent the US at the Moscow Summit with president Reagan and the other finalists. A quick Google search suggests the Moscow Summit was in May 1988 following the Challenger disaster. I don't know if it was postponed because of Challenger. I would think it would have been more political than anything else. As a precocious kid, I was certain Mr. Dowling would never return from the evil Soviet Union. I just knew he would die in a Siberian gulag. He did return to share his memories, pictures and souvenirs with his students. He wasn't the most popular teacher mainly because he was tough and held his students accountable. He had expectations of us and was unrelenting in holding us to those expectations. We meet at the library occasionally. I will have to direct him to this thread next time I see him.

I hadn't considered that but very much a possibility. I don't wish cancer on anyone and don't take it lightly but I'm still not a fan of his!

Offered without comment!

How many playoff games had Riverheads won prior to the arrival of Casto? Enjoy what you've been able to accomplish because you're likely going to revert back much closer to the statistical mean. Schools traditionally haven't fared too well after losing that caliber of leadership.

My brother's son is classmates with Curtis Neal at Hough in Cornelius. He has a picture of the two boys standing side-by-side that's pretty comical.

He's be the #1 draft pick right now if he were eligible!

My wife and I met him once at a restaurant in Charlottesville. He was a very classy gentleman! Rest in peace, sir!

I'm not gonna make it easy for you! Branch out from your own backyard from time to time.

To the best of my knowledge, our coverage area has 3 players who have signed Letters of Intent to play basketball at a Division 1 school next year. One of those three players has not been mentioned once in this thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QMR is a senior, not a sophomore. I'm not certain which is better and frankly, don't care. It's simply ridiculous for QMR to not be in the conversation and renders the "Top 10 lists" in this thread invalid!

I tried to tell people earlier in the thread they were spelling Quinton Morton-Robertson wrong!

The end of year stuff professionally has gotten out of control the past few years. Leisure time starts this afternoon though! Have a Merry Christmas!

You don't owe me an apology or explanation. I owe you one! Very difficult day yesterday dealing with state bureaucratic BS and it seeped into my post. Not offering an excuse. It is what it is. From what my friend was telling me last night, those girls can play. I need to get out and see them sometime before the end of this season.

I was chatting with someone from this site last night about some of these girls playing on the same AAU team. I was also talking to the dad of one of the girls mentioned in this thread a few times. He has been a close family friend of mine for 38 years. His younger daughter is only an 8th grader and plays for the same AAU team as a lot of these girls. We have some seriously talented girls coming along that are learning how to compete from a lot of the girls mentioned within this thread. I've said it for years on this site, football gets all the attention but girls basketball and softball are by far and away the most consistently dominant programs across SWVA.

Strange! The first pdf you shared doesn't match the email I pulled my information from. Then again, the email lists Bailey Frazier as a senior and spells LeeAnna McNulty's name as Leanne McNurry. Go figure. Pretty much those players listed in this thread are the cream of the crop for SWVA. Some serious talent.

Love how you say "everyone" in a thread that had one reply prior to yours...........but I digress! Since you quoted me with your response, here is mine! The first category in my original post lists players I have seen. Which should be self explanatory given the heading of that grouping of players in my original post reads "The one's I have seen play in no particular order." The second category is clearly labeled "The following were either 1st or 2nd Team All-State a year ago as underclassmen." I took that information directly from the VHSLCA flyer distributed in late March. Bailey Frazier is listed as a senior in that email. If that isn't the case, the reigning Class 2 State Player of the Year would be most deserving of any list of top players from our region. Dee Cvetnich was not selected as an All-State performer last season which, given the heading of the second grouping of players on my list, would disqualify her from said list.