VHSL & site news - '97


Nov. 8 : Wanna send a shout-out to my boys down in Stuart (ahhhhhh, those Hot Fun Saturdays at Wayside Park).
Yo, Cougars, sorry you didn't make it to the play-offs, but THANKS for nipin' those Bulldogs for us!!!!



Oh, and those predictions I made on Oct. 25 for the Group AA 1st round ??? :
Region 4 - Div. 4 : Abingdon @ Martinsville ; Grundy @ Carroll Co.
Region 4 - Div. 3 : Va. High @ Gate City ; Graham @ Magna Vista.

Well, in Div. 3, got Va. High right and missed the location of the Graham game.
In Div. 4, well, I'm MUCH happier the way things turned out ;-]


Nov. 13 : No Title IX controversy here.... check out the girls basketball page.

Well, that Region 4 forfeit thing never developed :-)



The ratings within are for games played (and forfeited) before 5 p.m. on Tues., Nov. 11.

For more info on the 15 forfeits for the 1997 season, see my forfeits page.


NOTES :
A : State finals won't be played at neutral site !!! Full story was in the Bristol Herald Courier.

B : Garden forfeits wins against Narrows, Ervinton & J I Burton, knocking them AND Pound from the play-offs! Thomas Walker & Coeburn take their place.

C : Powell Valley suspends 15 players, 10 to miss 1st round game! Story was in the Bristol Herald Courier.


Dec. 1 : Three schools try to repeat, 2 districts (Peninsula & Lonesome Pine) shoot for 2, and a Division 1 re-match highlight state title weekend !!! Check the bottom of the results page.

SCORES : Geez, why am I seeing 2 or 3 different scores for the same game?!?!?!
CORRECT score #1 is William Fleming - 47, W. Potomac - 7. I KNOW. I WAS THERE.
CORRECT score #2 is Gate City - 17, Jeff. Forest - 15. Thanks to fellow RU guy Steve Marcus, who was AT THAT ONE.

If you noticed that some of my scores are different than what the VHSL program has, that's because I got 98% of my scores during the regular season from media outlets statewide. My personal disdain for and past experience with the VHSL prohibits me from even considering that their scores may be right; therefore, the score I have from the regular season will remain the one posted.
For the scores that I was unable to find during the regular season (those ? - ? games), I WILL use the score in the VHSL program, but I will leave a "?" there.
Did you notice the different ways the forfeits by EC Glass were listed in the official program for Heritage & Jefferson Forest? Did you notice that the Mathews game is not listed for Surry Co. in the official program? Surry won 40-0 and went 7-3, not 6-3 as listed.


Well, it's time for our boys to move indoors for the Winter. Check out the Grundy Wrestling page, which Jason should be updating during break and again after finals are over.

( NOTICE : Please set your bookmarks to the main page or this page during Dec... I'm going renovate the site after the 1st of the year. Thanks. )


Dec. 7 : YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!! Well done, S.W. VA !!!!!!!
While the Roanoke Valley was the hot-bed of girls basketball this season, the mountain-men from 'the end' of VA. dominated the gridiron.
If you take a look at the state road map, you'll see that 3 of the 6 state champions are happily nestled in grid D-7.

And CONGRATS !!! to our favorite half-brother, the Bluefield Beavers, who went 14-0 to claim the W. Va. Class AA state title. The Beavers had won 6 Class AAA titles between 1959 & 1984 before dropping to AA in 1993. (If you didn't know, Bluefield and the Graham G-Men share Mitchell Stadium, which is located in a city park about a half mile from the Va. state line and was the site of a 1995 VHSL title game.)

Well, according to the state playoffs program, the VHSL is coming soon to a computer near you !!!!! Yes, the VHSL is now "on-line", and maybe, just maybe, they'll be worth bookmarking by next August.

Now, on a personal note, let me say "Thank You" to everyone who visited and dropped me a line over the past 6 weeks. I NEVER imagined I'd get 750 hits in such a short time. Having basically built the site week-by-week, I left a lot of dead-ends. I'll be re-doing the site in early '88, making it easier to navigate, and moving the 'old stuff' to another host. I'll continue answering your e-mail, but I'll probably check it only about once a month now that the fat lady has sung. In the words of former Richlands Blue Tornado color announcer (and current Bristol Herald-Courier sports editor) Bucky Dent, "Have a gooooooood night, everybody!".


FLASH : Dec. 13 : OK, this tops 'em all. It was announced in the Dec. 11th edition of The Washington Post that Richard Montgomery (MD) H.S. has forfeited all 7 of their victories this season. It seems that Montgomery Co. Md. instituted a policy during the Summer of '96 that required all students to pay extra fees for participating in extra-curricular activities (including sports, band, drama, etc.). They used the '96-'97 school year as an 'initiation' year and began seriously enforcing the rule in '97-'98. Well, at the start of basketball practice, a player said he wasn't going to pay the fee, since he didn't have to pay to play football. A check showed that 3 players didn't pay their football fees, so the school forfeited all 7 victories. Once again, a bunch of innocent kids were penalized due to an administrative snafu. WAY TO GO, ADMINISTRATORS & COACHES.

Also, Oxon Hill (MD) announced in mid-Nov. that they had used an ineligible player, forfeiting not only their 7 victories but also their spot in the Maryland Group 4A quarter-finals.

FLASH 2 : (Jan. 23, 1998) : OK, this is better. The Montgomery Co. (Md) Public Schools Athletic Association, in a closed-door meeting, reinstated the 7 victories that Richard Montgomery H.S. had forfeited.

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