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          <title>High school football playoff scoreboard for Saturday&#8217;s games</title>
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Prep football scoreboard for Saturday&#8217;s games           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:37:20 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Collegiate QB too much for LCA in VIS Division I final</title>
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RICHMOND &#8212; In his final high school football game before he takes his considerable talent down River Road to the University of Richmond, quarterback Jake McGee gave Collegiate&#8217;s fans one more reason to remember him fondly.

Facing a Liberty Christian Academy defense that blanked Potomac School in the Virginia Independent Schools Division I semifinals, McGee finished with 396 yards of offense and seven touchdowns as the Cougars defended their state title and won their fifth in the past seven seasons with a 48-28 victory Saturday.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Raiders roll over previously unbeaten Clarke County</title>
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BERRYVILLE &#8212; A few moments before, Clarke County High School&#8217;s fans were screaming louder than they had all game. As two players hit Appomatox County quarterback Kenny Scott at the Eagles&#8217; 37-yard line, they began to roar again.

Their fervor was short-lived. Scott somehow shook off the two tacklers at the line of scrimmage and wasn&#8217;t touched again until he crossed the goal line with 6:25 left in the fourth quarter, giving the Raiders the two-touchdown lead they needed to secure the win.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:28:59 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Gretna edges Buckingham in OT in Region B semis</title>
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GRETNA &#8212; It didn&#8217;t seem like much would go right for Gretna on Saturday against Buckingham. An inadvertent whistle by an official, a costly penalty on a big gain and an assortment of events kept the Hawks off balance and out of sync.

One thing that would work was the quick slant pass to Ted Jennings, who turned those into positive gains throughout the second half, which only made it easier to go back to it in overtime.

Nick Miller found Jennings on a slant route and the junior receiver did the rest, bouncing off defenders into the end zone, giving the two-time defending state champion Hawks a 28-22 overtime victory over Buckingham in the semifinals of the Region B, Division 2, tournament Saturday afternoon.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Liberty avenges Region III loss to Lee in shootout</title>
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BEDFORD &#8212; As time wound down in the first half, with Robert E. Lee seeking to break a 14-14 tie at Liberty High in a Region III, Division 3, semifinal rematch with the Minutemen, Anthony Reynolds made a one-handed interception of a 20-yard pass by Lee quarterback Devante White near his own goal line.

The ball was tipped around twice by teammates before Reynolds picked it off and returned it 100-yards for an improbable score that gave Liberty a lead it wouldn&#8217;t relinquish in a 35-28 triumph.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Amherst hammers Spotswood</title>
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The Spotswood and Amherst players didn&#8217;t get off on the right foot Friday when the Lancers hosted the Trailblazers in the Region III, Division 4, semifinals.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Playoff scores: Nov. 20</title>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:27 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Amherst, Brookville, Liberty set for Region III semifinals</title>
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The three Seminole District teams competing in this weekend&#8217;s Region III playoff semifinals &#8212; Amherst, Brookville and Liberty &#8212; are postseason regulars with something to prove.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Region B playoffs kick off tonight with Altavista in Division 1</title>
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As the Region B playoffs finally get under way this weekend, Gretna and Appomattox find themselves in familiar positions. The Raiders are in the playoffs for the third consecutive season and the Hawks have won four state titles in the past six seasons.

The ninth consecutive trip to the postseason for Gretna comes without perennial Dogwood power William Campbell. Taking its place in the Division 1 field is Altavista (9-1), which hosts Madison County tonight at 7.           ]]></description>
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          <title>FridayFootball.com Players of the Week for November 19, 2009</title>
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The playoffs are in full swing and the top teams are producing some outstanding individual efforts. This last week seems to have been all about running backs.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:32:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Gretna to host Buckingham, not Appomattox, in Region B playoffs</title>
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Gretna&#8217;s football team finished tied with Clarke County with 24.2 points in the final VHSL power ratings for Region B, Division 2, after Monday&#8217;s rain-delayed makeup games. But the Eagles (10-0) received the No. 1 seed by virtue of their perfect record, bumping the two-time defending Group A champion Hawks (8-2) to No. 2.

Instead of entertaining fourth-seeded Appomattox in Saturday&#8217;s Region B, Division 2, semifinals, as was reported on Tuesday, Gretna will host third-seeded Buckingham (10-0) at 1 p.m. Appomattox (8-2), meanwhile, must travel to Clarke County (10-0) near Winchester for its 1:30 p.m. semifinal.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:05:59 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Prep football playoffs in full swing this weekend</title>
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The Region B football playoff pairings were finalized on Monday, with Dogwood District co-champions Altavista and Gretna receiving the No. 2 seed in Division 1 and 2, respectively and Appomattox, which also earned a share of the district title, seeded fourth in Division 2.

The two-time defending Group A, Division 2, state champion Hawks (8-2) will host third-seeded Buckingham (10-0) in one Region B, Division 2, semifinal on Saturday at 1 p.m. before Appomattox (8-2) travels to top-seeded Clarke County (10-0) in the other.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:07:37 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Gretna rolls over Generals, clinches No. 1 seed</title>
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NARUNA &#8212; For years, the William Campbell-Gretna game has been a high-stakes affair.

Though that was not the case this year for the Generals, the Hawks still had plenty on the line in their regular-season finale, including a share of the Dogwood District title and a No.1-seed in the Region B, Division 2, playoffs. 

Playing on Saturday instead of Friday because of the weather, which wreaked havoc on area football fields, the Hawks, led by senior running back Andre Dickerson&#8217;s 169 rushing yards, steamrolled the Generals 69-30.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:55:08 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Dogwood finale between Gretna, Campbell lacks usual luster</title>
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GRETNA &#8212; As Kevin Saunders was being introduced as the new coach of Gretna&#8217;s football team back in May, a game that was being highlighted on the upcoming schedule was the season finale for the Hawks &#8212; at William Campbell.

With the two teams combining to win the past nine Dogwood District titles, many felt that this game &#8212; the first time the two teams have played in the regular season finale since 2002 &#8212; would decide the champion of the Dogwood.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:48:22 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bulldogs&#8217; bite as bad as their bark in 63&#45;0 pounding of Potomac</title>
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Either someone forgot to tell the Potomac Panthers that they were playing in the state semifinals or the Liberty Flames, not the LCA Bulldogs, were on the field Friday night in LU&#8217;s Williams Stadium.

One way or the other, the Panthers were outmatched and overwhelmed against the Bulldogs. Up 56-0 at halftime, LCA mercifully called off the dogs in the second half and went on to win 63-0.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:29:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Altavista clinches share of first Dogwood title in 38 years</title>
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The wait is over for Altavista&#8217;s football team, which last won a Dogwood District title 38 years ago in 1971 when Richard Nixon was in his first term as president.

The Colonels earned a share of the district crown Friday night when they defeated visiting Nelson County 43-13. If Gretna beats William Campbell today, the Colonels, Hawks and Appomattox will all have a piece of the title.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:26:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Bees rally for dramatic Region III win over Alleghany</title>
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AMHERST &#8212; Never before in Jeff Woody&#8217;s six seasons as Brookville&#8217;s coach had the Bees won a football game by scoring a touchdown to overcome a deficit in the final minute.

They nearly did it in last year&#8217;s Group AA, Division 3, championship game, but their last-ditch drive on Liberty University&#8217;s turf stalled and they fell to James Monroe in a 50-46 shootout.

Friday night, playing in the Region III, Division 3, quarterfinal on Amherst&#8217;s home turf since Stinger Stadium was left too wet by this week&#8217;s torrential rain, Brookville (9-2) delivered the knockout punch against Alleghany (6-5) on a fourth-down sweep by junior Deshon Foxx with 35 seconds left in regulation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:32:49 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Week 1 of the playoffs&#45; this weekend&#8217;s matchups</title>
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The rain has forced several date and location changes. Here are the games from this region that we&#8217;re reporting on. If you get news of a change or a final score that&#8217;s not shown here, please call us at 540-981-9126.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:40:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Prep football preview capsules for Friday night&#8217;s games</title>
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Preview capsules of tonight&#8217;s football games, including three playoff contests.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:06:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Brookville opens fifth straight playoff run, tonight at Amherst</title>
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Brookville&#8217;s Region III, Division 3, quarterfinal football game against Alleghany has been moved to Amherst High School, the first in the area to install Pro-Grass field turf, due to the wet field conditions at Stinger Stadium caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:03:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>LCA opens VIS state playoffs tonight against Potomac School</title>
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Wet weather conditions have forced Liberty Christian Academy&#8217;s football team to practice inside the past three days, meaning the Bulldogs, who are coming off a bye week, could be a bit rusty going into tonight&#8217;s Virginia Independent Schools Division I state semifinal against Potomac School.

Fortunately, they will have the luxury of playing on the FieldTurf at Liberty University&#8217;s Williams Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:59:59 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Staunton River seeks upset at Spotswood tonight</title>
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Win or lose tonight, in its Region III, Division 4, quarterfinal at Spotswood, Staunton River&#8217;s football season has been an unqualified success.

&#8220;It&#8217;s been an unbelievable season,&#8221; second-year coach Rick Witt said. &#8220;It&#8217;s very exciting. Nobody in the world thought this team had a chance to go to the playoffs. Everything we do now is icing on the cake.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:59:36 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Gretna bounces back from rare loss with big win</title>
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GRETNA &#8212; It&#8217;s an odd feeling for a Gretna Hawk football team: Trying to bounce back from a regular-season loss more than once in a year.

It hasn&#8217;t happened since 2002, when the Hawks went 8-4. But that was exactly the task in front of Gretna this week. The Hawks were coming off a loss to Appomattox, the first Dogwood team other than William Campbell to defeat them in the last seven years. Gretna also lost its season opener at LCA.

And pity poor Chatham, which was on the other side of Gretna&#8217;s rebound effort. The Hawks scored two touchdowns before the Cavaliers could blink as Gretna cruised to a 52-0 victory that lasted less than two hours, thanks to a second-half running clock.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:16:07 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Amherst clinches Seminole crown with ugly win at Rustburg</title>
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If football games were beauty pageants, Friday night&#8217;s Amherst-Rustburg matchup would not have even made it out of the first round. 

But thankfully they&#8217;re not, and Amherst clinched another Seminole District championship with a 45-0 victory over the Red Devils.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Raiders&#8217; Thomas scores twice at Dan River in memory of father</title>
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RINGGOLD &#8212; Neal Thomas did not play like his heart was heavy and his mind was elsewhere. For the senior wide receiver, the plays that he made on offense and defense seem to come as naturally as they would in any other game.

Thomas, who lost his father earlier in the week, scored two touchdowns midway through the Raiders&#8217; contest against Dan River that swung the tide toward the Appomattox sideline. 

That momentum &#8212; and a key stop by the Raiders&#8217; defense on a potential Dan River game-tying two-point conversion in overtime &#8212; gave the Raiders a 28-26 victory and ensured Appomattox a share of the Dogwood District title and a berth in the Region B, Division 2, playoffs.           ]]></description>
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Fourteen jumping jacks. That&#8217;s how many the Liberty Minutemen football team will do in practice.

The number is 14 because that is how long coach Chris Watts wants this season to be. A 14-game season for the Minutemen would mean a first-round bye in the playoffs and a run to the state championship game.

The playoff picture may still be uncertain, but with a 43-23 home win against Heritage on Friday, the Minutemen locked up that first-round bye and assured themselves of at least two more weeks of practice and sets of 14 jumping jacks.           ]]></description>
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FOREST &#8212; Early in the fourth quarter of Friday night&#8217;s Seminole District finale at Sabre Stadium, Brookville&#8217;s Deshon Foxx took a pitch from quarterback Kendall Becraft, just like he had three times before.

He had turned one into his second first-half touchdown, slanting inside the left pylon on fourth-and-goal from Jefferson Forest&#8217;s 2.

But this time, with the game tied at 20 and the Bees facing third-and-8 at JF&#8217;s 28, Foxx rolled to his right and unleashed a 30-yard spiral that hit Alec Thompson in stride in the right side of the end zone for the winning touchdown in a 27-20 triumph.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:34:25 EST</pubDate>
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Brookville at Jefferson Forest and G-Dub at Fleming top the list of games this week. Staunton River still has a chance to get into the playoffs if they can win against Northside. Check back for scores and highlights. Don&#8217;t forget to make sure we&#8217;ve got your team&#8217;s score. You can call 540-981-9126.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:36:36 EST</pubDate>
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At the start of this season, Appomattox second-year coach Ben Martin anticipated there would be five legitimate contenders in the seven-team Dogwood District race.

Two obvious candidates were Gretna and William Campbell, which have won the last nine district titles, capturing six state championships in the past seven seasons.

The rest included the Raiders, who last won a district title more than 10 years ago, Altavista which last made the regional playoffs nearly 20 years ago, and Dan River.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:05:19 EST</pubDate>
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Preview capsules of Friday night&#8217;s football games involving area teams           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:03:24 EST</pubDate>
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There will be plenty at stake tonight at 7 at Sabre Stadium when Jefferson Forest, which occupies the sixth and final spot in the Region III, Division 4, playoff race, hosts Brookville, rated third in Region III, Division 3.

But even if that wasn&#8217;t the case, there would still be a different vibe in the air for this Seminole District showdown.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:30:02 EST</pubDate>
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Win or lose, week 10 highlighted some outstanding individual efforts.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:48:16 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Lancers slip away from Cavaliers in second half</title>
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AMHERST &#8212; Jefferson Forest&#8217;s football team gave Amherst its toughest test of the season, Friday night at Lancer Stadium, before allowing the Lancers to capitalize on a couple of big plays and come away with a 30-0 victory, their second shutout of the season.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:51:45 EST</pubDate>
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Brookville got back to the basics in practice, and it got back to its winning ways on the football field.

The Bees&#8217; defense held E.C. Glass to 67 total yards and four first downs and their offense accounted for 342 yards in a 32-0 home victory Friday night.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:45:07 EST</pubDate>
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NARUNA &#8212; Altavista had endured a lot of pain at the hands of William Campbell over the years, and plenty of humiliation.

The scores the last four seasons: 28-3, 56-0, 56-6, 70-0, all in favor of the Generals.

And when the Generals won those games, they made sure the Colonels knew how many points they scored, jumping up and down at the middle of the field once for each point tallied.

So it was with great satisfaction Friday night after Altavista&#8217;s convincing 28-6 victory that the Colonels gathered at one end of William Campbell&#8217;s stadium and jumped up and down 28 times.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:40:43 EST</pubDate>
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CHATHAM &#8212; As Chatham&#8217;s defense time after time held Nelson County out of the end zone when the Governors were threatening in regulation, it was only fitting that the defense made two stands in overtime to give the offense a chance to get that elusive first win.

Chatham junior quarterback Cam McClellan scored on a touchdown run on the Cavaliers&#8217; first play in the second overtime, sending Chatham to a thrilling 28-22 homecoming victory Friday night in a Dogwood District matchup.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:37:40 EST</pubDate>
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Heritage scored 13 unanswered points in the second half to knock off Rustburg 34-14 in a Seminole District matchup at City Stadium on a decidedly emotional senior night for the Pioneers.

&#8220;We knew with all the injuries coming into the year that it was going to be rough, but they stuck it out,&#8221; Heritage coach Doug Smith said.           ]]></description>
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E.C. Glass plays Brookville, and Gretna travels to Appomattox in two of the big games this week. Send your scores in, or call to report scores at 540-981-9126           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:33:08 EST</pubDate>
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Amherst coach Cecil Phillips got a first-hand glimpse at Jefferson Forest junior running back Rashad Hall&#8217;s speed last spring, during a football combine held at Lancer Stadium.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:08:51 EST</pubDate>
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It&#8217;s been a season of struggles for Heritage&#8217;s football team, ever since senior quarterback O&#8217;Shawn Bryant blew out his right knee in the Pioneers&#8217; opening scrimmage at GW-Danville.

&#8220;We&#8217;ve been through a lot of adversity this year,&#8221; said fellow senior Lakuan McPhaul, Bryant&#8217;s replacement who grew up playing basketball in Brooklyn, N.Y.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:54:49 EST</pubDate>
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Fridayfootball.com&#8217;s Week 9 saw its share of outstanding performances. Here are three of the best.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:31:59 EST</pubDate>
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Check out a recap of the latest Friday Football videos and photos here.           ]]></description>
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The logjam atop the Dogwood District didn&#8217;t loosen up Friday night as Gretna, Altavista and Appomattox all won convincingly.

The Raiders routed Nelson County 50-14 to stay in the race for the district championship. Quarterback Kenny Scott accounted for 193 total yards (139 rushing) and two rushing touchdowns, and Joe Reed rushed for 76 yards and two touchdowns on 11 carries to lead the attack.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:01:11 EST</pubDate>
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GRETNA &#8212; Gretna running back Andre Dickerson rushed for career highs of 219 yards and five touchdowns as Dan River could never find an answer for the fleet-of-foot running back in the Hawks&#8217; 33-20 Dogwood District victory Friday night.           ]]></description>
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The name on the schedule was Chatham, just another in a string of conference games for Altavista. But it might as well have read trap game. 

The Colonels were coming off an emotional 19-6 road win over Appomattox and facing a winless Chatham team that nearly knocked off William Campbell last week. Coupled with homecoming, the game had the makings of a letdown. However, Altavista dominated both sides of the ball, forcing five fumbles and scoring seven touchdowns to notch its seventh victory of the season, 47-14.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:46:40 EST</pubDate>
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FOREST &#8212; With its backs against the wall, Jefferson Forest&#8217;s football team was at its absolute best, Friday night in a back-and-forth Seminole District battle against Heritage at Sabre Stadium.

All four of the Cavaliers&#8217; touchdowns in the 29-26 triumph were set up by or scored on fourth-down conversions, including the last two by sophomore slot receiver Marcus Jones.           ]]></description>
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Our featured games include Salem at Christiansburg, Dan River at Gretna, and Heritage at Jefferson Forest            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:35:42 EST</pubDate>
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ALTAVISTA &#8212; In the seven seasons Mike Reavis has served as Mike Scharnus&#8217; defensive coordinator, dating back to their years at Rustburg, his players have had a history of hard knocks.

This year&#8217;s defensive unit at Altavista may rank as the hardest hitting group the two have coached, led by two senior, four-year starting linebackers Daelyn Myers and Chris Clark.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:13:06 EST</pubDate>
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The last time Gretna&#8217;s and Dan River&#8217;s football teams met, Sept. 11 in Ringgold, there were no Dogwood District implications.

Tonight&#8217;s rematch, starting at 7 at Gretna, counts in the district standings, with the two-time defending Group A, Division 2, state champion Hawks (5-1, 2-0 Dogwood) in the driver&#8217;s seat, leading the Wildcats (5-2, 2-1), Altavista and Appomattox by half a game.

And they have home-field advantage and a healthy quarterback to boot.           ]]></description>
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Friday night&#8217;s high school football preview capsules            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:03:25 EST</pubDate>
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 It was a great weekend  for running backs across the region.           ]]></description>
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&#8220;Unfinished Beesness&#8221; read one of the banners hanging outside Amherst&#8217;s football fieldhouse prior to Friday night&#8217;s showdown with defending Seminole District champion Brookville at Lancer Stadium.

The sign played off the theme of the season for the Lancers, who lost to Broad Run on a snowy field at Liberty University in last year&#8217;s Group AA, Division 4, state championship game immediately after Brookville fell short in a shootout to James Monroe in the Division 3 final.           ]]></description>
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 Martin Owens&#8217; second touchdown catch of the night lifted Virginia Episcopal School&#8217;s football team to its first win of the season while Desmond Rice ran for three touchdowns and Mike Rocco threw for another as Liberty Christian Academy blanked Fork Union Military Academy.



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          <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:36:55 EST</pubDate>
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Heritage took out some early season frustrations on its oldest rival and newest Seminole District opponent, E.C. Glass, as the Pioneers pounded the Hilltoppers 31-11 at City Stadium on Friday.

&#8220;This is one of those games you look forward to all year,&#8221; Heritage coach Doug Smith said. &#8220;Our kids wanted it. They worked for it and it turned out all right for them.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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CHATHAM &#8212; A high scoring first half turned into a defensive battle as William Campbell (3-4, 2-2) defeated host Chatham (0-6, 0-2) 34-32 in Dogwood District football action Friday night. 
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BEDFORD &#8212; Liberty&#8217;s offense is built on deception. It&#8217;s difficult at times to see from the sidelines exactly which running back in Liberty&#8217;s three-back set gets the football. It can even be tougher for the players on the field.

Jefferson Forest, though, had played sound assignment football for most of Friday night, making sure to key in on the fullback every time he touched the ball. The Cavaliers made one mistake, one bad read, and it proved costly.
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RINGGOLD &#8212; A week after its defense was exploited by Altavista, the motto at Dan River&#8217;s practices was to return to its old form &#8212; a fast, hard-tackling unit that created havoc for opposing teams.

The Wildcats returned three Nelson County fumbles for touchdowns in the first half and senior linebacker R.J. Myers recorded a season-high 18 tackles as the Wildcats celebrated homecoming with an authoritative 46-6 victory over the Governors Friday night in Dogwood District action.           ]]></description>
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APPOMATTOX &#8212; Appomattox could not have asked for a better start. 

Playing host to Dogwood District rival Altavista on a bitingly cold night, the Raiders put six points on the board without sending the offensive unit onto the field when Neal Thomas returned the opening kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown. They even held Altavista&#8217;s Johnny Wimbish in check in the first quarter. However, before the final horn sounded, Wimbish would score a touchdown on defense, plus a pair on offense to lead the Colonels to a 19-6 road victory.           ]]></description>
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          <title>This week&#8217;s games</title>
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Check back for delays, postponements, and scores. If you&#8217;re at the game, send us photos, and call your score in to 540-981-9126 .           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:57:05 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Altavista defense will be tested at Appomattox</title>
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It&#8217;s been a long time since Altavista has been a contender in the Dogwood District, dominated by Gretna and William Campbell for the past decade.

The Colonels (5-1, 1-1 Dogwood), whose only loss was to the Hawks, come into tonight&#8217;s district duel against Appomattox (5-1, 2-0) with as many wins as they had last year and the most since 1998, when they finished 6-4.           ]]></description>
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Tonight&#8217;s clash between Bedford County and Seminole District rivals Jefferson Forest and Liberty promises to be as physical a football game as ever, unless the flu bug that has hit both high schools hard this week takes its toll.           ]]></description>
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Being blessed with an abundance of athletes doesn&#8217;t do a football team much good unless it has a quarterback who can get the ball in their hands, with space to showcase their speed and skill.
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          <title>VHSL prep football rankings</title>
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The Top 10 Virginia Football teams in the Virginia Group AAA, AA, A prep poll as selected by sports writers and broadcasters from around the state, with first-place votes in parentheses and total points received based on a 10-through-1 voting system           ]]></description>
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Players of the week from Friday&#8217;s football action.           ]]></description>
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          <title>JF passes test from Rustburg with flying colors</title>
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FOREST &#8212; Cavaliers quarterback Hunter Hannell passed for two touchdowns and ran for another as Jefferson Forest rolled over the Rustburg Red Devils 46-21.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:12:13 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Liberty scores 31 unanswered points, rolls over Glass</title>
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Roundup of Friday night&#8217;s other high school football games involving area teams.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:03:55 EST</pubDate>
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ALTAVISTA &#8212; Mike Scharnus spent most of Friday night in tunnel-vision mode, aware of only the situations on the field in front of him and the instructions blaring into his ear through his headset.

At one point, when a referee complained that Scharnus kept walking on to the field to talk to his players, Scharnus&#8217; response was, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know. I wasn&#8217;t aware.&#8221;

But after Daelyn Myers ripped through the Dan River front line for a 41-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter, essentially sealing Altavista&#8217;s 37-12 romp of the Wildcats, Scharnus slipped out of the headset and yelled, &#8220;Yeah baby!&#8221; He knew the work was done, and the celebration of what he would later call the biggest victory in his three years as head coach at Altavista had begun.           ]]></description>
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Two weeks ago in their home opener, the Saint Anne&#8217;s-Belfield football team struggled through a scoreless first half only to score 28 unanswered points en route to a 28-0 victory over Trinity Episcopal.&nbsp; On Friday night, the Saints employed a similar technique, scoring 26 second-half points on their way to a 26-7 win against the Virginia Episcopal School.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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LOVINGSTON &#8212; Nelson County stayed right with Gretna for the first half as the Governors and the Hawks went into halftime tied at 14-14.

But Gretna&#8217;s running backs started to find some room by cutting back against an over-pursuing Nelson County defense and scored 22 unanswered points to stay undefeated in the Dogwood District with a 36-14 victory on Friday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:30:37 EST</pubDate>
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Scoreboard from Friday night&#8217;s high school football games involving area teams           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:24:07 EST</pubDate>
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Brookville football coach Jeff Woody has experienced his share of sleepless nights since his wife, Celeste, gave birth to the couple&#8217;s first child, Rowen, on Monday.

He could sleep peacefully Friday night after the Bees (6-1, 2-1 Seminole District) overcame a 7-0 halftime deficit and held off Heritage, 14-13, stopping the Pioneers&#8217; two-point conversion attempt in the final 40 seconds.

For the second straight game, Heritage (1-5, 0-2) watched potential game-winning heroics turn into heartbreak with a last-minute loss on the road.           ]]></description>
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A lot of big games this week, as district play starts to get serious. Here are the games we&#8217;re reporting on tonight. Check back for scores and highlights.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:49:17 EST</pubDate>
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Food and football often go hand-in-hand at parking lot tailgate parties before big games.

This fall, for the first time in what they hope will become an annual event, E.C. Glass and Heritage high schools are joining together with The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network to lend a helping hand in relieving hunger throughout the Lynchburg area.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:24:20 EST</pubDate>
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APPOMATTOX &#8212; Neal Thomas has always had Kenny Scott&#8217;s back on Appomattox&#8217;s football team, as his backup at quarterback the past four seasons.

Scott, who starts at cornerback in the Raiders&#8217; secondary, is Thomas&#8217; backup at safety, and the two seniors share kickoff and punt return duties.

This season, much like Brandon &#8220;BeBe&#8221; Adams and his top target Terrence Younger at William Campbell &#8212; where Appomattox travels to play tonight at 7 &#8212; the close friends have established an even stronger connection as a quarterback-receiver tandem.           ]]></description>
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Check out the latest photo highlights from Friday&#8217;s games around the region.           ]]></description>
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MONETA &#8212; There&#8217;s another streak at Staunton River.

After suffering through a 28-game losing streak spanning nearly three years, the Golden Eagles won their third straight game Friday &#8212; a 13-0 decision over Tunstall.

Junior quarterback Cody Jones got Staunton River on the scoreboard in the first quarter with a 4-yard run and Meech Coles padded the Golden Eagles&#8217; lead with an 84-yard scamper in the second quarter.           ]]></description>
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RUSTBURG &#8212; It wasn&#8217;t pretty, but E.C. Glass took advantage of six Rustburg turnovers to gut out a 24-14 victory, spoiling homecoming for the Red Devils and picking up their first win of the season and their first win as a member of the Seminole District.

&#8220;We played a good football team and are just grateful to get one into the win column,&#8221; Glass coach Richard Trent said after Friday&#8217;s game. &#8220;It was a huge win for us and our kids played their hearts out.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:14:54 EST</pubDate>
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GRETNA &#8212; With his son lying motionless on a stretcher late in the first quarter, Gretna coach Kevin Saunders gathered his players together. With tears chocking up words, he told the kids he was going with his son to the hospital and he wanted his team to pull out the win.

The Hawks answered with three quarters of emotional football, completely manhandling and dominating Altavista 22-0 Friday night in the Dogwood District opener for both teams. 
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          <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:03:53 EST</pubDate>
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APPOMATTOX &#8212; A Raiders&#8217; offense that has outscored its last three opponents 113-32 failed to pro-duce a scoring drive in the second half against Chatham.

It didn&#8217;t need to.

Less than one minute into the opening quarter, Kenny Scott hit J.J. Rose on a short swing pass to the right that Rose turned into a 42-yard touchdown. The Raiders would go on to score four more times in the first &#8212; three in the first seven minutes &#8212; to take a 25-0 lead into the second quarter en route to a convincing 41-7 win.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:01:08 EST</pubDate>
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DUBLIN &#8212; Pulaski County&#8217;s final drive Friday night was mostly for show, used mainly to bolster stats against Amherst&#8217;s second unit. Before that 99-yard drive, there weren&#8217;t many stats to bolster.

In a 33-10 victory in what Amherst coach Cecil Phillips calls one of the three toughest Group AA venues in the state, the Lancers&#8217; defense was downright nasty, making up for a somewhat sloppy offensive performance. The Cougars took over at their one-yard line with less than four minutes to play, and at the time, Amherst had more sacks (seven) than Pulaski had yards of total offense (four).           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:58:32 EST</pubDate>
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BEDFORD &#8212; Play it forward.

That&#8217;s what Liberty High&#8217;s football coaches exhort the Minutemen to do, to atone for their mistakes by making something good happen.

&#8220;We preached to the guys in practice, if you make a mistake, step up and make up for it,&#8221; Liberty coach Chris Watts said after the Minutemen stunned Brookville 35-20 in a Seminole District showdown between Division 3 rivals on Friday night.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Week 6 scores</title>
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Here are the games we&#8217;re watching tonight.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Flu outbreak won&#8217;t stop Tunstall from playing Staunton River tonight</title>
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A majority of Tunstall High&#8217;s varsity football team has missed practice this week because of flu-like symptoms, but the Trojans&#8217; game tonight at Staunton River has not been postponed or canceled because of the outbreak.
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High school football preview capsules for Friday night&#8217;s games involving area teams           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:48 EST</pubDate>
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Since rejoining the Dogwood District in 2005, after spending two seasons as an independent school, Altavista has lost four games to Gretna by a combined total of 174-21.

The last time they opened their district schedule against the Hawks, the Colonels were 4-2, coming off a 16-14 victory over Buckingham. They wound up losing by a 47-7 count and finished 4-6.

But Altavista (4-0) has outscored its first four opponents by a 163-54 count this season, compared to Gretna&#8217;s modest 72-50 edge, giving first-year coach Kevin Saunders reason to believe his Hawks will be in for a dogfight when the Colonels come to town tonight at 7.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:58:15 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty Christian Academy senior Terence Caskey nearly got kicked out of kindergarten.

The fourth child of a drug-addicted mother from New York was so wild and acrobatic at the Brookneal school that he was disruptive to his classmates.

Now, as a starting outside linebacker and running back, Caskey is a disruptive force on both sides of the ball for the 4-1 Bulldogs, who host Riverdale Baptist in their homecoming game tonight at 7:30 at Liberty University&#8217;s Williams Stadium.           ]]></description>
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Four of the area&#8217;s top high school football teams have dealt with injuries to their starting quarterbacks, with mixed degrees of severity.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:46:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Scott, Thomas connect four times as Raiders&#8217; top Park View</title>
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APPOMATTOX &#8212; At 6 feet, Neal Thomas isn&#8217;t terribly tall, at least not by wide receiver standards. So when his quarterback, Kenny Scott, throws a jump ball his way, Thomas&#8217; timing needs to be nearly perfect.

Early in the second quarter of the Raiders&#8217; 27-14 win against Park View on Friday night, Thomas wasn&#8217;t perfect. Far from it. He jumped far too early when Scott lofted a deep pass, and he was nearly underneath his defender, Michael Taylor.

But Thomas showed his ingenuity and an ability to adjust on the fly, wrenching backward to get a hand on the pass before hauling it in for a 37-yard touchdown that put the Raiders (3-1) up 14-7. They wouldn&#8217;t trail again.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:57:19 EST</pubDate>
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GRETNA &#8212; While being a graduate assistant coach at Virginia Tech in 1990, Gretna coach Kevin Saunders learned from the best that defense and special teams can win football games.

Gretna&#8217;s defense forced five Radford turnovers and Andre Dickerson returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown as Gretna celebrated its homecoming with a 20-14 victory over Radford on Friday night.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:51:25 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Prep scoreboard for Friday night&#8217;s games</title>
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Box scores from Friday night&#8217;s football games           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:49:05 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cavaliers need three OTs to top host Hilltoppers</title>
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The fourth annual Black and Blue Bowl between E.C. Glass and Jefferson Forest lived up to its name.

Every inch, every completed pass and every kick during the three overtime periods put the crowd a bit closer to the edge of their seats until the Cavaliers&#8217; Dylan Sims&#8217; 18-yard field goal separated the two teams and JF walked out of City Stadium with a 31-28 victory.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:38:27 EST</pubDate>
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AMHERST &#8212; Leave it to Amherst County High School&#8217;s football team to turn a showdown between undefeated Seminole District powers into a homecoming parade.

The Lancers (4-0, 2-0 Seminole) came out as a team on a mission in Friday night&#8217;s clash against Liberty and took care of business early, rolling to a 42-0 lead before the halftime pageantry, when quarterbacks Kirby Anderson and Anthony Rose were crowned homecoming kings of their respective junior and senior classes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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Brookville&#8217;s football team was reminded of an important lesson Friday night &#8212; there are no freebies in the Seminole District.

Visiting Rustburg gave the Bees all they could handle for three quarters before Brookville broke away with three touchdowns in the final 12:05 in a 21-0 victory.

&#8220;That was our first Seminole District football game, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve got to expect every week in the Seminole,&#8221; Bees coach Jeff Woody said. &#8220;Rustburg is a good football team, and they&#8217;ve got it going in the right direction. Give them all the credit in the world. They had us stifled.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:17:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Backs share wealth in Lancers&#8217; prolific running attack</title>
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Perhaps it was the 13-0 loss to Broad Run in the Group AA, Division 4, state championship game last December at Liberty University.

Perhaps it was the fact Amherst graduated its entire starting offensive line.

But it seemed like this season, more people than ever were wanting to see the Lancers prove something before saying it was the same old Amherst team that had been to three consecutive state title games.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:33:47 EST</pubDate>
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GRETNA &#8212; There is a reason both Kevin and Matthew Saunders have been successful everywhere they have coached. It&#8217;s not that they&#8217;ve had an overwhelming advantage over other teams or that their coaching schemes baffled others.

It&#8217;s that both of them, at a young age, learned from the best that they had to step up and take the lead.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:30:23 EST</pubDate>
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Liberty High football coach Chris Watts knows the Minutemen will have to play a near perfect game to contain Amherst&#8217;s volatile Wing-T running attack in tonight&#8217;s Seminole District-opening clash at Lancer Stadium.

&#8220;They&#8217;re extremely quick,&#8221; Watts said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s a team (in the state) as fast as them across the board, having that many backs that can run. They&#8217;ve just got so much speed that if you make a mistake or don&#8217;t stay with them, they&#8217;re going to hurt you.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:24:07 EST</pubDate>
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Week 5 preview capsules of Friday night&#8217;s prep football games           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:59:43 EST</pubDate>
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ROANOKE &#8212; Brookville&#8217;s defense was the star of the show causing six turnovers as the Bees remained perfect at 4-0 on the season.
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          <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:46:26 EST</pubDate>
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Malcolm McCoy rushed for 194 yards and two touchdowns on nine carries in helping the host Minutemen improve to 4-0 on the season. 
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          <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:38:47 EST</pubDate>
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Have a look at photos and videos from last Friday&#8217;s high school action.           ]]></description>
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