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Riverheads at Strasburg

Thoughts?

I know the Gladitors dominated the scrimmage. Side note for that a lot of Strasburg 's starters did not play. No excuse.

For this matchup.
Is Riverheads totally healthy?

The LOS is gonna be huge. Both teams love to run it all night long. Strasburg has the size advantage on the lines, RH has the quickness advantage on the lines. Strasburg has 5 ball carriers including the qb. All different running styles. Conrad has returned for the Rams on the lines. His first 2 snaps against Fort were sacks. Strasburg did something they did not do all season they passed for 200 yards. Brady Knight played another great defensive game with another pic.

Riverheads is Riverheads in my opinion they love to run it play sound d and special teams. Didn't get to see them much at all. Definitely not as dominant in my eyes as when CCC was there. That is not a knock on this team at all.

My gut tells me Strasburg will win the LOS and in turn win a close one 24-21

Thankful For You All

As it is now November and we are approaching Thanksgiving I just wanted to say I am thankful for all of you posting and providing a great place to talk and discuss high school football. I love the game and love seeing everyone’s input. I especially love hearing about Salem as that is my hometown. I also love hearing about the teams in the Winchester area just as much. Winchester has a special place in my heart as I lived there for almost a year and a half. I wish your teams good luck the rest of the way whether your season concludes tommorow night or if you will be competing this year in the playoffs. Thank you all for providing a great place for myself and many others to get great information from all over the state about this great game of football. I appreciate you all!

2024 Playoff Pick'em Week 2

Max Preps/VHSL says a lot of these games are on Saturday, but that cannot be totally correct so please have your picks in by the normal Friday 7:00 pm deadline.

Manchester @ Oscar Smith (-24)
Glen Allen @ Highland Springs (-14)
Patriot @ Battlefield (-17)
Colonial Forge (-6) @ North Stafford
Westfield @ Madison (-13)
Langley @ Washington-Liberty (-7)
Indian River @ Green Run (-6)
Deep Creek @ Salem (VB) (E)
Warwick @ Maury (-14)
Kings Fork @ Nansemond River (-10)
Louisa @ William Fleming (-13)
LC Bird @ Matoaca (-20)
Stone Bridge (-6) @ Riverbend
Massaponax @ Briar Woods (-11)

Illegal participation

could you describe for me what has to happen for this penalty to be called. In a game this weekend, the officials enforced this infraction but couldn't quite understand the reasoning for it. I'm not saying there wasn't a penalty on what I witnessed but just didn't think it was illgal participation. Here's what happened: Team A has 12 defensive players on the field, one rushes to the sideline and is about 2 feet from the sideline when the ball was snapped. the official who works with the chain crew dropped a flag as did another official who worked downfield on Team A's sideline (this was a 7-man crew). After quite a bit of discussion among the officials the 15-yard illegal participation penalty was enforced.

Gmen cafteria closed to all playas this week

Won't let em eat. We had a linebacker dun got turned out and turned down cauz he asked for sum mashed taters. Cafteria lady tole him to get his arze up out of the cafeteria. Wouldnt even give ole boy a carton of milk and dis been going on all week at Graham. Chow hall off limits to all Gmen. Our Boyz are hungry and ain't had nuthin Dedazz! They got to eat. They showin up for va high with empty stumach and empty bags to gather up truffles.

2024 Playoff Pick'em Week 1 Results

CORRECTION: I initially had an incorrect score for the Colonial Forge-Stafford game so the results below were revised.

Here are the results from the first week of the playoffs. Congratulations to EPJr and tylerrossfc10.

Given the chaos just created with Hayfield being allowed back into the playoffs. there will be no picks involving Class 6 Region C until at least the state semis because of the odd game days for their regional games.

EPJr - 12
tylerrossfc10 - 12
OnlyVA - 11
RedNeck - 10
SV-Viking4 - 10
falcettik - 10
OCBoy - 10
otnorot - 10

Congrats to ALL Our Shenandoah District Teams

Although Friday night's first playoff round did not go well for four of our six participating teams, the entire district, even including last-place Waynesboro, deserves credit for providing us with one of the most interesting seasons we have had in years. At one time or another, the top six teams all looked like they might be championship material.

All six started off with impressive showings in their first few non-district games. Then when district play began it looked like we had a different surprise and/or a different front-runner every week.

Take for example the first district game of the year when Fort Defiance pounced on Riverheads early and beat the Gladiators for the first time in decades. At that point, the Indians looked like the real deal and left the Gladiators facing an uphill battle. Unfortunately the injury to Armentrout the next week compromised their season and they never recovered.

Two weeks later, Staunton squeaked out a win over Stuarts Draft in a game that later became more significant than it seemed at the time. Buffalo Gap picked up its first district win the same night and Riverheads came within an eyelash of dropping to 0-2 but held off Wilson.

The following week, in a game that should have tipped us off, Staunton traveled to Wilson and shut out the Hornets. SD got back on the winning track that same weekend as they handed Buffalo Gap its first district loss.

The next week was "whatever happened to home field advantage" week as Riverheads won at Staunton, SD won at FD, and Wilson won at BG. At that point, Staunton and SD were looking like the best bets with Riverheads and Wilson still hanging around.

The following week, RHS held off a Bison comeback and Wilson squeezed past Fort. That eliminated the Indians from title contention and led to mathematical speculation (at least on my part!) that we could end up with a five-way tie for the district title.

Staunton and Wilson held up their part of the bargain the next week by winning but SD brought a screeching halt to Riverheads' title quest with that epic 42-14 win. Those game results created a situation under which the five-way tie was still a long shot but it was realistically going to come down to Staunton and SD.

The following week was that weird one when three teams (Wilson, SD, and BG) all had the weekend off. Staunton and FD collided at Gypsy Hill and The Storm pulled off a late rally, which essentially gave them the district title because they were certainly going to beat Waynesboro the next week, so even if SD won at Wilson, Staunton was still going to get the title on the tie-breaker.

As it turned out, Wilson upended the Draft on the final night, which handed Staunton the title outright and left Wilson, RHS and SD all tied for second, with FD fifth and BG sixth.

Altogether it was the most competitive season in years and even winless Waynesboro has reason for optimism. They played hard all season and also had a feisty little JV team. They may still need a year or so but things are looking up.

Next year should be quite interesting for a variety of reasons. BG won the JV championship and that will help them climb the ladder. SD will have Baylor Graber back. Riverheads was relatively young this year but will have to replace both the kicker and quarterback. Wilson will have Podgorski back and some other quality players. Not sure about Fort or Staunton but you can bet they will both be competitive.

Now we do get the two newcomers next year and one of them, Alleghany, just may come in looking for blood. They are unbeaten this season and that quarterback is only a junior. So if he has any kind of support around him, they may be the favorite next year. That just means the rest of us will have to gang up on them and show them who is boss!

Meanwhile, best wishes to RHS and BG as each one hits the road Friday for their next playoff test. Even if they each fall by the wayside, this will still remain as one of our most memorable seasons ever.

Pick em Playoffs Week 1 Results and Standings

Congratulations to gladiators01 for winning this week's Pick em!

gladiators01 41
BleedingNavy 40
salemfan32 40
CHUKNOW 39
BoKnowsSports 39
mike salem 38
m-squared 38
VirginiaGreat08 38
Bfootball08 38
Scalvinscaliwag 38
cutnjump 38
SFUWO 38
tylerrossfc10 37
Shruikan 37
General172011 37
Virginia HS Football Fan 37
-----------------------------------(eliminated)
Tiebreaker used: regular season points

CavsGrad 37
OCBoy 37
edwinanderson2nd 36
MrSir#5 35
freeatlast2013 34
lyhsports 34
FoxesPride 34
Gunz41 33
ArcticBuc 31
DinwiddieProud 30

Regarding Dinwiddie vs King George

I may be going to Richmond on Saturday night and if I am I may stop and catch this game before I go to Richmond. I assume the Salem/GW game is on Friday but I’m really not sure because I haven’t seen a confirmed time. If Salem does play Friday I’ll probably go see Dinwiddie on Saturday. What’s the parking like at Dinwiddie if I do attend? Anyone know?
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