Lynchburg News & Advance All Area D and O

[hsorange]

http://www.newsadvance.com/sports/a...cle_cafe3b7e-c19c-11e5-afb2-df32d597b6f2.html

 

[hsorange]

Congrats to the kids selected.

Some odd selections and stats. Gotta wonder if there are a bunch of typos, or wrong numbers reported by the schools or writer.

Heritage's Thorpe listed as a DL, thought he played Linebacker all season. Appomattox's Kelso manages 92 solo tackles but only 3 assists? Hard to be so unhelpful at LB, must be very selfish. Brookville DB with 6 sacks, Appo DB with 4.5 sacks? Those sound like DE/LB numbers or no one is defending the pass for those teams very often. Rustburg's Jones is credited with 6 sacks but only 5 tackles for a loss. Umm, sacks count as TFLs, so he should at least have 11 TFL.

I know that Staten carried the load for William Campbell on O and D, should be overall POY in the Lynchburg area because he was amazing and did great things on O and D, but it is hard to imagine the best defensive player in the area wasn't somewhere on the Appomattox roster. Their D gave up less than 10 points a game, Campbell's over 30, according to VHSL reference. Big difference on performance and impact on that side of the ball. Sure seemed like the best around Lynchburg just ask the Seminole and Dogwood teams they played.

Wonder if we will see a surprise as Offense POY too. JF was head and shoulders above everyone in the area on offense and had a stud in Navy Jones put up huge numbers. Next top guy is a toss up between Staten and Staunton River's Overstreet. Eagles' O was great and as a sophomore he put up similar numbers to Staten on offense minus the passing.

 

[hsorange]

All Area Offense (Lynchburg)

http://www.newsadvance.com/sports/h...cle_306e02b6-c268-11e5-a8ad-a733fa205795.html

Another surprise POY choice. Appomattox QB Page put up very good numbers, but I don't know if QB bias is trickling down to the high school level. 3 RBs (Navy Jones, Overstreet, Staten) had GREAT seasons, QB had a very good season individually. Perhaps being a good QB on a title winner or contender is the qualifier kinda like the Heisman most years.

Other interesting choices again. Only 4 OL per team, would hate to be a QB or RB behind that line. I am ok with adding extra RB or WR, but don't give linemen the short end of the stick to do so. They have the toughest jobs and get the least publicity.

I would've switched Staten and Overstreet at RB and All-purpose, Staten ran and threw the ball for Campbell, Overstreet was a pure RB. Same w/ Divers and Battle on 2nd team.

Stats wise this seems better than the Defense list, but no one likes to throw to the TE do they?

And man does that writer like himself some FNL. A little thick on the references.