[EKUAlum05]

Fair assesmant belfry does have a great program, and im sure it will continue. I was alittle suprised when they pulled away from harlan co, and was also when johnson central pulled away from them. They both seemed to be pretty competitive games until late from the update threads. Kinda reminded me of the mayfield/graves co game very competitive then mayfield ran away from them in the 4th. Heck id love to check out a belfry game against harlan co or johnson central if i wasnt so far away.

Harlan County had a solid team, but they simply weren't in the same class as Belfry and JC last year. HC played too many people both ways and they weren't used to teams who could mach their physicality while "out-athleting" them.

The Belfry JC game was simply a case of Belfry getting absolutely whipped at the LB level and having no answers for it. The Pirates were without Austin Hatfield and the Eagles also matched up well with Belfry's undersized Hayden Hatfield who usually dominated teams with his quickness at DT. Hatfield never could get free to disrupt plays and the Eagles simply dominated Befry's LB's.

Belfry was able to sustain offensive success and was going blow for blow with the Eagles for a while. Belfry then had some self destructive plays on offense that resulted n turnovers and once JC got a big lead and the Pirates were unable to stop them things simply snowballed. Belfry was forced to go away from their base offense and the Eagles made them pay. In typical Haywood fashion he conceded defeat to the better team and pulled his Starters and the reserves from both teams then played out the stretch.

With Hatfield back Belfry was a different monster on Offense and Defense,,, but even then it doesn't eliminate the fact JC manhandled Belfry up front and still would have put enough points on the board to win. Think you wouldn't see as many home run big plays, but the Eagles would have been able to beat Belfry with long drives taking what they could get from the surge.