[More Cowbell]

A great ball coach of mine always said, "players win games, coaches lose them."

But IMO, play calling was iffy for both teams. Valley threw the ball wayyyy more than I expected and P-Burg didn't rode their horse when it was crunch time. But that's just an opinion from a bystander that has nothing involved with either team. Prior games may have had something as to why these coaches called the game the way they did.

I agree with this completely. Valley only completed one pass that I can remember all night (the one where Newsome injured his knee). Yet they were intercepted twice on deep balls and had numerous incompletions. They inexplicably attempted to pass on the first 2-pt conversion even though they have been excellent recently at running them in. And they attempted a deep throw into the end zone on 4th down, when all they needed was 5 yards for the 1st down. Seemed like every time Valley would get some momentum on offense, they would attempt a pass and the drive would end up stalling out.

But Prestonsburg also passed a little too much. They did have some success passing in the first half, most notably on that deep ball to convert a 4th and long on their first scoring drive. So they were having some success through the air early. But in the second half, Valley was having all sorts of trouble slowing down Frasure, yet P-Burg inexplicably went to the air several times, leading to a couple INT's (one that was returned for a TD).

Both sides seemed to go away from their bread and butter at some odd times.