[BelfryPride]

For the past few years, I've been one that has wanted it moved to earlier in the season. This season, I'm glad it's at the end of the season.

JC's district teams, besides Ashland, are down this year. That's four weeks of not playing top tier teams. Add in the week before district play started, we played @ Moore in Louisville. They are decent (5-4 so far), but not top tier competition either. That's five weeks straight of games against teams that are rebuilding or having an off season.

Against Ashland, we made some mistakes that normally we could recover from against the teams we played the five weeks prior. Two botched pitch plays early, two fumbles late in the 4th qtr., deep in Ashland's territory, the wide open WR pass TD was & not getting a single 2pt. conv. was too much to recover from. Take away one of those mistakes and the outcome is probably different. But we can't do that. Last year, trading blows with Belfry was great. That game showed us what we were good at and what we needed to work on.

I'll say the same thing for Belfry. They've played some good teams, but the past nine weeks, they've really not been challenged. Corbin is on the horizon and Pond Creek is smelling a 5-peat. The Huntington game feels like years ago. Better to be challenged in a game that doesn't effect your playoff seeding rather than being in the Semi-State game and not be able to answer the bell.



This game is great for EKY football. Two public schools from mountains makes the entire state take notice.

Great post. Cabell Midland was a great challenge for us. They are the second biggest school in WV and is equivalent to a KY 4A school. The first half was a great chess match, the second half Belfry took control. Getting a win at their place was huge for Belfry.

Even with the Pike Central game last Friday, we got punched in the mouth by the Hawks in the first quarter, but I love the way the Pirates responded.

I fully expect this game to come down the the fourth quarter.