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If Ashland can't handle a 1A team at home, then they will have no chance winning their 4A district this season. I think that Ashland should win this game easily but Raceland has repeatedly gone into Putnam and won over the years. Ashland by 21.

Raceland is several scores better than the other teams in Ashland's 4A district. Ashland could lose to Raceland at home and still breeze through their 4A district.

If Ashland loses at home to Raceland, the Tomcats will have very little chance of beating JC on the road and that game will decide the district title. Stranger things have happened but a loss on Friday will make Ashland a longshot to win the district.

I'm a fan of Raceland and Ashland and win or lose I don't think Ashland will be competitive with Johnson Central or any of the other top teams in 4A.  After the championship Ashland has been trying to reboot but it hasn't happened yet. I hope I'm wrong and admittedly I'm not as close or as informed to high school football as I have been in the past so I may be wrong.  Coach Tackett is a fine man and a great coach so I hope it happens and a competitive district would definitely help both Johnson Central and Ashland.