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Paintsville jumped out early, 16-0 thanks to two Prestonsburg mistakes.

Prestonsburg would take their first lead with about a minute left in the 3rd quarter, but Paintsville answered back with a huge touchdown pass as time expired in the 3rd quarter. Tigers would later go up 10 with about 6 mins left in the game. Pburg's Bryce Holbrook and Jacob Rose would bring Pburg back within' 2, but it wasn't enough.

Really, really ugly game. I think both teams combined for nearly 40 penalties and I'm not sure all were really deserving. Just watching some of the game back on Youtube and some of the calls were real drive killers after huge plays by both teams. But, I can't blame the refs in this one. Paintsville got huge games from Johnson, Grimm, and Lauffer. Prestonsburg knew the QB sweep was coming and still couldn't defend it, it was really frustrating. Just not a great night for the Blackcat defense.

Offensively, Prestonsburg again showed some signs of being really good, but it seemed like on every Pburg drive they had to overcome something whether that be a penalty, injury, bad snap, drop, etc and that's really hard on a young offense.

Blackcats have a lot to clean up. They give up a lot of plays over 20 yards tonight and when you combine that with 2 turnovers early, it's going to be really hard to win against anyone. Lewis County is very winnable next week, guys just need to come out and get refocused and grow from this game. This team is much better than what they showed tonight.

Proud to be a Blackcat!

Congrats Tigers!