[Orange Blaze]

Assland 42
Raceland 6
Rams have a long ways to go before they get to their potential this year. List of early season losses will mean the Rams will be on the road in the playoffs. 1A is so bad it won’t matter. The Rams will make another deep playoff run. The key to the season is keeping the young Rams hungry and willing to work through their mistakes early in the season.

I also think a big thing early on is keeping their heads straight after a demoralizing start with 3 potential running clock losses right out the gate.  In this first part of the season I see Letcher as the must win game to keep morale up.  Worst case scenario is to start off 0-4 before the schedule lightens up as at that point they could lose games everyone thinks they will win because breaking down mentally from the early beatdowns.

As for this game, Raceland has to survive the 1st half and make it to the locker room in a 1 score game.  If they can do that then I can see the final score being closer than many of us think.  I’ve also seen a trend in this series where Ashland goes off in the second quarter and squashes Raceland in the 2nd half which is a very possible outcome this season.