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I hate it for the kids at Berea not getting a win all season. I really do.
I'm a former Berea Pirate myself. Graduated in 1986 and finished ball in 1985. We were never very good. I saw 1-10, 1-10, 2-9 my first three seasons. We at least got a win each year. We had in our district, Paris who was winning state championships at the time pretty regularly. Harrodsburg, who always had a Yeast or a Dunn on the team and would compete with Paris somewhat. Mercer County (Pre Harrodsburg merge) and they had a kicker that year that could hit from inside the 45 going in. Garrard County who was ranked top 12 Class A as well as Madison High School from Richmond who actually beat Paris that year in a major upset for the district title.
We just put together a good run my senior year. Finished 6-5 after being 6-1 at one point and ranked #13 in class A at one point. A guy or two got hurt mid season and we didn't have any quality subs. Thin ranks. That's Berea, thin ranks...always.

But, the year after I graduated, I remember that the boys that were behind me told me how Raceland wanted a game going into playoffs that year where they lacked one for some reason or another. They paid Berea to come up to play late in the season. This was the fall of 1986. One of coaches for Raceland came to the head coach from Berea before the game and called him to the side and thanked him for agreeing to the game. He then told the head coach from Berea, Harold Borders, that he wanted to apologize in advance if Raceland ran up the score somewhat during the game but that there were several colleges there recruiting the Raceland players and that they wanted to put the Raceland boys in a good light recruiting wise. Borders, the head coach for Berea, then went into the locker room and informed all of the players of that conversation. The Berea boys went nuts. Berea won that game. I don't know the score, but I remember them winning and seeing one of my old buddies out later and asking him about it. At the time, I didn't know much about Raceland and he told me the story.
Berea will likely get crushed, should get beat, but my personal opinion is you NEVER overlook any team. Berea was like 3-7 at the time. Raceland overlooked the Pirates in 1986.
Go Pirates!