[Tomcat68]

1. Because Shelby Valley isn't a top notch program
2. Rockcastle is a top 5 team in 3A so even their young guys tend to better than very bad teams like Bourbon County
3. Phelps is actually a good enough to win games and compete and Valley blew them away putting up 79. Phelps did win 4 games last season.
4. Bourbon County is very, very bad and is currently in the midst of a 25 game losing streak where every team in the past 3 seasons now has scored atleast 55 points against them with the exception of 5 occassions.
5. Phelps hasn't had 79 points on them since who knows when. I checked back as far as the 1998 season and the most points they had ever had hung on them was a 62-30 loss to Hazard in 1998. The biggest score differential I could find since 1998 was a 60-0 loss last season to Pikeville.

That's why Valley is getting hammered for "running up the score." Just the same as Prestonsburg was hammered last year for the same against Magoffin County.