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They were strong until about 2003.. That was the last good team they had.. The last championship they won was 2001.. The Belfry/Williamson rivalry used to be one of the greatest rivalries in this area.. Even up til about 2003 the games would fill up the whole gym's. In the mid to early 90's the games would be completely sold out, not even standing room left at Belfry. People would be literally standing all along the ends of the court.. Williamson used to always be dominate, now most the students cross the river and come to Belfry for the better facilities..

Belfry dominated, Coach Justice was something like 20-6 against Williamson when he was there, we lost one, maybe 2 games while I was there to Williamson from 93-97.



To answer the question, Mingo County is one of the worst school districts in the NATION so some of the kids go to Belfry.

Their peewee/midget league program is also as bad as it gets. Used to be kids from Belfry would go there to play youth basketball, now it is either non-existent or ran by those with interest other than all the kids.

Population is also dropped off a lot. Basketball players go to Logan or Tug Valley, football players come to Belfry.


I don't have the EXACT numbers but Belfry does NOT get as many as people think from across the Tug River, maybe 60 kids TOTAL K-12.