[phs1986]

Guys, come on, don't try to take it away from the kids by complaining about officials. I could have complained every game this year about the calls, but why should we. Anyone who knows anything about football and 5th/6th graders... you could call something on every play. But last nights game was called fair. If you go look most of the calls were in favor of the pirates. I talked to the line judge who made a mistake by not blowing the whistle on the dead ball fowl which lead to 6 points for Belfry. He hated that he made the mistake, but it was just that, a mistake. Those guys were filling in due to the original refs not showing because they were sick. Mr. Looney came with very short notice and done a great job, even though I still don't agree with him making valley taking a timeout just to get an explanation of the the mistake call. But he kept both side in line in a highly emotional game. Great Job Refs!!

I did not see any other UNBIASED people volunteering to call the game.

Both teams had some outstanding young men, and the future looks pretty good for both schools. You never can tell, but wouldn't it be great to see two State High School Champions come back to Pike Co. in the same year! It is a long time off for these little guys, but no one knows what the future holds. And it is looking better and better each year!

Way to go Valley!! Now go down to Mt. Sterling and show them what the Pike Co football is about!

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Again, I'm not taking anything away from those SV players on their win....

BUT!!!! WHY does it always seem that either the ref's are sick, they just didn't show up, they weren't called due to the game being short notice, etc? This has happened in HIGH SCHOOL JV games 3 times this year, not counting the freshmen and Jr. high games. IMHO, they the officials at the SCHOOL level need to step in and assure that game officials are on hand so that there is no question as to who is calling a game. I agree also with the above poster... for a county championship game..... OFFICIAL ref's IN UNIFORM needed to be there!!!! Sorry if this offends but it's just my opinion....