[PHSForever]

Starting this purely for any updates this evening from the game. I will try my best to update, won't be a play by play, obviously. Fully expect the Panthers to go up big early and get the young'uns some good playing time.

[Mr. Pike Central]

Pikeville - 58

Phelps - 0

[big dawg, small yard]

Pikeville - 58

Phelps - 0

That takes care of the first quarter what about the rest of the game lol. I day pikeville have running clock before first quarter is over and phelps lays a goose egg

[bac2369]

Pikevilles Jv 14
Phelps 0

Pikeville starters 42 though

[PHSForever]

Hearing Phelps is down to only 15 players? 19 on their roster. Anyone seen them play this year to confirm?

[Scotty_Bronson]

Running clock in the first or second quarter. Would love to see Phelps figure something out to get numbers up and become more competitive. Their kids always show so much heart and never quit, they just never have the numbers.

Pikeville by alot. I'll say:
Pville Starters score 35 unanswered points
Pville JV scores a handful of times
Pville Freshman finish it out

Coach Mac is a class act and wont run up the score, but the problem is, there is only so much you can do. Last year Raceland played JV and Frosh from midway through the 2nd quarter. The varsity went up 48-0 after 4 TD passes from Young, a rushing TD by Christian a pick 6 by Christian and 2 punt returns for a TD by messer. The JV came in and Damon Black through two TD passes and Ran for another. The freshman would have scored but ran out of time. Its a tough way to coach.

There is only so much a coach can do. You CAN NOT tell kids to slack off, play soft, or ease up. You can try different things, formations, hell, you can play kids out of position if you want. But when a team struggles like Phelps has in the last few years, it's hard to play them "fairly" with being insulting.

Its a tough situation. Imo, Phelps should do what Berea did a few years back and ease up the schedule and drop from district play and try to do something to build their numbers up.

Hope both squads come out injury free. Good luck to bith squads.

[PHSForever]

Running clock in the first or second quarter. Would love to see Phelps figure something out to get numbers up and become more competitive. Their kids always show so much heart and never quit, they just never have the numbers.

Pikeville by alot. I'll say:
Pville Starters score 35 unanswered points
Pville JV scores a handful of times
Pville Freshman finish it out

Coach Mac is a class act and wont run up the score, but the problem is, there is only so much you can do. Last year Raceland played JV and Frosh from midway through the 2nd quarter. The varsity went up 48-0 after 4 TD passes from Young, a rushing TD by Christian a pick 6 by Christian and 2 punt returns for a TD by messer. The JV came in and Damon Black through two TD passes and Ran for another. The freshman would have scored but ran out of time. Its a tough way to coach.

There is only so much a coach can do. You CAN NOT tell kids to slack off, play soft, or ease up. You can try different things, formations, hell, you can play kids out of position if you want. But when a team struggles like Phelps has in the last few years, it's hard to play them "fairly" with being insulting.

Its a tough situation. Imo, Phelps should do what Berea did a few years back and ease up the schedule and drop from district play and try to do something to build their numbers up.

Hope both squads come out injury free. Good luck to bith squads.

IMO that's what they should do too. Very fair post with good points. East Ridge took the same route, it appears to have worked some for them. Then again, they have a bigger enrollment to draw from so I'm not sure exactly how much it would help. Joplin is a class act too, I agree Mac won't purposely run the score up into the 80's. But like you said, there's only so much you can do. If you run the ball and a young kid sees daylight, he's gonna run for it and no one can blame him.

Like you, I'm just praying for an injury free game and safe travels for students and fans of both schools.

[TigerBlues]

Hearing Phelps is down to only 15 players? 19 on their roster. Anyone seen them play this year to confirm?

Sounds like a Paintsville team from a few years back :truestory:

[RAM-A-DEVIL]

Paintsville has a football team???

[TigerBlues]

Paintsville has a football team???

It's just a pilot program right now Ram but not the JetPilot program

[TigerBlues]

Is there anyway we can get a strength of schedule breakdown and add the transfer breakdown coming into this game ? :ChairHit:

[Pulp Fiction]

On a serious note..... why even play this game?

The KHSAA scoreboard only goes back to 1998..... Has Phelps EVER BEAT Pikeville?
Pikeville and Phelps have played every season from 1998 to present, and Phelps hasn't even been close in any of the games.

I realize this is a district game, but the KHSAA, Pike County School Board & the Pikeville School Board should have a meeting about getting this game removed from the schedule of both teams.


If the post about Phelps only having 15 players on their roster is true..... there is no reason this game should be played.

[Panther Thunder]

On a serious note..... why even play this game?

The KHSAA scoreboard only goes back to 1998..... Has Phelps EVER BEAT Pikeville?
Pikeville and Phelps have played every season from 1998 to present, and Phelps hasn't even been close in any of the games.

I realize this is a district game, but the KHSAA, Pike County School Board & the Pikeville School Board should have a meeting about getting this game removed from the schedule of both teams.


If the post about Phelps only having 15 players on their roster is true..... there is no reason this game should be played.

The games I have with Phelps date back to 1984, but some scores may be missing.

Pikeville is 27-0 with the results I have. The closest game was the 1984 contest, which was a margin of 23 points. Phelps played to a 28-0 loss in 2001 in what is probably the most competitive score in the series.

[HAIL PIKEVILLE!]

Phelps had an Undefeated Regular Season in the early '80s and beat Pikeville. Butch Joplin was the Coach.

[Panther Thunder]

Not saying that is incorrect, but here is what I have for the 80's

1980- 11-2
-Henry Clay L 6-12
-Lawrence County W 48-7
-Whitesburg W 28-6
-St. Paul W 48-0
-Williamson, WV W 35-15
-Belfry W 13-6
-Hazard W 58-7
-Oldham County W 34-8
-Elkhorn City W 58-20
-Prestonsburg W 18-14
-Morgan County W 45-20
-Whitesburg W 42-15 (1st Round Playoffs)
-Corbin L 13-42 (2nd Round Playoffs)

1981- 8-5 (10-3* two games had to be forfeited)
-Henry Clay L 8-45
-Wheelwright W 71-8
-Elkhorn City W 34-15
-Belfry W 20-8
-Hazard W 47-14
-Jenkins W 48-6
-Paintsville W 27-14
-Prestonsburg L 14-20
-Mullins W 51-6
-Betsy Layne W 34-0
-Virgie W 18-13 (1st Round Playoffs)
-Williamsburg W 34-23 (2nd Round Playoffs, Regional Championship)
-Bellevue L 6-63 (State Semis)

1982- 7-5
-Paris L 0-19 (Recreation Bowl)
-Mason County W 13-8
-Betsy Layne W 56-6
-Elkhorn City W 34-8
-Whitesburg L 12-25
-Belfry W 23-22
-Johns Creek L 14-28
-Virgie W 21-0
-Jenkins W 19-12
-Paintsville L 0-17
-Prestonsburg L 0-45
-Mullins W 41-8

1983- 11-1 (Goose Egg Gang)
-Virgie W 24-0
-Wheelwright W 60-0
-Elkhorn City W 49-0
-Whitesburg W 13-0
-Belfry W 14-8
-Johns Creek W 27-0
-Jenkins W 45-6
-Paintsville W 36-18
-Prestonsburg W 20-8
-Mullins 2-0 (Forfeit)
-Betsy Layne W 35-20
-Virgie W 25-0 (1st Round Playoffs)
-Cumberland L 7-25 (2nd Round Playoffs)

1984- 11-3
-Mullins W 22-6
-Virgie W 26-0
-Wheelwright W 39-15
-Whitesburg W 13-0
-Elkhorn City W 39-0
-Belfry L 0-20
-Corbin W 27-10
-Jenkins L 0-14
-Paintsville W 38-12
-Prestonsburg L 15-25
-Betsy Layne W 45-0
-Phelps W 45-22 (1st Round Playoffs)
-Pineville W 25-13 (2nd Round Playoffs, Regional Championship)
-Beechwood L 21-29 (State Semis)

[Panther Thunder]

1985- 7-4
-Fleming-Neon W 54-16
-Cumberland W 27-21
-Wheelwright W 46-12
-Elkhorn City W 22-6
-Belfry L 14-27
-Corbin L 8-47
-Jenkins W 61-0
-Paintsville L 21-48
-Prestonsburg L 16-36
-Betsy Layne W 30-8

1986- 8-4
-Paris L 15-28
-Wheelwright L 38-0
-Elkhorn City W 7-6
-Anderson County L 7-21
-Belfry L 17-21
-Phelps W 56-8
-Jenkins W 56-7
-Paintsville W 14-7
-Prestonsburg W 58-21
-Betsy Layne 30-7
-Phelps 35-0 W
-Cumberland L 6-14

1987- 14-0
-Aug 22 Beechwood (H) (Pike County Bowl) SUSPENDED
-Aug 28 Henry Clay (H) (Hall of Fame Game) W 28-15
-Sep 4 Fleming-Neon (H) W 61-0
-Sep 11 Elkhorn City (H) W 48-6
-Sep 18 Virgie (A) W 61-0
-Sep 25 Belfry (A) W 39-14
-Oct 2 Phelps (A) W 63-8
-Oct 9 Jenkins (H) W 61-0
-Oct 16 Paintsville (A) W 59-0
-Oct 23 Western Hills (H) W 42-8
-Oct 30 Johns Creek (A) W 62-7
-Nov 6 Pineville (H) W 63-34 (1st Round Playoffs)
-Nov 13 Cumberland (A) W 28-0 (2nd Round, Regional Championship)
-Nov 20 Beechwood (A) W 52-28 (State Semis)
-Nov 27 Russellville (at Louisville) W 28-7 (State Championship)

1988- 15-0
-Aug 20 Newport Central Catholic (H) (Pike County Bowl) W 37-0
-Aug 26 Henry Clay (A) W 21-6
-Sep 2 Fleming-Neon (A) W 36-0
-Sep 9 Elkhorn City (A) W 58-6
-Sep 16 Virgie (H) W 41-6
-Sep 23 Belfry (H) W 26-14
-Sep 30 Phelps W 60-7
-Oct 7 Jenkins (A) W 56-16
-Oct 14 Paintsville (H) W 22-0
-Oct 21 Western Hills (A) W 28-0
-Oct 28 Johns Creek (H) W 79-3
-Nov 4 Williamsburg (H) W 35-0 (1st Round Playoffs)
-Nov 11 Pineville (H) W 21-14 (2nd Round Playoffs, Regional Championship)
-Nov 18 Beechwood (H) 34-7 (State Semis)
-Dec 2 Harrodsburg (at Louisville) W 28-10 (State Championship)

1989- 14-1
-Raceland W 21-7
-Fleming-Neon W 47-13
-Elkhorn City W 49-12
-Virgie W 36-8
-Belfy L 24-33
-Phelps W 55-7
-Jenkins W 66-22
-Paintsville W 12-0
-Prestonsburg W 55-12
-Johns Creek W 74-8
-Betsy Layne W 66-18
-Cumberland W 55-8
-Pineville W 47-0
-Beechwood W 49-20
-Trigg County W 20-7 (State Championship, 1st 3-Peat in KHSAA History)

[jetpilot]

Is there anyway we can get a strength of schedule breakdown and add the transfer breakdown coming into this game ? :ChairHit:

All indicators point to Pikeville having a slight edge in this one.:ChairHit:

[LCC]

Classes pikeville to run up the score

[jetpilot]

It's just a pilot program right now Ram but not the JetPilot program

:what::nope:

[LCC]

Run it up pikeville

[LCC]

Pikeville score any more to run it up?

[jetpilot]

^Subs have been in forever. Glad to see you back Red and Blue!

[LCC]

^Subs have been in forever. Glad to see you back Red and Blue!

Wow. Bring the hammer pikeville to a team that is trying. Great way to put them in their place. Red and blue? Don't understand slow pilot.

[PHSForever]

Why run it up against a program that is trying? Joplin has been a class act and their players were too. Prayers up for the young man from Phelps who was injured.

Final was 53-0. 2nd qtr on was almost entirely JV.