I won't say they are bad or have a bad program. They have a good program in place, they have had a lotof injuries this year in critical positions and haven't been able to recover from that. They just haven't been able to overcome their losses this year and they are just having a bad year and haven't met the early expectations they had. Raceland is a better team and should win pretty easily. This is just not West's year.
Below is a good link to take you to Portsmouth West's schedule. This is a very good site for all the Ohio teams and their weekly computer points and where current position for the playoffs. The top 8 teams from each region makes the playoffs. There are 7 divisions and 4 regions per division (Division 1 only has 2 regions) Division I being the largest and Division VII being the smallest.
2015 Portsmouth West Senators Football Results / Schedule
West is region Division V Region 17, Valley is Division VI Region 21
You can go to joeeitel.com and see the full site
Actually there are 4. Portsmouth Trojans, Portsmouth West Senator's( who the Rams play) Portsmouth East Tartans ( Which is Sciotoville Community) and Notre SameTitans (Private School)
Just wanted to clear one thing up. West is in our conference but we haven't played them yet. We played Portsmouth, not Portsmouth West (2 different teams). But as I said above, West is down and should be an easy win if Raceland plays physical like they did against us.
I am from Valley and we play West every year and know them very well as they are in our conference and I will tell you West is really down this year. This is not your typical West team. If Raceland plays like they did against us, it should be an easy win by 3+ scores.
I agree100%. The Rams did outplay my Indians tonight. Was a very good evenly match football game between 2 great football teams. Shame someone had to lose. This game will go a long way to help both these teams come playoff time. Hated to see the injuries. Hope to get these boys back soon. Good luck the rest of the season. We will be rooting for Raceland the rest of this season.
Here is an article about the matchup tonight from the Portsmouth Daily Times
Valley, Raceland set to collide in Lucasville - Portsmouth Daily Times - portsmouth-dailytimes.com
I don't agree with Calpreps all the time and I don't know what to think about this prediction either, but here is calpreps.com prediction for a neutral field
neutral field
[2015] Valley (Lucasville, OH) 31, [2015] Raceland (KY) 14
Hi guys. I am from Valley too and Valleyfan is 100% correct.
As far as the State Rankings go, there are a lot of rankings out there and none of them really mean much except to get people talking. I will list a few just to give you an idea.
Ohio Div VI AP Poll: #11
MaxPreps.com: #5
Drew Pasteur's Fantastic 50: #5
JJHuddle Div VI Power Poll: #3
Like I said. These are really created for talk. But they might be close. Who knows until the season is over?
I myself am looking forward to a game by 2 great teams.
If you got the time, come to Lucasville on Friday and support your team. It is one of the most electric places to play and the closest thing to a college game atmosphere in a highschool game. We would love to have you.
If you want to see a lot of video on Valley on the previous Valley games or just see Highlights. Just click the following link.
http://thecube.com/cube/valley-high-school-lucasville-ohio