There's a lot more that goes into a "rivalry" then a teams record against each other. I can say from my own personal experience, that this rivalry was much present when I was in school back from 05-09. Every year we circled Lincoln in basketball, because for one we hated them, and two it was Lincoln County and they were always winning the Region. Needless to say that "rivalry" fueled us in beating them by 19 our senior year. I don't think we had beaten them before that in at least 2000 years. To us "has beens", we can speculate it being a rivalry based on previous records head to head, but to those kids in both schools...this game is a big deal.

 

Now I'm going back to eating my Cheese Nips.

 

Oh and by the way...GC wins this one 28-20.

 

Its funny you mention that game, because I myself remember us getting the last laugh that season when we beat you guys by 11 in the second game and advanced to the region unlike you guys. But thats a thing of the past :sssh:

Tonight's game in Lancaster will be the 30th game between Lincoln and Garrard. Lincoln leads the series 20-9. Lincoln's largest margin of victory was 41-0, and Garrard's was 22-8. Lincoln County has won 8 of the past 10 games (Garrard won in 2011 and 2004) by an average of 28-11. This will be the first time that Jerry Perry has coached against a Lincoln team as the head coach. Back in the 90's (before Perry) Garrard dropped Lincoln because of the lopsided Lincoln wins.

 

Having said that, it is a different time now, with Garrard having all the winning seasons and advancing deep into the playoffs....and Lincoln County not having a winning record since 2007 and having only won 1 playoff game since then. Lincoln County is the underdog now, but always seems to find a way to win against the Golden Lions.

 

I think they get it done again tonight, 21-14