I believe Friday is homecoming night if I am not mistaken. Raceland is coming off an tough, hard fought, 6 pt loss to a very good Valley team, a conference rival of PW, so there lies the lone common opponent. Valley shut Portsmouth West out early on in the season. I dont know much about Portsmouth, maybe someone can fill me and the rest of us in. Going by how we played this past week and how things seem to be coming together offensively, coupled with the way Valley handled PW, I like Raceland big this week. Rams come out a touch hungover, but a big 2nd and third quarter possibky leads to a running clock.

 

Raceland 42

Portsmouth West 14

I know that one Valley fan posted that they seemed to think that Raceland would beat W. Portsmouth. I will hold off on my pick for now. Does anyone know if we had any injuries last Friday. Should you rather not say ...pm me. Thanks.

Rams play like I read they did against Valley they should win by 2-3 TDs. If they play down to the level of the opponent then they could have some problems. Hopefully the close one against Valley they hit their stride and start to play like the team everyone thought they could in the preseason.

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 believe Friday is homecoming night if I am not mistaken. Raceland is coming off an tough, hard fought, 6 pt loss to a very good Valley team, a conference rival of PW, so there lies the lone common opponent. Valley shut Portsmouth West out early on in the season. I dont know much about Portsmouth, maybe someone can fill me and the rest of us in. Going by how we played this past week and how things seem to be coming together offensively, coupled with the way Valley handled PW, I like Raceland big this week. Rams come out a touch hungover, but a big 2nd and third quarter possibky leads to a running clock.

 

Raceland 42

Portsmouth West 14

 

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.

My mistake. I thought Portsmouth East was now Sciotoville-Community now. I read elsewhere this morning thought, that Portsmouth East is now simply Portsmouth. I didnt think Portsmouth was big enough to support having 2 schools. How many players does each Pmouth have? (that just sounds bad when said outloud haha).

 

Getting the correct team info down (last night was a late one and i should have simply waited until this morning to post a thread, but i digress). Looking at PW's schedule, they lost by 2 TDs to a solid 3-1 Newark Catholic team and beat Coal Grove by a score of 8-6. We have had some good games against Coal Grove in the past, in which we have always pulled away late for a 2 TD win, my original prediction included the wrong team (not in name, just crossed up which one Valley had played). So I am goina have to adjust my prediction.

 

I still think the Rams pull a lopsided win on homecoming night, as Valley defeated Coal Grove by 4+ TDs and PW only managed 8 pts in their win over them. I also think, that this past week was just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what Nathaniel is capable of and I think we will start seeing the passing game open up from that, as well as seeing Kane, Carson, and Bailey benefit from it to. I didnt realize how banged up he really was, he probably could have benefited from sitting out against East Carter, but having him closer to 100% paid dividends Friday night. I still REALLY like what Jamison does with the ball in his hands across the middle and on screens. He is a hard match up for LBs bc he runs good routes and its hard for CBs to tackle him in the open field.

 

With that said, Im still goin with Raceland, but not by quite the same margin.

 

Rams 35

PW 8

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)

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

So in comparison, PW is around a 3A school's size over here in KY. What kind of depth, size, atheletes do they have? I have a on guitar student who's dad is on the Dawson-Bryant staff and he said its hard to know what to expect between Ports East and West. Said the waves of atheletes very every so many years. Ive watched some film and they arent really big or really fast upfront, they seem disciplined though, but i think thats where we will hold our advantage. Their QB seems to be a pretty strong runner and Number 19 at WR runs well after the catch. Heres my take on about an hour of film watching:

 

Protection vs Front Seven: Advantage Rams both ways.

Raceland WR vs Port West Secondary: Advantage Rams

Port West WR vs Rwms Secondary: Draw

Special Teams: Draw

 

Imo, Our depth and size/speed upfront will control the pace of the game and our offense becomes more ballanced this week. I really have a feeling we are putting things together and its going to show this week and the weeks ahead.

Raceland by 12.

Rams will run wild in this one,56-14.

So, NewarkCathFan, do u feel Raceland is better than Newark Catholic? they seemed to handle PW pretty easily, going by the scoreboard, but in the maxpreps highlights it looked like they moved the ball pretty well agains NC. Ur thoughts?

West is a little down

I just hope we can avoid a hangover, put teams away and continue to make adjustments like we did against Valley when teams start moving the football. We had a chance to make it a 2 score ball game at one point I believe and didnt convert a 4th down against Valley. We are making strides. This week will tell us how we can respond after an emotional win or emotional loss.

This past game was the closest to, if not the first complete 4 quarters of football we have played all year.