Martin County (9-2) makes the short trip from Inez to Pond Creek to take on Belfry (10-1).

The Cardinals are not strangers to knocking the Pirates out of the playoffs as there have been a couple of very painful early exits in the past.  

Coach Muncy seems to have the Martin County team running like a finely tuned machine.  Belfry is hitting their stride too but have not been tested in a while having had 7 or 8 consecutive running clock games in a row.

Will this be another painful upset for the Pirates or will they send the Cardinals back to Inez looking for basketball season? 

Edited November 9, 2025Nov 9 by Watusi

TP94 Power Ratings from last week

Belfry         68.04
Martin County    35.83

3 minutes ago, Watusi said:

Will this be another painful upset for the Pirates or will they send the Cardinals back to Inez looking for basketball season? 

Belfry looks like the superior team to me.  I think the Pirates send the Cards back to Inez to break out the roundballs. 

Running clock!!

Bump.

Belfry is 27-5 all-time vs Sheldon Clark.  Of course the Cardinals go by a new name now, changing to Martin County, but it is still the same program.  The two programs haven't played since 2018.  

The 5 wins for Sheldon Clark came in 1982, 1998, 2006, 2009, 2010

The 98 and 09 wins were playoff wins for the Cardinals coming after Belfry had beaten them handily each of those years in the regular season.

Martin's Maynard is a good, dual-threat quarterback. I thinking he's capable of putting some points on the board, but I don't look for the Cardinals to slow Belfry's offensive roll. The Pirates can run away from you in a variety of ways and they should own the line of scrimmage when they have the ball.

I'll take Belfry by four scores. That's a conservative prediction. I can definitely see it being worse than that.

21 hours ago, Watusi said:

Belfry is 27-5 all-time vs Sheldon Clark.  Of course the Cardinals go by a new name now, changing to Martin County, but it is still the same program.  The two programs haven't played since 2018.  

The 5 wins for Sheldon Clark came in 1982, 1998, 2006, 2009, 2010

The 98 and 09 wins were playoff wins for the Cardinals coming after Belfry had beaten them handily each of those years in the regular season.

They're still Sheldon Clark to me. Not a fan of the rebrand.

I remember when the '09 playoff game happened. That was a bit of a shock. You know this already, but for anyone that doesn't remember, that loss to Sheldon Clark was the only time Belfry failed to reach at least the state semifinals from 2003-2016.

3 hours ago, DevilMayCare said:

They're still Sheldon Clark to me. Not a fan of the rebrand.

I remember when the '09 playoff game happened. That was a bit of a shock. You know this already, but for anyone that doesn't remember, that loss to Sheldon Clark was the only time Belfry failed to reach at least the state semifinals from 2003-2016.

They were definitely on an incredible run.  They played in 10 title games during that stretch.

From 2003-2024 (22 seasons) they won 8 titles, 4 runner ups and played in 17 semifinals

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7-0 Belfry.

14-0

21-0

28-0 

11:32 2nd Q

35-0 

9:20 2nd