Ashland is rolling with a 3 - 0 start coming off a slugfest win over Lawrence County 19-14. East Jessamine got their first taste of defeat as they fell in their own rock fight, losing 8-7 to Dunbar.

Both these teams have shown off their defense early, though against differing levels of competition. Ashland has to go on the road but they are probably better poised to get on the scoreboard early and often in this one. I certainly don't want to write off the Jaguars, but this was a 41-6 loss for them last year and I don't think things have changed nearly enough for it to be much different this year.

Bump.

East will fight. They will not roll over. Disappointing loss this past Friday for sure, I'm sure they've learned from it but that's the result of playing a ton of youth. I know for a fact the coaching staff still has faith and will game plan to put boys in a position to be successful but at the end of the day they have to dig deep and fight.

This will not be close.

22 hours ago, Paul Dean said:

This will not be close.

We will see. It is football after all, and anything can happen. East Jessamine's biggest problems are 1) Consistency and 1A) Depth. Ashland has some very good players, especially impressed by #34, he's a stud that the defense and the offense both will need to account for when he is on the field. East's offense needs to sustain drives and keep the Ashland offense on the sideline, their bugaboo has been shooting themselves in the foot with silly drive killing penalties.

You just outlined the reasons why it will not be close.

2 hours ago, Paul Dean said:

You just outlined the reasons why it will not be close.

As I said, we will see. Youth gets experience from being in that position, gets their mistakes pointed out on film, works on it in practice and games, and gets better. It's called coaching. Did this in the first game, got coached up, went and did tremendously better in second game, had a bit of a slip in 3rd game but not near as many, and Dunbar sustained a couple drives, one of which finally resulted in a TD after being kept out of the end zone all game. So I look for the staff to have prepared them by teaching from their few mistakes in the recent game.

This Ashland team is good, do not get me wrong. But East is better than last year despite the youth. Ashland struggled with Lawrence County AT Ashland. While Lawrence County is not a bad team, Ashland should have beat them by two TDs, not 5 points. So don't act like they're not capable of overlooking a team or not taking them seriously. They may very well win, I'm just saying it will not be a blow out I do not believe. The East kids have fight in them.

Ashland is susceptible to ground and pound. Play ball control and this one is close, get cute and and then it gets ugly. The Bulldogs milked every second of the play clock every time it was running, this frustrated Ashland. I would do the same if I were a young underdog team. Also, if you can't kick it to the endzone, then kick it out of bounds and give them the 35. Do all this and you still lose, but it's respectable and your young team can gain some confidence.

Any live streaming for this game?

3 hours ago, LRCW said:

Any live streaming for this game?

None that I'm aware of.

3 hours ago, LRCW said:

Any live streaming for this game?

None that I'm aware of.

3 hours ago, LRCW said:

Any live streaming for this game?

https://fan.hudl.com/usa/ky/nicholasville/organization/21331/east-jessamine-high-school/team/38814/boys-varsity-football/watch?b=QnJvYWRjYXN0NDExNjc3Nw%3D%3D

3 and out, poor punt and Ashland with a huge return courtesy of a missed block. Knocking on the door. Run off right side then middle, both for minimal gain. 3rd down and false start by Ashland. Tackle for a half yard loss brings up 4th and about 11. O stays in field. Going to test the D early. Pass over the middle and TD Ashland. Extra point is good. 7-0 with 8:02 left in first qtr.

#6 fumbled the kickoff return on a big hit around the 32. Ashland O back on the field

Deep shot to left corner of the endzone is incomplete. Second play is around the right side of Jags D for 11 yard gain by 30. Gave to him again around left side and a pickup of 4