Final.

Congrats from Lexington.

What a ballgame congrats Rams. Good luck rest of the season.:thumb:

Sounds like a great game!

 

 

 

Congratulations to the Rams. You showed a lot of heart and determination.

 

 

 

Tough loss for the Lions, but I believe they are better than most folks thought. The Rams are a tough opener - just ask the Tomcats.

Congrats Rams. Great win for a young team...

Nice win for the Rams......I think some leaders may have found their voice tonight.:banana:

Seems like it's becoming a habit for Boyd County schools to lose to Raceland on opening night!

I now have a new memory to add to the best memory as a spectator! Rams you showed me everything we have been talking about these past two weeks.

First of all.....Congrts to the Ram players and coaching staff on what was a great late game comeback win:dancingpa:

 

Congrats to Boyd County as well, your took it to us, gave us all we coud handle and then some. IMO the Lions are going to suprise some people this season if you play with the kind of effort that you did tonight. Good luck the rest of the way.

 

Rams, I also have to humbly apologize. I was putting you down on the update thread for not "reaching back" when needed. That just shows what an idiot I am. So, you didn't choke and you did "choke" a few fat ladies that were about to burst out in song. :ylsuper:. I know as well as anyone never to doubt a Raceland team at any point in a game.

 

Rams.....That is 1 down and 14 to go! Enjoy this one tonight, you deserve it. Starting tommorrow morning if not sooner get focused on the powerful Ashland Tomcats......the one team with the possible exception of LCA that willl be far and above anyone on your schedule this season.

 

Note: Rams, you also now have a regular season winning streak of 11 games going now. Lets go out and shock the world by extending that streak next week at Ashland.:thumb:

 

GO Rams...another can of ORANGE CRUSH was opened tonight!

Edited August 23, 200917 yr by oldrambler

Congrats Rams. Great win for a young team...

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Nice win for the Rams......I think some leaders may have found their voice tonight.:banana:

:thumb::thumb: This team showed what they (and the Raceland Football Tradition) were made of in the 4th quarter tonight!

 

(Despite some dummy named oldrambler critsizing them for most of the game on the update thread,:ohbrother:....where is the embarrassed smiley when needed)

I now have a new memory to add to the best memory as a spectator! Rams you showed me everything we have been talking about these past two weeks.

 

:ylsuper::ylsuper::dancingpa

This was a back and forth game from the beginning. Boyd County came out in the 1st quarter and looked like they were going to dominate. They scored a quick TD and failed the extra point. That would come back to bite them later on.

 

Their control of the game didn't last long, though, as penalties and a bad snap on a punt started a string of mistakes that Raceland capitalized on and started playing well. I had heard that Rister was going to be the Raceland QB this year, but I was really impressed with the play of Farley this evening. Raceland looks like they want to rely on the pass. This might be due to Barr being out for now, but Farley was a very impressive QB putting several long throws right on the money.

 

Raceland took the lead 14-12 and then had some bad mistakes of their own. They botched the final drive of the 1st half and ended up with time expiring unable to call a timeout within the Boyd County 5 yard line. They could have given themselves a comfortable margin at that point, but didn't, so Boyd County came out in the 2nd half and dominated the Rams for awhile.

 

Boyd tore off several long runs all game long and they scored two unanswered TD's in the 2nd half and looked like they were headed for a victory. However, Raceland scored with just about 3 minutes to play and then Boyd County imploded. They fumbled, turning the ball over to the Rams, and then followed that up with a 15 yard personal foul penalty on Raceland's winning drive.

 

Raceland ultimately took advantage of Boyd County's mistakes to eek out the win. That's what winning programs do. They find a way to win. Conversely, it could be argued that Boyd County found a way to lose.

 

All in all, I was impressed with Farley at QB. He had good protection as well, as he was able to stand back almost untouched all night. The Raceland running attack was so-so, but as I said, it looks like it's going to be an air raid offense for now. The Raceland run defense left something to be desired, though. They would stop Boyd County for no gain several times and then give up a huge run out of nowhere. Raceland has a good kicker on the kickoffs as well. Again this year, it looks like they still need a punter, though.

 

Boyd County has several backs that run hard and break tackles. They need to find a pass rush, but they were pretty effective against the Raceland running attack most of the night.

 

Both teams are going to be challenged much more than this next week as Raceland visits Ashland and Boyd County visits Belfry, both very tough games.

 

Congratulations to Raceland on the win. Still undefeated in the regular season for quite awhile!

I'm gonna brag on a few players.

#28 L.Huffman one of the best Receiving shows I've seen in awhile.

#34 M.Litteral great rushing game very hardnosed runner.

#14 T.Farley to everyone who doubted your ability you proved them wrong.

#55 C.Grant Great blocking and showed great leadership and not letting that fat lady sing when she was warming up!

 

Also want to brag on Boyd Co's

#11 Great athlete he put on an offensive show tonight he can run, pass, play defense!

#25 very strong runningback, very aggresive and not afraid to hit!

Thank you RP, that was a very good post and analogy. :thumb:

Thank you RP, that was a very good post and analogy. :thumb:

 

I was just glad this one was on a Saturday so I could see it. I don't usually get to see Raceland except for when they play Russell and last year in the playoffs against LCA. Needless to say, every game I see them in is an exciting one, though! :-) Even though there were a lot of mistakes on both sides, this was a fun game to watch.