Doesn’t the start of this season seem like ages ago? The Rams certainly have survived a tumultuous start and have endured the sort of challenges that would doom a team of less character and pride.

 

Great job Raceland and congratulations on making it back to the Regional Championship Game! Keep on believing and take the next step forward…one game at a time, one play at a time…focus and win.

Doesn’t the start of this season seem like ages ago? The Rams certainly have survived a tumultuous start and have endured the sort of challenges that would doom a team of less character and pride.

 

Great job Raceland and congratulations on making it back to the Regional Championship Game! Keep on believing and take the next step forward…one game at a time, one play at a time…focus and win.

 

:thumb: My thoughts exactly Painter. Great job Rams! Keep playing hard!

Why do I get so frustrated with this team even though we keep winning? 7-1 last eight games. I have never been around a team that can play as bad as we do at times and still come out on top. That must say something about this team. Their is no other team in the state of Kentucky that gets any uglyer (is that a word) wins then we the RAMS. We had a lot of fans run out onto the field congratulating the team and coaches and at the same time shaking our heads and wondering how we did it.

 

A win is a win is a win. And some how we WIN. I'm so happy for this team for never giving up. Our RAMS no matter how ugly it is plays till the last whistle sounds.

 

Once again we were down a few linemen in this game. Have we played any games this year with all of the starters on the field? One maybe.

 

Once again the defense played a good game. And once again our offense was very shaky. I think our D only gave up one touchdown. Great job DEFENSE.

 

 

I usually don't like to call out any individual names on a team sport like football. But I'm going to congratulate some players for coming up with some big plays.

L. Huffman- INT for the biggest score of the game. Gave new life to the team. And two good catches for big first downs., R. Burchett- Big Big run up the middle for the final score late in the forth qtr. B. Mckee- You came to play and it showed. Good hustle, pass routes and catches for big plays. One I know of on 4th down. P. Hamilton- great INT. You were out matched on speed but you played and fought hard. M. Litteral- good hard running and big plays on defense. B. Caudill - Soph. I'm glad this kid is going to be around two more years. Gives 110% all the time. Big plays on defense. I think the big QB has 54 stamped on his uniform now. E. Cumpton (sp)- another hard day at work for this kid. Always out sized in every way but heart. He chased that C,ville QB all over the field. And had some big tackles. Offense blocking wasn't bad also. C. Grant.- I think this is another player C,ville talked about all week. Played an over all great game. Never coming out of the game. Clogging up the D-line. Good snaps on X-points and fieldgoal. BIG BIG BIG. R. Jobe- Man this player should get the blue collar award. Works hard every down. Came up big toinght on defense and that big fieldgoal. Also the x-points. Big Big Big. I know I'm forgetting some. But it's 9 am and We didn't get in till after 3am. After I think about it I'm sure I'll remember the rest. And maybe some of you can help me remember.

 

One other big thing. We have the best and most respectful cheerleaders and mascot around. They came across some adversity last night and handled it alot better then I would or ever could have. I watched it all. And was getting more upset by each passing minute. I new I couldn't go down to help unless it got out of hand. I don't handle stuff like this very well. These girls tought me a lesson tonight. A bunch of thugs from the other school came up to our side and started tearing down the posters the girls had worked hard on. And had hung up on the fence. When they seen what had happened. Some of the girls went over to repair the posters and to retape the posters back to the fence. They asked them PLEASE don't do that. But even the trainers or whoever they were for C,ville were in on it. The girls acted like our great perants and school has tought them. RESPECT. They went and got the security guard.( Didn't help much ) While he was standing their the kids still tore a sign down. And once again our kids went over and picked up the sign and threw it in the trash. It couldn't be repaired at that time. But once again the girls with respect asked nicely please don't do that. There is more to this story. But I just want to say thanks to these cheerleaders and mascot for acting with so much respect and class. You gained mine tonight. THANK YOU ALL. I hope that someone from the school will recognize these girls for what great citizens and students they were last night.

 

IT's Great To Be A RAM

Congrats to the Rams go all the way, sorry about the jerks who came over I see this a lot and maybe they need to get more police at the games.

 

I haven't spoke to my family, I'm letting it kinda ease away before I call.

Congrats to the Rams go all the way, sorry about the jerks who came over I see this a lot and maybe they need to get more police at the games.

 

I haven't spoke to my family, I'm letting it kinda ease away before I call.

 

Alabama Larry your a great guy.:thumb: Don't worry about this. I'm just so proud of the way our students handled it. Every school has a few. They just kept coming back with more kids each time it happened. I'm sure most are great students at C,ville. Doesn't take much to make a school look bad. I'm just sorry it had to happen..

I am definitely keeping late hours tonight!!! Some quick stats from tonight's game...

 

Passing:

Farley 15-35 227 yards 1 TD & 2 INTS.

Barr 0-1 1 INT. (wasn't his fault due to being blind-sided on a halfback pass, which was returned for a 51-yard TD)

 

Receiving:

McKee 5-136 1 TD

Huffman 3-53

Burchett 1-15

Shearer 1-11

Barr 3-7

Craft 1-4

Litteral 1-1

 

Rushing: 23 carries 116 yards 1 TD

 

Burchett 9-39 1 TD

Farley 3-28

Litteral 3-24

Barr 6-28

Craft 2-(-3)

 

343 total yards offensively

 

Also, Loren Huffman had a huge 30-yard INT. return for a touchdown, & Rocky Jobe kicked (I believe) a 32-yard FG. It was either 26 or 32 yards, which turned out to be the difference maker. Patrick Hamilton also had an interception.

 

Here's the linescore & a few corrections from my first late nite post:

 

1. Jobe's FG was 26 yards

2. Huffman's INT return for a TD was 35 yards

3. The Campbellsville INT return for a TD was 61 yards

 

RACELAND 0 10 0 13 - 23

Campbellsville 0 14 6 0 - 20

 

R - McKEE 24-YD PASS FROM FARLEY (10:48 2ND QTR) JOBE KICK

7-0

R - JOBE 26-YD FG (6:04 2ND QTR) 10-0

C - DOWNS 2-YD RUN (1:27 2ND QTR) BAD SNAP 10-6

C - TAYLOR 22-YD PASS FROM SCHWOEBEL (0:48 2ND QTR) SCHWOEBEL RUN 14-10

C - TAYLOR 61-YD INT RETURN (7:10 3RD QTR) KICK BLOCKED 20-10

R - HUFFMAN 35-YD INT RETURN (8:02 4TH QTR) JOBE KICK 20-17

R - BURCHETT 29-YD RUN (4:49 4TH QTR) KICK BLOCKED 23-20

 

23-20 RACELAND (FINAL)

Why do I get so frustrated with this team even though we keep winning? 7-1 last eight games. I have never been around a team that can play as bad as we do at times and still come out on top. That must say something about this team. Their is no other team in the state of Kentucky that gets any uglyer (is that a word) wins then we the RAMS. We had a lot of fans run out onto the field congratulating the team and coaches and at the same time shaking our heads and wondering how we did it.

 

A win is a win is a win. And some how we WIN. I'm so happy for this team for never giving up. Our RAMS no matter how ugly it is plays till the last whistle sounds.

 

Once again we were down a few linemen in this game. Have we played any games this year with all of the starters on the field? One maybe.

 

Once again the defense played a good game. And once again our offense was very shaky. I think our D only gave up one touchdown. Great job DEFENSE.

 

 

I usually don't like to call out any individual names on a team sport like football. But I'm going to congratulate some players for coming up with some big plays.

L. Huffman- INT for the biggest score of the game. Gave new life to the team. And two good catches for big first downs., R. Burchett- Big Big run up the middle for the final score late in the forth qtr. B. Mckee- You came to play and it showed. Good hustle, pass routes and catches for big plays. One I know of on 4th down. P. Hamilton- great INT. You were out matched on speed but you played and fought hard. M. Litteral- good hard running and big plays on defense. B. Caudill - Soph. I'm glad this kid is going to be around two more years. Gives 110% all the time. Big plays on defense. I think the big QB has 54 stamped on his uniform now. E. Cumpton (sp)- another hard day at work for this kid. Always out sized in every way but heart. He chased that C,ville QB all over the field. And had some big tackles. Offense blocking wasn't bad also. C. Grant.- I think this is another player C,ville talked about all week. Played an over all great game. Never coming out of the game. Clogging up the D-line. Good snaps on X-points and fieldgoal. BIG BIG BIG. R. Jobe- Man this player should get the blue collar award. Works hard every down. Came up big toinght on defense and that big fieldgoal. Also the x-points. Big Big Big. I know I'm forgetting some. But it's 9 am and We didn't get in till after 3am. After I think about it I'm sure I'll remember the rest. And maybe some of you can help me remember.

 

One other big thing. We have the best and most respectful cheerleaders and mascot around. They came across some adversity last night and handled it alot better then I would or ever could have. I watched it all. And was getting more upset by each passing minute. I new I couldn't go down to help unless it got out of hand. I don't handle stuff like this very well. These girls tought me a lesson tonight. A bunch of thugs from the other school came up to our side and started tearing down the posters the girls had worked hard on. And had hung up on the fence. When they seen what had happened. Some of the girls went over to repair the posters and to retape the posters back to the fence. They asked them PLEASE don't do that. But even the trainers or whoever they were for C,ville were in on it. The girls acted like our great perants and school has tought them. RESPECT. They went and got the security guard.( Didn't help much ) While he was standing their the kids still tore a sign down. And once again our kids went over and picked up the sign and threw it in the trash. It couldn't be repaired at that time. But once again the girls with respect asked nicely please don't do that. There is more to this story. But I just want to say thanks to these cheerleaders and mascot for acting with so much respect and class. You gained mine tonight. THANK YOU ALL. I hope that someone from the school will recognize these girls for what great citizens and students they were last night.

 

IT's Great To Be A RAM

 

I really thought this was going to end up very bad. I think it's a good thing we didn't have a big student section from our end last night. If so I think it would have ended up bieng too much for anyone to breakup. I was standing right above it and witnessed it all. I couldn't understand why that security guard or whatever he was just stood there and let it go on. It took our principal to come over and do something about it before it was taking care of.

I would also like to add, this doesn't speak for the majority of the Cville fans. These were the students of Sville who acted this way. Before the game started I talked to a couple fans for at least a good half hour. They were good people to talk to about football. And quickly congratulated us, wished us a safe trip, and said good luck next week.

Survive and advance. Congrats Rams.:thumb::banana:

 

That is one of my favorite quotes about playoff/tournament play. I first heard that analogy from Al McGuire who was the best commentator/ college b.b. announcer ever, and a great coach himself. Jimmy Valvano also used that alot. Simple quote but oh so true. That is what playoff competition is.

Congratulations. This team has some of the most faithful fans out there and I'm happy to see you all have a chance to keep cheering your team.

Doesn’t the start of this season seem like ages ago? The Rams certainly have survived a tumultuous start and have endured the sort of challenges that would doom a team of less character and pride.

 

Great job Raceland and congratulations on making it back to the Regional Championship Game! Keep on believing and take the next step forward…one game at a time, one play at a time…focus and win.

 

Thank you for your kind words Painter, this team has come a long way. Actually, I heard the C-Ville radio announcer refer to Raceland's advantage in post season over some teams. He stated on air that Raceland had an advantage over C-Ville in that they had a strong tradition, had been through the playoffs many times before and had been in more situations like they were in last night. "Been there, Done that" in other words. That may not have been the exact wording but it is very close.

The C-Ville radio crew did a very good job, the broadcast/feed kept breaking up but that wasn't their fault. They also commented and were impressed by the class the Raceland players showed at games end when they went to the C-Ville player that was injured and congratulated/complemented him on a well played game. This radio crew also mentioned the number of Raceland fans that made the long trip and were impressed with the support from Raceland fans for their team. Whoever those guys (radio crew) were......great job, you guys were a class act. :thumb:

I really thought this was going to end up very bad. I think it's a good thing we didn't have a big student section from our end last night. If so I think it would have ended up bieng too much for anyone to breakup. I was standing right above it and witnessed it all. I couldn't understand why that security guard or whatever he was just stood there and let it go on. It took our principal to come over and do something about it before it was taking care of.

I would also like to add, this doesn't speak for the majority of the Cville fans. These were the students of Sville who acted this way. Before the game started I talked to a couple fans for at least a good half hour. They were good people to talk to about football. And quickly congratulated us, wished us a safe trip, and said good luck next week.

 

I had the same experience with some of the fans before the game. Very very nice people. It only took about 10-15 to make the school look bad.

I really thought this was going to end up very bad. I think it's a good thing we didn't have a big student section from our end last night. If so I think it would have ended up bieng too much for anyone to breakup. I was standing right above it and witnessed it all. I couldn't understand why that security guard or whatever he was just stood there and let it go on. It took our principal to come over and do something about it before it was taking care of.

I would also like to add, this doesn't speak for the majority of the Cville fans. These were the students of Sville who acted this way. Before the game started I talked to a couple fans for at least a good half hour. They were good people to talk to about football. And quickly congratulated us, wished us a safe trip, and said good luck next week.

 

Good post RF, that is the first I had heard of any incident like that. Regretfully, those kind of things sometimes happen. I am sure that it wasn't the majority of C-ville fans that acted that way and it only takes a few, I understand that and will not slam an entire fan base for the actions of a few. I am glad that our cheerleaders/students acted in the way you described. That shows class and Yes, as always...........................................

 

 

"IT'S A GREAT DAY TO BE A RAM"

That is one of my favorite quotes about playoff/tournament play. I first heard that analogy from Al McGuire who was the best commentator/ college b.b. announcer ever, and a great coach himself. Jimmy Valvano also used that alot. Simple quote but oh so true. That is what playoff competition is.

 

Al McGuire what a coach and announcer. One of my all time favs.

Jimmy V. What an inspiration!

 

TWO of the GREATEST in sports

Congratulations. This team has some of the most faithful fans out there and I'm happy to see you all have a chance to keep cheering your team.

 

Thanks, thats a great compliment.:clap:

I want to thank our ram fans and the other fans on this thread for recognizing what a class act Rams have. I was kinda close to the cheerleading situation last night and even the cheer coach was threatened by that group. You are soooo right they did act with class. They just kept doing their job and kept the spirit up in the crowd.