Portsmouth 32 Valley 12

[lineman7]

Starts the season off on Thursday. Thoughts?

Who is starting for each team? Strengths? Weaknesses?

[bbn77]

Got a chance to watch Portsmouth at OVC Previews last night. A lot of speed, like to spread it out. A young team however, so expect mistakes. Defense is solid for the most part, held up well against Ironton's power running. With Valley looking to mesh and find replacements from last years veteran team it should be a tight game

[coop]

This will be a good one for sure. Looking forward to follow...

GO VALLEY!

[JustPlayBasketball12]

This will be an interesting game. Young valley squad trying to find out who they are with a new set of kids and Portsmouth trying to get their program back on the winning track. Interesting to see how Valley's play calling will be since Rolfe will not be calling plays. Portsmouth must tackle because these last couple of years it has been nonexistent. Good Luck to both teams!

[4thgoal]

In recent years, Portsmouth has struggled with 2 fundamentals.....tackling and blocking. IF they have learned those 2 things, they could have a respectable season.

[Izladoom]

Valley will be so young and being the first game I think Portsmouth takes this one

[Abe Froman]

Agree I like Portsmouth here.

[Izladoom]

Valley lost a scrimmage today to ND 14-7 they moved the ball good but turned it over a couple times also had a couple injuries not sure how serious tho they are young but will go out Thursday and play hard The strength will be their running game the sophomore back #22 is pretty good and if the qb can get #16 the burg transfer the ball he is a matchup nightmare

[fred_flinstone]

only seeing Portsmouth play so far I will make an educated guess and say that this one could be a tight one and very interesting.
If #14 Parker from Portsmouth gets some daylight good luck catching him!

Portsmouth in a close one. Good Luck to the OVC

[Mailman]

If Portsmouth has improved from last year, Portsmouth easy!! Valley will struggle big time with the young team. But they will be better for it in a couple of years.

[Noitall]

Not sure if the burg transfer EVER played football , but he has a ways to go before he is considered a matchup nightmare from what I seen.

Another thing valley QB has no time to look to throw the ball so that will be a problem with bigger teams I think ND only had 16 to 18 kids.

On the other hand Portsmouth did not look that good vs Waverly either ,so this game could go either way

[greygoose]

Portsmouth took small steps last year, I can see an improvement this year. Being game 1 against a very young Valley team, I think Portsmouth takes it in a close one.

[inOVCsider]

This is a nice first game for both young teams. I see a lot of mistakes being made early on but both teams have good athletes so it should be a fun high scoring game.

[LetsGoPSU]

Im guessing a battle to deep into the forth quarter, like most close games it will come down to turnovers, if our tackling has improved I like our chances, I took Valley in the contest. Trojans make me eat crow!

[Mad-Dogg]

Cal Preps:

Valley 24
Portsmouth 21

i'm gonna say p-town by 14

[Mad-Dogg]

Not sure if the burg transfer EVER played football , but he has a ways to go before he is considered a matchup nightmare from what I seen.

Another thing valley QB has no time to look to throw the ball so that will be a problem with bigger teams I think ND only had 16 to 18 kids.

On the other hand Portsmouth did not look that good vs Waverly either ,so this game could go either way

he's only play round ball as far as i know. he didn't play football at burg

[js7_22]

Not sure if the burg transfer EVER played football , but he has a ways to go before he is considered a matchup nightmare from what I seen.

Another thing valley QB has no time to look to throw the ball so that will be a problem with bigger teams I think ND only had 16 to 18 kids.

On the other hand Portsmouth did not look that good vs Waverly either ,so this game could go either way

he's only play round ball as far as i know. he didn't play football at burg

He's on the football field, been stated many times.

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

ole bait loves all his purple injun buddies I have there. but I gotta root for the ovc here.so go Trojans.

[Mad-Dogg]

Not sure if the burg transfer EVER played football , but he has a ways to go before he is considered a matchup nightmare from what I seen.

Another thing valley QB has no time to look to throw the ball so that will be a problem with bigger teams I think ND only had 16 to 18 kids.

On the other hand Portsmouth did not look that good vs Waverly either ,so this game could go either way

he's only play round ball as far as i know. he didn't play football at burg

He's on the football field, been stated many times.

He may have but he didn't play at burg

[8332 Granite St]

Any place to listen to this one online?