[Panther Thunder]

Wrong.

THREE KICKS THAT WERE TURNOVERS. 4 FUMBLES AND 1 INT. That is what the Pikeville stats guy had in the press box.

The kicks are not turnovers. You have to possess the ball in order to turn it over. Middlesboro never possessed the football on any of the kicks. Pikeville had no interceptions, heck, Foister only threw two or three incomplete passes. And Pikeville recovered 3 Middlesboro fumbles.

1. Under a minute left in the first half, Cody Charles recovered a fumble on the Middlesboro sideline after a good gain by the Jackets, the ball was knocked loose by either Chase Hall or Austin Salyer. Pikeville did not score off this turnover before the half ended.

2. Cody Estep recovered a fumble jarred loose by Austin Salyer on a run up the middle. This was in the 3rd Qtr, score was already 56-34 PHS. Pikeville would score off this turnover on a TD pass.

3. Freshman, Jerry Green, recovered a fumble with both JV squads in late in the 4th Qtr, PHS leading 77-46. Pikeville did not score off this turnover, they knelt the ball two or three times and the game ended.

Pikeville scored 7 points off of 3 turnovers versus Middlesboro. The kickoffs recovered don't fall into that category. Not that they did not have an impact, but I am tired of seeing it misrepresented to lessen the Pikeville effort. If you throw the kickoffs in, that is 6 miscues that lead to 4 Pikeville scores. Not 8, not 9, not anymore than 6 and Pikeville did not even score on 2 of the miscues. Do I think this would happen every time? No. These teams are pretty evenly matched up, but that should not lessen the job PHS did in that game.

Congrats to Middlesboro on this nice win! Hope to see them do well in district play as well.