As you guys know from reading my posts all these years, I tend to be very optimistic where Riverheads is concerned. While it is true that they finished at the bottom of the Shenandoah this year with a 3-7 record, there are stories behind that. First of all, three other teams finished just ahead of them at 4-6, so if just ONE game had turned out differently, RHS could have finished anywhere from 3rd to 5th. Also of the Gladiators' seven losses in district play, four of them came by five points or less, one more by 7 points even though they had a double digit lead in the second half, and even the remaining two losses (by 17 at Stuarts Draft and by 13 at Staunton) were better games than they sound. And remember everyone else in our district is either Class 2 or Class 3. So the question to be answered.........was Riverheads just a few bounces here and there away from being fairly even with the other teams in a strong district, which should help them out against Class 1 competition............or was the Shenandoah weak overall, so that the Gladiators will just be facing more of the same level of competition they have already faced and may in fact make a quick exit? I just wish we didn't have to wait an entire week to start finding out!