Published Sep 14, 2023
VHSL Football Top Tens - Entering 9/14/23 Games
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We have our newest VHSL Football Top Tens. One of the two highly anticipated showdowns is in the books as Maury toppled Highland Springs to halt the 17-game winning streak of the Springers and beat the team that defeated them a year ago for the Class 5 State Championship.

Of course, neither gets impacted in terms of the rankings as Highland Springs stays No. 2 in Class 6 behind Freedom-Woodbridge, while Maury remains in the top spot in Class 5.

The other monster game that it remains to be seen if they are able to make it up at some point in the schedule is Freedom-DeMatha, which got postponed because of weather and then suspended again on Saturday due to thunderstorms. DeMatha was leading close before the first weather delay, then Freedom nudged ahead.

So in terms of longest winning streaks now in Virginia with the 17-game win streak of Highland Springs being snapped, it belongs to Phoebus. The Phantoms have won 22 in a row. Right behind them with 18 consecutive victories is Graham, the reigning Class 2 State Champ. Then it is Freedom, the defending Class 6 State Champ, with 17 straight wins.

Honaker outlasted Rye Cove, 40-32, in A Class 1 thriller that certainly had its fair share of highlight-reel plays and big moments offensively.


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Note - This list was published prior to games on Thursday, September 14, 2023

Special Thanks to Dan Trevino for front page photo


Class 6 Top Ten:
Rank (LW)TeamRecordResult

1 (1)

Freedom-PW

2-0

Game vs. DeMatha Suspended

2 (2)

Highland Springs

2-1

L 14-23 to Maury

3 (3)

Madison

3-0

W 26-10 over Robinson

4 (4)

Thomas Dale

2-0

Idle

5 (5)

Manchester

1-1

W 54-28 over Powhatan

6 (6)

South County

2-1

W 14-9 ovver West Springfield

7 (7)

Battlefield

3-0

W 39-14 over Gar-Field

8 (8)

Fairfax

3-0

W 40-14 over Centreville

9 (9)

Oscar Smith

2-1

W 48-6 over Great Bridge

10 (10)

Colonial Forge

3-0

W 35-14 over Potomac

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Honorable Mention:
Gainesville (3-0)
Glen Allen (3-0)
South Lakes (3-0)


Class 5 Top Ten:
Dropped Out: #10 Riverbend (2-1) fell to Class 4 #5 King George 37-13
Rank (LW)TeamRecordResult

1 (1)

Maury

2-0

W 23-14 over Highland Springs

2 (2)

Green Run

3-0

W 56-0 over Kellam

3 (3)

Warwick

3-0

W 52-0 over Kecoughtan

4 (4)

King's Fork

2-0

W 26-0 over Western Branch

5 (5)

Briar Woods

3-0

W 28-13 over Broad Run

6 (6)

Stone Bridge

1-2

W 2-0 over Woodgrove (forfeit)

7 (7)

Patrick Henry-Roanoke

3-0

W 49-6 over Albemarle

8 (8)

Douglas Freeman

3-0

W 33-13 over Mechanicsville

9 (9)

Nansemond River

2-0

W 53-14 over Deep Creke

10 (NR)

L.C. Bird

2-1

W 20-6 over Monacan

Honorable Mention:
William Fleming (2-1)



Class 4 Top Ten:
Rank (LW)TeamRecordResult

1 (1)

Phoebus

2-0

W 34-0 over Woodside

2 (2)

Dinwiddie

2-1

Idle

3 (3)

Varina

1-1

Idle

4 (4)

Salem

2-1

W 33-14 over William Fleming

5 (5)

King George

3-0

W 37-13 over Riverbend

6 (6)

E.C. Glass

2-1

W 27-14 over GW-Danville

7 (7)

Warhill

3-0

W 48-0 over York

8 (8)

Tuscarora

3-0

W 7-0 over Loudoun County

9 (9)

Eastern View

2-0

Idle

10 (10)

John Champe

2-1

W 52-20 over Loudoun Valley

Honorable Mention:
Millbrook (3-0)


Class 3 Top Ten:
Rank (LW)TeamRecordResult

1 (1)

Magna Vista

2-0

W 41-6 over Staunton River

2 (3)

Liberty Christian

2-0

W 49-6 over Franklin Co.

3 (4)

Heritage-Lynchburg

2-0

W 20-6 over Appomattox

4 (5)

Lord Botetourt

2-1

W 48-20 over Pulaski

5 (10)

Hopewell

2-0

W 42-25 over Lake Taylor

6 (2)

Lake Taylor

2-0

L 25-42 to Hopewell

7 (7)

Brookville

1-1

Idle

8 (8)

Kettle Run

2-0

W 50-25 over Handley

9 (9)

Christiansburg

3-0

W 14-10 over William Byrd

10 (6)

Brentsville District

2-1

L 14-21 to Millbrook in OT

Honorable Mention:
Rustburg (3-0)
Lafayette (2-1)


Class 2 Top Ten:
Rank (LW)TeamRecordResult

1 (1)

Graham

3-0

W 37-0 over George Wythe

2 (2)

Radford

3-0

W 43-3 over Virginia High

3 (3)

Central-Woodstock

3-0

W 14-6 over Staunton

4 (4)

Riverheads

2-1

W 28-13 over Fort Defiance

5 (7)

Glenvar

3-0

W 7-3 over Cave Spring

6 (9)

Clarke County

3-0

W 40-7 over Buffalo Gap

7 (6)

Union

2-1

L 6-27 to Science Hill, TN

8 (10)

Ridgeview

3-0

W 44-7 over Central-Wise

9 (5)

Poquoson

1-1

L 16-21 to Grafton

10 (8)

Appomattox

1-2

L 6-20 to Heritage-Lynchburg

Honorable Mention:
Central-Lunenburg (3-0)


Class 1 Top Ten:
Dropped Out: #10 Brunswick fell to Central-Lunenburg 42-41 in OT
Rank (LW)TeamRecordResult

1 (1)

Honaker

3-0

W 40-32 over Rye Cove

2 (2)

Grayson County

2-0

W 24-14 over Rural Retreat

3 (3)

Essex

2-0

Idle

4 (4)

Patrick Henry-Glade Spring

3-0

W 60-7 over J.I. Burton

5 (5)

Narrows

3-0

W 34-15 over Chilhowie

6 (6)

Sussex Central

2-1

W 52-16 over King & Queen

7 (7)

Rye Cove

2-1

L 32-40 to Honaker

8 (8)

Northumberland

3-0

W 35-0 over Charles City

9 (9)

Galax

1-2

W 21-13 over Carroll Co.

10 (NR)

Holston

2-1

W 13-12 over John Battle in OT

Honorable Mention:
Bath County (3-0)



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