SVHS Football: Stats & Standings Week 9

2009 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
(4- 3, 6- 3)

Aug.28   at Hueytown            37-33
Sep. 4   Pell City *            29- 7   
Sep.11   at Clay-Chalkville *   12-21    
Sep.18   Huffman *              27- 8
Sep.25   Benjamin Russell       41- 7
Oct. 2   at Gadsden City *       7-23  
Oct. 9   at Hewitt-Trussville *  7-34
Oct.16   Oxford *               21-17
Oct.23   Pinson Valley (HC) *   34- 0  
Oct.30   at Vestavia
   * Region 7 games     

LAST GAME -
- SV defeated Pinson Valley 34-0 on October 23.

NEXT GAME/ SERIES NOTES -
- Away vs Vestavia Hills (7-1, 8-1) on October 30.
- Vestavia Hills leads series 26-9-1.
- SV most points in series game was 37 in 1996 and biggest win was 31 in 1999.
- Vestavia Hills most points in series game was 42 in 1998 and biggest win was 24 in 1980.
- Shades Valley has had a 4 game winning streak in the series.
- Vestavia Hills has a 9 game winning streak in the series which is currently active.
- Vestavia Hills current streak is the most consecutive games over SV that any team has ever won.
- The series has been played every year since 1975, and 35 of the past 36 years, and is SV's longest continual currently active series.
- In 1998, SV and Vestavia Hills played twice, once to open the season and again in the semifinals of the playoffs. Vestavia won both en route to a 15-0 record and a state championship. Shades Valley finished the 1998 season 12-2, with both losses being to Vestavia.
- Vestavia Hills won the last game between the teams 28-21 in 2008.
- This is the last game of the 2009 season for Shades Valley.
- Shades Valley has increased by two the number of wins it has had each year since Coach Curtis Coleman came to SV, winning 0 in 2006, 2 in 2007, 4 in 2008 and now 6 in 2009.

VESTAVIA 2009 RESULTS
(7-1, 8-1)

Aug.28   at Briarwood           38- 6
Sep. 4   Gardendale *           41- 6   
Sep.11   at Homewood *          28- 0    
Sep.18   Pelham *               37-38
Sep.25   Mountain Brook *       24- 3
Oct. 2   at Oak Mountain *      38- 7
Oct. 9   Spain Park *           21-10
Oct.16   at Hoover *            30-27
Oct.23   at Thompson *          45-21
  
Shades Valley/Vestavia Hills series game by game results

1973    7- 7   0- 0- 1      1996   37-29   8-14- 1
1975    6-21   0- 1- 1      1997   16-25   8-15- 1
1976    0-19   0- 2- 1      1998   11-20   8-16- 1
1977   36-19   1- 2- 1      1998*  35-42+  8-17- 1
1978   21-35   1- 3- 1      1999   31- 0   9-17- 1
1979   24-27   1- 4- 1      2000    7-28   9-18- 1
1980    0-24   1- 5- 1      2001   14-21   9-19- 1
1981   14-17   1- 6- 1      2002    7-28   9-20- 1
1982   17-19   1- 7- 1      2003    7-27   9-21- 1 
1983    3-17   1- 8- 1      2004   10-20   9-22- 1
1984   14-24   1- 9- 1      2005   21-28   9-23- 1
1985    7-21   1-10- 1      2006   15-29   9-24- 1
1986   21-13   2-10- 1      2007   20-35   9-25- 1
1987   16- 0   3-10- 1      2008   21-28   9-26- 1
1988   31- 6   4-10- 1
1989   28- 0   5-10- 1         * playoffs
1990   19-20   5-11- 1         + overtime
1991   14-36   5-12- 1
1992   19- 0   6-12- 1
1993    0- 3   6-13- 1
1994   35-24   7-13- 1
1995    7-27   7-14- 1

GAMES INVOLVING REGION 7 TEAMS FOR WEEK 9:
Shades Valley 34 Pinson Valley 0
Hewitt-Trussville 17 Gadsden City 14
Clay-Chalkville 37 Huffman 7
Pinson Valley 22 Pell City 4

UPCOMING GAMES INVOLVING REGION 7 TEAMS FOR WEEK 10:
Shades Valley at Vestavia Hills
Buckhorn at Clay-Chalkville
Benjamin Russell at Hewitt-Trussville
Pell City at Hueytown
Fort Payne at Gadsden City
Tuscaloosa County at Oxford
Pleasant Grove at Pinson Valley
Huffman at Homewood

2009 REGION 7 STANDINGS                                                               
TEAM              REGION OVERALL PF  PA  REGION GAMES REMAINING
Gadsden City       6- 1   7- 2  281  72  (clinched 1st)
Hewitt-Trussville  5- 2   7- 2  196 108  (clinched 2nd)
Oxford             5- 2   7- 2  252 144  (clinched 3rd)
Clay-Chalkville    5- 2   7- 2  274 144  (clinched 4th)
Shades Valley      4- 3   6- 3  215 150 
Huffman            2- 5   3- 6   95 190 
Pinson Valley      1- 6   1- 8   72 243 
Pell City          0- 7   1- 8   85 267 

* region standings are based on head to head results vs teams if tied with another, otherwise if they have not yet played they're arranged in alphabetical order

====RECAP AND PREVIEW====
This past Friday night, Shades Valley welcomed fellow region foe the Pinson Valley Indians to Frank Nix Memorial Complex for homecoming. Pinson Valley came into the game with a 1-5 region record and a 1-7 overall record, while Shades Valley had a 3-3 region record and was 5-3 overall. Shades Valley came into the game after a dramatic come from behind win over the Oxford Yellow Jackets while Pinson Valley won their first game of the season over Pell City, 22-4. Shades Valley methodically wore down the Indians en route to a happy homecoming and the first shutout win in five years by defeating Pinson Valley 34-0. The win over Pinson Valley gave Shades Valley their sixth victory on the year, marking the most wins by any Mountie team since 2000 and guarantees a winning season for the first time since that same year. The Region 7 breakdown after the ninth week looks like this. First place was decided in Gadsden Friday as Gadsden City defeated Clay-Chalkville to take the region championship. Clay-Chalkville then fell into a three-way tie for second place in the region with Oxford and Hewitt-Trussville, who also won on Friday. Hewitt-Trussville then got the nod for second by virtue of their previous defeat of first place Gadsden City. Oxford then got third because of their victory over Clay-Chalkville, who then took fourth. The wins by Oxford and Hewitt-Trussville Friday night eliminated Shades Valley from playoff contention. Shades Valley, however, finished in fifth place in the region with a 4-3 record, their first winning region record since 2000. Several futile streaks have also been broken by the Mounties this year. They got their first winning record since 2000, their first shutout since 2004, and they snapped a six game series winning streak by Oxford by defeating them for the first time ever. Since Coach Curtis Coleman came to Shades Valley, his Mountie teams have increased by two the number of wins they have had each year, starting with his first year, the Mounties had 0 in 2006, 2 in 2007, 4 in 2008 and 6 in 2009.

The Mounties next game is the final game of the 2009 season. It is the 37th all-time matchup with the Vestavia Hills Rebels. Vestavia Hills leads the series between the teams 26-9-1. Shades Valley and Vestavia Hills first met in 1973 with the game ending in a 7-7 tie. The two teams did not meet in 1974, but resumed the series in 1975 and have played every year since. This will be the 35th consecutive year Shades Valley has met Vestavia Hills in football, with Vestavia taking 26 of those previous 35 meetings. In the process, Vestavia Hills has ran off a couple of winning streaks against Shades Valley, winning eight in a row from 1978-85, and the current nine game streak from 2000 to the present. Regardless of the outcome, most of the contests are fairly close and rarely are any games in the series a blowout. In 1998, there were two meetings that season. The two teams met in the season opening game, with Vestavia taking a 20-11 victory. Both teams then ran off twelve straight wins, only to meet again in the semifinals of the state playoffs. Vestavia came in ranked # 1 in the state and the Mounties were # 7, and Vestavia Hills took a thrilling 42-35 overtime victory over the Mounties, which many said at the time was the game that actually decided the state championship. The next year, the Mounties got a measure of revenge by routing the defending state champions 31-0 on their own home field to open the 1999 season. That win would turn out to be the last victory Shades Valley would enjoy over the Rebels, with the Rebels having won the last nine straight in the series coming into the game this week. Vestavia Hills comes into the game after winning their eighth game of the season 45-21 over the Thompson Warriors. Vestavia Hills averages 33.5 points per game while giving up an average of 13.1. Shades Valley comes in averaging 23.8 points while giving up an average of 16.6.

Coach Curtis Coleman brings in his Mounties at 4-3 in Region 7 and 6-3 overall. This is Coach Coleman's fourth year at Shades Valley. He is 12-27 in those four years after previously coaching at Ensley and Huffman. His overall career record is 128-110 in 22 years as a head coach. The Vestavia Hills Rebels are the champions of Region 6, and are 7-1 in the region and 8-1 overall. Their head coach is Buddy Anderson, who is in his 32nd year at the school and has a career record of 268-111-1, all at Vestavia. He is now seventh on the all time list of winningest coaches in the state, passing former Shades Valley coach Robert Higginbotham on the list this past week with his Rebels win over Thompson.

Shades Valley's game against the Vestavia Hills Rebels will be played on Friday, October 30 at 7 pm at Thompson Reynolds Stadium/Buddy Anderson Field on the campus of Vestavia Hills High School in Vestavia Hills. This is the Mounties last football game for the 2009 season. 

===REGION PLAYOFF PAIRINGS===
Region 7 is paired with Region 8 for the first 3 rounds of the playoffs. Region 8 consists of Austin, Bob Jones, Buckhorn, Decatur, Florence, Grissom, Hazel Green, Huntsville and Sparkman. The first round matchups are like this- R71(Gadsden City) vs R84(Huntsville), R72(Hewitt-Trussville) vs R83(Decatur), R73(Oxford) vs R82(Florence), R74(Clay-Chalkville) vs R81(Bob Jones). All region games were completed for both regions on the 9th week, so the first round pairings are now known before week 10. Home teams for the first round are the 1st and 2nd place teams from Region 7 and 8 (Region 7 is Gadsden City 1st, Hewitt-Trussville 2nd, Region 8 is Bob Jones 1st, Florence 2nd). When the three rounds are over, there will be one survivor left, and they will play the survivor from Region's 5 and 6. That winner will then play the survivor from Regions 1-4 in the state title game at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa the first week in December.
 
2009 REGION 7 STANDINGS                                                               
TEAM              REGION OVERALL PF  PA  REGION GAMES REMAINING
Gadsden City       6- 1   7- 2  281  72  (clinched 1st)
Hewitt-Trussville  5- 2   7- 2  196 108  (clinched 2nd)
Oxford             5- 2   7- 2  252 144  (clinched 3rd)
Clay-Chalkville    5- 2   7- 2  274 144  (clinched 4th)
Shades Valley      4- 3   6- 3  215 150 
Huffman            2- 5   3- 6   95 190 
Pinson Valley      1- 6   1- 8   72 243 
Pell City          0- 7   1- 8   85 267 

2009 REGION 8 STANDINGS
TEAM              REGION OVERALL PF  PA  REGION GAMES REMAINING
Bob Jones          8- 0   8- 1  342 100  (clinched 1st)
Florence           7- 1   8- 1  264 154  (clinched 2nd)
Decatur            6- 2   7- 2  221 121  (clinched 3rd)
Huntsville         4- 4   4- 5  167 175  (clinched 4th)
Buckhorn           4- 4   5- 4  185 220 
Austin             3- 5   4- 5  122 167
Sparkman           2- 6   2- 7  144 181
Grissom            2- 6   3- 6   95 179 
Hazel Green        0- 8   1- 8  119 358 

* region standings are based on head to head results vs teams if tied with another, otherwise if they have not yet played they're arranged in alphabetical order