Football: VHSL State Final Schedule and Semifinal Scoreboard

VHSL State Finals Schedule
Division 1 at Salem Stadium, Salem
Altavista (12-1) vs. J.I. Burton (11-2), noon
Division 2 at Salem Stadium, Salem
Radford (11-3) vs. Essex (13-0), 4:30 p.m.
Division 3 at Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium, Blacksburg
Northside (11-2) vs. Bruton (11-2), noon
Division 4 at Virginia Tech's Lane Stadium, Blacksburg
Broad Run (13-0) vs. Amherst County (13-0), 4:30 p.m.
Division 5 at UVa's Scott Stadium, Charlotesville
Phoebus (14-0) vs. Stone Bridge (13-1), 12:07 p.m.
Division 6 at UVa's Scott Stadium, Charlottesville
Thomas Dale (11-2) vs. Lake Braddock (12-2), 4:07 p.m.

VHSL State Semifinal Results
Division 1
Altavista 14, West Point 6
The Skinny: West Point's double wing was stuck in the mud but Altavista may play the title game without top RB Chris Clark, who is also his region's Defensive Player of the Year, after Clark suffered a foot injury in the win
J.I. Burton 2, Holston 0
The Skinny: With 2:42 left to play, Burton DB Riley Maggard blocked a punt that rolled out the back of the end zone for a safety and the game's only score in what is now the VHSL's lowest scoring playoff game on record since the current format started in 1970
Division 2
Radford 28, Lebanon 21
The Skinny: Radford 5-foot-10 QB Dontae Carter led the Bobcats with a TD pass and two 1-yard TD plunges. Lebanon was hurt by the loss during the game of top defender, DB Nick Bush to a knee injury and the Pioneers lost three fumbles and threw an interception that was picked off at the Bobcat 5.
Essex 8, Gretna 0
The Skinny: Essex denied Gretna a chance at a third straight state title when Cedric Thorne, with just one carry in the game for five yards prior, scored from 11 yards out with 10 seconds remaining. The game-winning drive went 73 yards on 12 plays. Gretna failed to score on first-and-goal from the 4 in the first half and lost three fumbles and missed a field goal on the Essex side of the field in the muddy game.
Division 3
Northside 28, Cave Spring 7
The Skinny: Northside senior RB Cameron Carter, a starter his freshman and sophomore year, skipped football last year to concentrate on track where he runs the 200 meters in 22.07 but he returned this year and has more than 2,000 yards including 247 yards and two touchdowns in the first half of this semifinal win. One of his scores went for 78 yards. He gained just one yard in the second half after suffering from the icy conditions.
Bruton 10, Handley 7
The Skinny: Heartbreak for the previously unbeaten Judges as they had not one, but two, field goal attempts hit the upright and bounce away. The first came from 31 yards out at the end of the first half with the score tied, 7-7, and the second came with 8.4 seconds left from 32 yards out. Less than a minute earlier, Ben Arbino had put Bruton ahead with an 18-yard field goal with 52.6 seconds left. The Judges quickly moved the ball to the Bruton 15 before the game-tying FG attempt.
Division 4
Broad Run 20, Powhatan 7
The Skinny: Spartan senior RB T.J. Peeler had a signature game as he gained 147 of his 174 yards in the second half in sloppy conditions, including a 20-yard score that put BR ahead after trailing for almost three quarters. QB Connor Jessop scored with 1:15 left to ice the game and give undefeated Broad Run a chance to win back-to-back state title.
Amherst County 23, Christiansburg 21
The Skinny: Amherst was nursing a 9-7 lead when DB Josh Braxton scooped up a fumble and returned it 20 yards for a TD with just 3.6 seconds left in the first half. Amherst's offense sputtered in the win with four turnovers and almost as many punts (5) as first downs (6). Jamal Glover went 60 yards on the game's first play from scrimmage and finished with 106 yards rushing for Amherst. Anthony Rose scored on a 46-yard QB keeper for Amherst. Those two plays accounted for half of the Lancers 205 total yards. Christiansburg scored late to cut the lead to two two but couldn't recover an onsides kick with 31 seconds left in the contest.
Division 5
Phoebus 10, Hanover 7
The Skinny: Hanover owned the first half with a 7-0 lead on Dean Cheatham's 1-yard run. Phoebus had just one first down at that point and 22 total yards, 14 of which came on their first snap. In the second half, however, the Phantoms controlled the ball and clock, holding it for more than 18 minutes with Hanover possessing it for less than six. After a third quarter FG, Phoebus finally went ahead with 8:36 left on Colby Goodwyn's TD. Goodwyn, with five rushes for no yards net in the first half, finished with 171 yards on 27 attempts in the second half. The defending state champion Phantoms have now won 29 straight games ... with their last loss in the state semifinals in 2007 at Stone Bridge.
Stone Bridge 23, Massaponax 20
The Skinny: The Bulldogs recovered five fumbles and forced an interception without turning the ball over in this game played in muddy conditions. SB took advantage of two huge pass plays -- a double pass on the second play from scrimmage on the afternoon which resulted in a Kyle Gouveia to Stan Johnson 60-yard TD and a Kyle Rody-to-Taylor Lambke 76-yard bomb in the third quarter that put SB up for good after Massaponax had gone ahead, 20-15, on a 45-yard punt return. This will be Stone Bridge's third state title appearance in five years
Division 6
Thomas Dale 20, Oscar Smith 17 (OT)
The Skinny: Oscar Smith's 28-game winning streak came to an end at Thomas Dale in conditions called an "absolute joke" by OS coach Richard Morgan. Oscar Smith wanted the game moved to take advantage of Alabama-bound QB Phillip Sims (2,914 yards, 32 TDs) but the VHSL said "play on" and Dale, which opened the year 1-2, went up 14-0 in the first quarter in the mud. OS fought back and tied the game with 7:45 left to force OT but Dale held Smith to a FG and then Demetrick Jackson (147 yards) went 8 yards for a score to end the game and set off a wild, muddy celebration.
Lake Braddock 27, Battlefield 24 (OT)
The Skinny: Talk about your wild finishes. Lake Braddock went ahead 21-14 with 14.2 seconds remaining on a Michael Nebrich 4-yard run -- Nebrich was a one-man wrecking crew with 305 yards passing and three scores and another 92 yards rushing -- but the Bobcats scored on the ensuring kickoff on a modified Cal-Stanford play as Bobo Beathard, while being tackled on a squib kick, pitched back to teammate Blaine Mason, who went 67 yards to score with 1 second remaining and send the game into overtime. In OT, after a Battlefield FG, Lake Braddock won it on a 15-yard Nebrich-to-Chris Williams TD pass.