When Buffalo Gap coach Rob Maxwell looked at his football squad he didn’t see them as the Group A, Division I defending champs riding a wave of momentum from an undefeated season — Maxwell looked at his team as if they never held a trophy.

It was just a lesson being taught to a JV player at the end of a practice, but it was one not lost on members of the Fort Defiance football team.

Stuarts Draft looks a lot different.

FISHERSVILLE
Wilson Memorial football has never won a state title. The drought may continue this season after the Hornets lost most of their offense and inherited a youth-packed roster.

STAUNTON
The Leemen of R.E. Lee High are the defending Southern Valley District champions, and a youthful squad with only six senior players.

Fishburne Academy wants to forget the last two football seasons.

Waynesboro coach Steve Isaacs hopes that the injury bug has had its fill for the season.

STUARTS DRAFT — The scoreboard was lit and fans pounded their feet on the metal bleachers during Stuarts Draft’s scrimmage against the defending Group A, Division 1 champion Buffalo Gap.

Less than a year after getting ousted by Stuarts Draft in the Region III semifinals, the R.E. Lee football team looked solid as it controlled the tempo of its scrimmage against Heritage-Lynchburg on Saturday night at Gypsy Hill Park.

If you want to see the future of Waynesboro football, you have to take a gander at the past. Most notably last season and, to be more specific, about an hour before the Little Giants’ first game in 2007 against Turner Ashby.