You are already the odds on favorite for next year. It is not suppose to be like this! Hope you take a moment to appreciate being one of 3 teams in the history of VHSLFB to win 4 straight.
They would have obliterated that record! This was a historic team. Just imagine if Manchester wouldn’t have ended the Hermitage game in the 2nd quarter. Only 8 points short of the season scoring record. STATE CHAMPIONS and in convincing fashion. congratulations, you should have been and you most certainly are. There are a million stories about people or teams that could have been. With that being said, Kudos to that coaching staff and group of kids for keeping focus and completing the journey. Anything less would have been considered falling short for this group. Which they did continually and through the post season. They had the talent to win in dominating fashion. That schedule opens with a game against Highland Springs.Manchester did what they were suppose to do.
The Lancers will begin their now much-anticipated offseason program in a couple of weeks to get ready for the 2021 season. I can’t ask for anything else as a coach.” Seeing development in kids turn into success. “The growth of this year’s team, not just physically, but mentally as well, that’s why we coach. “They’re already talking about unfinished business,” Hall said. Next year’s Lancers already have a head start in motivation. Over the last four years, the Lancers were 43-5 with that state title in 2018. Hall feels for all of his players, but especially his seniors who have given so much to the program. We just want to make sure we represent and play as best as we possibly can." “We say ‘804’ but it's just really this entire region. "We took the approach of we got to play for all of those teams that are in this region,” Johnson continued. The Springers automatically advance to the Class 5 state semifinals and will carry with them some of the hopes of their opponents who didn’t get the chance. Not a sigh of relief but kind of like oh my God.
"When it officially came out, it was a deep breath,” said Highland Springs head coach Loren Johnson. The meeting, much like the season, ended quickly. Hall broke the official news to his team on Monday night. “They didn’t want to believe it just like we didn’t want to believe it,” Manchester head coach Tom Hall said of his players and coaches. Subsequent testing revealed a positive COVID result, and contact tracing back to Friday night’s game wasn’t going to leave the Lancers with enough players to field a team. This Saturday was to be the postseason match-up everyone wanted to see.Īfter their late-night win over Hermitage in the regional semifinals, one of the Lancer players began to feel ill. The Springers notched a come-from-behind victory, but it wasn’t a playoff game. In 2019, they did meet in the regular season. Obviously, the two teams did not meet that season, but the debate raged about which team would win. The Highland Springs Springers capped off a run of four consecutive state titles at the Class 5 level. The Manchester Lancers had six shutouts that year and topped 47 points in all but two of those wins in Class 6. Both Highland Springs in Henrico and Manchester in Chesterfield won state championships with undefeated 15-0 seasons. Back in 2018, metro-Richmond had two of the best high school football programs the area had ever seen.
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