Occasionally, it’s not your day. Forget about how well you prepared, how rested or how healthy, or what you had for breakfast. Sometimes that moment you walk into work, someone says something to you the wrong way, or messes up the report despite telling them how important it was to make it right. For whatever reason, it just doesn’t work out. So you rise and grind one more day, guzzle coffee the same way and hope the result is different. That is essentially what happened to the Mountaineers last Saturday. For every positive play, a negative closely followed. Now it does not matter what happens this weekend. No amount of touchdowns or scoring margin will help us change anything that has happened in the past. But we can look forward to the future. The athletic department has installed it’s largest set of temporary bleachers for the 2017 season and oh yeah, a brand spanking new video board awaits the fans this Saturday. This weekend also presents itself as a tune up game before conference play starts next weekend. It’s the last chance for the Mountaineers to get it right before the games really start counting. The foremost goal for this program every season is to win the conference championship and this season, it starts a week earlier than it ever has while Appalachian has been in the Sun Belt. One more game for certain true freshman to get the kinks out and gel with their new teammates and one last first time to start a season for outgoing seniors who have been a part of one the most memorable runs in program history.

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Rock Boys: 48
Southern Belles: 3

App - 45
SSU - 10

App - 52
SSU - 3

APP 63
Sav St 6

App State 63
Savannah State 0

App: 49
SSU: 7

App 56
SSU 6

52-7, and I may be a bit low on our score

34-10 Apps

As many as the play calling allows - 7.

App: 56
Savannah State: -3

App St - 56
SSU - 0

App 45
WHO? 6

45-0

APP 49
SSU 7

ASU-51
Sav St- 0

App > 58
SSU > 9

App St - 54
Sav St - 3

App- 70
SSU- 7