"The top two teams from the region go to state, so this really doesn't determine much except where you play," Grayson County coach Charles Campbell said of today's final. "But who wants to play out in the middle of a coal field?"

When the Grayson Co. Blue Devils come down to Gate City to play those Lady Blue Devils, anyone who is proud to be from "the coalfields" need to be there in the Gate City stands on both sides and sitting up on the stage holding about three pieces of coal in one hand and a roll of 50's in the other and have all the ladies in the gym wearing all kinds of bling on their fingers and around their neck. And all the guys can have unlit cigars in their mouths and derbys on their heads. With signs up that read, "Region D: We keep Region C warm in the winter."