Local Vance County high school football will return soon. The first game for both Northern Vance and Southern Vance is Friday, August 21. For more than 50 straight years, WIZS 1450 AM has broadcast high school football live. The games are also broadcast live on wizs.com.
Northern Vance High School and Southern Vance High School will meet each other in the Optimist Bowl on Friday night, September 4, at 7:00pm. The gridiron match up will take place at Viking Stadium this season. Although the two schools previously played the bowl as the regular season finale, and did so since Southern opened its doors in the fall of 1990, the game has been played the last couple of years much earlier in the schedule because they are no longer in the same conference.
The Vikings have a new football coach this season. Cory Lea has had his squad participating in 7-on-7 games already.
The Raiders Athletic Director, Joseph Sharrow, has just completed his first year at the helm. Sharrow recently told The Daily Dispatch newspaper that he never missed a home sporting event in his first year nor did he miss a single away football or basketball game. Sharrow is multi-talented and has an obvious hands-on approach. He filled in as an announcer a couple of times last year for WIZS as well.
