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Looking back, looking forward The Watauga Democrat and The Mountain Times will feature a special section in its Friday and Thursday issues, respectively, of this past season’s football season for both Appalachian State University and Watauga High School. Be sure to pick up your collector’s issue.

Pioneers seek to avenge losses to Ashe
It’s never a good idea to get swept by anybody. When it’s a border rival, the idea gets even worse. Both Watauga basketball teams face that possibility Friday night when they host Ashe County at Lentz-Eggers Gym. The girls’ game begins around 6:30 p.m., while the boys’ game, theoretically, starts around 8 p.m. Read more.

Mountaineers picked to play in postseason games
Appalachian State receiver Dexter Jackson and offensive guard Kerry Brown will play in postseason all-star games in the next few weeks. Read more.

Mountaineers take on Hogs
Arkansas is big and they’ve been on a roll. They’re also waiting for Appalachian State for a Saturday showdown in Little Rock, Ark. Read more.

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December 19, 2007
ASU tames Cavaliers
Appalachian State, playing for the first time in 16 days, needed a victory. Still feeling the sting of a three-game losing streak, the Mountaineers found some healing in an 82-77 victory over a scrappy UVa.-Wise team that never let the Mountaineers lead by more than 10 points the entire game. Read more.

Commentary: Quest for four starts with talent
It was my first day back to the office when I was asked “Can they win four?” As in Appalachian State’s football team. As in winning four straight national championships. Read more.

WHS boys sweep meet opponents
LENOIR — Watauga’s boys swim team swept South Caldwell and Alexander Central, while the girls team finished second to South Caldwell in a meet held last week at the Lenoir Aquatic Center. Read more.

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December 17, 2007

National champions Appalachian State University coach Jerry Moore holds up the FCS national championship trophy, as Josh Jackson celebrates following the Mountaineer win over the University of Delaware’s Blue Hens Friday evening. The Mountaineers claimed their third consecutive FCS national championship title after defeating the Blue Hens 49-21 in Chattanooga. Photo by Mark Mitchell

Dynasty:

Mountaineers climb third title peak

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Appalachian State started the 2007 season with one of the biggest victories in college football history. Fourteen weeks later, the Mountaineers completed the season in a dominating style that one would expect of a two-time defending national champion. Few teams have come close to stopping Appalachian State’s explosive offense. Michigan, that opponent on opening day, couldn’t do it. Delaware, Appalachian State’s opponent in the Football Championship Subdivision championship game Friday night at Finley Stadium, couldn’t do it either. Appalachian State overwhelmed the Blue Hens’ defense, scoring four touchdowns in the first half and then cruising to a 49-21 victory in the FCS championship in front of a Finley Stadium record 23,010 fans, more than half of them wearing Appalachian State black and gold, at Finley Stadium. Read more.

Team speed helps ASU to victory
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — It seems the only thing that can stop the Appalachian State offense is a broken bus. Anything that is slower than a machine that rides on an interstate had a lot more trouble.

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Key guys make key plays
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — To win in the playoffs, key players must have big games. Kevin Richardson and Armanti Edwards delivered for Appalachian State. Read more.

This one’s bigger than Michigan
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — They said it following their win in Ann Arbor, Mich. They repeated it Friday night in Chattanooga. Beating Michigan is great. Winning a national championship is better.

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Blue Hens needed touchdowns to keep up with Appalachian

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Delaware head coach K.C. Keeler knew that his Blue Hens had to score touchdowns to keep up with Appalachian Stats's high-powered offense. Read more.

ASU crowd crowds football field

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Delaware coach K.C. Keeler would have liked to have his players shake hands with the Mountaineers following Friday's game. However, the Blue Hens never got the chance.

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Breitenstein settles for Shrine Bowl role
SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Watauga standout running back Eric Breitenstein is used to being the Pioneers’ go-to guy. At the Shrine Bowl Saturday, Breitenstein became a role player. Read more.

WHS boys win, girls fall to S.C.
SAWMILLS — Zach Greene scored 25 points and Chad Eppley made a critical three-point play to lift Watauga’s boys basketball team to a 64-61 victory over South Caldwell in the Pioneers’ first Northwestern 4-A Conference game of the season. Read more.