 Last season's 42-28 victory over Beachwood in the state finals put the pride back in Pineville football, giving the Panthers their fourth state championship. Now, banners and trophies are nice, but ask anyone around the program and they'll tell you that last year is in the rearview mirror and there's a new destination to reach. EKB's McKayla College tells us more about the defending class 1A champions as we go in the huddle. In the huddle is brought to you by A-plus Rintles and by Rintle Throw. We did it. We did it. I don't know what else you want me to say. We got it done. We got that. We were down in this game. Just over nine short months ago, the Pikeville Panthers picked up their first state football championship in over two decades. Under the direction of head coach Chris McNamee, the Panthers prepare to keep the traditions and touchdowns around as they prepare for the 2016 football season. Well, our slogan or whatever this year is be the standard. I think those guys last year set the standard and we want to live up to that and we know that there's a lot of hard work involved and we've worked hard in the offseason and we've got a good start so far to our preseason, but we still have a long way to go with a lot of holes to fill, but we're excited about getting started. We're just going to depend on the hard work that we put in there in the offseason. We got a lot of young talent coming up from the junior high class and we've got almost 50 kids on the team so we'll have enough kids to replace and work just as hard as guys like Derek and AJ and then work last year. We took it one week at a time and that's what we have to do this year because we've got a younger group. We've got to focus on each Friday night and continue to work to get better each week and then hopefully when we get there we're playing well or healthy and we'll have another shot, but it's a long process and we're looking forward to the journey. We want to repeat. Winning it last year just made us want to win it even more this year so we're just going to try to take it game by game because that was our big goal last year, win each game, don't worry about the future, but as we did our ultimate goal is to win state championship. Hell Pikeville, we're going to go back to back. City of Prestonsburg, August 19th right here.