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By Steve Franklin

Staff Writer

LURAY - Tears poured down Dean Hogan’s cheeks as he walked off Luray’s Bulldog Field Friday night.

For the last nine months, Hogan and his teammates have taken notice of all the chatter about how pitiful Rappahannock County football is. They’ve heard the jokes and taunts. They’ve listened to calls from community members to do away with the program.

On Friday night, the boys from Rappahannock County came out of the locker room with something to prove.

For 48 minutes, Hogan and his Panthers teammates played the game of their lives, trading blow after blow with the Luray Bulldogs. They were on a mission to show that they can be competitive. To prove all their naysayers wrong.

And what better way to do so than with a victory over Luray - a team with a long, storied tradition of winning.

However, in the end, less than a foot separated the Panthers from the biggest victory in the three-year history of Rappahannock football.

On fourth-and-ten from the Bulldogs 37-yard line, Panthers quarterback Jonathan Butler hit Hogan on a curl pass with 42 seconds

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