PIKEVILLE, KY - It will be a weekend in which veteran coaches and their youthful proteges will take the field to show that tradition continues on in the 25th annual Pike County Bowl.

The Community Trust / WYMT Pike County Bowl games will be out front this weekend on the prep football schedule with several marquis matchups taking place over the two night extravaganze at Belfry’s Cam Stadium and Pikeville’s W. C. Hambly Athletic Complex.

Tonight’s first night match-ups at Belfry are two good ones for fans of East Kentucky football when Phelps takes on East Ridge in the first gameat 6:05 p.m. and then titns collide when Belfry and Boyd County meet at 8:35 p.m.

The first game tonight features a battle led by former teammates as Phelsp Coach Jesse Peck and East Ridge Coach Brad Allen, both former teammates at Pikeville College, meet head to head in the Pike County Bowl for the first time.

“It’ll be odd seeing Brad on the other side” said Peck of his foremr teammate. “But that doesn’t mean that both of us aren’t going to try to get the win.”

Belfry comes off of a stunning first week road loss to Prestonsburg and hopes that the firendly confines of CAM provides what they need to get back to their normal winning ways.

Saturday night brings two big matchups as well as Pike County Centraland their new coach, veteran John Chapman takes on Shelby Valley and their new head mentor, former Belfry Stadnout and Phillip Haywood protege Jeff Norman. That game gets underway at 6:05.

The second game sees a familiar name back on the Pikeville sidelines with new Pikeville Coach Ben Howard, son of former legendary Pikeville Head Coach Hilliard Howard on the sidelines against a very powerful Kentucky football power in Covington Holy Cross. That am gets underway at 8:35 p.m.

In addition to the football games, the Pike County Bowl Queen will be crowned and the 2009 Pike County Bowl Legends honorre, Gene Davis will be recognized.