“It took us a minute to wake up,” said Blue Ridge coach Bill Ramsey.  “But once we woke up, we played well.“

In a highly-anticipated matchup between two of central Virginia’s top teams, Round 1 went to Blue Ridge.

That stretch starts tonight at 6 p.m. when the Mavericks host the Barons for the first of two hotly-contested games between the two rivals from different classifications.