“Only two things happen if you go on the corner,” Marshawn Powell said. “You die within two, three months, or you go to jail. I don’t want to do either one of those.”

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.