This 2009 edition of the PikeView Panthers are writing their names in their schools history books.

They can add another chapter, if they beat fourth ranked Frankfort.

The PikeView Panthers did what everyone said last week was the impossible…upsetting No. 5 Westside.

“It was pretty much the greatest feeling I ever hard,” Panther junior Tanner Ratcliff said.

Junior linebacker Tyler Farley agrees.

“It felt great,” Farley said. “It feels even better considering we went 2-8 last year.”

PikeView’s 7-3 record clinched the 12th seed in this year’s playoffs. It was the first time since 1997 PikeView has made a playoff appearance.

“I think we’re in new territory that none of us have experienced as players and coaches and even the school,” head coach Jeff Damewood said.

PikeView went 2-8 last year and the previous four years before that; they went a combined 1-39. So why are they all of a sudden winning?

“I guess brotherhood,” Ratcliff said. “The past couple of years we haven’t really worked together as a team. We use to have one awesome ‘phenom’ on the team, but this year everybody’s contributing,” Ratcliff added.

The Panthers will now travel four hours north to face No. 4 Frankfort, but if you ask any of these big cats, playing the role as underdog does not bother them.

“We have no pressure on us,” senior quarterback Ben Nester said. “These guys (Frankfort) have been here before, but we haven’t.”

Ratcliff thinks the Panthers are crawling under Frankfort’s radar.

“I think they might be under estimating us because we’re the 12th team and they’re big No. 4,” Ratcliff said. “So we have nothing to use.”