HS Football Playoffs Week 2
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We are down to the final weeks of our high school football polls and our “Pick 4” contest!
We will get a good read of how our experts did in our poll as a number of our top teams will be squaring off against each other this weekend in District XI semifinal matchups (four of them will be on RCN-TV).
“Big” Schools Poll
1) Freedom
2) Emmaus
3) Easton
4) Parkland
5) Nazareth
“Small” School Poll
2) Notre Dame
3) Northwestern
Our poll structure remains with the same structure that we’ve utilized for many seasons. We take the 400-male enrollment number as the cutoff for schools within the District XI/RCN-TV broadcast area. All of the schools above that number qualify as “big schools” in our poll. These schools consist of Parkland, Liberty, Allen, Easton, Emmaus, Liberty, Dieruff, Pocono Mountain West, Freedom, Stroudsburg, Pleasant Valley, Northampton, Nazareth, Whitehall, Southern Lehigh, East Stroudsburg-South, and Pocono Mountain East. The five schools receiving the most votes are listed above.
Small schools” (below 400-male enrollment) consist of both Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and Colonial League teams — Bangor, Saucon Valley, Central Catholic, Bethlehem Catholic, Northwestern, Wilson, Palisades, Palmerton, Salisbury, Notre Dame, Pen Argyl, Northern Lehigh and Catasauqua. The top four vote-getters are named.
RCN’s Gary Laubach, Tony Cocca and myself team with the Morning Call’s Keith Groller to weigh-in on four of the biggest District XI high school games coming up this weekend…
| The “PICK 4” |
Pottsville vs. Bethlehem Catholic | Emmaus vs. Easton | Freedom vs. Parkland | Saucon Valley vs. Northwestern Lehigh |
| Gary Laubach | Bethlehem Catholic | Emmaus | Parkland | Northwestern Lehigh |
| Tony Cocca | Bethlehem Catholic | Emmaus | Parkland | Northwestern Lehigh |
| Keith Groller | Bethlehem Catholic | Emmaus | Parkland | Saucon Valley |
| Chris Michael | Bethlehem Catholic | Emmaus | Parkland | Saucon Valley |
Check back next week here at “The Shop” for more high school football notes, polls, video highlights and predictions.
