HS Football Playoffs Week 3
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Mother Nature threw another curveball at us again this past weekend—the weather forecast caused District XI officials to postpone all of Friday’s games and push everything back to Saturday.
That being said, two of our three broadcast playoff games were relatively close contests…
As we move closer to our “final” poll of the season, here’s a look at where things stand (both polls had one significant change following last weekend’s games)…
“Big” Schools Poll
1) Emmaus
2) Freedom
3) Easton
4) Parkland
5) Nazareth
“Small” School Poll
3) Northwestern
4) Notre Dame
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.
We are down to the final few teams remaining in our RCN Viewing area. RCN’s Gary Laubach, Tony Cocca and myself team with the Morning Call’s Keith Groller to weigh in on games involving the four teams remaining in District XI—all four teams are matched-up against each other high school games coming up this weekend…
| The “PICK 4” |
Saucon Valley vs. Bethlehem Catholic | Emmaus vs. Freedom |
| Gary Laubach | Bethlehem Catholic | Freedom |
| Tony Cocca | Bethlehem Catholic | Freedom |
| Keith Groller | Bethlehem Catholic | Emmaus |
| Chris Michael | Bethlehem Catholic | Freedom |
A reminder, the RCN pollster with the least number of correct predictions will have to do a couple Fortnite dances on our live “SportsTalk” show in a few weeks. Tune in to Thursday’s show to check out who should be limbering up for some possible on-air routines. Also, check back next week here at “The Shop” for more high school football notes, polls, video highlights and predictions.
