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Before we get to our football conversations, a reminder to keep checking out our next few “SportsTalk” programs (on TV and our podcast here on the RCN website), as we will continue to have fall preview features on fall sports teams OTHER than football in both the Lehigh and Delaware Valley areas, in addition to highlighting the top teams and players on the gridiron as well.
Now, we present our first in-season look at our high school football poll (as voted by select media members, coaches & administrators within the RCN-TV viewing area) and the return of the “Pick 4” game predictions for games that will be played this weekend in the season’s opening weekend of contests.
For this week’s high school football poll for District XI teams…
“Big” Schools Poll
1) Freedom
2) Parkland
3) Nazareth
4) Easton
5) Emmaus
“Small” Schools Poll
2) Notre Dame
4) Northwestern
Other schools receiving multiple votes: Palmerton
Our poll remains with the standard format that we have utilized for many seasons. For the largest school districts within the District XI/RCN-TV footprint, they qualify as the “big schools” in our pigskin poll. These schools consist of Parkland, Liberty, Allen, Easton, Emmaus, Dieruff, Freedom, Stroudsburg, Pleasant Valley, Northampton, Nazareth, Whitehall, Southern Lehigh, East Stroudsburg-South, and Pocono Mountain East & West.
“Small schools” for our poll consist of schools from Bangor, Saucon Valley, Central Catholic, Bethlehem Catholic, Northwestern, Wilson, Palisades, Palmerton, Salisbury, Notre Dame, Pen Argyl, Northern Lehigh and Catasauqua.
Check back each week here at “The Shop” to see if your favorite teams make our list!
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Now, here are our RCN football experts (along with myself) weighing in on four of the biggest high school games this weekend:
| The “PICK 4” | Freedom vs. Bethlehem Catholic *on RCN-TV |
Catasauqua vs. Northern Lehigh | Pen Argyl vs Saucon Valley | Nazareth vs. Emmaus |
| Gary Laubach | Freedom | Northern Lehigh | Saucon Valley | Nazareth |
| Tony Cocca | Freedom | Northern Lehigh | Saucon Valley | Nazareth |
| Keith Groller | Bethlehem Catholic | Northern Lehigh | Pen Argyl | Nazareth |
| John Leone | Freedom | Northern Lehigh | Saucon Valley | Nazareth |
| Chris Michael | Freedom | Northern Lehigh | Saucon Valley | Nazareth |
Keep following along each week here at “The Shop” and on “RCN SportsTalk” to see which of our football experts correctly predicts the most high school games this fall.
