Polls, Highlights & Changes
We lead off this week’s blog with a quick programming note!
District XI Football Chair Jason Zimmerman will make his annual appearance on this Thursday’s ATVN SportsTalk. There are a number of changes this year to the high school football playoff layout (especially for the 6A “largest schools” classification), as well as the site of the state championships and a number of other big issues that Jason will be speaking about.
You can email me, with your question or comment about local football and we may read it on this Thursday’s program. I can tell you that Jason and our local athletic directors are very busy with a number of challenging issues that they are dealing with at the local scholastic levels and we deeply appreciate Zimmerman giving us his time to appear on our show again this fall to address issues that affect us all.
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We have had a number of great sports broadcasts over the last month, including last week’s high school football game (a 5-point game in the “Christmas City Rivalry”) that was broadcast across the state on the PCN Network.
Here are highlights of some of our recent broadcasts on the Astound TV Network
- Astound Sports: Easton vs. Parkland (8/22)
- Astound Sports: Emmaus vs. Freedom (8/22)
- Astound Sports: Northern Yankees vs. Easton Falcons (7/22)
- Astound Sports: Iron Valley Orioles vs Martin’s Creek Creekers (7/22)
- Astound Sports: Iron Valley Orioles vs. Northern Yankees (7/22)
It’s a busy weekend for us coming up as we will broadcast the 2022 National Highland Games athletic championships as a part of ATVN’s coverage of this year’s Celtic Classic.
We will also be bringing you a big high school football game featuring undefeated (and the top team in our poll, see below) Emmaus taking on Bethlehem Catholic, who sports a 3-1 record coming into the contest and is also a top-ranked team in our EPC poll. The game will be live Friday night at 7pm on ATVN.
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Below we have high school polls for both leagues in the ATVN viewing area, along with the listing of all of the teams that are included in our respective categories.
EPC TOP 5
- Emmaus
- Nazareth
- Central Catholic
- Bethlehem Catholic
- (tie) Freedom / Parkland
Eligible Teams from our viewing area (in no particular order):
Northampton, Bethlehem Catholic, Easton, Freedom, Liberty, Dieruff, Allen, Allentown Central Catholic, Parkland, Whitehall, Emmaus, and Nazareth.
COLONIAL TOP 4
- Northern Lehigh
- Northwestern
- Southern Lehigh
- Notre Dame-GP
Eligible Teams from our viewing area (in no particular order):
Bangor, Pen Argyl, Notre Dame – Green Pond, Wilson, Catasauqua, Salisbury, Saucon Valley, Northwestern, Northern Lehigh and Southern Lehigh.
Be sure to check back to our website for next week’s poll results and come back frequently for any changes to our ongoing broadcast schedule information throughout the season.
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