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Last week here at “The Shop” we brought you samples of our high school sports interviews featuring local coaches and players (more can be seen on our “SportsTalk” program).
This week, we have our pre-season high school football poll and the return of the “Pick 4” game predictions, along with samples of our interviews previewing the Lafayette College football season.
Now the unveiling of our pre-season high school football poll for District XI teams…
“ Big” Schools Poll
1) Parkland
2) Emmaus
3) Freedom
4) Easton
5) Nazareth
“Small” SCHOOL Poll
2) Palisades
4) Notre Dame
Other schools receiving votes: Saucon Valley
Our poll remains in its’ standard, tried-and-true format that we have utilized for many seasons. We will take the 400-male enrollment number as the cutoff for schools within the District XI/RCN-TV footprint. All of the schools above that number qualify as “big schools” in our 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” (below 400-male enrollment) consist of Bangor, Saucon Valley, Central Catholic, Bethlehem Catholic, Northwestern, Wilson, Palisades, Palmerton, Salisbury, Notre Dame, Pen Argyl, Northern Lehigh and Catasauqua. Each pollster will identify their top five teams in each group—the top school gets five points, the second team gets four points and so on, with an average score determining the order of teams in the poll. Check back each week here at “The Shop” to see if your favorite teams make our list!
Now, here are our RCN football experts weighing in on four of the biggest high school games this weekend…
| The “PICK 4” |
Catty at Bangor | Nazareth at Pocono Mountain East |
CCHS at Stroudsburg | Salisbury at Pen Argyl |
| Gary Laubach | Bangor | Nazareth | CCHS | Pen Argyl |
| Tony Cocca | Bangor | Pocono Mt-East | Stroudsburg | Pen Argyl |
| Keith Groller | Bangor | Nazareth | Stroudsburg | Salisbury |
| Chris Michael | Bangor | Nazareth | Stroudsburg | Salisbury |
