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In the years we’ve been doing the “Pick 4” high school football prediction contest, we usually keep the predictions’ themselves, for the most part, exclusively here on the RCN-TV website, while we post the weekly standings only on our TV show.
However, a couple times each season, we usually like to share the standings with our internet readers, just to give you an idea of how your favorite RCN personalities are doing with this year’s contest.
One of those traditional times would be this week, as we approach the midway point of the regular season. Our up-to-the-minute standings are as follows…
Tony Cocca 14-2
Chris Michael 12-4
Keith Groller 11-5
John Leone 11-5
Gary Laubach 10-6
Keep in mind, there’s plenty of time (and games) left with the second half of the season and several weeks of the playoffs yet to come. Also, it is a tight horse race (as usually stays that way into the postseason) between all participants and should make for an exciting finish in November.
Continue to watch our weekly show and hear our “SportsTalk” podcasts (found here on the RCN-TV website) for the latest standings (along with commentary from those participating in the contest).
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” | Parkland vs. Liberty | Dieruff vs. Pleasant Valley | Saucon Valley vs. Northern Lehigh | Bethlehem Catholic vs. Nazareth |
| Gary Laubach | Parkland | Pleasant Valley | Saucon Valley | Bethlehem Catholic |
| Tony Cocca | Parkland | Dieruff | Saucon Valley | Nazareth |
| Keith Groller | Parkland | Dieruff | Saucon Valley | Nazareth |
| John Leone | Parkland | Pleasant Valley | Saucon Valley | Nazareth |
| Chris Michael | Parkland | Dieruff | Saucon Valley | Nazareth |
Keep following along each week here at “The Shop” for our predictions ahead of the weekend’s high school action and tune-in to our “RCN SportsTalk” television show for the latest “standings” to see which of our local football personalities are most correctly predicting the high school games this fall.
Also, be sure to check out the “fan voting” section of RCN-TV’s games each week here on our website to let your opinions be known as well!
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Now, here’s our look at our high school football “big” and “small schools” polls (as voted by select media members, coaches & administrators for District XI teams)…
“Big” Schools Poll
1) Nazareth
2) Easton
3) Freedom
5) Parkland
“Small” Schools Poll
2) Notre Dame
3) Northwestern
Each pollster identifies their top five teams among the “big schools” and the top four squads for the “smaller” group—the top school gets five (or four for the small schools) points, the second team gets four (or three) points and so on, with an average score determining the order of teams in both of the polls.
Check back each week here at “The Shop” to see if your favorite teams make our list!
Programming Alert!!!
Cleary, RCN-TV will be broadcasting the best EPC game of the weekend with our “Big School” & “Small School” number one teams playing each other (Bethlehem Catholic/Nazareth, Friday, tape delayed at 9:30pm), but the best Colonial League match-up will be a pair of 3-1 teams (Saucon Valley & Northern Lehigh) squaring off–the winner staying one game back of the top spot in the conference.
We’ll not only have a preview of that game from one of the key people who will be involved in that Friday contest on our “SportsTalk” show this week, but he will be telling us about a special ceremony that will also be taking place at that game, along with a couple other surprises. Tune in Thursday at 7pm on RCN (or hear our podcast, posted on Friday) to hear the big news!!!
