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Football playoff pairings up in air
By Dave Rogers
The Baytown Sun Published November 4, 2009 Area football teams have their playoff tickets with a week left in the regular season.
Unfortunately, most of them must wait until the weekend to find out who they’ll meet in bidistrict the weekend of Nov. 12-14.
District 19-4A competition ended last weekend because of a schedule hiccup brought about two years ago by the late consolidation of Smiley and Forest Brook into North Forest.
Crosby won the district with a perfect 7-0 record, followed by Dayton at 6-1, Goose Creek Memorial at 5-2 and Barbers Hill at 4-3.
They will meet teams from District 20-4A in next week’s bidistrict matches, but the 20-4A picture remains unresolved.
Currently, Port Neches-Groves, state-ranked at 9-0 and 6-0 in district, is in first. Beaumont Central is second at 5-1. Vidor and Nederland are tied for third at 3-3 with three other schools – Lumberton, Ozen and Livingston — tied for fifth at 2-4 and all still in the playoff picture.
It’s possible that 20-4A could wind up in a five-way tie for third as this final week’s schedule has PN-G at Central, Nederland at Lumberton and Vidor at Livingston Friday. Little Cypress-Mauriceville (the only team eliminated from the playoffs) is at Ozen Saturday.
Wins by Nederland and Vidor would put them in the playoffs with PN-G and Central, two schools that have already clinched post-season berths.
Barring upsets, that would create the following playoff pairings:
GCM vs. Central and Crosby vs. Nederland in the Division I (big school) bracket and Barbers Hill vs. PN-G and Dayton vs. Vidor in the Division II (small school) bracket.
“We’re scouting both Central and PN-G,” GCM coach Bret Boyd said Monday, noting PN-G, which is the fourth-largest school among 20-4A’s current top four teams, could get kicked up to the big school playoffs if both Nederland and Vidor lose Friday.
With one regular season game to go in 21-5A, three teams — West Brook, North Shore and Baytown Lee — have clinched spots with Port Arthur Memorial and Channelview fighting for the final one.
Sterling is the only school eliminated from the playoffs in 21-5A, but both it and Lee could play spoiler this weekend.
A Sterling win at Channelview Friday would end the Falcons’ playoff chances, regardless of what happens in the Lee-Port Arthur game at Stallworth Stadium.
However, if Channel-view beats Sterling and Lee beats Port Arthur, Channelview would tie Port Arthur for fourth place and advance to the playoffs by virtue of its win over Port Arthur last week.
In District 23-2A, Anahuac is in second place behind East Chambers and owns a playoff spot. It’s impossible to speculate on its playoff opponent, since the Panthers’ district has a first-round playoff bye and must await the bidistrict results between Districts 21-2A and 22-2A.
While 19-4A has ended its district competition, both Crosby and Dayton have non-district games remaining.
Crosby will host 1-8 Bay City Friday night while Dayton travels to play 5-3 Austin LBJ Saturday in Austin.
The Baytown Sun Published November 4, 2009 Area football teams have their playoff tickets with a week left in the regular season.
Unfortunately, most of them must wait until the weekend to find out who they’ll meet in bidistrict the weekend of Nov. 12-14.
District 19-4A competition ended last weekend because of a schedule hiccup brought about two years ago by the late consolidation of Smiley and Forest Brook into North Forest.
Crosby won the district with a perfect 7-0 record, followed by Dayton at 6-1, Goose Creek Memorial at 5-2 and Barbers Hill at 4-3.
They will meet teams from District 20-4A in next week’s bidistrict matches, but the 20-4A picture remains unresolved.
Currently, Port Neches-Groves, state-ranked at 9-0 and 6-0 in district, is in first. Beaumont Central is second at 5-1. Vidor and Nederland are tied for third at 3-3 with three other schools – Lumberton, Ozen and Livingston — tied for fifth at 2-4 and all still in the playoff picture.
It’s possible that 20-4A could wind up in a five-way tie for third as this final week’s schedule has PN-G at Central, Nederland at Lumberton and Vidor at Livingston Friday. Little Cypress-Mauriceville (the only team eliminated from the playoffs) is at Ozen Saturday.
Wins by Nederland and Vidor would put them in the playoffs with PN-G and Central, two schools that have already clinched post-season berths.
Barring upsets, that would create the following playoff pairings:
GCM vs. Central and Crosby vs. Nederland in the Division I (big school) bracket and Barbers Hill vs. PN-G and Dayton vs. Vidor in the Division II (small school) bracket.
“We’re scouting both Central and PN-G,” GCM coach Bret Boyd said Monday, noting PN-G, which is the fourth-largest school among 20-4A’s current top four teams, could get kicked up to the big school playoffs if both Nederland and Vidor lose Friday.
With one regular season game to go in 21-5A, three teams — West Brook, North Shore and Baytown Lee — have clinched spots with Port Arthur Memorial and Channelview fighting for the final one.
Sterling is the only school eliminated from the playoffs in 21-5A, but both it and Lee could play spoiler this weekend.
A Sterling win at Channelview Friday would end the Falcons’ playoff chances, regardless of what happens in the Lee-Port Arthur game at Stallworth Stadium.
However, if Channel-view beats Sterling and Lee beats Port Arthur, Channelview would tie Port Arthur for fourth place and advance to the playoffs by virtue of its win over Port Arthur last week.
In District 23-2A, Anahuac is in second place behind East Chambers and owns a playoff spot. It’s impossible to speculate on its playoff opponent, since the Panthers’ district has a first-round playoff bye and must await the bidistrict results between Districts 21-2A and 22-2A.
While 19-4A has ended its district competition, both Crosby and Dayton have non-district games remaining.
Crosby will host 1-8 Bay City Friday night while Dayton travels to play 5-3 Austin LBJ Saturday in Austin.