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Welcome to the official forum on high school football for the 2018 season.
During the off-season let’s talk about players, recruiting news, teams and everything about high school football.
During the season each week let’s talk about match-ups and how teams did. Let us know what player(s) stood out each week.
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@buddy you know why you stayed until the end of the q town/PV game. You thought the SOL team would fold because you believe the SOL is inferior. Such a NP hater…..”Almost guarantee it won’t be at NP field. On that assumption, hope it’s at Souderton.”
Wish I could bet and take your money. If you think they won’t play at Crawford Stadium next week I do have to check your NP hate card because obviously you have no clue.
Harrisburg 42 Hempfield 0 FINAL
So how did Q-town look, keep in mind they beat Central Bucks East, Souderton and Central Bucks West to start the season, not exactly killers row, but Souderton gave North Penn their toughest league game. They will need their A game for next week though, key for them is playing clean, control the clock, no penalties, no turnovers and solid D.
You guys should have two options to live stream the Pennsbury @ Garnet Valley game tonight @ 7p
https://portal.stretchinternet.com/gvfootball/
http://www.wbcb1490.com/watch-pennsbury-high-school-football-live-on-wbcb-1490am/
CEC and HSOTF game at 6p on same above wbcb 1490 web site.
A little preclude before settling in to watch LSU kick some ‘bama butt…………
Quakertown plays good D & has above average line play, that keeps them competitive. I can’t remember a game they gave up more than 17 points. If they play clean the can be a tough out. Upper Dublin is clearly a top 5A contender, Cheltenham is a program on the rise they have always had the skill people.
@ Smoll:
I was the PV/Q-town game. Stayed the whole game. Why? Don’t know, I’m obviously not all there.
Good game most of the time. Did not expect that result. Guess it shows difference between the PAC and SOL league.
@Kevin:
Garnet will “save face” in a big way, Take it to the bank.
@et al:
Game of the week might be NP/Neshaminy. Redskins has improved exponentially. .
Almost guarantee it won’t be at NP field. On that assumption, hope it’s at Souderton.
Question: will C’ville have a close game?
Interesting that SOL American sent 3 teams to the District Playoffs One to 6A where #11 Quakertown knocked off Perkiomen Valley, and two to 5A where both Upper Dublin and Chelthenham both won. So all 3 teams from the weak sister of the SOL won, maybe it’s not such a down league after all.
In 6A D1 last night……SOL 4-2 (one loss to another SOL team), Chesmont 3-0, Central and PAC combined 0-5. Let’s see in Garnet can save a little face for the Central league tonight.
Where is the guy who talked about how good Haverford was and that NP and these other schools would
Be in trouble? Smh.
@Buddy it does have lights and a scoreboard however the only thing you stated corectly is the limited
It would help if we knew what class you were referencing. Just to get into the state playoffs half of the District 3 classes require teams to play thru 4 rounds. It’s the largest district in the state apart from the WPIAL.
This year it looks like District 3 gets a bye between districts and states for 6A and 2A. For 6A, I think there are 17 teams in the class and I don’t know if the PIAA gave them 4 weeks to play that bracket. Many districts would have a 10 or 12 team field there (4 rounds). District 1 has 16 teams out of the 25 teams in their 5A class, for example. I think a fair compromise would be that if you’re allotted 4 weeks and choose to only invite 8 teams that you have to play those district playoff rounds in weeks 11, 12, and 13, instead of week 10, 11, and 12 (how it is now). That lessens the impact of the bye week (probably for Harrisburg) so that it’s before the district playoffs instead of after them.
For 2A, there’s no reason the district should have a bye because they don’t need 3 weeks at that class. I couldn’t even guess at a reason on that one. Although they could give York Catholic a month-long bye and it’s not going to help them stay with Southern Columbia.
As for the District 3 conspiracy, half the time I hear it’s a conspiracy to send them out west, other times it’s a conspiracy to keep them in the East. I wish someone would tell me which conspiracy to believe. It’s a huge district geographically and in number of school districts. It’s in the center and eastern half of the state… but so is most of the state’s population. So it could really go either way. You have to beat both a Philly school and a WPIAL school most years anyway so I’m not sure it matters all that much.
Cedar Cliff 50 Exeter Township 6 FINAL
I believe there is a proposal in the works for a long term athletics update/upgrade at NP. It would include improving all fields including the stadium. This would include snack stands, bathrooms, signage, and turf in the stadium. It would take multiple years. That’s what I have heard. NP did re-do all of the athletic fields some years back and built the small turf stadium. I would say NPs grass field has at least held up better. I remember the 03 team played all home games at Wisahickon after the first game destroyed the field.
Nice win by Neshaminy tonight. Players continue to improve. Coaching staff doing a really nice job. Hats off to both.
Central Dauphin 42 Central York 6 Halftime (Mercy rule in effect)
Central Dauphin 49 Central York 21 FINAL
@Jeff H and @D3 Mike
That’s okay have byes in district play for top seeds I would like to see more of that since there are 0-10, 1-9, 2-8 teams in playoffs. What I don’t get is in other classes for district 3 if they win districts they aren’t playing the following week in the state tournament? Why not play district 2 the week after and have a District 4 have a bye or any other district have a bye in states? Just an example. Or play any other district why is it only district 3 have byes in the state tournament and nobody else? Having rest helps out any team. That’s all I’m saying. Say next year district 11 get those byes? Most likely not cause district 3 will get them again since PIAA headquarters are in District 3 and they will try to help them out as much as possible like moving them out west so they don’t have to play Philly schools now until the state finals
@ Jeff H Seneca Valley lost to PCC earlier in the year and then defeated Mt. Lebanon by 3. PCC Seneca Valley should be a good game, probably a toss up but Seneca Valley has been playing well so a victory would not be surprising at all. I only have PCC rated one notch higher because they did win the head to head earlier this year. Maybe I just got some bad info from the media but didn’t Freedom lose handily to Liberty last week or did they not play starters? If they threw in the towel then I should have rated them higher but no way to know that just looking at scores. That’s why I moved them down a few spots. Ridley could put up a fight but I think NP is at least 2 TD favorite in this one. Never know when you have the rain like tonight though. Rain seems to help the underdog. I think NA and Gateway are pretty even. I agree that PCC is down this year. The WPIAL is normally pretty tough though with NA the best this year. I rated the WPIAL teams a notch or two higher based on schedule and past performance but a few eastern team could be right there too. Hard to tell with such different competition.
Kevin:
I don’t think it has lights. That’s why they played Pennsbury on Sat. afternoon.
I know it has no scoreboard. limited seating is an understatement.
Jeff:
You gave one of the reasons in you rebuttal.
Big doesn’t mean wealthy.
Actually, North Penn does have a very nice turf field (with lights). It used for field hockey, soccer, lax and I’m guessing softball and baseball practice in the spring if needed. It is also stripped for football, maybe the freshman and JV have games there, and I guessing varsity uses it for practice. The varsity team did play their week 3 home game against Pennsbury on that field on a Saturday afternoon after Friday’s night’s game was postponed due to weather. There are bleachers, but very limited. I’m guessing why would they want to spend the $$$ for a new turf field for what, simply 5 to 8 or so home football games a year???
NP may not be Main Line levels of wealthy but they’re not hurting for cash either. Plenty of schools in less wealthy areas have converted to turf.
@Buddy – I find it hard to believe NP can’t afford to put in a turf field if they truly wanted to, seems to me they have enough alums and boosters that could raise money for the field if necessary, just seems odd that one of the largest school districts in the state with much higher than average teacher salaries can’t afford a turf field. Any of the NP faithful want to chime in on this?
@ Kevin:
Yep, heard the same thing about the NP game. Apparently, 3 people peed on the field, hence it is un-playable. Absurd!
@ Jeff:
About 10 years ago ( maybe 15 now) NP re-did the field at a million dollars ( that’s what I heard, hard to believe it was that much).
NP was trying to keep it real grass, but it certainly is not working out. That’s why they had to move tonight’s game.
And no, they can’t obviously afford a turf field. NP isn’t as wealthy as you apparently think.
From Twitter (NPSD and Kyle Berger): The NPHS Football Playoff game vs Ridley High School has been moved to the Wissahickon High School Stadium. Game is Friday, 11-2-18 starting at 7:00 p.m. 521 Houston Rd, Ambler, PA 19002
So much for a true home field advantage tonight for NP.
Can someone please explain why in this day and age North Penn still has a grass field and not turf, obviously the school district could afford to put in turf if they wanted to, is it because they feel the grass field gives them a bigger home field advantage? I would think most 6A schools in the state have turf, all the 6A schools in D7 do, and for that matter to my knowledge all the 5A schools in D7 also have turf. Doesn’t give them much of a home field advantage if they have to move a home playoff game to a turf field due to the weather. I think Ridley is going to give them a battle tonight, not saying they are going to win, but I have a feeling this game is going to be close well into the 2nd half.
@Mike A – agree with much of your state top 10 with the exception of Mt Lebanon and PCC, I’ve seen both of them play and neither of them is top 10 in the state, if they are then the level of play is down substantially state wide, because both of them are only slightly above average. I think Seneca Valley is better than both of them and will beat PCC tonight, also think a few of the D11 schools like Freedom and Emmaus are better than both of them as well, this is PCC’s worst team in a number of years, they are going nowhere in the WPIAL playoffs even if they manage to win tonight.
I know you were just ranking 6A, but in my opinion Gateway is the best team in the WPIAL this year, better than even NA and PR.