Newman is 1-1 and their loss is to a team lake mills beat so guessing lake mills should roll. Also west fork and north butler has no factor whatsoever with playoffs since it’s a non district matchup.
Yea it does make some sense, I don't think either NP or Wapsie would win any other district and in most they probably finish 3rd or 4th depending on witch district. Definitely not in top 2 of districts, 2,4,6,7 and 8 from my observation anyway. I dont know if there is that one absolute title wright in like Grundy was but obviously West Hamcock is making another statement. Huge game this week as they travel to a ranked St Ansger. just 1 of a few top ten matchups in class A this week.
Personally I think Wapsie wins the district, but North Butler is playing better than I anticipated and NP could make some noise. I'm not sure I have bought in to NP being ranked in the top 10, particularly after a close game with North Tama last week. Maybe North Tama is better than I give them credit for though. In any case, I don't think any of these teams make a deep playoff push.
I know Columbus has Amigon, but Lisbon looks pretty balanced and has Speidel and has good line size. I'm going out on a limb and picking Lisbon.
I wouldn't put a ton of money on Starmont, yes they are 2-0 but the the two wins are against two really poor teams in South Winn and Clayton Ridge, CR might be one of the bottom 3 or 4 teams in class A. I think NL rolls over Starmont by 30 or more. Three games really stand out to me this week, West Hancock vs St Ansger, Col Junct vs Lisbon and Maq Valley vs Est Buc, I think all the teams are ranked except Lisbon and they might be the next team receiving votes. BC Moore has WH plus 4, Lisbon plus 16 and Maq Valley plus 3 in their matchups. I don't think Lisbon is going to carry that spread if I was a betting person. I liked SA win over a ranked Osage team to start the year so I think they give WH a game but I think WH still wins by 2 scores. The MV vs East Buc game is the one I think is more of a tossup as looking at bound MV has a RB that has like 700 yds in 2 games, granted not against good competition but still impressive.
Minimum 6 weeks but from what I heard about it, it will probably be for the rest of the season.
I would replace Nashua with AC/GC as they should be in the top 10. Saint A on film still runs that same offense just doing it better this year than the past couple years. I had heard that East Buc / Maq Valley game was a physical dog fight but East Buc pretty much dominated the second half as MV was ranked like 8 or 9. I did not hear about anyone being ejected, I think a kid from MV was ejected week 1 for a cheap shot vs Cascade but I may be wrong.
St ansgar has been throwing the ball succesfully significantly more this year which keeps teams from packing the box to stop the run against them. This was paramount against west Hancock. The running game opened up because they had to respect the pass.
Honestly, I don't know these teams all that well. My prediction is based on the fact that LS beat Madrid last year 62 - 33 and really didn't lose a whole lot this year - other than now their stud running back, but that didn't seem to phase them against Pleasantville, which I believe you thought would "win handily". Curious, do you believe LS will win, just not cover, or do you think Madrid is better than them without Noun Harder?
East buc by 3 scores
It is possible they will win. I gave too much credit to Pleasantville. LS lost 4 linemen, couple of d-backs and a couple of backers from last years team. I think GOPANTHERS23 is closer by saying it is within a score.
have you seen Newman?? Because looking at it, it should be a toss up between the two teams. I have seen south winn. They have a decent soph back replacing timp. Interesting note timp is listed as a ol now
He was on the sideline the last 2 friday nights after doing well week 1, but maybe they feel the so rb will do the job and since they don't have a big line, maybe when he comes back he will be able to help them more on the line?
Yes East Buc got totally dominated by starmont, yes they were missing a couple key players who were ejected last week but Starmont just owned them. I'm just not sure what to make of East Buc as they have been so up and down but to get beat by Starmont like they did means they have some serios question marks as they are giving up a ton of points even in their wins. This really throws district 4 in a toss up race as only NL is undefeated and they go to East Buc next week and still have Maq Vallley and Bellevue yet. It will be interesting as Bellevue, MV, NL and Starmont all have to play each other in the next 4 weeks.
Bowers for 1 I know( ejected last week )who is probably their best athlete and I think a lineman was out also injured maybe?
