We have four more weeks of regular season action and if my math and memory are correct, each team has three district games left with the exception of Waynesboro, which has four. Please correct me anywhere along the line if I am wrong on anybody's record or remaining schedule.
At the beginning of the season, the general feeling was that Riverheads and Stuarts Draft would be the top dogs and that their meeting next Friday night (the 20th) would be the game that would decide the district title. Well that game will still be quite the big factor for sure, but you only have to look back to this past Friday night's results to realize that there is now one other serious contender in the picture, namely Fort Defiance, and even Wilson cannot be ruled out if they were to catch fire and win out the rest of the season. Those comments are based on the belief that RHS is the only team undefeated in district play and the other three each have just one district loss. Again correct me if I am wrong on any of that.
Obviously the two games played Friday night that cast some doubt on things were Fort's win at Stuarts Draft and Riverheads' narrow escape over Staunton. So here is where those two games would appear to leave us at this halfway point......
..........if Riverheads wins out, then of course they are the undisputed champs. No brainer on that one.
........ if Stuarts Draft knocks off Riverheads and wins the rest of its games, the two could finish tied at 5-1 in district play, but any fair-minded person would consider the Cougars to be the champs in that scenario.
....... .. if SD does beat Riverheads, and Fort Defiance also wins out, then that could create a three way tie at 5-1. In that case, none of the three should have any "We're Number One" bragging rights and they would all (hopefully) advance to the Region 2-B playoffs with a goal to collectively do some damage to the Bull Run teams.
..........if Wilson wins out, that would not directly impact Riverheads since those two have already played, but the Hornets can certainly still upset the apple cart for either SD or FD, or maybe both. So as crazy as it seems after RHS destroyed the Hornets 37-0 on their own field a few weeks ago, it is still mathematically possible for the two of them to finish tied for the district title. Of course Riverheads would certainly then have the right to claim that they were the champs because of that one-sided head-to-head match-up.
.........if Staunton wins out, they cannot claim any portion of the title, but a win over Fort Defiance, if they were to pull it off, could have the impact of knocking the Indians out of the title picture.
.........if either Buffalo Gap or Waynesboro pulls off any upsets down the stretch, that would of course impact the team(s) they beat. With all due respect to those two teams, I think their recent 14-7 battle only served to settle the issue of 6th vs. 7th place, and neither will taste victory the rest of this season, but stranger things have happened.
Let me go ahead and post this now so I won't run the risk of losing it and then I will come back and continue with a look this week's Friday the 13th games.
At the beginning of the season, the general feeling was that Riverheads and Stuarts Draft would be the top dogs and that their meeting next Friday night (the 20th) would be the game that would decide the district title. Well that game will still be quite the big factor for sure, but you only have to look back to this past Friday night's results to realize that there is now one other serious contender in the picture, namely Fort Defiance, and even Wilson cannot be ruled out if they were to catch fire and win out the rest of the season. Those comments are based on the belief that RHS is the only team undefeated in district play and the other three each have just one district loss. Again correct me if I am wrong on any of that.
Obviously the two games played Friday night that cast some doubt on things were Fort's win at Stuarts Draft and Riverheads' narrow escape over Staunton. So here is where those two games would appear to leave us at this halfway point......
..........if Riverheads wins out, then of course they are the undisputed champs. No brainer on that one.
........ if Stuarts Draft knocks off Riverheads and wins the rest of its games, the two could finish tied at 5-1 in district play, but any fair-minded person would consider the Cougars to be the champs in that scenario.
....... .. if SD does beat Riverheads, and Fort Defiance also wins out, then that could create a three way tie at 5-1. In that case, none of the three should have any "We're Number One" bragging rights and they would all (hopefully) advance to the Region 2-B playoffs with a goal to collectively do some damage to the Bull Run teams.
..........if Wilson wins out, that would not directly impact Riverheads since those two have already played, but the Hornets can certainly still upset the apple cart for either SD or FD, or maybe both. So as crazy as it seems after RHS destroyed the Hornets 37-0 on their own field a few weeks ago, it is still mathematically possible for the two of them to finish tied for the district title. Of course Riverheads would certainly then have the right to claim that they were the champs because of that one-sided head-to-head match-up.
.........if Staunton wins out, they cannot claim any portion of the title, but a win over Fort Defiance, if they were to pull it off, could have the impact of knocking the Indians out of the title picture.
.........if either Buffalo Gap or Waynesboro pulls off any upsets down the stretch, that would of course impact the team(s) they beat. With all due respect to those two teams, I think their recent 14-7 battle only served to settle the issue of 6th vs. 7th place, and neither will taste victory the rest of this season, but stranger things have happened.
Let me go ahead and post this now so I won't run the risk of losing it and then I will come back and continue with a look this week's Friday the 13th games.
