Eastern PA Football does a great job with this, especially since we have 6 classes now.
http://www.easternpafootball.com/2016playoffs.html
http://www.easternpafootball.com/2016playoffs.html
State Playoff Brackets
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Does each district championship essentially serve at the quarter-final match-up for the state championship? From looking at the various brackets it appears that way.
It depends, every class and each district is different. For example, District 1 had a championship game last week, this week and will have 2 more in 2 weeks. The other 2 classes in D1 were part of a subregion.
Not a good weekend for the Bicentennial League. All 3 teams got hammered.
Thanks. Is there list of the regions somewhere? I found a listing of the districts but not the regions. Or are there only two regions? East and West?
73-Vike --
Here's The PIAA football page: http://www.piaa.org/sports/football/default.aspx
Click on championship information.
Study the brackets.
Then remember that there are six classes this year for the first ever (it was four through 2015). Each class has a slightly different path to get to Hershey (it seems) as it depends upon how many schools are in a particular class in a district (among other "things").
And it is not so much as a "East" and "West" region as much as the PIAA has always arranged it as a "East versus West" final. The first playoffs were in 1988 and it involved four total teams in each class (1A through 4A). There were two from the "East" and two from the "West" with a semi-final game and then a final. Over the years it has evolved a ton (obviously) and it can get confusing.
I'm a PA expat living in LA for over 30 years (Neshaminy class of '72 and then went the long way around starting with undergrad at Ga Tech and then post-grad at three schools before finishing up the last one here in '82-83 and stayed -- pre-global warming weather was very nice in SoCal).
You up in SF? And are you a PA guy?
Here's The PIAA football page: http://www.piaa.org/sports/football/default.aspx
Click on championship information.
Study the brackets.
Then remember that there are six classes this year for the first ever (it was four through 2015). Each class has a slightly different path to get to Hershey (it seems) as it depends upon how many schools are in a particular class in a district (among other "things").
And it is not so much as a "East" and "West" region as much as the PIAA has always arranged it as a "East versus West" final. The first playoffs were in 1988 and it involved four total teams in each class (1A through 4A). There were two from the "East" and two from the "West" with a semi-final game and then a final. Over the years it has evolved a ton (obviously) and it can get confusing.
I'm a PA expat living in LA for over 30 years (Neshaminy class of '72 and then went the long way around starting with undergrad at Ga Tech and then post-grad at three schools before finishing up the last one here in '82-83 and stayed -- pre-global warming weather was very nice in SoCal).
You up in SF? And are you a PA guy?
That's a lot of good info! Thanks! It clears up a lot and gives me a starting point to learn more. I appreciate it!
As for me, I'm PCC '73, back when they were in the old Catholic League. I'm not even sure when they joined the WPIAL or the PIAA. I never played ball for PCC but I did some helping out for the football team--equipment, scoring, statistics, announcing--that sort of thing.
I left Pittsburgh in the '70s and lived all over the country. I've been in SF about 10 years. I retired from the Coast Guard and have had a few different gigs since then--mostly for pocket money and to be able to pay the exorbitant rent in SF. I hadn't been to SoCal in years but I was just in Burbank a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks again for being so forthcoming! Your posts are very informative and I look forward to learning more about PA high school sports!
As for me, I'm PCC '73, back when they were in the old Catholic League. I'm not even sure when they joined the WPIAL or the PIAA. I never played ball for PCC but I did some helping out for the football team--equipment, scoring, statistics, announcing--that sort of thing.
I left Pittsburgh in the '70s and lived all over the country. I've been in SF about 10 years. I retired from the Coast Guard and have had a few different gigs since then--mostly for pocket money and to be able to pay the exorbitant rent in SF. I hadn't been to SoCal in years but I was just in Burbank a couple of weeks ago.
Thanks again for being so forthcoming! Your posts are very informative and I look forward to learning more about PA high school sports!
Vike -
In 1988 the first four teams to participate in the 4A class were Neshaminy and Cedar Cliff in the East and then Brashear and PCC out west.
Cedar Cliff clubbed the 'Skins, 24-0, and your Vikings got by the Bulls, 19-14 (that game was played at Penn State's stadium and the Neshaminy v Cedar Cliff was at Allentown's J. Birney Crum Stadium).
In the final PCC topped the Mustangs,14-7, to take the first state championship in the "Big School" division.
In 2004 a 13-1 Redskin squad met up with a 15-0 Vikings club. It was not the kind of day you write home to the folks about if you were a Langhorne fan as that super group that the Vikings were that season took that one 49-14.
In 1988 the first four teams to participate in the 4A class were Neshaminy and Cedar Cliff in the East and then Brashear and PCC out west.
Cedar Cliff clubbed the 'Skins, 24-0, and your Vikings got by the Bulls, 19-14 (that game was played at Penn State's stadium and the Neshaminy v Cedar Cliff was at Allentown's J. Birney Crum Stadium).
In the final PCC topped the Mustangs,14-7, to take the first state championship in the "Big School" division.
In 2004 a 13-1 Redskin squad met up with a 15-0 Vikings club. It was not the kind of day you write home to the folks about if you were a Langhorne fan as that super group that the Vikings were that season took that one 49-14.
Fascinating! I have a lot of history to catch up on. Something that really amazes me is the sheer size of the high school sports community. Hundreds and hundreds of high schools across the commonwealth with thousands and thousands of student athletes participating in dozens of sports. What an undertaking!
Vike -
And not only can you follow the action back in your school's home state there is more top notch HS ball than you could want out here in California.
Quality teams too ranging from the Spartans of De La Salle up your way in Concord to just this year Mater Dei, Corona Centennial, John Bosco, Rancho Cucamonga and Mission Viejo down here in south and then southeast LA county and the OC (those five down here are all top 20 teams per MaxPreps - to the extent national rankings are possible - with Mater Dei 2, St. John Bosco 4, Centennial 5, Rancho Cucamonga 14 and Mission Viejo 15).
Athletes all over the place. Heck -- I watched Sammy Darnell QB at San Clemente just a few years back on a usually mid-level south OC team and now he has personally turned the Trojans around this year (the way he threw against Washington last night I predict he's got potential to be a Sunday performer).
PS Mater Dei's sophomore QB, JT Daniels, has thrown 58 TDs this year (11 games) and he had 33 as a freshmen last year (91 TD tosses so far with two years to go and maybe 4 more playoff games this year -- is he gonna throw over 200 touchdowns in his four years). I've seen him play and he's got an arm like a college kid at 15 (it's silly).
Lots of high school ball!
And not only can you follow the action back in your school's home state there is more top notch HS ball than you could want out here in California.
Quality teams too ranging from the Spartans of De La Salle up your way in Concord to just this year Mater Dei, Corona Centennial, John Bosco, Rancho Cucamonga and Mission Viejo down here in south and then southeast LA county and the OC (those five down here are all top 20 teams per MaxPreps - to the extent national rankings are possible - with Mater Dei 2, St. John Bosco 4, Centennial 5, Rancho Cucamonga 14 and Mission Viejo 15).
Athletes all over the place. Heck -- I watched Sammy Darnell QB at San Clemente just a few years back on a usually mid-level south OC team and now he has personally turned the Trojans around this year (the way he threw against Washington last night I predict he's got potential to be a Sunday performer).
PS Mater Dei's sophomore QB, JT Daniels, has thrown 58 TDs this year (11 games) and he had 33 as a freshmen last year (91 TD tosses so far with two years to go and maybe 4 more playoff games this year -- is he gonna throw over 200 touchdowns in his four years). I've seen him play and he's got an arm like a college kid at 15 (it's silly).
Lots of high school ball!
Pa2ca, just a slight tweak to your excellent post. The 1988 game between PCC and Brashear was at South Stadium in Pgh not at Penn State. BTW, Brashear had a talented team that year. I was at the game, Brashear had RB, Kieth Lincoln who played at Ga Tech who was pretty good.
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On the 6A playoff brackets what do the entries 1-1, 3-1, and 12-1 signify? I realize the first number signifies the district but what does the "-1" signify?
Thanks.
I thought that might be the case. But then I wondered why each district in 6A doesn't have a team with a -1? Why isn't there a 7-1? Or an 11-1 for those districts?
And where are the -2, -3, -4, etc. entries for each district signifying the #2, 3, and 4 seeds?
If you look at the current updated bracket only 1-1, 3-1, and 12-1 are listed.
http://www.easternpafootball.com/2016playoffs.html
I thought that might be the case. But then I wondered why each district in 6A doesn't have a team with a -1? Why isn't there a 7-1? Or an 11-1 for those districts?
And where are the -2, -3, -4, etc. entries for each district signifying the #2, 3, and 4 seeds?
If you look at the current updated bracket only 1-1, 3-1, and 12-1 are listed.
http://www.easternpafootball.com/2016playoffs.html
The PIAA has all the games up for next week. Wood will play Whitehall at Northampton.
https://www.piaa.org/sports/championship_details.aspx?sport=football
https://www.piaa.org/sports/championship_details.aspx?sport=football
Thanks for posting the update. Any idea what the small numbers in parentheses signify? For example: (615), (621), (623), (631), (632)...