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Monday, September 8, 2008
Coldwater, Marion Local top state poll
Coldwater coach John Reed didn’t need a state poll to tell him what he already knew: His high school football team’s schedule is brutal.
Four of the Cavaliers’ next five games are against teams ranked in the first state poll, which was released Monday, Sept. 8 It starts Friday when Coldwater, ranked No. 1 in Division IV, hosts the top-ranked D-V team in Marion Local. In all, five Midwest Athletic Conference schools are ranked.
For Reed, though, it’s not about where you start. It’s where you finish.
“(It doesn’t matter) until the last one. If you’re still on top in the last one that means you probably went undefeated,” Reed said. “So that one is always nice.”
The Miami Valley fared well in the first poll with 10 teams. Six area teams were ranked in 2007.
• In Division I, Wayne shared No. 6 with Dublin Coffman.
• In Division II, Tecumseh was the lone representative at No. 10.
• Division III is loaded with No. 5 Tippecanoe, No. 6 St. Marys Memorial and No. 7 Valley View.
• Coldwater tops D-IV with Alter at No. 2.
• The MAC placed three teams in D-V with No. 1 Marion Local, No. 3 St. Henry and No. 9 Anna.
• Mechanicsburg is No. 3 in D-VI.
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Beavers next step? Maybe the playoffs
Football coaches don’t (or won’t admit to) looking ahead, but we can. And Beavercreek’s first 3-0 start since 1970 may be the start of a postseason push for the Beavers.
Why? Well, first of all, Beavercreek is in Region 3. And while no one is sneezing at the Columbus-area teams, it isn’t the meat-grinder that is Region 4.
Only seven teams in Region 3 are 3-0. In fact, only 11 teams are 2-1 or better, meaning 17 teams are 1-2 or 0-3. If the Beavers could defeat Fairborn, Xenia, Fairmont and Springfield, they could go 0-3 against Centerville, Wayne and Northmont and finish 7-3.
A loss against one of those first four teams and a win against one of the Big Three would be even better, given the seasons the Elks, Warriors and Thunderbolts usually have.
Last season, three teams made the Region 3 playoffs with a 7-3 record. Beavercreek was 12th at 6-4. The Beavers have never made the playoffs, which began in 1972.
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