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While Emmaus has been a perennial title holder for girls’ field hockey in Eastern Pennsylvania, the Easton squad finds itself undefeated through the first month of their scholastic schedule. We preview this Friday’s big Eastern Pennsylvania Conference showdown between the Rovers and the Green Hornets on “RCN SportsTalk.”
You can see highlights and more field hockey interviews by watching “SportsTalk” this Thursday at 7pm live on RCN-TV or through RCN On-Demand.
Turning our attention to the high school gridiron, we had three football games last weekend on RCN…
It’s time for this week’s edition of our high school football polls for teams in the District XI region…
“Big” Schools Poll
1) Freedom
2) Emmaus
3) Easton
4) Parkland
5) Northampton
“Small” School Poll
1) Bethlehem Catholic
2) Saucon Valley
3) Palisades
4) Northwestern
Our poll remains with the same structure that we’ve utilized for many seasons. We take the 400-male enrollment number as the cutoff for schools within the District XI/RCN-TV broadcast area. All of the schools above that number qualify as “big schools” in our poll. These schools consist of Parkland, Liberty, Allen, Easton, Emmaus, Liberty, Dieruff, Pocono Mountain West, Freedom, Stroudsburg, Pleasant Valley, Northampton, Nazareth, Whitehall, Southern Lehigh, East Stroudsburg-South, and Pocono Mountain East. The five schools receiving the most votes are listed above.
“Small schools” (below 400-male enrollment) consist of both Eastern Pennsylvania Conference and Colonial League teams — Bangor, Saucon Valley, Central Catholic, Bethlehem Catholic, Northwestern, Wilson, Palisades, Palmerton, Salisbury, Notre Dame, Pen Argyl, Northern Lehigh and Catasauqua. The top four vote-getters are named.
| The “PICK 4” | Northampton vs. E. S’burg South | Palisades vs. Notre Dame *on RCN-TV | Dieruff vs. S’burg North | Nazareth vs. Parkland |
| Gary Laubach | Northampton | Palisades | Dieruff | Parkland |
| Tony Cocca |
Northampton | Palisades | Dieruff | Parkland |
| Keith Groller |
Northampton | Notre Dame | Dieruff | Parkland |
| Chris Michael |
Northampton | Palisades | Dieruff | Parkland |
Check back next week here at “The Shop” for more high school football notes, polls, video highlights and predictions.
