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The views expressed in this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of RCN or any other agency, organization, employer or company.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

First, with the exception of a couple Colonial League<\/a><\/span>\u00a0games, there weren’t very many tight contests this past weekend for high school football. However, that didn’t mean there weren’t a few noteworthy performances from around the area.<\/p>\n

Salisbury<\/a><\/span>\u00a0had its second straight impressive showing with a decided win over Pen Argyl<\/a> and moved up a spot in our poll.\u00a0 Southern Lehigh<\/a><\/span>\u00a0fell out of our “Colonial League 5” with a thrilling one point loss to Saucon Valley<\/a>, a team that was ranked fifth in our preseason poll.\u00a0 The top three teams continued their winning ways as Notre Dame<\/a><\/span>, Northwestern<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and Palisades<\/a><\/span>\u00a0notched wins with multiple touchdown-margins of victories.<\/p>\n

In the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference<\/a>, <\/span>the weekend unfolded pretty much as I had anticipated. Only the statewide pollsters (a group that I’ve been saying for over a decade is really a complete waste of effort, especially until you get closer to state playoff action) seemed surprised that Easton<\/a> lost by multiple touchdowns to Freedom<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on Saturday in a game you saw on RCN TV.\u00a0 The statewide poll had Easton ranked fourth in the state while Freedom didn’t even get mentioned.\u00a0 Just for the record, we had Freedom ranked ahead of Easton in our preseason poll.<\/p>\n

Our other RCN game last weekend had Bethlehem Catholic<\/a><\/span>\u00a0continuing its dominance over its crosstown rivals at Liberty<\/a>.\u00a0 In other action, Parkland<\/a><\/span>\u00a0easily shook off any apparent rust it had by posted an impressive win over Whitehall<\/a> in their first game played of the season.<\/p>\n

That brings us to this week’s input from the RCN SportsTalk pollsters — a random collection of local coaches, athletic directors and media members. We never announce nor release the names of our non-media voters to get their honest opinions on the local football landscape while avoiding any thoughts of retribution or potential “bulletin board” material.\u00a0 Our “media voters” usually reveal themselves when we have the pleasure of having them on our weekly SportsTalk<\/a> program, seen on Thursday nights on RCN TV and available through RCN on Demand.<\/p>\n

(By the way, one of our pollsters has been saying that Nazareth<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is very underrated–this person will be crowing in a few weeks on the show if the Blue Eagles score a win this weekend over the Patriots.)<\/p>\n

This year, instead of having a big school and small school poll as in seasons past, we are going to break the two polls down into EPC and Colonial League schools, within the RCN broadcast area.\u00a0 With the reduced schedules, this change for our poll will make things a bit more interesting since many of the top teams within the local conferences will not have the opportunity to actually face each other this fall.<\/p>\n

Without the crowning of an official Colonial League and EPC champion, our poll will be an intriguing barometer to who in fact is the best team in each conference (and, of course, bragging rights through the winter months).<\/p>\n

So below we have our first week of high school polls for both leagues, along with the listing of all of the teams that are included in our respective categories.<\/p>\n

Feel free to email me at Chris.Michael@rcn.net<\/a> for your thoughts on this week’s poll and we might read and respond to your emails on this week’s SportsTalk show.<\/p>\n

EPC-LV TOP 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

1)\u00a0 Freedom<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2) Parkland<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3) Emmaus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4) Nazareth<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

5) Easton<\/a><\/p>\n

Eligible Teams (in no particular order):<\/strong>
\nAllentown Central Catholic, Bethlehem Catholic, Easton, Freedom, Liberty, Dieruff, Allen, Parkland, Whitehall, Emmaus, Nazareth, and Northampton<\/p>\n

COLONIAL TOP 5<\/b><\/p>\n

1) Notre Dame-GP<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2) Northwestern<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

3) Palisades<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4) <\/span>Salisbury<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

5) Saucon Valley<\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

Eligible Teams (in no particular order):<\/strong>
\nBangor, Pen Argyl, Notre Dame – Green Pond, Wilson, Catasauqua, Salisbury, Saucon Valley, Northwestern, Northern Lehig<\/a>h, Southern Lehigh and Palisades<\/span><\/p>\n

Be sure to bookmark our high school football broadcast schedule here on the website and check it frequently as, with several games already postponed or canceled so far, there could be changes from day to day.<\/p>\n

On this week’s “SportsTalk”…<\/p>\n

Our guests will be Allentown’s Dieruff High School<\/a> new Boys Basketball Head Coach Marlon Randall and Athletic Director Dave Stout.\u00a0 They’ll talk about the struggles that inner-city schools are going through and issues they are facing during the pandemic. Coach Randall has been active in local communities in Eastern Pennsylvania and will discuss why it’s important to have more African-American leaders in the community and ways that he and other coaches have been serving as positive role models for today’s student-athletes.<\/p>\n

Feel free to email me at Chris.Michael@rcn.net for your thoughts on this week’s poll and we might read and respond to your emails on this week’s <\/span>Sports Talk<\/b> show.<\/span><\/p>\n

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