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

Here are three local sports observations, before we take a look at week one of our “SportsTalk<\/a>” high school football poll for teams in the RCN viewing area.<\/span><\/p>\n

#1
\n<\/b>COVID news entered the high school sports picture last weekend as two games–one of them less than 48 hours before kickoff–were scrapped because of a reported case of the outbreak.\u00a0 While many coaches were pretty much told to \u201cproceed as normal\u201d a couple months ago, they spent a good portion of the last several days going back and revamping team procedures, how practices are conducted, implementing mandatory mask-wearing and other practices that we were all hoping we would not need to discuss during the sports calendar year.<\/b><\/p>\n

#2
\n<\/b>As usual, the EPC<\/a>-South dominated the opening weekend of high school football with only one “North” team securing a victory. Many victorious teams won their game by over 50-point spreads. Things figure to get much tighter this weekend.\u00a0 Easton<\/a> will host its first Lehigh Valley opponent–Parkland<\/a>–at their new stadium this Friday night.\u00a0 The game will also feature the #1 and #3 ranked teams in our poll (see below) and should be a good contest to watch on\u00a0 RCN-TV this weekend.<\/p>\n

#3
\n<\/b>A great idea to follow local sports action this fall is to bookmark the RCN-TV broadcast schedule posted here on our website.\u00a0 Before the season even kicked off last week and the COVID-cancelled events occurred, there were multiple changes to this fall\u2019s schedule due to school district changes, stadium occupancy issues and other factors.\u00a0 Therefore, it is very important you keep checking back to our schedule as things change more than ever!<\/span><\/p>\n

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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 <\/span>SportsTalk<\/b> program, seen on Thursday nights on RCN TV and available through RCN on Demand.<\/span><\/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<\/a> schools within the RCN broadcast area.\u00a0 This season will be unique in which Colonial teams will be cross-scheduling and playing teams from the Schuylkill League<\/a>, so our poll will be an interesting barometer for teams in the Lehigh Valley since many local teams will not be playing the majority of teams within their own leagues!<\/span><\/p>\n

So below we have high school polls for both leagues in the RCN viewing area, along with the listing of all of the teams that are included in our respective categories.<\/span><\/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>SportsTalk<\/b> show.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

4) \u00a0Emmaus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

5)\u00a0 Nazareth<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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


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

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

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

3) Northern Lehigh<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

4) Saucon Valley<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

5)\u00a0 Bangor<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

On this week’s “SportsTalk”…<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Our guests will include members of the Easton football team talking about their fall sports program and also giving their thoughts on a special night this Friday–the first EPC-Lehigh Valley Division game at the \u201cNEW\u201d Cottingham Stadium.\u00a0 Construction was completed a few weeks ago on the exact same spot as the \u201cold\u201d stadium–that same block has been holding high school football games for nearly 100 years.\u00a0 Friday will be a special night for local sports fans, and RCN will have the historic game live at 7pm!<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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