By Gaylen Duskey
realfang@citlink.net
Calhoun moved up to sixth place in the WVSSAC ratings released Monday.
The Red Devils have a rating of 8.44 moving them ahead of St. Marys (8.38)
heading into Friday night's game against the Blue Devils at Mount Zion.
Williamstown continues to hold onto the top spot in Class A with a rating of
11.11, slightly better than second-rated Greenbrier West (11.00).
Buffalo of
Putnam is third with South Harrison fourth and Parkersburg Catholic fifth.
Tygart's Valley is eighth followed by Man, Pocahontas County, Clay-Battelle,
Weirton Madonna, Midland Trail, Wheeling Central and Montcalm rounding out
the top 16.
If Calhoun beat St. Marys Friday night it could be rated anywhere from
sixth to fourth depending on the outcome of some games.
The most likely scenario, however, has Calhoun slipping into fourth place by
a narrow margin over South Harrison.
For that to happen Williamstown would have to beat Parkersburg Catholic,
knocking the Crusaders out of fifth place, and some teams that Calhoun beat
would have to win.
If Calhoun beats St. Marys it would have 90 points for a rating of 9.0.
South Harrison, which has completed its season, currently has 89 points but
is guaranteed to get one bonus point since two teams it beat play each
other.
South Harrison should get another bonus point from the
Richwood-Gilmer game since it beat Richwood. If Gilmer were to pull off the
upset, however, Calhoun would get the bonus point instead to move ahead of
South Harrison and virtually render all other games meaningless.
However, should Richwood win as expected, South Harrison would have 91
points awaiting the result of three other games for bonus points.
All three
teams South Harrison needs to win - Valley-Wetzel, Bishop Donahue and Paden
City - are underdogs in those games.
Calhoun needs to get bonus points from five teams it has already beaten. If
two of the beaten foes win that would give the Red Devils enough points to
put it ahead of South Harrison, 92-91.
The Red Devils need Roane to beat Sherman, Clay to beat Sissonville, Wahama
to beat Moorefield, Wirt to beat Guyan Valley and Doddridge to beat
Clarksburg Notre Dame to get bonus points. Roane, Clay and Wahama should
win. If they do the Red Devils, assuming they beat St. Marys, will have 93
points minimum and probably fourth place in the final ratings and at least
one home game in the playoffs.
However, if the Red Devils were to lose, then they would still be in the
playoffs but on the road somewhere.
If the Red Devils were to lose they
would fall to anywhere from 9th-13th place depending on bonus points.
The last time Calhoun made the playoffs was 1983 when it lost a first round
game to Grafton.
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