Well, campers. We have reached the
penultimate week of the regular season in the City League...
(Wait, Mr. Advocate.
Pen-all-tea-mint? What does that word mean?)
If you keep your shorts on for a
minute, Junior, I'll tell you. Now before I was interrupted, We have
reached the penultimate week of the regular season, and the playoff
situation is starting to become more solid.
Now, Bunkie, turn off that Justin
Bieber crap you have plugged into your ears, and listen up. I'm only
going to say this once. And after I'm done, go and find yourself
some real music. That auto-tuned canned crap will rot your brain.
Penultimate is one of those words
that educated people like Your City League Advocate use to describe
the next to last of something. In the sentence that I just stated,
the penultimate week of the season is the next to last week of the
season. Got that?
Now that you're armed with at
least one new word this week, you can go down to your local watering
hole and impress the locals with the limitless expanse of your
vocabulary, win a bunch of bar bets against the other losers you hang
around with, and maybe impress that dishwater blond drinking Southern Comfort
at the end of the bar with the hoop earrings big enough for a poodle to jump through, the Nicki Minaj baby tee and
tramp stamp enough that she may actually give you the time of day.
Never let it be said that Your City
League Advocate is not a charitable sort. He has provided you with a
nugget of wisdom that you didn't have before, and now your life as
been enriched by a factor of at least ten-thousand because of the
Advocate's act of generosity. You're welcome. Now go away.
(Yes, Mr. Advocate. Thank you for
your act of kindness, you are so good to us poor imbeciles, who sit
at your feet catching the precious drops of knowledge that dribble forth from your mouth.)
Whatever. Now back to what I was
saying. The four teams going into the playoffs are all but set, the
only thing to determine will be who's playing who in two weeks.
The Standings
University Prep 3-0
Perry 3-0
Brashear 2-1
Allderdice 1-2
Carrick 0-3
Westinghouse 0-3
The Allderdice Dragons jumped out
to a 15-0 lead against University Prep off a 51 yd blocked punt
return by Marquis Martin and an 11yd run by Patrick Ferguson. Sadly,
that was all the points the 'Dice could score as the
Panthers/Wildcats responded by running off 35 unanswered points to
crush the Dragons 35-15. U-Prep QB Akil Young passed for 266 yards
and blistered the Allderdice secondary with three touchdown passes.
Ryan Daniels scored off two running plays to lift the 'Cats to an
undefeated 3-0 and first place in the City.
The Dragons face Carrick on Friday
night. If they can beat the Raiders, they lock up at least the fourth
place seed, and may have a shot at third place if Perry beats
Brashear tonight to set up the 'Dice's last game in the regular
season against the Bulls in the matinee on Friday the 19th.
Brashear kept its hold on third
place by crushing their South Hills neighbors, Carrick 35-6. All
DaBulls points came on the ground as Diondre Farris scored twice and
Deshawn Roberts three times.
The other team at the top of the
table, Perry, beat Westinghouse 43-2 to keep pace with U-Prep at 3-0.
Assuming that both Perry and U-Prep win this weeks games against
Brashear and Westinghouse, respectively, The One Stars and the 'Cats
will tie up on the 19th under the lights. for sole
possession of first place and the regular season title.
Thursday October
11 7:00pm
Perry vs. Brashear
If there's one
thing for certain, when Perry and Brashear hook up, there will be
fireworks. The Commodores and the Bulls have faced each other
multiple times with hardware on the line. And they do not like each
other. Despite losing a lot of players from last seasons undefeated
team, and picking up transfers from Langley when it closed, Brashear
has had a decent season. They went 0-3 against non D8 competition,
but they managed to win the two easy games on their City schedule
against Carrick and the House. They can't get first place due to
their loss to U-Prep which kills their head -to-head. But a win
against Perry can give this young squad plenty of motivation to go
into their final tussle against the Dragons. But the Advocate thinks
that Perry is the stronger team in this matchup. Perry
Friday October 12
3:30pm
U-Prep vs Westinghouse
The biggest
challenge that U-Prep will have in this game is keeping themselves
motivated enough to play a disciplined, penalty-free game against the
Bulldogs. The bench should see plenty of action in this one. The
starters will get enough work to tune up for the big test next week,
but not so much as to risk a serious injury. U-Prep
7:00pm
Allderdice vs
Carrick
It's too bad that
the City League does not practice flex-time scheduling. If the
Advocate ran the league, he'd put this game on Thursday night and
have Perry and Brashear play on Friday night. Friday night should be
reserved for the best matchup of the week, not a yawner like this
one. It's not like City League teams aren't used to having different
amounts of time to prepare from week to week. The League's been
doing this for better than 20 years. Allderdice should be able to
win this game with no problem. They'll face the same issues that
U-Prep will have against the 'House. Namely, giving their starters
enough reps to keep them fresh, while getting the bench players
quality time. Allderdice
