{"id":34172,"date":"2025-11-09T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34172\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:19:07","slug":"staten-island-hs-football-thanks-to-strange-chsfl-rule-st-peters-will-now-play-xavier-not-sea-in-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34172\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island HS football: Thanks to strange CHSFL rule, St. Peter\u2019s will now play Xavier, not Sea in semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/highschoolsports\/\" title=\"Navigate to High School Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">High School Sports<\/a>Updated: Nov. 09, 2025, 4:12 p.m.|Published: Nov. 09, 2025, 4:08 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QFWGNUWT55A63HCUGVGG677OYU\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. &#8212; Hold it! Hold it! Hold everything!<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5SSEBEY5GJHHLAIWR622EO63TU\">When No. 4 St. Peter\u2019s beat No. 5 St. John the Baptist in Saturday\u2019s CHSFL AA-1 quarterfinals, it appeared the Eagles would face top-seeded and defending champion St. Joseph by-the-Sea this weekend in the semifinals. Even the CHSFL website had penciled in the two teams to meet each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AZM3P5UTSBARROWFFZE7U2TSPA\">However, a CHSFL rule stating that Xavier and Fordham Prep who meet in one of the longest running high school games &#8212; the annual Turkey Bowl &#8212; can\u2019t meet in the playoffs. So when No. 2 Xavier beat No. 7 Kellenberg and No. 6 Fordham Prep stunned No. 3 Christ the King Sunday, the league enforced its Turkey Bowl rule. <\/p>\n<p>Joe D&#8217;Amodio is the Sports Manager for SILive.com and oversees the sports web content. Joe also writes about a variety of sports with a primary focus on HS sports and bowling. He also strives to tell stories&#8230; more<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High School SportsUpdated: Nov. 09, 2025, 4:12 p.m.|Published: Nov. 09, 2025, 4:08 p.m. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. &#8212; Hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-34172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}