{"id":16055,"date":"2025-10-26T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16055\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:10:15","slug":"erie-high-football-opts-out-of-6a-football-championship-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16055\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie High Football Opts Out of 6A Football Championship | High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ERIE HIGH FOOTBALL.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Just hours after District 10 released the football playoff field, Erie High officials informed the D-10 that they are opting out of the District 10 6A championship game.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals were scheduled to play McDowell on Friday at Edinboro University at 7 p.m., as announced in the brackets released at noon on Sunday. The deadline to opt out of the district playoffs was Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoach [Andre] Henderson notified me this morning that after a lengthy discussion with his coaching staff, they came to the difficult decision to withdraw from the District 10 game,\u201d said director of athletics Dale Mills in a statement to Erie News Now. \u201cThe decision was not made lightly by the coaching staff and was due to significant injuries to the team this season.\u00a0 Coach Henderson relayed to me that it was in the best interest of his team and the athlete\u2019s welfare to not play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The game will be recorded as a forfeit. McDowell will now move on to host a PIAA subregional game on Nov. 7 against State College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just hours after District 10 released the football playoff field, Erie High officials informed the D-10 that they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,6704,139,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-16055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-high-school","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}