There are 555 high schools that participate in PIAA football, and just 21 of them are undefeated as the season presses on into mid-November.<\/p>\n
Of those 21, five are District 11 members, and four of them are from the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
And those four will go head-to-head for District 11 championships on Friday.<\/p>\n
At Catasauqua, Notre Dame-Green Pond will play defending state champ Northwestern Lehigh for the 3A gold, and a few miles away in Bethlehem, Easton and Parkland will meet for the District 11 6A crown.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to remember a bigger night for local football than the one that\u2019s in store on Friday night.<\/p>\n
In the latest state rankings compiled by Eric Epler of Pennlive.com, Easton is ranked No. 5 in 6A and Parkland is where it has been for several weeks \u2014 at No. 3.<\/p>\n
In 3A, Northwestern Lehigh, which has been either No. 1 or No. 2 all season, is No. 2 and Notre Dame-Green Pond is No. 3.<\/p>\n
The Lehigh Valley\u2019s other state-ranked team, No. 3 Southern Lehigh, plays unranked Bethlehem Catholic for the 4A championship Thursday night at Catty.<\/p>\n
Of the six No. 1 ranked teams, three of them are from District 7 \u2014 Pine Richland (5A), Avonworth (3A), Fort Cherry (1A). District 3 has two No. 1s in Harrisburg (6A) and Twin Valley (4A) and District 11 has its own No. 1 in Schuylkill Haven in 2A.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a complete look at the rankings:<\/p>\n
CLASS 6A<\/p>\n
Rank \u2013 Team \u2013 District \u2014 Record \u2014 Previous<\/p>\n
1.; Harrisburg (3); 11-0; 1<\/p>\n
2.; La Salle College HS (12);\u00a0 9-1; 2<\/p>\n
3.; Parkland (11); 12-0; 3<\/p>\n
4.; Pittsburgh CC (7); 10-1; 4<\/p>\n
5.; Easton Area (11); 12-0; 5<\/p>\n
6.; Central York (3); 10-1; 6<\/p>\n
7.; Manheim Township (3); 10-1; 8<\/p>\n
8.; St. Joseph\u2019s Prep (12); 5-5; 7<\/p>\n
9.; State College (6); 9-2; 9<\/p>\n
10.; Pennridge (1); 11-1; 10<\/p>\n
Teams to watch: Coatesville (1) 10-2, Imhotep Charter (12) 8-4,North Allegheny (7) 8-3, North Penn (1) 10-2, Neshaminy (1) 9-3, Wilson-West Lawn (3) 9-2.<\/p>\n
CLASS 5A<\/p>\n
Rank \u2013 Team \u2013 District \u2014 Record \u2014 Previous<\/p>\n
1.; Pine-Richland (7);10-1; 1<\/p>\n
2.; Roman Catholic (12); 8-3; 2<\/p>\n
3.; Peters Township (7); 11-0; 3<\/p>\n
4.; Chester (1);12-0; 4<\/p>\n
5.; Springfield-Delco (1); 12-0; 5<\/p>\n
6.; Bishop McDevitt (3); 9-2; 6<\/p>\n
7.; Hollidaysburg (6); 12-0; 7<\/p>\n
8.; Exeter Township (3); 10-2; NR<\/p>\n
9.; Upper St. Clair (7); 10-2; NR<\/p>\n
10.; New Oxford (3); 11-0; NR<\/p>\n
Teams to watch: Moon (7) 9-3, Solanco (3) 10-1, Strath Haven (1) 10-2, West Chester Rustin (1) 10-2, Whitehall (11) 10-2.<\/p>\n
CLASS 4A<\/p>\n
Rank \u2013 Team \u2013 District \u2014 Record \u2014 Previous<\/p>\n
1.; Twin Valley (3); 11-0; 1<\/p>\n
2.; Shamokin (4); 12-0; 2<\/p>\n
3.; Southern Lehigh (11); 11-1; 3<\/p>\n
4.; Susquehanna Twp. (3); 11-0; 4<\/p>\n
5.; Wyomissing (3); 10-1; 6<\/p>\n
6.; North Pocono (2); 12-0; 8<\/p>\n
7.; McKeesport (7); 9-3; 9<\/p>\n
8.; Punxsutawney (9); 10-1; NR<\/p>\n
9.; West York (3); 10-1; NR<\/p>\n
10.; Bishop Shanahan (1); 8-4; NR<\/p>\n
Teams to watch: Aliquippa (7) 8-3, Bethlehem Catholic (11) 8-4, Cardinal O\u2019Hara (12) 8-4, Oil City (10) 9-1.<\/p>\n
CLASS 3A<\/p>\n
Rank \u2013 Team \u2013 District \u2014 Record \u2013 Previous<\/p>\n
1.; Avonworth (7); 11-0; 1<\/p>\n
2.; Northwestern Lehigh (11); 12-0; 2<\/p>\n
3.; ND-Green Pond (11);12-0; 3<\/p>\n
4.; Imani Christian (7); 11-0; 4<\/p>\n
5.; Hickory (10);10-1; 5<\/p>\n
6.; Berks Catholic (3); 9-2; 8<\/p>\n
7.; Mifflinburg (4); 10-2; 9<\/p>\n
8.; Penn Cambria (6); 10-2; NR<\/p>\n
9.; Trinity (3); 9-3; NR<\/p>\n
10.; Sharon (10); 8-3; NR<\/p>\n
Teams to watch: Central Valley (7) 7-4, Neumann-Goretti (12) 8-4, North Catholic (7) 9-3, Scranton Prep (2) 7-5.<\/p>\n
CLASS 2A
\nRank \u2013 Team \u2013 District \u2014 Record \u2014 Previous<\/p>\n
1.; Schuylkill Haven (11);12-0; 1<\/p>\n
2.; Troy (4); 11-1; 2<\/p>\n
3.; Bishop McCort (6); 12-0; 3<\/p>\n
4.; Farrell (10);10-2; 4<\/p>\n
5.; Southern Columbia (4);11-1; 5<\/p>\n
6.; Williams Valley (11); 11-1; 6<\/p>\n
7.; Richland (6); 11-1; 7<\/p>\n
8.; Seton-LaSalle (7); 10-1; 8<\/p>\n
9.; Lakeland (2); 11-1; 9<\/p>\n
10.; Steelton-Highspire (3); 9-2; NR<\/p>\n
Teams to watch: Karns City (9) 9-2, Landsdale Catholic (12) 10-2, Steel Valley (7) 8-3, Washington (7) 10-2, Western Beaver (7) 10-1.<\/p>\n
CLASS 1A<\/p>\n
Rank \u2013 Team \u2013 District \u2014 Record \u2014 Previous<\/p>\n
1.; Fort Cherry (7); 12-0; 1<\/p>\n
2.; Clairton (7); 11-1; 2<\/p>\n
3.; Line Mountain (4); 11-0; 3<\/p>\n
4.; Port Allegany (9); 11-0; 4<\/p>\n
5.; Lackawanna Trail (2); 11-1; 5<\/p>\n
6.; Bishop Guilfoyle (6);10-2; 6<\/p>\n
7.; Greenville (10); 10-1; 7<\/p>\n
8.; Meyersdale (5); 11-1; 8<\/p>\n
9.; Laurel (7); 10-1; 9<\/p>\n
10.; Wilmington (10); 8-3; 10<\/p>\n
Teams to watch: Belmont Charter (1) 9-1, Bishop Canevin (7) 9-3, Juniata Valley (6) 10-2, Montgomery (4) 10-2, Redbank Valley (9) 8-4, Westinghouse (8) 6-4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are 555 high schools that participate in PIAA football, and just 21 of them are undefeated as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,305,726,432],"class_list":["post-31497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-high-school-sports","tag-sports","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31497","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=31497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}