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The District 10 Committee announced the brackets for the 2026 high school football postseason Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Playoff action begins Friday, November 6, with the Class 3A and 4A semifinals. Classes 1A and 2A will take the field Saturday, November 7.<\/p>\n
Class 4A \u2013 Friday, November 6<\/p>\n
General McLane earned the top seed after finishing 6-0 against Class 4A opponents. The Lancers will host Harbor Creek at Edinboro University at 7 p.m. Friday. General McLane defeated the Huskies 27-19 during the regular season on October 2.<\/p>\n
The other semifinal features Cathedral Prep and Oil City at Veterans Memorial Stadium, also at 7 p.m. The Ramblers shut out the Oilers 14-0 in their regular-season meeting.<\/p>\n
Class 3A \u2013 Friday, November 6<\/p>\n
Hickory and Sharon once again hold the top two seeds in Class 3A. The Hornets earned the No. 1 seed after defeating Sharon 40-21 in Week 2.<\/p>\n
The other two matchups feature rematches of last year’s quarterfinals. North East upset Grove City, while Fort LeBoeuf outlasted Corry.<\/p>\n
First-round byes: #1 Hickory, #2 Sharon<\/p>\n
Class 2A \u2013 Saturday, November 7<\/p>\n
Farrell and Greenville earned the top two seeds in Class 2A. Farrell claimed the top spot after defeating Greenville 19-10 on October 16.<\/p>\n
Girard and Iroquois will meet again in the quarterfinals, just one week after the YellowJackets picked up a 41-21 victory over the Braves.<\/p>\n
First-round byes: #1 Farrell, #2 Greenville<\/p>\n
Class 1A \u2013 Saturday, November 7<\/p>\n
Wilmington earned the top seed in Class 1A after edging Mercyhurst Prep 36-29 on September 25.<\/p>\n
First-round byes: #1 Wilmington, #2 Mercyhurst Prep<\/p>\n
Class 6A \u2013 Friday, November 6<\/p>\n
McDowell and Erie High will begin their state subregional playoff runs Friday night.<\/p>\n
Erie High travels to State College for a 7 p.m. kickoff, while McDowell hosts Altoona at 7 p.m. at James Conner Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The District 10 Committee announced the brackets for the 2026 high school football postseason Sunday afternoon. Playoff action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[36396,136,138,137,129796,304,13659,73362],"class_list":["post-319113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-district-10","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-football-brackets","tag-high-school-football","tag-mcdowell","tag-postseason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319113","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=319113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}