High school football playoffs set, all-star picks announced

BY JOHN DECOSTE

NovaNewsNow.com

The schedule has been set for the first round of the NSSAF Football League playoffs.

The top eight teams in the regular season standings, including all four schools in the most competitive ‘A’ Division, will participate in the Tier 1 playoffs.

The Northeast Kings Titans, in their first season playing at the Tier 1 level, placed sixth overall and will meet third-ranked Citadel High Saturday at 7:30 at Huskies Stadium. “We’re really looking forward to it,” says Titans co-head coach Wally Archer. “We feel we can play with anyone in Tier 1, and it’s bound to be a great experience playing under the lights.” NKEC played Central Kings at Acadia in its lone night game this season.

Meanwhile, teams finishing eighth through sixteenth in the standings, including all four schools in the ‘D’ division, qualified for the Tier 2 playoffs.

The other three Valley schools, Central Kings, Horton and Avon View, will all compete in the Tier 2 playoffs.

The Gators, who finished fourth in Tier 2, will host fifth-seed J.L. Ilsley in the only NSSAFFL first-round playoff game to be played locally. That game is now scheduled for 6 p.m. Sunday at Acadia.

Eighth-seed Horton will meet top-ranked C.P. Allen Saturday at 8 p.m. on the Burnside turf, and seventh-ranked Avon View will tangle with second-seed Halifax West Sunday afternoon at 1:30 on the Mainland Commons.

Meanwhile, the NSSAF Football League all-stars and major award winners were announced last Wednesday, with a number of players from Valley schools selected.

NKEC had two players named to the Tier 1 first all-star team and three players who made the second team. Roland Provencal was a first-team all-star on offense at the receiver position, and Jeff Zwicker was a first-team all-star at defensive back.

Titans’ offensive lineman Dakota Hopper, defensive lineman Mike Livingstone and linebacker Isaac Ueffing were all named to the second all-star team for Tier 1.

A total of seven players from Valley schools were picked as all-stars in Tier 2, where only one all-star team was chosen.

The Tier 2 all-stars included offensive lineman Drake Lowthers, defensive lineman Jacob Meisner, linebacker Tyler Doherty and defensive back Shawndell Sampson of Central Kings, Horton linebacker Dougie Gee and defensive lineman Cordell Perry and defensive back Curtis Broussard from Avon View.