Twelve Valley players named high school football all-stars

BY JOHN DECOSTE

jdecoste@kentvilleadvertiser.ca

NovaNewsNow.com

A number of players from Valley teams were among the NSSAF Football League all-star selections announced this week.

NKEC, which finished the year sixth in the league standings and qualified for the Tier 1 playoffs, had two players named to the Tier 1 first all-star team. Three players made the second team.

Roland Provencal was chosen a first-team all-star on offense at the receiver position and Jeff Zwicker was a first-team pick 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.

The NSSAFFL playoff quarter-finals will be played this weekend, with NKEC meeting third-ranked Citadel High in Tier 1 action Saturday evening.

Central Kings, Horton and Avon View all qualified for the Tier 2 playoffs. The Gators, who finished fourth in Tier 2 (and 11th overall in their first season), are the only Valley team to host a playoff game, meeting fifth-seed J.L. Ilsley Sunday at 6 p.m. at Acadia.

Eighth-seed Horton will meet top-ranked (in Tier 2) C.P. Allen Saturday evening on the Burnside turf and seventh-ranked Avon View tangles with second-seed Halifax West Sunday afternoon on the Mainland Commons.