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FROM KEITH GROLLER
The other day we laid out the formats for the various sports in the new high school league set to begin in the fall of 2014, the newly-expanded Lehigh Valley Conference or whatever it will be called.
But there has already been a significant update and revision to the format in football.
No, the divisions will remain the same.
The Mountain Division will be Allen, Becahi, Dieruff and the six Monroe County schools, Pocono East and West, Pleasant Valley, Stroudsburg, and East Stroudsburg North and South,
The Valley Division will be everyone else, which means Central Catholic, Easton, Emmaus, Parkland, Whitehall, Northampton, Freedom, Liberty and Nazareth.
Everybody will play everybody in its own division for eight games and will have two cross-divison games. That hasn't changed.
But when those cross-division games will occur has changed. We were told those cross-division games would all be in blocks in weeks 6 and 7 or 7 and 8.
Now, however, things have been revised and a whole block of cross-division games has been moved up to Week 1, which, next year, will be Aug. 29-30. This was done to insure that everyone would have an equal number of home and away games. Former Northampton AD Mike Schneider is the scheduler and has done a masterful job laying things out.
Those Week 1 matchups will be:
Friday, Aug. 29
Bethlehem Catholic at Liberty
Whitehall at PM West
Easton at Pleasant Valley
Freedom at ES South
Stroudsburg at Nazareth
Parkland at Dieruff
ES North at Emmaus
Saturday Aug. 30
PM East at Central Catholic
Allen at Northampton
And then the other nine cross-division matchups will be interspersed throughout the course of the season, one per week.
Although there is still a small chance things could change again, it looks like this for the other cross-division contests:
Week 2: Liberty at Allen
Week 3: Whitehall at Pleasant Valley
Week 4: PM West at Parkland
Week 5: Easton at ES South
Week 6: Dieruff at Freedom
Week 7: Nazareth at ES North
Week 8: PM East at Emmaus
Week 9: Northampton at Stroudsburg
Week 10: Bethlehem Catholic at Central Catholic
As we said earlier, these cross-division pairings will change every two years with the exception of Becahi and CCHS who will meet each season.
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