First congrats to both teams that played yesterday, and I'm certainly not taking anything from Fort Hill. 4 in a row TWICE is remarkable. But the last four years it's been a battle for teams in the 1A West. Now my question is has any region in any class dominated the finals the way the teams from the 1A West have done the last four years? I don't think that two teams from the same region have played for a title four years in a row until now. Maybe Todd, or anyone else can confirm this.
Total Domination???
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Two teams from the same region playing against each other in any playoff round outside of the first two rounds would only have been possible since 2019. That was the year the MPSSAA expanded the playoffs to five weeks and opened the door for more than one team from each region advancing. Prior to 2019 only one team from each region advanced.
So the answer is no, Class 1A is the only class where two teams from each region have played for the title four straight years.
1 a looks like it will be a pretty competitive class next year. Potuxent. The 1a/2. Champs will be there. Perryville was no fluke. They were very physical and the defense was quick and young. . Not sure how many seniors Cambridge had but that was a very good team also. Hopefully Alco,Ridge and Northern will be up to the challenge.
They looked to be pretty solid against Dunbar, but they were in fact a senior led, senior dominated team. A game as close as the Dumbar game was, we didn't see what their twos looked like. Plus "Rave" brought up a good point, how many of those 300 students are football players? I'll guess we will all know in August.
The FH weight room is open today on Sunday. No time to wallow in the past. 🤣🤣
I don’t know where anyone said Patuxent lost 300 kids, they are down about 100 9th-11th graders from last reclassification. The culprit for that is a small 9th grade class this year from their feeder middle schools (really school and a half) but the trend from lower grades likely takes them back up in class in a couple years.
In the thread State Title Games from Friday, Todd Helmick mentioned that Patuxent enrollment may be lowered by some 300 students. Not knowing why. Enrollment has to come down for drop to 1A.
It’s come down a bit but not 300 students down. One thing that will be interesting when this gets finalized is whether the committee shifts them up. There would be a good chance of that if they were at the top of the football 1A numbers but it could still happen being that they are sitting at 4th or 5th largest simply because of the geographical anomaly they would be in 1A. Looking at the recommendation for 1A East that’s a small fortune in travel costs. A region that goes from the North Eastern Border with Delaware to Princess Anne in Somerset and Lusby at the southern tip of Calvert is insane.
By the MPSSAA reports Patuxent lost 104 students in 2 years. But that is only grades 9-11.
That’s where they lost students, mainly 9th and 11th grade classes, 12th is a bit higher there. If they included 12th graders in the numbers they wouldn’t have dropped classes.
I had mentioned this, but I saw where Northern Calvert did a massive upgrade to their facilities that was to be completed in 2019. Wasn't sure if the expansion allowed for some redistricting.
LINK: Northern Calvert builds new facility
The new building didn’t figure redistricting, it was just sorely needed especially considering the growth in the area and sorry state of the building before the new facility. Any shuffling that would ever need to happen would be between Northern and Huntington but none of the four Calvert High Schools are over capacity at this point.
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