The playoffs are over us and on Sunday, the Michigan Athletic High Schools Association announced the official matchmaking for state tournaments, starting Thursday, Friday and Saturday with 11-player district games and regional competitions for 8-player teams.
Four Manistee County systems have learned where their path to a possible state name begins, while Manistee (the county’s only 11-player team) is scheduled to host Kalkaska at 7 p. m. Friday night at Chippewa Field; Brethren and Bear Lake will meet at 7 p. m. Saturday at Bobcat Field; and Manistee Catholic Central will head to Suttons Bay, with date and time to be determined.
Onekama, who struggled with numbers and injuries during the season, retired from this year’s playoffs.
The Chippewas have the opportunity to achieve the show’s first playoff win and place the top position to make it the most sensible seed in their district, which comes with the home advantage. At 4-2, Manistee has only lost one game this season, the other flaw in his record was last week’s loss due to quarantine.
Back to maximum power, Manistee is in a position for a wave of playoffs.
“There was no big mystery in this year’s playoffs, so we knew, as things moved, that we would probably have the most sensible seed (number 1),” Manistee coach Troy Bytpaintings said. “And it’s a testament to the paintings that children and training staff have done to put us in a position to play at home. At the end of the day, you have to win games, whether you play at home or away, so you don’t actually secure anything.
“We know we have to pass out and play. “
Manistee will receive Kalkaska at 7 p. m. on Friday at Chippewa Field to open the playoffs (Photo of the News Advocate folder)
Manistee Catholic Central will have a rematch with Suttons Bay at Suttons Bay to open division 1 playoffs to players (Photo of news advocate folder).
Brethren and Bear Lake will meet at Bobcat Field at 7 p. m. Saturday in the 8-player playoffs. (Photo from News Advocate folder)
Saturday’s eight-player game between the Bobcats (4-2) and the Lakers (2-4) will be the time when the two West Michigan D League rivals face off this season. The first assembly took place on September 25, when the Brothers won 30-9. Although Brethren is technically the home team, Bear Lake also hosts all normal-season games at Bobcat Field, so either will be in their territory.
“It’s wonderful that we can play at Bear Lake,” Brothers coach JJ Randall said. “Or we played on the lawn of our house, and I wish it was a year when all the enthusiasts can see it, because I know it will be exciting.
“We played against them before this season, but we’re a completely different team than we were from the current week and I know they are too,” he added. “So it’s a step back to the one shown and played more physically and more. “aggressively. “
Bear Lake coach John Prokes is also very happy with the draw.
“You expect it to just happen, ” he said. ” (Brethren) is our closest rival, easily. You’d like to play against them, and if you can get a game in the first round, it’s wonderful for the location. . . Clearly it’s your field, however, it’s the field we’ve been betting on for 4 years, so we’re used to it, it’s kind of a house game for us too.
“We have a moment opportunity with the time part of the season here, and a chance to redeem ourselves. “
The MCC (1-5) will face a family enemy at Suttons Bay, while the two have just faced off on Saturday in the normal season finale. The Sabres fell 47-12 to the undefeated Nordics at Sabre Stadium and will now have to do so against Suttons Bay. to face the No. 1 seed of the region.
“They have a concept of what we bring to the table and we know what they have,” MCC coach Jake Szymanski said. “We’ve noticed their talents up close and, in any case, I think we gain the confidence that yes, we can play with those great teams, we just have to leave our game blank. “
New to this year’s playoffs, all 11 men split into 8 divisions before the game started. Due to the normal season shortened due to COVID-19, the 11 men were divided into districts up to 8 each, and then paired into 4 regions.
For 8-player football, the groups were divided into two divisions before the start of the season, and the 32 most sensitive groups in the division, based on the playoff average, were decided from a postseason field of 64 teams, which were then divided. in 4 regions, eight groups
Matchmaking for the first 4 weeks of the tournament is based on average playoff points of the normal season with the top-ranked team game host, regardless of the distance between the two schools. The team ranked first in the district or regional first round category will receive the team ranked eighth; the team ranked at the time will host the 7th-ranked team, and so on.
The district semifinals of 11 players and the regional semi-finals of 8 players will be maintained during the weekend from 6 to 7 November, and on the weekend of November 13-14 you will see the district finals in the 11-player playoffs and the regional finals in the 8-player Playoffs Both Circulars will be played on the site of the top-ranked team that won in the last round of play.
The 11-player regional playoff finals will be held from November 20-21 on the top-ranked team that won the district final. The 8-player playoff semi-finals will be held from 20 to 21 November, equaling the region 1 winners opposed to The Winners of Region 2 and Region 3 oppose Region 4, in the top-ranked teams.
The semi-finals of the 11-player playoffs will take a position from 27 to 28 November, equaling region 1 winners opposed to Region 2 and Region 3 winners opposed to Region 4. The top-ranked groups will host unless the groups involved are two hundred. or more miles away; In such cases, MHSAA will assign the game to a preset if it can be secured in a moderate location.
According to MHSAA, all playoff price tickets will be sold online only GoFan to provide a non-cash and contactless acquisition procedure that also allows touch search. Pre-district, district and regional game tickets in a consultation charge $6. for a singles consultation, a $8 fee will apply.
The 8-player ultimate will take place from 27 to 28 November and the 11-player ultimate will be played from December 4-5. It will soon be announced where those ultimates will be played, adding more data for viewers.
A total of 10 groups of 8 players have not qualified for MHSAA playoffs, and are allowed to schedule the game, unlike the unqualified group, to be played next week.
A total of nine groups of 11 players and seven groups of 8 players who started this season withdrew from the MHSAA playoffs. Eight tiebreakers were required for placing parentheses on 11 players; The winner’s first face-to-face tiebreaker was once used, the moment of the tiebreaker of the opponent’s winning percentage was used five times, and the third tiebreaker, corner turn, was used for two games.
The district and regional parentheses of Manistee County are:
11 PLAYERS: DIVISION 6
REGION 21: DISTRICT 42
Kalkaska (0-5) 6,333 in MANISTEE (4-2) 36,167
Benzie Central (2-4) 23,667 to Grayling (3-3) 26,667
Elk Rapids (1-5) 13,833 at Maple City Glen Lake (4-2) 33,167
Mason County Central (2-4) 19,667 in Boyne City (4-2) 29,333
8 PLAYERS: DIVISION 1
REGION 2
MANISTEE CATHOLIC CENTRAL (1-5) 12,667 at Suttons Bay (6-0) 33,500
Lake Fife Forest Area (2-4) 17,833 Whittemore-Prescott (4-2) 23,767
Central Lake (2-4) 15,333 at Gaylord St Mary (5-1) 28,833
Vestaburg (2-3) 16,100 to Mesick (4-2) 27,167
8 PLAYERS: DIVISION 2
REGION 2
Bellaire (1-5) 14,167 to Marion (5-1) 26,233
Hillman (2-4) 19,033 in Atlanta (3-3) 22,500
Posen (2-3) 15,500 to Hale (5-1) 24,533
BEAR LAKE (2-4) 15,933 TO BROTHERS (4-2) 22,767