Tuesday, November 1, 2011

MEADE AND SOUTH RIVER LOOK TO EXTEND SEASON

There is amazing irony in the fact that two Anne Arundel County 4A Schools, both battling for their playoff lives this weekend, did not play each other. Meade, under first year coach Rich Holzer, and South River, under first year coach Lance Cleland, who used to coach at Meade, will decide their playoff fates Friday night.

The Mustangs (6-3) host Broadneck (4-5), winners of three of its last four. South River (6-3) travels to 9-0 Old Mill. The scenario is simple.

If South River upsets the Patriots, they are in, no matter what Meade does. If South River loses, they still get in if Meade falls to the Bruins. Meade can only snare one bonus point that South River can't and they trail the Seahawks by two points. A Meade win and South River loss and the Mustangs head to the post-season.

Both teams can look back at losses to 4-5 Southern by one point each, but South River reaaly has to be kicking itself. Its loss to 2-7 Glen Burnie, 50-32, is what may keep them home. Has South River won that game, they would be assured of no worse then a tie, no matter what they did against Old Mill. The crime in all this, is that these two 4A teams never played each other and it is effecting the playoff race.

South River can vault itself into the third seed with a win over Old Mill and a North Point loss to 7-2 Westlake. Meade can be no better than the four-seed if it qualifies.

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