High school football playoffs: Raines makes Open division as massive playoff road awaits Vikings - News4JAX
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The high school football playoff brackets are set with the Raines Vikings making the inaugural Open division as one of the state’s top-eight teams.
The high school football playoff brackets are set with the Raines Vikings making the inaugural Open division as one of the state’s top-eight teams.
It’s the reward for being one of Florida’s top teams the last two years. Head coach Donovan Masline has built Raines into a Florida powerhouse, winners of 24 consecutive games and last year’s Class 3A state championship.
A late hiccup was avoided when a judge in Miami Circuit Court denied an injunction by Carol City players and parents to overturn their playoff ban. According to On3 reporter Andy Villamarzo, circuit judge Antonio Arzola reviewed the material and issued the ruling. Carol City was banned from the playoffs following a brawl at the end of a game against Georgia school Grayson.
There will unquestionably be stronger and stronger calls for the FHSAA to look at other ways to determine playoffs besides just the MaxPreps proprietary algorithm that produced some head-scratching decisions. In Region 1-5A, 5-5 Oakleaf made it ahead of a 8-2 Ocala Forest team that the Knights lost to head to head.
4. Chaminade-Madonna at 1. St. Thomas Aquinas
(8) Father Lopez at (1) Trinity Christian (6-4)
(5) Willison at (4) Melbourne Central Catholic
(6) Wildwood at (3) University Christian (7-3)
(8) Calvary Christian at (1) First Academy
(7) St. Pete Lakewood at (2) Clearwater Central Catholic
(4) Bishop Kenny at (5) Pensacola Pine Forest
(7) Tallahassee Lincoln at (2) St. Augustine (9-1)
(5) Bartram Trail (7-3) at (4) Evans (7-3)
(7) Ponte Vedra (3-7) at Gainesville Buchholz (9-1)
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