Calpreps.com to settle Big VIII tie at 7 a.m.
After Friday night, Norco, Roosevelt and Corona Santiago find themselves in a three-way tie for the final two playoff spots in the Big VIII League; Each team is 6-4 overall and 3-4 in league.
There will be no coin flip, rather the tie will be broken by rankings on calpreps.com. When the rankings are released at 7 a.m. Saturday morning, the highest ranked of the three will claim the third playoff spot. The final playoff berth will be awarded to the head-to-head winner of the two remaining teams.
The triangle is as such: Roosevelt beat Norco, Norco beat Santiago and Santiago beat Roosevelt. On Friday night, Santiago defeated Corona 27-7 to pull into a three-way tie when Roosevelt lost to Riverside North 30-27 in OT and Norco fell to Corona Centennial 31-7. Centennial and North finished first and second in the league, respectively.
Although, Norco coach Todd Gerhart believes the fifth-place team in the Big VIII League will claim the Inland Division's lone at-large playoff berth. "We're all over .500," Gerhart said Friday night. "And there's just nothing else out there really."
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Clay Fowler has been covering high school sports for six years in California and Texas. He was born in Dallas, attended the University of Texas and worked in Central Texas before joining the Daily Bulletin staff in 2006.
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