November 10th, 2024 by WCBC Radio

By Friday night, the West Virginia high school football regular season was over and, as usual, WV MetroNews posted the projected playoff pairings for all four classes by Saturday morning.  By Saturday afternoon, however, all that changed.  

Due to an injunction issued in Wood County over the weekend, the WVSSAC updated playoff ratings to reflect where teams were classified in the preseason before the reclassifications in August shortly before the start of the regular season.  Four teams that thought they had made the playoffs by Saturday morning, Hampshire, Point Pleasant, Tolsia, and Westside, which had been slated to be Frankfort’s opening round opponent, are out.  Newly minted playoff teams include Capital, St. Albans, St. Mary’s and Lincoln, whom the Falcons will open up the playoffs against, Friday night in Short Gap, with the kickoff scheduled for 7pm. 

Football is not the only sport impacted by pending court action.  WV MetroNews is reporting that the Single A volleyball tournament scheduled to begin this week in Charleston has been indefinitely postponed as a result of pending litigation stemming from competing court injunctions surrounding the reclassification from earlier this year.  

In the AAA Volleyball tournament, Frankfort will open against Winfield on Wednesday at 8:30 am