Athletic Director Jim Gross received word late Monday afternoon that North Schuylkill’s Week 10 opponent, Freedom Village, was forfeiting the game scheduled for 1 p.m. Saturday at North Schuylkill after a rash of injuries and plus they have a few players that are “5th year seniors”. Under PIAA rule any team cannot compete against a school that uses players that turned 19 before July 1st.
Gross was informed that Freedom Village intends to send a letter of forfeiture to the Spartans and District 11 Chairman Jack Wabby, which Wabby must present to a district committee to vote on. If the committee considers Freedom Village’s reasons valid it will award North Schuylkill the appropriate points for a win for purposes of deciding the Class AA playoff seeds.
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this may end up helping or hurting the kids, from what ive noticed good teams get hurt with a bye week, while not so great of teams advance from them. will be interesting to see how the Spartans respond to having a week off.