It’s the first week of the high school football playoffs. It’s going to be cloudy and humid tonight Friday, Nov. 15, with temps in the around 50. For games that run late, there may be a chance of light rain. Tonight’s radio game of the week on 99.9 The Fan is Millbrook at Leesville Road.
All games tonight start at 7:30 pm. Try to make a point to get out there and support high school athletics before the season is over.
My record in picking games last week was 12-4 for a season record of 114-36. That’s 76 percent, well below my 83 percent last year and 84 percent the year before. To my defense, there were several upsets this year and several evenly matched teams fighting for titles.
With the higher-seeded teams playing at home, I only have three underdogs picked this week: Cardinal Gibbons, South View and Wake Forest. Below, the predicted winners for this week are in bold.
Cardinal Gibbons at Triton
Chapel Hill at Southern Durham
Clayton at Hillside
Fuquay-Varina at Middle Creek
Green Hope at Wakefield
Heritage at Scotland County
Holly Springs at Garner
Millbrook at Leesville Road
Northern Durham at New Hanover
Rocky Mount at Orange
Sanderson at Jack Britt
South View at Riverside
Southeast Raleigh at New Bern
Southern Alamance at Knightdale
Wake Forest at Panther Creek