2009 DODEA Pacific Far East High School Football Playoffs

Class A

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Musings, mutterings and the occasional schmahts as Ornauer thanks his lucky stars for the help he had getting back on his tennis feet Wednesday after losing his tournament program and all the brackets somewhere at Mike Petty Stadium:

-- Never before had a DODEA Pacific team emerged from divisional play as the No. 1 seed entering the Far East Girls Class AA Volleyball Tournament playoffs, much less two teams occupying the No. 1 and No. 2 spots. Yet there they were, Korea-champion Seoul American at the top and Japan-champion Nile C. Kinnick, gazing at the competition staring up at them.

-- Call it uncharted territory. This is supposed to be the province of international schools.

Musings, mutterings and the occasional schmahts as Ornauer wonders if we're staring at Kadena-Seoul Class AA football title-game Classic No. 3:

-- I say again, that's why they play the games on the field, not in the newspapers or the blogs. I mean, who saw Seoul American 15, Guam High 0 coming?

-- Didn't think so.

-- I mean, a team 7-2 team entering Tuesday's Class AA semifinal that averaged 24 points per game held to 132 yards and gets no further than its foes' 18-yard line?

Musings, mutterings and the occasional schmahts as Ornauer once more realises this gets more and more difficult every year, and looks around for the guy who does no-rain dances:

-- Thomas Kim and Siarria Ingram make it a sweep dream for Seoul American on the Gosser Memorial Golf Course at Misawa Air Base, Japan, which doubled as the Falcons' cross-country dominance platform on Monday. Kim checked in at 17:54, while Ingram, escorted by teammate Amanda Henderson, made it in 20:58.

-- While Seoul American's girls ran the team score table, how about the job that Jesse Arnold and David Bailey and the Nile C. Kinnick boys did, securing the boys team title?

Musings, mutterings and the occasional schmahts as Ornauer hopes that the weather holds and the Class AA all-in-one-location playoffs can live up to the Class A championship game's drama:

-- Was that a fantabulous Class A title game or what? It had a little of everything to please the gridiron lover's palate. Zama American's ground machine vs. Daegu American's spread option. Passing touchdowns. Rushing touchdowns, A kick-return touchdown.

A day late, but what the heck ... We now continue with the quarterfinal round of our virtual SportsBlog Championship Series, pitting all comers, DODEA and international, no matter their affiliation, in a Pacific-wide football playoff to end all Pacific-wide football playoffs.

The lineup:
Game 5--Zama American at Kadena.
Game 6--Yokota at American School In Japan.
Game 7--Robert D. Edgren at George Washington.
Game 8--Guam High at Daegu American.

And awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy we go:

Game 5 -- Both of these teams run the ball so efficiently that this easily becomes the shortest SBS game in terms of actual time, just 2 hours, 10 minutes.

UPDATED at 11 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9

-- Kadena 55, Yokota 6: Illustrious start to first all-in-one-location Class AA football playoff for Kadena; worst loss in school history for Yokota.

-- Guam High 42, John F. Kennedy 0: To be expected; Panthers had a belly full of fire after last week's home loss to Father Duenas Memorial. Brunson was beasting out there.

-- Zama American 46, Daegu American 38: What a ballgame. Haven't seen a shootout like that in 26 years. Michael Spencer and the Zama ground machine win out over David Martinez and Daegu's spread option.

-- George Washington 18, Father Duenas Memorial 8: It wasn't a dominant victory, but the Geckos completed the job.