Big and physical vs. small and fleet. Those contrasting styles will line up across the line of scrimmage at 6 p.m. Friday as Osan American battles Daegu American with host rights to the Far East Class A title game on the line. Click here to preview the coming weekend in Pacific high school football.

Hearty congratulations bestowed by SportsBlog Nation as the parade of league champions marches on in late October:

-- A "breakout" match is how coach Al Garrido described Nile C. Kinnick setter Marina Nakayama's night Wednesday. She recorded 23 set assists to boost the Red Devils past Christian Academy In Japan in straight sets. Kinnick is 22-0 overall, 11-0 in league, but more importantly captured its first Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools league title in school history.

UPDATED at 9:40 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28 and 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 29.

Former Seoul American girls volleyball middle blocker Gabriella Matautia and her Moanalua volleyball team are headed to the Hawaii state playoffs. Photograph of her can be found here, although I'm sure she'd have wanted it to be associated with a story about her team winning.

Terrone Sheffey, a former basketball standout at Kadena, left Okinawa for the States for his senior year of high school along with Jamil Barney, and is now at Belmont Abbey College, a Division II school in North Carolina.

Two years ago, she could have easily given up on tennis. Her father handed her a tennis racquet and gave her the toughest of introductions to the sport. But one day, something clicked and she fell in love with the game. And Yokota Panthers freshman singles star Erika Youngdahl has the record to prove it, and is taking dead aim at a berth in the Far East Tournament finals next month. Click here to read her story.

Since Ornauer messed up and prematurely crowned a Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools football champion, it's only fair that we examine the possibilities of winning the league title for American School In Japan (4-1) and Zama American and Yokota (each 3-2).

Although in 1995 the KPASSP constitution was changed to include a point-differential tiebreaker to prevent ties for the league title from happening, that provision appears to no longer be in the league constitution. I do not know when that changed.

Congratulations to Sam Krauth of American School In Japan and Madeline Strandemo of Hong Kong International for their victories in the boys and girls 3.1-mile individual races in the Asia-Pacific Invitational Cross-Country Meet on Friday at Asan Memorial Park on Guam. Krauth ran the course in 17 minutes, 34.4 seconds. Last year's winner, Kelly Langley of St. Mary's International, was second. Strandemo won in 20:39.3; runner-up Bessie Noll of ASIJ trailed by 31.4 seconds.

Musings, mutterings and the occasional schmahts as we reach the regular season's final weekend with some very important decisions yet to be made:

-- Isn't Week 10.0 going to be fun?

-- Most league championships and playoff spots have already been determined, save two.

-- Or one each.

-- The DODEA Japan title is still up for grabs, with Zama American needing a win at Nile C. Kinnick on Friday to grab the bag of marbles which contain the words: "First DODEA Japan title in school history." Should it be a Red Devil of a victory, then Yokota, which has won the last 10 titles, would make it 11.

-- And who is going to host the "Trojan Horses" in the Class A title game Nov. 7? Still up in the air.