Friday's games wrap up D-II playoff picture

Friday night was an interesting night around the Vermont high school football rankings, with quarterfinal games in divisions I and III, and one game that was effectively a quarterfinal in Division II.

Needing an upset win to get to the postseason, Fair Haven pushed Bellows Falls to the end before the Terriers held on for a 41-35 victory that closed the D-II playoff picture. The result means Milton will be the No. 4 seed regardless of how it does in tomorrow's finale at Mt. Abraham and the Slaters will be the odd team out. The QPRs heading into the final games of the regular season on Saturday are below:

 (QPR includes only Division II games. Games against teams in other Vermont divisions are only counted for tiebreaker purposes.)
1. Burr and Burton (8-0 overall, 8-0 D2), 108 points, 13.5 QPR
2. Bellows Falls (8-1 overall, 7-1 D2), 87 points, 10.88 QPR
3. Burlington (7-2 overall, 6-2 D2), 68 points, 8.5 QPR
4. Milton (5-3 overall, 4-3 D2), 42 points, 6 QPR
5. Fair Haven (5-4 overall, 4-4 D2), 38 points, 4.75 QPR
6. Mt. Mansfield (2-6 overall, 2-5 D2), 18 points, 2.57 QPR
7. Mt. Abraham (2-6 overall, 2-5 D2), 16 points, 2.29 QPR
8. Lyndon (1-7 overall, 1-6 D2), 7 points, 1 QPR
9. North Country (0-9 overall, 0-8 D2), 0 points, 0 QPR


Also, congratulations to Friday night's playoff winners: Rutland, Middlebury, Hartford, CVU, U-32 and Woodstock. With those results in mind, next week's semifinal matchups should be:

Division I
No. 5 CVU (5-4) at No. 1 Rutland (8-1)
No. 3 Hartford (7-2) at No. 2 Middlebury (9-0)
Division II
No. 4 Milton at No. 1 Burr and Burton (records TBD)
No. 3 Burlington (7-2) at No. 2 Bellows Falls (8-1)
Division III
No. 3 Woodstock (7-2) at No. 2 U-32 (7-1)

The other Division III matchup will be decided in Saturday's quarterfinals: No. 1 Otter Valley vs. No. 8 BFA-Fairfax and No. 4 Mill River vs. No. 5 Windsor.