"Apparently Woodland — which defeated Naugatuck 25-6 last week, thereby guaranteeing it at least a 5-1 record in the Copper Division — doesn’t get a head-to-head tiebreaker with the Greyhounds should the Hawks tie Naugatuck in the Copper standings with a loss to Sacred Heart this week."
After we all thought last week's thrashing of Naugatuck got the Hawks a ticket to the NVL title game. I guess we were wrong. The old tiebreaker stands: Overall record first, then head-to-head. That means Woodland has to beat Sacred Heart or have Naugatuck lose to Holy Cross to secure a better division record because Naugy would have the overall record tiebreaker.
Kyle talked to Woodland AD Brian Fell this morning and he confirmed this, saying this:
"We are a constitutionally driven conference. The tiebreaker was discussed to be a change between the athletic directors at last week's meeting. The general consensus was that it went into effect for this season, but that's how the motion was made. The president of the league [Joe Monroe] has determined that it was not selected to go into effect for this season but was intended for next season."
But in reality, all ("all", I know) Woodland has to do is beat Sacred Heart on Thursday. This is a big game for Sacred Heart to begin with (playoff spot at stake). Once the Hearts catch wind of this, I'm sure they will be playing a lot harder to bounce the Hawks out of the NVL title game.
This suddenly became the game of the week.
I suspect the crowd just got a little bigger for this match-up...
Crazy.
