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#2 Iona Prep (8-3) vs. #5 Cardinal Hayes (9-2) When: Saturday November 18th, 2023 @6pm Where: Jack Coffey Field on the Campus of Fordham University (441 E Fordham Rd, Bronx, NY 10458) Watch: Youtube (Varsity Media) Previous Meeting: Iona Prep, 46-35, on October 14th (Week #6) How They Got Here (Iona Prep): -Quarterfinals: 49-19 over #7 Kellenberg Memorial -Semifinals: 35-13 over #3 Monsignor Farrell How They Got Here (Cardinal Hayes): -Quarterfinals: 42-14 over #4 St. Anthony’s -Semifinals: 29-26 over #1 Archbishop Stepinac Postseason Heroes (Iona Prep): -Joey Gaston (QB): 21-of-27 passing, 267 yards (3 touchdowns); 94 yards (3 touchdowns) on 18 carries -Kyseem Springer (RB): 77 yards and 2 touchdowns (12 hand-offs) -Steven Dowdy Jr. (WR): 9 receptions, 183 yards, 3 touchdown grabs; also has a KOR TD -Dylan Iorgoveanu (WR): 6 catches for 41 yards -Jaden Codrington (CB): 1 INT in the quarterfinals -Terron Johnson (CB): 1 INT in

#1 Mount St. Michael Academy (6-2) vs. #4 Kennedy Catholic (3-6) When: Saturday November 11th, 2023 @1pm Where: Mt. St. Michael Academy Campus (4300 Murdock Ave, Bronx, NY 10466) Watch: Youtube (Mt. St. Michael Academy Page) Previous Meeting: Moore Catholic, 7-0, on October 14th (Week #6) Overview: A barn-burner when the two teams met in Mid-October, the only points of the afternoon came late in the 1st quarter when Carl Shaw was able to punch across the goal line from a short distance away to enable the Mountaineers to escape with a 7-0 victory!! An illustration of why we play games on grass/turf and not on paper, if you were to look at the discrepancy between the two programs in terms of established personnel, you’d instantly expect a much higher margin of triumph for MSMA… But alas, under the tutelage of Dominick Tassone, the Gaels know how to peak for

#1 Moore Catholic (6-4) vs. #4 Xavier (7-3) When: Saturday November 11th, 2023 @1pm Where: Moore Catholic HS Campus (100 Merrill Ave, Staten Island, NY 10314) Previous Meeting: Moore Catholic, 27-7, on September 30th (Week #4) Overview: Can the Mavericks be denied a third straight trip to the AA-1 finals?  The easy answer is that our magic 8-ball suggests that “Outlook Not so Good”; but if any program was going to be the ones to stop the train in its tracks, our pick would have been Xavier…So this rematch from week #4 actually does have us intrigued! Victors in five of their past six outings (only loss to AAA semifinalist, Iona Prep) after getting off to a 1-3 start to the fall, there was never any real doubt that when November rolled around, we had full expectation that Giannatasio’s herd would very much be in the title picture!! Likely not

#1 Archbishop Stepinac (8-2) vs. #5 Cardinal Hayes (8-2) When: Saturday November 11th, 2023 @1:30pm Where: Archbishop Stepinac HS Campus (950 Mamaroneck Ave, White Plains, NY 10605) Watch: LocalLive (Stepinac Page) Previous Meeting: Cardinal Hayes, 33-28, on October 1st (Week #4) Overview: A back-and-forth game that went down to the wire when the two prestigious programs met in week #4, the top-seeds out of White Plains [Stepinac] were driving late in the contest and had advanced the ball inside the opposing 10-yard line when a 4th down pass attempt into the end zone fell incomplete in the last 24 ticks to spoil the comeback bid! We anticipate the rematch this Saturday to be every bit as good as its predecessor as both the Crusaders and the Cardinals enter the afternoon playing their best football of 2023, as the former [AS] have not tasted defeat since that loss and are riding