According to basketballnight.com and other sources, the Webster County Highlanders boys' basketball team will play the Valley Fayette Greyhounds in an opening round playoff game on February 25 at 5:00 p.m. at Oak Hill.
The seven teams in Webster's section were seeded as follows: Fayetteville, #1; Charleston Catholic, #2; Webster County, #3; Richwood, #4; Pocahontas County, #5; Valley Fayette, #6; and Midland Trail, #7. All sectional playoff games will be played at the Oak Hill Red Devils' high school. The opening round games are scheduled for February 25.
Richwood will play Pocahontas County at 3:00 p.m., followed by the Webster-Valley game at 5:00 pm., with the nightcap at 7:00 p.m. pitting Charleston Catholic against Midland Trail. Fayetteville, as the number one seed, will have a bye.
The winner of the Richwood-Pocahontas game will face Fayetteville on February 28 at 5:30 p.m. and the winners of the Charleston Catholic-Midland Trail and Webster-Valley games will play each other on February 28 at 7:30 p.m, with the sectional championship set for March 2 at 7:00 p.m.
The fact that all playoff games are now to be played at neutral sites changes a long history of higher seeded teams earning by their play during the regular season the right to host playoff games on their own court. The home court advantage is no more thanks to this type of political correctness gone amuck now invading sports. The day will come when during a game you can only applaud at designated intervals, like being at an opera. After all, we don't want to offend someone.
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