Class 5 Sectional prognostications

You can get in-depth and thoughtful analysis of the prep contests over at Prep Hoops or the Post Dispatch for these boys high school contests coming up on March 6th.  All of these kids have worked really hard to get to this point, so hats off to all 100 or 120 of them.

Here are my tongue-in-cheek prognostications for the class 5 sectional games around the state of Missouri.

By the way, I didn't do to bad on district guesses for all five classes.  Off hand, I was something like right on 49 of 80 district winners for the five class for just over 60% correct.  I sucked in class 2 picks but really did well in class 1 and class 4 for some reason with nearly 75 to 80% correct.  I guess I will keep my day job though, Oh, wait, I don't have a day job....LOL

If you can get to a game, enjoy.  This all in good fun:

Class 5 Section Picks
Section 1	Rating
Jackson High School	114
A very close match up.  Jackson's frontline can go toe-to-toe with Mehlville and the coin toss goes to Jackson by 2.
Mehlville High School	112
Section 2	Rating
Eureka High School	117
The Brothers are too deep for the D-minded Cats who look to keep it under 10 til the fourth quarter and pull an upset down the stretch.
Christian Brothers College High School	127
Section 3	Rating
McCluer North High School	126
The Stars are not aligned for Central and they go down hard to a rising McCluer North senior- laden team by 10 or more.
Hazelwood Central High School	118
Section 4	Rating
Francis Howell High School	132
This game is not an even battle as the Howling starts before the opening tip.  Francis Howell blows out Battle by 25 or more.  Sorry, bad pun.
Battle High School	105
Section 5	Rating
Rock Bridge High School	134
Rock Bridge will be giving the underclassmen plenty of playing time in the second half.  The Bridge by 25.
Camdenton High School	109
Section 6	Rating
Kickapoo High School	120
It's become politically incorrect to keep a Native  American mascot name so does that justify me to say the Chiefs will kick the poo out of Republic by 7 or more?  Probably not....
Republic High School	113
Section 7	Rating
Lee's Summit North High School	126
This game could be a state final some years but instead it's just a sectional and one of these teams is trying out for spring sports on Thursday.  It's probably Lee's Summit North's players.  BSS by 4.
Blue Springs South High School	130
Section 8	Rating
William Chrisman High School	121
This game is TCTC (to close to call)!  NO?     Okay, then, Chrisman takes it at the buzzer.
Park Hill South High School	120

And the winner is...….   Look for Francis Howell to get by McCluer by 6 and then beat CBC by 5 to make the upper bracket as a finalist.  In the lower bracket, Rock Bridge will roll over the Chiefs by 14 and Blue Springs South will trump Chrisman by 9.  Rock Bridge beats then beats Blue Springs South by four to set up a great final with Francis Howell.

The state champion in class 5?  I may change my mind in a week but I think it's Rock Bridge by 2, right now.