High School Playoffs

November 18, 2007

But the best matchup of the second round?

That’s Cedar Hill (8-3) against Southlake Carroll (10-1), a matchup that will end the season for one of the defending 5A champions. It can’t match the appeal of last year’s second-round matchup of Carroll and Euless Trinity, but it should be great.

Especially now that Cedar Hill, which beat Irving MacArthur, 61-24, on Friday, has hit a peak in a season in which a playoff berth was in question. That was after a loss to Arlington three weeks ago.

“That loss really turned the tide for us,” McGuire said. “The guys all kind of started to understand that this all could be coming to an end.”

Instead, it could be the start of something great, which is what the first round of the playoffs were. More than any time in recent memory, the idea that “anything can happen” was true, and that made the weekend memorable.

Source: Dallas Morning News