{"id":3057,"date":"2023-11-24T10:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/?p=3057"},"modified":"2023-11-24T10:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T16:50:49","slug":"prep-weekly-semifinal-picks-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"Prep Weekly Semifinal Picks and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we give you the winners of  tonight&#8217;s semifinal round and why, Agree or disagree? Let us know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Oakland <\/strong>over Bradley Central- Why? Because it&#8217;s Oakland. You don&#8217;t go against the 4 time champs until someone shows they can be beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Houston<\/strong> Over Brentwood- Why? Houston has scored more points in the playoffs and have given up only 17 points will playing tougher opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Southwind<\/strong> over Page-Why? It is tough to go against the Patriots as they seem to always find a way to win but Southwind Beat Henry County and have put up 135 points during the playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Knox West<\/strong> over Walker Valley- Why? What did West just do to Powell. Enough said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Greenville<\/strong> over Upperman- Why? It seems to be Greenville&#8217;s year as the have rolled through the competition all year. The Bees fall tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pearl Cohn<\/strong> over Haywood- Why? Haywood is very good. Pearl Cohn is on another level. Firebirds to Chattanooga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alcoa<\/strong> over Giles County- Why? See Oakland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>East Nashville<\/strong>&#8211; Why? Close call here but East has been here the last two years. Experience makes the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>East Robertson<\/strong> over York- Why? York has scored more points(150-115) and given up less(23-27) but East Robertson has so much speed that they prevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Riverside<\/strong> over Fairley. &#8211; Why. Riverside has been almost unbeatable all season. The title is in sight and they roll in this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1A<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dresden<\/strong> over McKenzie- Why? Dresden has scored 161 points and given up only 27. McKenzie can match them on offense but not defense. Dresden in a close one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>South Pittsburg<\/strong> over Oliver Springs- Why? Oliver Springs has had a Cinderella season but South Pitt has scored more points(169) than any team in the playoffs and given up just 7. Give me the Flying Pitts all the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we give you the winners of tonight&#8217;s semifinal round and why, Agree or disagree? Let us know. 6A Oakland over Bradley Central- Why? Because it&#8217;s Oakland. You don&#8217;t go against the 4 time champs until someone shows they can be beat. Houston Over Brentwood- Why? Houston has scored more points in the playoffs and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prepweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}