I'm not sure what your issue with West Aurora is, but you obviously have one. They were 16 yards away from making it 28-21 a minute or two into the 4th. After stopping WA on that 4th and 1 from the NC 16, Central ran the ball 8 times to go those 84 yards for the final score, eating up almost the rest of the game in the process. I guess that's what you call helping WA make it look respectable, but I would call it a smart way to close out a game, and hardly a blowout. Someone should ask the NC coaches if that was the same old WA walkthrough they came to expect from them in the old DVC days.
I didn't see any of it, but it sounds like South Elgin was beaten by a good football team who kept the ball away from them, played great defense, and didn't make any mistakes. The fact that Palatine had lost 3 games by 12 points doesn't make this some monumental upset or a choke job by South Elgin.
No, the U8 Valley is not an awesome conference. But WA and SE were seeded just about right and didn't take anything away from anyone who deserved it more, so I'm not understanding what the point you're desperately trying to make here. Should they have been excluded from the playoffs or merely assigned the lowest seeds? Or I guess the two lowest seeds above whatever CPS teams are deigned worthy of admittance, since obviously Aurora and Elgin are merely the west side of Chicago plopped down along the Fox.
