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Tie-breaking

Print | Comments () Posted by Chris Forsberg, Boston.com Staff November 21, 2007 03:37 PM

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Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to all.

How does your faithful high school sports blogger plan to spend this holiday morning? Trying to help unravel the Dual County League.

As you've assuredly read by now, the DCL features three one-loss teams atop the standings in Wayland, Lincoln-Sudbury, and Acton-Boxboro. Should both L-S and A-B win today, we'd have a three-way tie at the end of the regular season and the league's tie-breaking procedure is based on first-half point differential against league opponents.

What does that mean? Read our latest update on the DCL tie-breaker here, or jump over to this Globe story on the whole mess.

So how are we attacking this?

We'll have a pair of cameras in the field. I'll be live from Westford Academy, where the Grey Ghosts host Acton-Boxboro, while a colleague will be setting up at Newton South, where the Lions entertain Lincoln-Sudbury. The Globe will also have a correspondent relaying updates from Weston, where Wayland visits the Wildcats in a non-conference game that won't play into how the league ultimately shakes down, but could be the site of the biggest celebration.

We'll be shooting video in Westford and Newton as the teams vie for the necessary points to solidify their postseason chances and we'll pass along updates here on the blog. Later in the day, we'll edit the videos together and pass along highlights from a hectic day in the DCL.

At halftime, if there's a clear-cut champion, I'll be bolting to that location to capture video of the postgame celebration. We'll gather reaction from players and coaches about how they kept track of the scores from across the region.

After we iron out the DCL, we'll be back in the office to pass along more updates from games from across the state. The Globe is covering more than 20 games, so we'll have complete coverage from those, along with roundups of all the action elsewhere.

Keep your eye on the blog for the latest scores and our Thursday scoreboard will update as box scores are entered.

We'll have photo galleries and more from many of Thursday's biggest games.

Stay close.

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Bob Holmes: A Reading resident (Go Rockets!) and Boston College graduate, Holmes is the Boston Globe High School Sports Editor. We remind you now that his weekly picks are often made in jest so everyone just calm down when he picks against Everett for 11 straight weeks. Contact him at rholmes@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeHolmes.
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