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This week has a whole lot of stuff to watch for.

There’s golf regionals today, Heights soccer plays at Maize on Tuesday and Andover Central soccer plays Bishop Carroll on Tuesday. Derby volleyball plays host to Goddard and Hutchinson, while Maize volleyball plays host to the Salina schools. Circle and Clearwater volleyball will meet at Buhler, Heights and Kapaun at Southeast.

Southeast soccer plays at Maize on Thursday, and the City League cross country meet is Saturday. We can’t forget state tennis this weekend — 6A is at Shawnee Mission East, 5A at Topeka’s Kossover Center, 4A’s at Pratt and 3-2-1A is at Riverside Tennis Center.

Now on to football. District play begins this week, so you could be 0-6 and still have a shot at the playoffs. Ain’t Kansas great? There’s even a possibility that you could go 1-2 in your district and STILL qualify for the playoffs because two teams qualify out of each district — feel free to comment on Kansas’ playoff system.

One game that looked to be a biggie has lost a little luster — Goddard at Hutchinson. Goddard’s overtime loss to Maize last Friday took away our hopes of two 6-0 teams meeting. It also brings out the predictors who point to Hutchinson’s 78-14 walloping of Maize in Week 5.

Wellington at Mulvane: I like this game. I like the tradition of Wellington in the playoffs going up against those undefeated Wildcats. And it’s always fun to try to figure out exactly what Huldon Tharp will do. He already 1,069 rushing yards.

Andover Central at Rose Hill: This is always a good game, and Rose Hill needs another win. I just don’t know if it can come against the Jaguars.

City League: Ugh. Not much interesting here. OK, Emporia (4-2) at Heights (4-2) should be good, but then there’s West (0-6) vs. Kapaun (3-3), Carroll (5-1) at Ark City (2-4), North (1-5) at Maize (2-4), Campus (0-6) at Northwest (4-2), East (5-1) at Derby (2-4). Not exactly a high-interest night.

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