If there was any week where nobody wanted any cancellations, it was Week 8 of the high school football season.
With the Jewish Holiday Yom Kippur being observed Friday to sundown on Saturday, many of the games were shifted to Thursday – with important district contests taking place. But with Hurricane Milton hitting the Tampa Bay area and into Central Florida, Miami-Dade and Broward County schools wanted to make sure that everyone was safe and postpone school and after school activities.
Even though there wasn’t going to be a direct hit on south Florida, there were fears that bands of heavy rain and winds would put lives potentially in danger.
Now, all those games and the holiday have put many teams in a position to either move to Saturday night or move the schedule to Monday, creating two important games in five days.
While the district games must be played, there are other teams who may need to play those non district contests to improve their region seeding with the playoffs coming up in four weeks.
TUESDAY, October 8
Fort Lauderdale NSU University School 17, Miami Ransom Everglades 16 (OT)
Here is a look at the Thursday games that will need to be made up:
Boynton Beach at Oakland Park Northeast
Coconut Creek at Delray Beach Atlantic
Coconut Creek North Broward Prep at Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian Academy
Coral Springs Charter at Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest
Deerfield Beach at No. 14 Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons
Deerfield Beach Somerset Key at Boca Raton St. Andrews
Fort Lauderdale at No. 8 Sunrise Piper
No. 18 Miami Booker T. Washington at No. 17 Homestead
Miami Dr. Krop at Pembroke Pines Flanagan
No. 9 Miami Northwestern at Key West
Miami Palmer Trinity at Miami Country Day
Miami Varela at Miami Braddock
North Miami Beach at Miami Carol City
No. 12 Pembroke Pines West Broward at Miami Beach
FRIDAY, October 11
Coral Gables at No. 7 Miami Christopher Columbus, 4:15
Doral Ronald Reagan at Hialeah Gardens, 3:30
No. 1 Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas at No. 3 Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna (FIU), 7
Fort Lauderdale Westminster Academy at Riviera Beach Inlet Grove, 6:30
Goulds Palm Glades Prep at Somerset South Homestead (Harris), 3:30
Homestead South Dade vs. Miami High (Curtis), 3:30
Miami Coral Reef at Hialeah Miami Lakes, 3:30
Miami Gardens TRU Prep at Hollywood Avant Garde, 7
Miami Jackson at Miami St. Brendan, 7
Miami Sunset at Miami Ferguson, 3:30
Pembroke Pines Somerset at Miami Ransom Everglades, 4
Somerset Silver Palms at Miami Gulliver Prep, 4
South Miami at Miami Belen Jesuit, 2:30
Tavernier Coral Shores at Miami Archbishop Carroll, 3:30
Westland Hialeah at No. 19 Miami Gardens Monsignor Pace, 7:30
SATURDAY, October 12
Hialeah American at Hialeah (Milander), 7
Melbourne Central Catholic at Miami True North Classical Academy (Tropical), 2
Miami Florida Christian at Homestead Everglades Prep (Harris), 1
North Lauderdale Somerset Prep at Miami Westminster Christian, 1
No. 5 Plantation American Heritage at No. 4 Miami Norland (Traz), 7
Southwest Miami at No. 6 Miami Southridge (Harris), 4
MONDAY, October 14
Coral Springs Coral Glades at Boca Raton, 6:30
Hollywood South Broward at South Plantation, 7
Lauderdale Lakes Boyd Anderson at Hollywood McArthur
Miami Lakes Barbara Goleman at Davie Western, 7
North Miami Mourning at Hialeah Gardens. 1:30
No. 20 Southwest Ranches Archbishop McCarthy at No. 16 Plantation, 7
TUESDAY, October 15
Boca Raton Spanish River at Parkland Stoneman Douglas
Coral Springs Taravella at Weston Cypress Bay, 7
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