Missouri Girls Class Two and Three district seedings and State Predictions February 19th, 2021


Corrected 5pm  2/20/2021

I am running out of time.  The Boys and Girls districts start tomorrow for classes one through three and I am a day late and a dollar short, so I will post the Girls class two and three together.

In class two, here are my final eight and state championship predictions:

Oran over Neelyville by two

Schuyler County over Salisbury by eight

Blue Eye bests Richland by four (would be a good state final four-game if it wasn't a sectional)

Wellington-Napoleon over Tarkio-Fairfax by three

State Championship game: Blue Eye beats Schuyler County by 13 

(but the semi with Blue Eye and Wellington-Napoleon will be closer)


In class three, here are my final eight and state championship predictions:

Lift for Life over Woodland/Twin Rivers winner by sixteen

Miller over Strafford by one  (actually too close to call)

Tipton (or Monroe City) over Palmyra by eight  (The Tipton-Monroe City game will be great)

Skyline over Lawson by 15  (the Skyline vs. Barstow sectional could be a championship game)

State Championship game:  Lift for Life over Skyline by one  

Note: I had Lift for Life over Miller in the original post but districts 1-4 play districts 9-12 in the top brackets and 5-8 play 13-16 in the bottom bracket.

The championship game could be Skyline, Miller, Lift for Life, Tipton or Monroe.  Just that tight at the top.  But I am going out on a limb with Lift for Life, a 500 percentage team that has played a tough St. Louis schedule and competed well with Vashon and several other larger class schools.

I will revisit these later as we get into playoffs.  The covid pandemic could throw a team or the whole tournament in disarray.




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