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Among Accompaniment Journal-Register-area teams in the aerial academy football playoffs, there are aloof three schools broadcast aural the Class 1A and 2A brackets: Athens in Class 1A and Auburn and South Mac in 2A.

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But Class 3A will accept a big breadth attendance in the arctic and the south brackets — including best Williamsville assigned to the 16-team north.

And in Class 4A, Taylorville will accept a difficult alley if it wants a semifinal antagonism with its best acquaintance from up Route 29, Rochester.

As the Illinois Aerial Academy Association appear the 2017 playoff pairings Saturday night, 10 breadth teams — those alfresco the Central Accompaniment Eight Conference — got the call. All but one, Pleasant Plains, were in the playoffs aftermost year, although neither Bunker Hill nor Mount Olive fabricated it in 2016 afore teaming up as the South Mac address this season.

First-round amateur will be played abutting Friday or Saturday. Some dates and starting times already accept been set. Others will be bent Sunday or Monday.

Class 4A

Taylorville is in the southern bracket, but the Tornadoes (8-1) will host an Interstate Eight Conference foe in the aboriginal round: Coal City (6-3). The Coalers, authoritative their seventh beeline playoff appearance, bankrupt the approved division with losses to two 8-1 teams; Peotone and Wilmington.

A Taylorville win would accelerate the Tornadoes on the alley for the additional round: arctic to addition Interstate Eight school, Herscher (8-1), or south to Columbia (5-4). If a Taylorville-Rochester antagonism were to happen, it would be in the Class 4A semifinals.

Class 3A

Williamsville, ranked third in The Associated Press Class 3A poll and Sangamo Conference champion, is the No. 2 berry in the 16-team arctic bracket. The Bullets will host Spring Valley Hall, a 6-3 aggregation that was 2A for three beeline playoff appearances from 2013-15, at 2 p.m. Saturday.

In Annular Two, the Williamsville-Hall champ will accommodated the champ amid Beardstown (7-2) and Bloomington Central Catholic (8-1). The Tigers, who comedy in the Class 1A-2A Western Illinois Valley Conference, will appointment a BCC aggregation that’s No. 7 in the 3A poll and advancing off an absorbing 35-13 win Friday night adjoin 3A No. 2 Tolono Unity (which will be in the 4A playoffs).

Whoever comes out of the lower bisected of the arctic bracket, which includes Williamsville, could face a above semifinal challenge: arresting accompaniment best Elmhurst IC Catholic.

The south bisected of the Class 3A bracket includes Pleasant Plains, Carlinville and Hillsboro.

Plains, 6-3 and abiding to postseason afterwards a one-year absence, will biking south to Trenton Wesclin (9-0). The bold matches schools that both launched varsity programs in 2003.

Cahokia Conference best Wesclin, guided by above Hardin Calhoun and Carlinville drillmaster Ric Johns, aftermost fabricated the playoffs in 2013.

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Carlinville, which suffered a 35-28 accident to Greenville on Friday, takes an 8-1 almanac into a first-round home bold adjoin East Alton-Wood River (7-2) at 7 p.m. Friday. The Oilers, a above South Central Conference battling of Carlinville, now comedy in the Prairie State.

Two added South Central teams are at the basal of the south bracket.

Hillsboro (6-3) has a continued cruise south to appointment best Anna-Jonesboro, ranked 10th in the 3A poll. The Hiltoppers and Wildcats will bang off at 2 p.m. Saturday.

And 8-1 Pana, SCC co-champion afterwards Friday’s agrarian 63-55 win over Vandalia, will host abiding southern Illinois ability DuQuoin (7-2) at 2 p.m. Saturday.

Pana is the second-smallest academy in the 3A field, with Wesclin actuality the smallest.

Class 2A

Auburn (5-4) becoming its 21st beeline playoff actualization with Friday’s 48-21 win over New Berlin, and the Trojans’ accolade is a first-round cruise to West Hancock (9-0). The bold will be played at Warsaw; West Hancock splits its home amateur amid address ally Warsaw and Hamilton.

The West Hancock Titans, No. 4 in The AP Class 2A poll, defeated four Missouri schools to alpha the division afore assault Class 4A Quincy Notre Dame 34-27 in Week Five.

Also in the southern bracket of 2A, South Mac (5-4) will biking arctic to accouterment 2015 accompaniment best Downs Tri-Valley (8-1). The Vikings, No. 5 in the accompaniment poll, accept won eight beeline back a season-open ing 25-20 accident to Decatur St. Teresa.

Class 1A

Athens, the abandoned 1A aggregation in the asperous 2A-3A Sangamo Conference, will host Warrensburg-Latham (6-3) in the aboriginal annular at 1 p.m. Saturday.

The Cardinals, authoritative their aboriginal back-to-back playoff appearances back 2001-02, suffered regular-season losses to playoff teams Decatur St. Teresa, Shelbyville and Tuscola. But they bankrupt the approved division on a three-game win streak.

If the Warriors get accomplished Warrensburg, they’ll accept addition Decatur-area adversary in Annular Two: Argenta-Oreana (8-1) or Moweaqua Central A&M (5-4).

Kincaid South Fork accomplished 5-4 for the additional beeline year, and for the additional beeline year the Ponies fell abbreviate of at at-large playoff berth. They accomplished with 37 playoff credibility (the accumulated cardinal of your opponents' victories) this season, and it took 39 to accomplish the playoffs.

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