Playoff implications in Week 7

WASHINGTON DC (7News) — With the leaves turning their fall colors, it can only mean it’s the final stretch of the 2024 high school football season.

October football means the playoff picture starts to take shape, as teams search for new ways to continue to improve.

Playoff implications

Two private schools took center stage in the Interstate Region as Georgetown Prep hosted St. Albans in North Bethesda. The Little Hoyas hung on to defeat the Bulldogs, 25-20. Georgetown Prep won back-to-back games for the first time this season and improved to 4-2 while St Albans not only lost its first game in the Interstate Region and fell to a 5-2 mark overall.

Here come the Saxons

In a game with playoffs on the line in the District 2 Region, Langley Saxons hosted Yorktown Patriots. Otto the Mascot would be proud as the Saxons, wearing all-black uniforms, blew out Yorktown, 48-14. The win for Langley puts them at 7-1 while the Patriots drop to 5-3.

More scores

In other scores across the DMV on Friday Night, the mighty Montgomery Blair Blazers defeated the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Barons, 24-17. In some of the close games, Northwest prevailed over Churchill, 21-20; Landon upended St Stephen’s & St. Agnes, 49-28; and Seneca Valley blanked Gaithersburg, 19-0 and Herndon did the same to McLean, 30-0. Good Counsel couldn’t do much against DeMatha, losing 35-7 and West Springfield rolled over West Potomac, 42-14.

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