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Northern Panhandle Report: 1st-round playoffs

The Wheeling Intelligencer and News-Register

Class AAA

No. 14 Spring Valley (6-4) at No. 3 Wheeling Park (8-0-1)

This is exactly the position the Patriots expected to be in while the young Timberwolves may have arrived early.

Wheeling Park is still in search of its first state football championship and is arguably more equipped to do that than at any point since 1991, when it fell in the title game.

The Patriots have several players who will be in the running for postseason awards, led by senior running back Savion Johnson.