Craig Meyer's High School Football Notebook (West, Nov. 8)

"Central Valley avoids early playoff upset" - by Craig Meyer.

"Though it was for a brief moment, it looked as though Central Valley's goal of winning a WPIAL Class AAA championship was going to die. Not in the final at Heinz Field, not even in a semifinal that leads up to it -- but in the very first game of the playoffs.

After completing a 7-2 regular season that saw it claim the top seed in the Parkway Conference, Central Valley needed a 22-yard field goal from kicker Elliot Taylor with seven seconds remaining in regulation, narrowly avoiding what would have been an astonishing upset at the hands of a Belle Vernon team that finished the regular season with a 4-5 record."