{"id":1316378,"date":"2019-11-03T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/rifle-football-earns-top-seed-going-into-2a-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T17:56:01","slug":"rifle-football-earns-top-seed-going-into-2a-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/rifle-football-earns-top-seed-going-into-2a-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifle football earns top seed going into 2A playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rifle\u2019s Levi Warfel breaks away from the Moffatt County defense for a first-quarter score Friday night at home during the Bears’ 41-6 win to close out the regular season. Rifle enters the 2A playoffs this week as the No. 1 seed.<\/strong>
Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Rifle High\u2019s football team leap-frogged Sterling in the final RPI rankings after the final weekend of the regular season to earn the No. 1 seed going into this week\u2019s Class 2A state playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Bears \u2014 41-6 victors over Moffat County at home Friday night to go undefeated at 9-0 and win the 2A Western Slope League outright at 5-0 \u2014 are set to host No. 16 Englewood at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9, at Bears Stadium in Rifle.<\/p>\n

Moffat made the playoffs as the No. 15 seed in the 16-team field, and will hit the road to play No. 2 Sterling, which had held the top spot in the RPI rankings coming into last week.<\/p>\n

The WSL is well-represented in the postseason playoffs with four picks. Basalt made it in as the No. 9 seed, playing on the road versus No. 8 The Classical Academy, and Delta earned the No. 4 seed, hosting No. 13 Pagosa Springs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t really care about the seeding, we just want to be in the playoffs,\u201d Rifle head coach Damon Wells said Sunday afternoon of the Bears\u2019 top ranking. \u201cOnce you\u2019re in, nothing else matters except getting to the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Englewood Pirates finished at 7-2 on the season, and went 4-1 to win the Denver metro area\u2019s 2A Colorado League ahead of Ridge View Academy and Bishop Machebeuf.<\/p>\n

\u201cExperience shows us that everyone in the playoffs is good, and there is no easy way through,\u201d Wells said. \u201cYou hear a lot of stories of No. 16 beating the No. 1, so we have to be prepared. We just hope to perform the way we know we can, and survive to play the next week.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Englewood matchup pits the Pirates air attack against Rifle\u2019s run-heavy offense that have proven dominant all season. Rifle averages more than 300 rushing yards per game, to Englewood\u2019s 150 yards per game, according to MaxPreps Colorado statistics.<\/p>\n

In the air, though, the Pirates pass for an average of about 160 yards per game, to the Bears\u2019 50 yards. Rifle holds a slight advantage in points per game, at 38 to Englewood\u2019s 32 ppg.<\/p>\n

jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rifle\u2019s Levi Warfel breaks away from the Moffatt County defense for a first-quarter score Friday night at home during the Bears’ 41-6 win to close out the regular season. Rifle enters the 2A playoffs this week as the No. 1 seed.Kyle Mills \/ Post Independent Rifle High\u2019s football team leap-frogged Sterling in the final RPI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 15:01:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316395,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316378\/revisions\/1316395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}