Petersen: Iowa 4A postseason taking shape

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The postseason picture is nearly complete for at least seven Mississippi Athletic Conference schools.

Davenport West still has an outside shot at a 10th game if the Falcons can beat Burlington next Friday and earn win No. 3.

By next Friday night, the MAC will most likely look like this:

Clinton 9-0

Bettendorf 8-1

Pleasant Valley 6-3

North Scott 5-4

Davenport Assumption 5-4

Davenport Central 5-4

Burlington 4-5

Davenport West 2-7

Muscatine 1-8

Davenport North 0-9

If that's the case - and it may not be - Clinton would snatch the top seed in the Class 4A eastern bracket.

Bettendorf would end up with 10 more playoff points than Linn-Mar (likely 8-1) by virtue of four wins against winning teams. That would give the Bulldogs the third seed and a home game for substate. A four-win team would await, probably Burlington or Cedar Rapids Kennedy.

It looks like the East will have four seven-win teams, meaning PV will slip to a ninth seed. Above the Spartans will be two teams at 9-0 (Clinton and Iowa City High), two at 8-1 (Bettendorf and Linn-Mar) and four at 7-2 (Cedar Rapids Xavier, CR Washington, Dubuque Hempstead and Cedar Falls).

That's a definite road game for PV, playing at one of the 7-2 teams, probably Cedar Falls, which lost to Hempstead and Xavier.

North Scott would be the top seed among the three 5-4 teams, having beaten Assumption and Central. All three of those teams will play road games at the other three seven-win schools.

Of course, North Scott could beat Clinton and/or Assumption could top Bettendorf, throwing everything into a haze.

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