POINT PLEASANT, WV (WOWK) — A judge late Monday night granted an injunction that affects the AAA football playoffs in West Virginia.
That is according to an attorney for Point Pleasant High School Tanya Hunt Handley who filed the request Monday after the high school football team was removed from the state playoff brackets over the weekend.
That happened after a court battle started Friday when Wood County Schools filed an injunction arguing that the formula that ranked football teams this season wasn’t fair.
A Wood County Judge agreed and granted their injunction.
So when the West Virginia Secondary Schools Actives Commission redid the rankings based on last year’s formula, teams were reassigned to new classes.
The result: Point Pleasant, Tolsia, Hampshire and Westside all lost their playoff spots.
The schools were replaced by Capital, St. Albans, Lincoln and St. Marys.
The injunction granted by Judge Anita Ashley of the Fifth Judicial Circuit greenlights the proposed compromise by Point Pleasant High School which is a win-or-go-home scenario.
It says that St. Albans will play Point Pleasant and Capital will play Hampshire this Friday night.
Attorney Handley says that this order as it stands would delay AAA by one week.
