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Top Five Football Power Poll - Week 11

Matt Brooks at 2:35 p.m., November 5, 2008

Welcome back to the Top Five Football Power Poll for Week 11.

Our top-ranked team overcame injuries to finish their regular season campaign with a perfect record and they head into the Northern Region playoffs this week. On the Dulles District front, Broad Run, Potomac Falls and Briar Woods have all punched their postseason tickets. This week is rivalry week in the league with a possible final playoff seed on the line and pride ripe for the picking.

The Battle for the Burg could land a fourth team a spot, while Broad Run and Park View renew a rivalry that the two teams split a year ago. The Panthers look to complete the Sterling two-step at Dominion and Briar Woods and Freedom tangle in the Bird Bowl.

All these made-up game names, overflowing with alliteration, have got us feeling all lyrical and English-majory. (One of us also worked 15 hours yesterday covering the election in Loudoun County, so we're not working on regular sleep here, people.) So today, for your reading pleasure, we've thrown together haikus on each of our top teams. If you don't remember that high school poetry lesson, the format is based on syllables per line. The pattern is 5-7-5. Keep in mind, neither of us were English majors and there's a reason why we cover sports and don't have any poetry anthologies out...yet.

Here goes nothing...

1. No. 2 STONE BRIDGE (10-0, 7-0 AAA Liberty) Last week: 1
Week 10 Result: def. Woodson 42-14
Next Big Test: Friday vs. Jefferson

Allen, Prince score points
While team gets healthy again
Playoff run begins!

-MB

2. No. 17 BROAD RUN (9-0, 6-0 AA Dulles) Last week: 2
Week 10 Result: def. Freedom 44-22
Next Big Test: Friday at Park View

No losses this year
Peeler and Earl running wild
Welcome to Sparta!

-PT

3. POTOMAC FALLS (8-1, 5-1 AA Dulles), Last week: 3
Week 10 Result: def. Briar Woods 42-27
Next Big Test: Friday at Dominion

All hands on the wood
No longer Pot Falls of old
Panthers playoff bound!

-MB

4. BRIAR WOODS (7-2, 4-2 AA Dulles) Last week: 4
Week 10 Result: lost to Potomac Falls 42-27
Next Big Test: Friday vs. Freedom

Tough loss to Pot Falls
Falcons look to bounce back strong
In Friday's Bird Bowl!

-PT

5. HERITAGE (6-3, 3-3 AA Dulles) Last Week: 5
Week 10 Result: def. Park View 41-14
Next Big Test: Friday at Loudoun County

Battle for the ‘Burg
Last chance to make the playoffs
Farewell double-A!

-MB

ON THE BUBBLE: Loudoun County (5-4, 3-3)

Got a gripe with our rankings? Think you can write a better haiku? Care to throw one together for the teams we didn't cover? Let us hear it below in the comments section!

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