Tickets Available For Wolverines Opening Round Playoff Contest

Ellwood City has qualified for the WPIAL playoffs for the first time since 2011.

The #14 seeded Wolverines will travel to face the #3 seeded Washington Prexies on Friday at 7:00 PM at Washington High School Stadium. Kick off is 7:00 p.m. for the opening round contest.

Tickets for Ellwood City Football playoff game are available on GoFan.co

Cost of tickets will be $5.00 for Student and $7.00 for Adults on the GoFan.co website. Tickets will also be sold at the gate. All tickets at the gate are $7.00.  Drive time to the football stadium is approximately one hour.

Washington (9-1 Overall, 5-1 Section AA-3), led by head coach Mike Bosnic, won the Century Conference title behind RB Eddie Lewis (14 TDs) and WR Ruben Gordon (nine TDs).

Offense output may be on display Friday as Washington has the highest-scoring offense in WPIAL Class 2A at 37.8 ppg with a season-high of 67 points in a Week 8 drubbing of Charleroi. The visiting Wolverines (5-5 Overall) are averaging a solid 28.4 points per game, a top 10 mark in Class 2A.

Elijah Palmer-McCane who finished with 154 yards in the Wolverines playoff-clinching rout of Riverside last week will enter Friday’s contest just 35 yards shy of the Ellwood City single-season rushing record (1,427) set by Thad Wiley over three decades ago in 1991.

The Prexies only misstep was a 21-14 loss on October 20th at home versus Keystone Oaks.

This will be the first time the two teams meet in their history.

The winner of Friday night’s contest will move on to face the winner of #6 McGuffey and #11 Derry Area on November 10th at a site TBD. [VIEW FULL BRACKET]

Top seed from the Midwestern Conference is #2 Neshannock who earned an opening round bye. Fellow MAC foe and 10-seeded Beaver Falls faces #7 seed Keystone Oaks on Friday, and with a victory would match-up against the Lancers next Friday.

Last year, Steel Valley defeated Beaver Falls 34-14 in the 2022 WPIAL Class-AA Championship. Steel Valley enters the 2023 playoffs as the top overall seed.

CLASS 2A CHAMPIONSHIPS BREAKDOWN:
Start Date: Friday, November 3rd
Championship Game Details: Friday, Nov. 24 at Acrisure Stadium – 2:00 PM
Top Four Seeds: #1 Steel Valley (8-1, 7-0), #2 Neshannock (9-1, 7-0), #3 Washington (9-1, 5-1), #4 Imani Christian Academy (7-2, 5-1)
Qualifying Teams: Beaver Falls, Burrell, Derry, Ellwood City, Imani Christian Academy, Keystone Oaks, McGuffey, Mohawk, Neshannock, Serra Catholic, Steel Valley, Washington, Waynesburg Central, Western Beaver