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By Joseph Staszewski
Brooklyn Daily
The Public School Athletic League football season is more than halfway over and there are no clear favorites to reach the city title game and win it all.
One thing is certain, however. The road to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx will run through Brooklyn. Exactly which part, though, is still up in the air.
Six of the City Conference’s top 10 teams reside in Kings County, a new level of dominance for the borough. If you want to call unbeaten Erasmus Hall the favorite right now you have every right to, but two-point victories over Abraham Lincoln and South Shore don’t put you on another level than the rest of the pack. Erasmus Hall may have the city’s best defense, led by Kefa Cort and Rutgers-bound linebacker Deonte Roberts, and it is helping them win games, but no one is blowing teams away like Lincoln did during its perfect season last year.
Lincoln is still very much in the title picture, and arguably has the deepest team talent-wise in the city. It desperately needs to get its running game going if it is going to make another trip to Yankee Stadium. The Railsplitters found it late against Grand Street and won, and never got it started in the loss to Erasmus. Still, if one more play went Lincoln’s way against the Dutchmen, we aren’t even having this conversation.
Grand Street proved it is certainly talented enough to compete for a city title, with skill players like Justin White, Taysir Mack, Rhamel Ashby on offense, and Rutgers-commit Kamaal Seymour leading its defense. The question with the Wolves squad is whether it will be poised and disciplined enough to get the job done in the playoffs.
South Shore is in a similar situation. It showed it could play with the upper-echelon teams after falling to Erasmus Hall by just 14–12 last week — but both of its scores came with help from Dutchmen fumbles. Fort Hamilton, riding a three-game winning streak, gets a chance to prove it belongs in this discussion when it faces the Dutchman next week. Brooklyn Tech can do the same against Grand Street.
That leaves the path to a city title going through Brooklyn, and the possibility of all four semifinal teams coming from the borough with the emergence of Grand Street and South Shore, and Fort Hamilton finally finding it footing. Plenty can change between now and December, but there should be no lack of football playoff drama in Brooklyn.