WHEELING — Six Ohio Valley teams will take part starting this week in the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission’s football championships. The SSAC on Saturday released seeding for the four classes.

CLASS AAAA

In Class AAAA, where all 16 teams made the playoffs, Wheeling Park High School is a 5 seed and will face Spring Mills at Wheeling Island Stadium at 7 p.m. Friday. Park (7-3) lost earlier this year to Spring Mills, 27-0. Spring Mills, at 5-5, had to forfeit four of its games due to an ineligible player with its only in-game loss coming to No. 1 seed Martinsburg.

Park had been a 3 seed going into the final week and a win over John Marshall High School, but fell to a 5 seed after Wood County Schools received an injunction Saturday morning that required the SSAC to seed teams based on how they were classified prior to Aug. 5.

photo by: Nick Henthorn

Wheeling Central’s Isaac Martin dashes through the defense during the Maroon Knights’ road victory over the Toronto Red Knights on Friday.

CLASS AA

In Class AA, Wheeling Central Catholic High School (8-2) also received a 5 seed and will host Chapmanville (5-5) in the opening round at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

Class A

Four Class A teams from the region made the playoffs.

Cameron (9-1) is a five seed and will face No. 12 seed Meadow Bridge (7-3) at Cameron. Tyler Consolidated (6-4) is a 6 seed and will host Wirt County (7-3).

Valley High (7-2) earned a 13 seed and will travel to Doddridge County to face Doddridge High (8-2). And Madonna High School (7-3) will hit the road to Tug Valley (10-0) to face the top seed in Class A. All of those games kick off at 7 p.m. Friday except Madonna’s, which will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.

TWO LOCAL TEAMS STILL ALIVE IN OHIO

In Ohio Division III, Steubenville will play Dover at Carrollton. In Division IV, St. Clairsville and West Holmes will play at New Philadelphia. Both games kick off at 7 p.m. Friday.