THE VALLEY — "Football Friday" features home games for Athens and Waverly, while Tioga is at neighboring S-VE to face SVEC with a chance to win its division title outright, and the Waverly girls are at Owego tonight of a Section IV playoff soccer (futbol) match-up.
FOOTBALL
Muncy (5-3) at Athens (7-1), 7 p.m.: The Wildcats are coming off a 42-0 win at Canton, while the Indians are coming off a 41-0 win over North Penn-Mansfield.
Athens has won its last three games by a combined margin of of 150-0 ... Muncy beat Canton at home two weeks ago, 14-6.
Chenango Valley (2-5) at Waverly (5-2), 7 p.m.: The Wolverines , ranked 6th in the state in Class C, are coming off a 38-16 win over Ithaca, while the Warriors dropped a 46-6 decision at home to Susquehanna Valley.
Waverly, which clinches its division with a win, has won four in a row and is averaging 37 points per game in that stretch.
Chenango Valley's two wins are against Binghamton and Whitney Point, which have a combined record of 0-14.
Tioga (5-2) at SVEC (0-7), 7 p.m. @ S-VE: The Tigers, ranked 7th in the state in Class C, are coming off a wild, 62-50, win over Groton, while the Eagles are coming off a 28-6 loss at Newark Valley.
Tioga is riding a five-game winning streak in which it is scoring 42.2 points per game, while SVEC has been outscored 230-25 (32.8 to 3.6) this season.
GIRLS SOCCER
Section IV Playoffs
Class A Semifinals
3-Waverly (5-7-1) at Owego (10-2), 6 p.m.: The Wolverines handed the River Hawks one of their two losses this season — 3-2 in the season-opener, but Owego avenged that loss 28 days later at home with a 1-0 win.
The winner of this game advances to face top-seeded Maine-Endwell.
VOLLEYBALL
Horseheads at Tioga, 5 p.m. JV start