(KTNC) - There will be a football play-off double header Thursday at Jug Brown Stadium. Both Falls City and Falls City Sacred Heart will have home games in the first round of the Nebraska State Football Play-offs. The NSAA announced the pairings on Saturday.
The Falls City Tigers earned a number-7 seed in the Class C-1 east bracket. They will host the Wayne Blue Jays at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Falls City is 5-3 in the regular season, while Wayne is 5-4.
Sacred Heart is the number-1 seed in the east bracket in Class C-2. The 8-0 Irish will host 16th-seed Kenesaw, which ended the regular season at 2-6. That game will be played at 5:00 p.m. Thursday. Sacred Heart will have a full day of school on Thursday.
In Class C-2, Johnson County Central qualified for the play-offs at a number-15 seed. The Thunderbirds will play Lutheran High Northeast in Norfolk on Thursday.
In other first round games of note:
In Class C-1, Syracuse is a number-1 seed and will host Raymond Central; Lincoln Christian is a number-2 seed and will host Milford; and number-3 seed Ashland-Greenwood takes on Boys Town.
In D-2, Sterling is a number-7 seed and will host Scribner-Snider; and Meridian is a number-8 seed and will host Lyons-Decatur Northeast.
In D-1, BDS is a number-1 seed and will host Neligh-Oakdale; Exeter-Milligan is seeded 5th in the east and will host Hartington; and Freeman is seeded 7th and will take on 10th seed Friend.
In C-2, Omaha Brownell-Talbot is a number-1 seed and will host Yutan; 10th-seed Palmyra will play at Hartington Cedar Catholic; number-5 seed Louisville will host Tekamah-Herman; and 9th-seed Elmwood-Murdock will be at Centennial.
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