Polson, Whitefish open football playoffs Saturday

The Daily Inter Lake

Polson and Whitefish will open the Class A football playoffs on Saturday.

Anaconda (5-3) travels to Polson (7-1) while Whitefish (6-2) visits Frenchtown (5-4)

In Class A'd5s other two first-round games, it'd5s Belgrade at Hardin and Miles City journeys to Butte Central.

All games will begin at 1 p.m.

Polson is the No. 2 seed from Northwestern A while Whitefish is No. 3.

Top-seed Libby (9-0) has a bye. The Loggers will host the winner of Hardin vs. Belgrade on Nov. 4.

Libby will have the home-field advantage as long as the Loggers win in postseason play.

Havre, Billings Central and Dillon also have first-round byes.

Havre hosts the Whitefish vs. Frenchtown winner; Billings Central will play the Polson vs. Anacaonda victor; and Dillon will host the Butte Central vs. Miles City winner.

Those three quarterfinals games are also set for Nov. 4.

The semifinals are scheduled for Nov. 11 and the finals Nov. 18.

Dillon defeated Frenchtown, 21-20, to capture the state championship in 2005.