Lawyer seeks court order to delay AAA football playoffs in W.Va.

POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. (WSAZ) — An attorney in Mason County is seeking a court order to delay the West Virginia’s football playoffs for AAA, instead adding a play-in game that would give Point Pleasant Junior Senior High School a chance to participate in the state playoffs.

The petition for injunction was filed electronically Monday afternoon in Mason County.

If granted, Point Pleasant would face St. Albans on Friday, while Hampshire County High would face Capital High on the same day.

While the attorney’s petition sets forth that potential solution, no such order has been entered by the Mason County Circuit Court.

Point Pleasant and Hampshire County were two teams left out of the state playoffs when the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission (WVSSAC) moved to adopt a court order out of Wood County.

The Wood County order forced the WVSSAC to score team rankings based upon their classification prior to August 2024, when the WVSSAC reclassified 22 teams after an SSAC appeals board agreed that certain smaller schools do not belong amongst schools in a larger classification.

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