Great write-up, as usual. Thanks for doing these each week.
Serenity Valley Browncoats (11-1) vs Div III Lionpride (10-2) - The Browncoats are a home but most starters will probably sit the bench while the Lionpride have rested some of their starters and will see time, turns out to be a tricky tie for the home team and will need some good coaching to advance....and perhaps enthusiasm, I see them eeking out this one....
My starters aren't even dressed or required to be in the building. I decided at the start of the season to treat the cup games as scrimmages to train my rookie and it's really just been luck of the draw which has allowed me to get this far. If I'd drawn a DIII team who was focused on the cup earlier, I likely would have been knocked out then. I expect there is a very strong chance that will happen tonight. But I'm hoping I get a bit lucky and HCA helps. Mostly just to have three games next week to be able to do regular training.