The only Central Coast Athletic Association (CCAA) football team in the highest division of the CIF Central Section playoffs will be an underdog Friday night.

No. 6 St. Joseph (8-2) will play at No. 3 Fresno Clovis West (7-3) in a Division 1AA first-round game at 7 p.m.

The game is the Times high school football Game of the Week.

Two of Clovis West’s three losses have been against the top two football teams in the Central Section, 46-39 in overtime against No. 1 Fresno Central East and 28-17 against No. 2 Clovis.

The St. Joseph-Clovis West game matches two good sophomore quarterbacks, Jack Heaslet for St. Joseph and JJ Howard for Clovis West, against each other. Howard has completed 132 of his 246 passes for 1,935 yards, with 31 touchdown passes and nine interceptions.

Heaslet is the

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