The next step on the path to a state football championship continues this week with the regional semifinals and Rural Class quarterfinals.

Some of the top regions in the state , including Region 1-6A and Region 2-5A had all of its top seeds win in the quarterfinals to set up highly anticipated semifinal games.

Buchholz, the top-ranked team in Class 6A, held on to beat Oviedo in the first round and now hosts Nease . The other Region 1-6A game pits Mandarin against Pace .

For the second year in a row, the final four teams in the Region 2-5A bracket are Edgewater, Lakeland , Gaither and Tampa Bay Tech. Both semifinal games — Tech at Edgewater and Gaither at Lakeland — are rematches of last year's second round games.

In Region 4-4A, all four teams from District 15 advanced to the

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