In a coin-flip tie breaker, No. 8 Archbishop Spalding received a bye into the MIAA B Conference championship football game on Nov. 20 while No. 11 Boys’ Latin and Archbishop Curley will meet Saturday to determine the second finalist.

The coin flip took place Sunday afternoon at Archbishop Spalding, which is the defending B Conference champion. Each school’s athletic director flipped a coin at the same time and the odd man out received the bye into the final. Spalding AD Lee Dove flipped tails while the others flipped heads.

Cavaliers coach Mike Whittles, who as there with his counterparts Boys' Latin coach Ritchie Schell and Curley coach Sean Murphy, was pleased with the result.

"I think it's that time of the year where people might be a little nicked up here and there and it gives everybody time to get a little healthier," Whittles said. "There's going to be a lot at stake in that game and if we were in it, we knew we'd have to give it everything we had and they're both going to have to give it everything they have. I'm excited for everybody. If we were playing, we'd be excited about playing."

Saturday at noon, Boys' Latin will host Curley for the right to advance. The Lakers got the home-field advantage because they beat the Friars, 21-7, during the regular season.

"Ideally, we'd love to have the bye," Lakers coach Ritchie Schell said, "but to play at home, that's the second-best option. Both teams are very strong obviously. We match up pretty well against Curley. They've got a little revenge factor, because we beat them the first time, but it's better for our kids to play than to sit around for another week."

All three teams finished the season 7-1, forcing the tie-breaking procedure, because Spalding lost to Curley, Curley lost to Boys’ Latin and Boys’ Latin lost to Spalding, so there had to be a playoff game to determine one of the finalists. The B Conference is the only one of the three MIAA conferences that has a title game.