No playoffs for Gray Collegiate after appeal is lost. Here’s the final Class 4A bracket

Gray Collegiate’s football season is over.

The South Carolina High School League’s appellate panel voted 5-0 to uphold sanctions against the War Eagles program that stemmed from playing games with an ineligible player.

Tuesday’s outcome means the Class 4A playoff bracket that was released over the weekend will not change. That schedule was set without including the War Eagles.

Gray Collegiate finished the season with a loss to North Augusta on Friday and would have been primed for a deep playoff run before the sanctions. The War Eagles went 6-3 but had to forfeit all of its victories.

Tuesday was Gray’s second appeal to get the sanctions reversed.

Last Thursday, the SCHSL’s executive committee voted 10-2 in favor of upholding sanctions levied against the War Eagles’ football program from the use of an ineligible player. The penalties included a $500 fine and forfeiting all of the wins from games the player in question appeared in this year.

Gray Collegiate already was without head coach D’Angelo Bryant for the rest of the season. Bryant and an assistant coach were suspended for the rest of the year for a violation of the league’s rules on recruiting.

In that case, Gray also was fined $2,500 and placed on warning status for one year.

Class 4A Playoff Bracket

Games are Friday at 7:30 p.m.

Upper State

(16) Lakewood at (1) Westside

(9) Emerald at (8) AC Flora

(12) Pickens at (5) Camden

(13) Lancaster at (4) Wren

(11) Fountain Inn at (6) Greer

(14) Blue Ridge at (3) South Pointe

(10) Richland Northeast at (7) Seneca

(15) Dreher at (2) Daniel

Lower State

(16) Beaufort at (1) Hartsville

(9) Midland Valley at (8) Darlington

(12) Crestwood at (5) Hilton Head Island

(13) Brookland-Cayce at (4) South Florence

(11) Lower Richland at (6) Gilbert

(14) South Aiken at (3) Bishop England

(10) May River at (7) Bluffton

(15) Airport at (2) North Augusta