Four football playoff games to watch this week: Can Chaminade shut down St. Anthony's QB Dante Torres?

The St. Anthony’s and Chaminade football teams will add another chapter to a storied rivalry when they meet in a Class AAA semifinal in the CHSFL on Saturday night.

St. Anthony’s (8-1) hosts Chaminade (5-3) at 7 p.m.

According to Joe Minucci, the director of athletics at St. Anthony’s, the game was originally scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, but the forecast for inclement weather initiated the move.

“We wanted to move it because the weather looked awful,” said Minucci, who is also the Friars coach. “You want to play a playoff game in the best conditions possible for the players, the crowd, everyone involved. No one wants to play their final game in miserable weather — because one team is playing their final game.”

St. Anthony’s senior quarterback Dante Torres has lit up the CHSFL for 2,620 passing yards, an average of 291 per game. The Fordham commit threw for 28 touchdowns and four interceptions. He’s also rushed for eight scores.

He has two targets in 6-4 ½ senior Ian Strong, who has 648 yards and nine touchdowns and 6-4 ½ junior Korey Duff Jr., who has 636 yards and seven scores. Duff missed two games and was limited in two others by a rib injury.

For Chaminade, the defending CHSFL AA-I champion, the key to winning has been an athletic defense that had shut down Holy Trinity and ended the Titans' 17-game win streak in a 10-7 win. In last week's quarterfinal, the Flyers defense led by a core of linebackers, Charles Battaglia, Benjamin Mann and Matt Rappa, kept Kellenberg’s outstanding quarterback Devin Page in check enough for a 19-17 comeback win.

Flyers quarterback Matt Dieguez fired a winning 20-yard TD pass to Pat Bruno as time expired.

St. Anthony’s won the regular season matchup, 35-10.

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By Gregg Sarra

gregg.sarra@newsday.com@Gregg_Sarra

Gregg Sarra is Newsday's high school sports editor and has been on the beat since the mid-1980s.