Congrats to RameyJacoby for the rookie win last week. Gambletron has another test for us this week. Stirring things up down south again, playing it close in LaGrange and setting the bar really high in Woodlawn and Wilmette. I hear Batavia is bringing their own refs this time.


Prep Bowl:
Marist (6-5) at St. Rita (6-5) Fri., Nov. 17, 7 pm
Redhawks 21 Mustangs 20

3A:
Byron (12-0) at Lombard (Montini) (9-3), Sat., Nov. 18, 1:00 pm
Tigers 32 Broncos 31
4A:
West Chicago (Wheaton Academy) (11-1) at Burbank (St. Laurence) (9-3), Sat., Nov. 18, 3:00 pm
Vikings 35 Warriors 21
5A:
Wheaton (St. Francis) (10-2) at LaGrange Park (Nazareth Academy) (7-5), Sat., Nov. 18, 2:00 pm
Spartans 30 Roadrunners 28
New Lenox (Providence Catholic) (8-4) at Joliet (Catholic Academy) (9-3), Sat., Nov. 18, 2:00 pm
Hilltoppers 36 Celtics 14
7A:
Batavia (11-1) at Chicago (Mt. Carmel) (11-1), Sat., Nov. 18, 4:00 pm
Caravan 42 Bulldogs 20
8A:
Elmhurst (York) (11-1) at Wilmette (Loyola Academy) (12-0), Sat., Nov. 18, 12:30 pm
Ramblers 42 Dukes 12

Good game East has intercepted ball and recovered a fumble

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Will the Naz player who was ejected at the 5 minute mark of Q4 yesterday be eligible for the State Championship game?

Saturday 3 PM #1 Rochester (12-0) at #2 Murphysboro (11-1)
After three straight home contests, Rochester faces a road game against a perennial playoff team in Murphysboro. An afternoon high of 56 is projected, which is great for mid-November. Last year, the Red Devils lost in the Quarterfinals to SHG. In 2019, they were in the 4A championship game and lost to Richmond Burton. The Rockets have faced Murphysboro once before in the playoffs, winning at home in the 2nd round in 2015. At that time, the current players for both teams would've been playing in JFL. Murphysboro won 8 straight contests to start the season, including wins over 3A-5A playoff qualifiers Carbondale, Benton, Harrisburg, and Carterville. In Week 9, they suffered their only loss of the season to highly ranked 3A DuQuoin 39-7. The margin of this defeat was somewhat surprising, particularly after DuQuoin subsequently lost in the 2nd round of the playoffs. Murphysboro won handily in Week 10 over former CS8 school Taylorville and won narrowly the last two weeks, 14-13 over Charleston and 25-20 last week on the road in a rematch with Harrisburg. The Harrisburg win was decided on the game's final play with the Red Devils coming from behind to win on a 30-yard TD pass. Max Preps does not have individual stats for Murphysboro. I would expect them to have a run-first offense but to also have a capable QB. The Red Devils had one player make the coaches all state team and one more make honorable mention.

Rochester would love to have a start similar to the Quarterfinal contest last season at Carterville. Before a large and enthusiastic Lions crowd, the Rockets scored on the third play of the game when Parker Gillespie took a short pass 75 yards for a TD. Rochester was then able to build a 34-7 halftime lead, which quieted the home crowd considerably. The Rochester Defense has performed very well so far in the playoffs even while dealing with a few injuries, allowing no more than 14 points in any of the three games. The Offense has scored plenty of points but has also had too many turnovers and penalties. As Derek said after the Breese Central contest, the Offense can look great for four or five plays but then suddenly find itself facing a 3rd and 30. Bryan Zulauf and Gillespie have split snaps at QB since Parker returned from an injury in Week 8. Zulauf ran for over 100 yards and 4 TD's last week. Gillespie had a running TD as well. In Week 1 at Peoria, the Offense didn't have many big plays but avoided turnovers and had only a handful of penalties. Consistency from the Rocket offense will be a key factor in determining the outcome. Rochester 42 Murphysboro 14 (Cal Preps: Rochester 38 Murphysboro 14)

Some pretty historically impressive programs reach the state finals this year as well as a first timer. Below are the all time records for each school playing this week
Lena-Winslow 6-0
Camp Point 0-2

Wilmington 2-1
Athens 0-0

Byron 2-2
Mt Carmel 1-4

St Laurence 1-1
Rochester 8-0

Joliet Catholic 15-4
Nazareth 4-2

East St Louis 10-4
Cary-Grove 3-3

Mt Carmel 14-5
DOwners North 1-1

Loyola 4-5
Lincoln Way East 3-2

Of these schools, Joliet Catholic and East St Louis have both won state championships in every decade in which they have been held. I believe they are the only two programs in the state who have done this.

Imagine if this happened in Illinois. The lawyers would be out:
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You have to love small town football, Wilmington still owning the game day entrance.
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1A Lena/CampPoint - Lena showed some vulnerability in the semis, rematch from last year. I’ll go with Lena although I’d like to see the upset. 34-28
2A I think Wilmington should win unless they self destruct. Two double wing teams, but I think Wilmo wins the battle at the LOS. 35-14.
3A somewhat interesting with Byron being a beast, but Mt.Carmel the Public is putting up huge numbers on offense. Byron 56-28.
4A I’d like to see Larry make it interesting, but will be Rochester without much resistance. Rockets 49-21.
5A Naz/JCA… will we see the first ever 5 loss champ? Rooting for the Joliet area. JCA 35-34.
6A ESL gets revenge for the shocking upset a couple years ago. Flyers 34-21.
7A Caravan easily, 45-14
8A Loyola in a close game, 17-13.

Still tickin out here in DC. Will be watching our kids hit pads from inside the beltway where my life has taken over where Veep left off.

Believe Hudl and NFS have stream links, but unsure of what they are. Posting updates from Twitter updates since other thread title isn't updating


@tuccs

Maroa @ Wilmington - The Harleys will be out in full force for this one. I think this is Wilmington's toughest opponent to date. Maroa has played a few tougher teams as well. I do think the season ends here for Wilmington, but I will never formally pick against them. Cats 24 - Maroa 21

7-0 CG

I don’t have a rooting interest this coming weekend (other than cheering on my CCL/ESCC brethren). Ok, I guess that’s a rooting interest but semantics aside, tell me what players to keep an eye on. Don’t forget Offensive Linemen and 5 tech, 3 tech and 1 tech defensive linemen. Edgy fam, make me the smartest fan on my group text threads Friday and Saturday.

Anybody have insight or thoughts on this game? The level of competition is definitely in Montini's favor, but Byron wasn't exactly just squeaking by their opponents either.

Its close.

Maybe this is a silly question, but are these guys like Baltimore-St. Frances Junior or something?

Tiny little 1A school, but in the past two years they have played out in California, beaten much larger schools like De La Salle, Marian Central, Quincy Notre-Dame etc.

I'm a lifelong Chicagoan and know nothing about this school... is the whole school a football program essentially?

Long TD Wheaton.

Had a great day ay LW East thanks to all the fans for coming over to say hello.


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Class 8A EDGYTIM Week 14 poll

1. Loyola Academy 13-0 (1) vs Lincoln Way East
2. Lincoln Way East 13-0 (2) vs Loyola Academy
3. York 11-2 (4)
4. Barrington 12-1 (3)
5. Maine South 10-2 (5)
6. Edwardsville 10-2 (6)
7. Warren Township 9-3 (7)
8. Glenbard West 8-3 (8)
9. St Ignatius 8-4 (9)
10. Belleville East 8-3 (10)

Class 7A EDGYTIM Week 14 poll

1. Mount Carmel 12-1 (1) vs Downers Grove North
2. Downers Grove North 11-2 (3) vs Mount Carmel
3. Batavia 11-2 (2)
4. Normal Community 11-2 (4)
5. Quincy 12-0 (5)
6. Hononegah 11-1 (6)
7. Hersey 10-1 (7)
8. Lincoln Way West 9-3 (8)
9. Wheaton North 7-4 (9)
10. Glenbard East 10-1 (10)


Class 6A EDGYTIM Week 14 poll

1. East St Louis 11-2 (1) vs Cary Grove
2. Cary Grove 11-2 (4) vs East St. Louis
3. Washington 11-2 (3)
4. Lake Zurich 11-2 (2)
5. Kankakee 11-1 (2)
6. Geneva 9-3 (4)
7. Glenwood 8-4 (7)
9. Crete-Monee 7-4 (8)
9 Belvidere North 9-3 (9)
10. Oak Lawn Richards 8-2 (10)

Class 5A EDGYTIM Week 14 poll

1. Nazareth Academy 8-5 (2) vs Joliet Catholic
2 Joliet Catholic 10-3 (3) vs Nazareth Academy
3 St. Francis 10-3 (1)
4. Providence Catholic 8-5 (4)
5. Carmel 10-2 (5)
6 Morgan Park 10-2 (6)
7. Morris 11-1 (7)
8. Highland 10-2 (8)
9. Prairie Ridge 9-1 (9)
10. Sycamore 9-1 (10)


Class 4A EDGYTIM Week 13 poll

1. Rochester 13-0 (1) vs St. Laurence
2. St. Laurence 10-3 (3) vs Rochester
3. IC Catholic Prep 9-3 (3)
4. Murphysboro 12-1 (4)
5. Wheaton Academy 11-2 (5)
6. Breese Central 9-3 (6)
7. Boylan 9-2 (7)
8. Harrisburg 8-4 (8)
9. Sandwich 8-4 (9)
10. St Viator 6-4 (10)

Preliminary Week 14 Chicagoland Top 30

1. Loyola Academy 13-0 (1) Next: vs Lincoln Way East
2. Lincoln Way East 13-0 (2) Next vs Loyola Academy
3. Mount Carmel 12-1 (3) Next: vs Downers Grove North
4. York 11-2 (6)
5. Downers Grove North 11-2 (9) Next: vs Mount Carmel
6. Batavia 11-2 (4)
7. Barrington 12-1 (5)
8. Nazareth Academy 8-5 (13) Next: vs Joliet Catholic
9. Joliet Catholic 10-3 (14) Next: vs Nazareth Academy
10. Cary Grove 11-2 (15)
11. St. Francis 10-3 (7)
12. Lake Zurich 11-2 (8)
13. Maine South 10-2 (10)
14. Kankakee 11-1 (11)
15. Warren Township 9-3 (12)
16. Hersey 10-1 (16)
17. Glenbard West 8-3 (17)
18. Morgan Park 10-2 (18)
19. Carmel 10-2 (19)
20 St Ignatius 8-4 (20)
21. St. Laurence 10-3 (21) Next: vs Wheaton Academy
22. Providence Catholic 8-5 (22)
23. IC Catholic Prep 9-3 (23)
24. Morris 11-1 (24)
25. Geneva 9-3 (25)
26. Lincoln Way West 9-3 (26)
27. Wheaton North 7-4 (27)
28. Neuqua Valley 7-4 (28)
29. Prairie Ridge 9-1 (29)
30 Naperville Central 8-3 (30)

Out: None

Next In (in NO order): Wheaton Academy/Glenbard East/Montini Catholic/Wilmington/Chicago Hope Academy/Kenwood Academy/St. Rita

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LA intercepted Yorks first drive, but held to a FG. York drove the field for a TD. Then Intercepted LAs 2nd drive. York has the ball starting 2nd qtr

I watched the York/LA game and felt that the camera coverage was excellent. The director and staff did a great job.

The two announcers, however, sounded like what would result if Hawk Harrelson and Kenny McReynolds were blended together by a mad scientist.
They popped every cliche imaginable. My favorite, with time running out: ""York better get goin' and they better do it soon." You can't make that up.

Over on CW 26, the game coverage was great. I know that some of you don't care for jack MccInerney, but he and Jim Blaney work very well together.

Did you notice that when McReynolds recollected a conversation with one of the coaches, he always recalled the statement beginning with "Kenny ...." thereby implying that they were on a first name basis. I think what they were really saying was "Kenny, who let you in here?"

The NFHS coverage at Montini and DGN was more than acceptable.

1A Public
2A Public
3A Public
4A Public ( cheering for SL)
5A Private
6A Public
7A Private favored (cheering for MC)
8A Tossup ( Cheering for LA, as much as it hurts me)

So where’s the problem?