Football kicks off this week: Where will you be?
One game ushers in the high school football season Thursday, but most teams will wait until 24 hours later to start the trek toward November.
Cape Girardeau Central, looking for a fix to its 1-9 season a year ago, welcomes Parkway North to Houck Stadium for Thursday's inaugural game of the season. The next day, 21 games are scheduled around the region.
At least a couple of games feature longtime conference rivalries right out of the gate: North County (and first-year coach Jeromy McDowell, a former Southeast quarterback) goes to Farmington in a large-school Mississippi Area Football Conference game, and Malden hosts Scott City in a years-long SEMO Conference South rivalry.
With so many questions, coaching changes and roster turnover heading into the season, you won't have to look far for potentially great matchups: Herculaneum at Valle, Charleston at Kennett, Ste. Genevieve at Dexter, St. Vincent at Caruthersville, Grandview at Chaffee, and Fredericktown at Sikeston all have potential to give the winner a solid push heading into Week 2.
The only catch: A 40 percent change of evening thunderstorms Friday, so watch the sky and be ready to pack a raincoat.
With so many options, any nominees for our region's best game of the week?
3 comments:
You can't go wrong with picking Farmington/NC as your game of the week. Despite Farmington being a pretty heavy favorite, the atmosphere and intensity of this rivalry is seldomly matched in this area.
Other games: Herky @ Valle (good game last year, would expect the same this season)
Poplar Bluff @ NMCC (again, good game last year, would expect the same this season)
I'd say Farmington/NC would be if it didn't seem almost too lopsided. Either Bluff vs. NMCC or Sikeston vs. Fredericktown. Sikeston lost this game close last year and look for revenge at home to start a potentially district-championship winning season. NMCC has a strong opponent to start the year as they look to do the same as Sikeston. Should be a good week.
Lots of interest in the Cape Central game..is that defense as salty as folks have been touting it to be...also Bluff and New Madrid. Anxious to see how on track NMCC offense is and if Bluff can slow them down.Bluff had a large graduating class last season... Fredericktown coming to Sikeston should be interesting as well..don't know how much graduation affected the Black Cats...time will tell...and with a new QB at Sikeston, that is big and fast ...how much will that open it up for Eli Jackson, who had a great yr last season as a Jr. questions questions......alot of answers by 11 pm Friday night
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