This week is a pivotal week of High School Football. It's the regular season finale, a last push for the playoffs and for some, the choice of opting in or out of the postseason.
There are two weeks remaining in the High School Football regular season and it is time to look at where teams sit if the playoffs began this week in the Battle Creek area.
Rivalries on the football field in the High School ranks have been cherished for decades. For our Game of the Night this week, the latest edition continues its longest-running competition between the two largest schools in Southwest Michigan this week.
As strange as the 2020 High School Football season has been with a shortened season, last minute schedule changes due to COVID cases and shutdowns, and the smaller spectator size to start the season, the postseason also brings changes that can be beneficial for what could have been a lost season or repositioned to spring.
The Pennfield Panthers and Hastings Saxons squared off for the first of two Week 3 broadcasts on 95.3 WBCK Friday night with position in the Interstate 8 Conference standings on the line.
In 2020, it has been the year of changes in routine, ways to communicate, distance and learning in school. When it comes to the beginning of the 2020 High School Football season, a small change can be great.
In the ever-changing world of sports, the trickle down continues into the High School ranks. On top of a COVID-19 pandemic, there's just one more change to the kickoff of our 2020 High School Football season.
Now that the High School Football season is slated to begin with its first competitions this Friday, the full slate of schedules can be found here with several changes from the original schedules in May.