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As I prepared for the football season, I started looking at what games I wanted to see. I highlighted a number of them to try to catch throughout the year, but in week one, there was one I didn’t want to miss. Hogan Prep at Mt. View-Liberty. After last year, there was no doubt that this would be a meeting of top 10 teams. Liberty had made the second round for the second straight year and gave Fair Grove a struggle before falling. While Hogan had pushed eventual state champion Maryville to the limit. Hogan is usually loaded with athletes, including Devante Bausby this year. Mt. View returned a host of all-conference players on offense. Plus throw in my personal reason of getting a chance to see my awesome grandmother, and this was a must see for me.
There was just one wrinkle, it was set for Saturday afternoon. Well this was a very opportune wrinkle since it would allow me the chance to watch not one, but two games in week 1 because Hwy 60 would be crawling with games. Continue reading My Big (unlucky for the) SCA Road Trip
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A pretty typical week 1. Some shocking results, some teams looking just as good as advertised, some HUGE performances, some fresh faces emerging, some questions answered, and some questions still open. The big question right now is “Who won between Ava and Strafford?” Usually we’d be pretty set on this point but multiple sources are reporting the score different ways. The score was 35-28. And it did go to overtime. That we know. Everyone agrees. But was it the Bears or the Indians? That’s the point of contention. Well I can say on good authority (i.e. someone who was actually at the game) that Ava did come out the winner. Now that we have that out of the way, it’s the moment you’ve all really been waiting for since last year’s Show-Me Bowls. Yes, we all enjoy the football games. But everybody loves the Ozarks favorite game…
Continue reading Week 1 Review
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It’s finally here! Let the trumpets be sounded forth. Slay the fatted calf. Prepare to make merry uponeth the greenery of many fields as dusk settleth over the earth. Yea verily, it is good and shall be good forevermore. Bringeth forth mistrials to delight our ears with the anthems of our lands. Set the musicians to play, the spotted hordes to cheer, and the young men who recalleth the titans of yore to clash within the arenas of our land as they seek to claim eternal, resplendent glory for themselves and their principalities!
In other words, let’s play some football. I’ll be doing an SCA swing this weekend starting in Mountain Grove to watch the Panthers clash with defending state class 3 champions Cassville. Then it’s off to Howell County for Hogan Prep and Mt. View-Liberty Saturday afternoon. More great games this opening week than I think I’ve ever seen before. So, town cryer, announceth the picks!
WEEK 1 PICKS
Game of the Week
- Hogan Prep at Mt. View-Liberty – Saturday at 1 PM
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