Lions, Wildcats featured in Week 5 high school football

Posted on September 20, 2018
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The high-scoring Peoria Lions face Normal West on the Wildcats’ Homecoming night in the featured game of the Week 5 Extravaganza.
(WJBC file photo)

By Greg Halbleib

A pair of 3-1 teams near the top of the Big Twelve Conference hook up in the featured game of the WJBC Friday Night High School Football Extravaganza.

The Week 5 feature pits the Peoria Lions at Normal West for the Wildcats’ Homecoming. The Lions have won their games by margins of 34, 37 and 76 points, while the Wildcats handed Bloomington its first loss of the season last week.

The Extravaganza will also have reports from Monticello at Central Catholic, Springfield Lanphier at U-High, Normal Community at Peoria Manual and Tri-Valley at LeRoy. The Extravaganza begins on AM 1230 WJBC and WJBC.com at 6:10 with pre-game, kickoffs at 7:00, reports every quarter hour and post-game until 11:00. Updates can be found on the WJBC Sports Twitter feed (@SportsWJBC, #WJBCHSFB).

Bonus play-by-play of high school football can be found on Saturday from Memorial Stadium in Champaign as Bloomington takes on Urbana at 4 p.m. Pre-game begins at 3:45 at WJBC.com by clicking here. 

Week 5 high school football schedule:

Big Twelve
Peoria at Normal West
Normal Community at Peoria Manual
Champaign Central at Peoria Richwoods
Champaign Centennial vs. Peoria Notre Dame (Sat. 10 a.m. Memorial Stadium, Champaign)
Bloomington vs. Urbana (Sat. 4 p.m. Memorial Stadium, Champaign)
Illini Prairie
Monticello at Central Catholic
St. Joseph-Ogden at Pontiac (98.9 WJEZ & WJEZ.com)
Prairie Central at Illinois Valley Central
Tolono Unity vs. Olympia (Sat. 1 p.m. Memorial Stadium, Champaign)
Rantoul vs. St. Thomas More (Sat. 7 p.m. Memorial Stadium, Champaign)
Central State Eight:
Springfield Lanphier at U-High
Decatur MacArthur at Springfield Southeast
Jacksonville at Chatham Glenwood
Rochester at Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin
Springfield at Decatur Eisenhower
Non-Conference (Heart of Illinois crossover):
Tri-Valley at LeRoy
Flanagan-Cornell-Woodland at Fieldcrest
Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley at Fisher
Deer Creek-Mackinaw at Heyworth
Tremont at El Paso-Gridley
Blue Ridge at Paris
Sangamon Valley:
Watseka at Dwight
Apollo:
Taylorville at Lincoln
Central Illinois:
Tuscola at Clinton

Greg Halbleib can be reached at [email protected]. 

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