Who is hosting and who is heading on a trip?
Bombers will be making our way to WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS for a week 3 matchup on a 1 year deal. School of I think around 1200 students, they finished 4th in their conference last year, pretty good conference it looks like. Conf Champ, Morris, they went to class 5a elite 8 before losing to Joliet Catholic. Their 2nd and 3rd place finishers in conference, each won a game in playoffs before losing the next round. Should be a fun little trip for us.
Last time we dipped into Illinois, was the year after Delphi left Hoosier Conference, 2017, played Champaign Central. Fun to see a complete random school and experience what their Friday Night Lights were like, for instance, man they had one LARGE and ROWDY Band. So fun. They just got after it all game long. Bombers won 42-14 that night and I will also say, a take away that my Referee pals here would appreciate, I want to say we were in year 2 of the 40 sec clock pilot, maybe year 1, in 2017, either way, we had gotten used to 40 sec clock, Illinois was 25 sec, WOW, what a difference, hard pass on ever going back to 25 secs.