The Pekin Panthers football team (Packwood, IA), was beaten 17-7 in Friday's league challenge with the visiting Lisbon Lions (Lisbon, IA)

The Lions (5-0) will now prepare for their outing against Wapello (Wapello, IA). The Indians go into the A District 5 outing with a 1-4 record. In their last outing, Wapello went down by Danville (Danville, IA), 41-14, in a league outing.

With the loss, Pekin moves to 3-2 on the season. The Panthers host Highland (Riverside, IA) to confront the Huskies in a A District 5 outing on Friday, September 29. The Huskies go into the outing with a record of 0-5. Highland lost 55-0 in their recent league outing against Columbus (Columbus Junction, IA)