Football Preview: Ridgewood Rebels vs. Glenbard East Rams
The Ridgewood Rebels will challenge the Glenbard East Rams at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Glenbard East is facing Ridgewood at the wrong time: Ridgewood suffered their first home loss of the season on Friday and they're likely out for redemption. They fell 43-35 to the Wildcats. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game two weeks ago (31), the Rebels still had to take the loss.
Ridgewood's loss shouldn't obscure the performances of Luke Melendez, who gained 101 total yards and three touchdowns, and Angelo Vitale, who threw for 220 yards and three touchdowns while completing 76.9% of his passes. What's more, Melendez also racked up 31 rushing yards, the mosthe's had since back in September of 2023. Ridgewood also got a significant boost from Nicco Camillo, who ran away from the competition to the tune of 86 yards.
Ridgewood wouldn't let West Chicago keep a hold of the ball as they managed to force two fumbles. Ridgewood can thank Frankie Camillo and Marco Lopez for forcing both of them.
Meanwhile, winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Glenbard East). They breezed by Elmwood Park at home to the tune of 65-13 on Friday. Given the Rams' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 180th, while the Tigers are ranked 445th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Having lost for the first time this season, Ridgewood fell to 3-1. As for Glenbard East, the victory made it two in a row for them and also bumps their season record up to 3-1.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
