After each having a week off, the Northwest Lions and the Seckman Jaguars will shake off the cobwebs and hit the field against one another at 7:00 p.m. on November 7.
Northwest made up a huge gap compared to their last game against Oakville, but they still couldn't quite topple them. The Lions fell just short of the Tigers by a score of 9-7 on Friday. The Lions were red-hot offensively heading into the matchup (they scored no less than 31 points in the five contests prior), but the Tigers' defense proved too tough.
Meanwhile, Seckman entered their tilt with Webster Groves on Friday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They simply couldn't be stopped as they easily beat the Statesmen 56-23. Given the Jaguars' advantage in MaxPreps' Missouri football rankings (they are ranked 79th, while the Statesmen are ranked 213th) , the win wasn't entirely unexpected.
Seckman's victory bumped their record up to 7-2. As for Northwest, their defeat ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 7-2.
Northwest took a serious blow against Seckman in their previous meeting back in September, falling 49-14. That game was all but decided by halftime, at which point the Lions were down 28-7.
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