The Carterville Lions are on the road again on Friday to play the Harrisburg Bulldogs at 7:00 p.m.
Carterville is probably headed into the match with a chip on their shoulder considering St. Joseph-Ogden just ended the team's three-game winning streak on Friday. They fell to the Spartans 26-20.
Meanwhile, Harrisburg had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 38.5 points) and they went ahead and made it three on Friday. They blew past the Patriots 62-7 at home. Given the Bulldogs' advantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 204th, while the Patriots are ranked 416th), the result wasn't entirely unexpected.
Carterville's defeat dropped their record down to 3-2. As for Harrisburg, their victory bumped their record up to 4-1.
Carterville came up short against Harrisburg when the teams last played back in October of 2023, falling 23-12. Can Carterville avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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