The Rock Island Rocks will venture away from home to take on the Bradley-Bourbonnais Boilermakers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Rock Island has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with three straight losses, while Bradley-Bourbonnais will come in with three straight wins.
Rock Island is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 31 points last Friday, they were much more limited against Quincy on Friday. They were outmatched by the Blue Devils on the road and fell 48-7. While losing is never fun, the Rocks can't take it too hard given the team's big disadvantage in MaxPreps' Illinois football rankings (they are ranked 194th, while the Blue Devils are ranked 31st).
Meanwhile, Bradley-Bourbonnais had just enough and edged Waubonsie Valley out 20-17 on Friday.
Rock Island's defeat dropped their record down to 0-3. As for Bradley-Bourbonnais, their victory bumped their record up to 3-0.
Rock Island and Bradley-Bourbonnais were almost perfectly matched up when the teams last played back in August of 2019, but Rock Island suffered an agonizing 36-35 loss. Can Rock Island avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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