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GAME DAY: For One Team, Lemont's Football Field Will Be 'Deathly Hallows'
Can the Vikings beat the jinx of the non-conference away-game? Can they survive Lemont's Avada Kedavra? We'll find out later today.
In the spirit of the campaign to raise funds to , put your traveling cloak and your game face on for today's 6 p.m. second-round playoff matchup at Lemont.
The Indians are undefeated and have beaten some good teams, including Tinley Park. They are probitive favorites, coming into the game 10-0 to Geneva's 8-2. owning a better SportsMetrix.com rating (.488 to Geneva's .467) and having homefield advantage.
Also on the bad news side, Geneva's two loses have been away games to playoff calibre teams.
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On the good news side, the Vikings have won their last eight games. The two teams have played and beaten both Batavia and Oak Forest. Lemont beat Oak Forest 35-21, while Geneva beat the Bengals 69-28. Lemont held on to beat Batavia 23-14 in the first round of the playoffs last week; the Vikings beat the Bulldogs 40-21 on Oct. 1.
Preps Plus has a good preview story of the Geneva-Lemont game., Kevin Druley has a fun pre-game and look at quarterback Matt Williams' season in the Kane County Chronicle, and you can find more about Lemont on MaxPreps.
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The weather looks good: sunny and high of 51, winds at 5 to 10 mph.
Lemont High School is located at 800 Porter St. Google Maps has it as a 31.6-mile, 51-minute drive from State and Third streets in Geneva.
As the prophesies say in the Deathly Hallows, "neither can live while the other survives."
