The Illinois High School Association has released high school football schedules for the entire state.
Minooka is a member of the Southwest Prairie Conference and will play two non-conference games before starting league play in week three.
Football practices across the state begin Wednesday, August 10. Opening night is Friday, August 26. Football playoffs begin Friday, October 28.
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The Indians went 10-2 a year ago and advanced to the Class 7A quarterfinals, before being eliminated from the playoffs. Minooka shared the 2010 SPC championship with Plainfield North and Plainfield South.
Minooka opens the season at Morris and returns home to host Providence Catholic before heading into Southwest Prairie Conference play.
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Morris, which went 6-4 last year and qualified for the Class 4A playoffs, and Minooka were members of the SPC until 2008. Providence went 2-7 a year ago after taking second in Class 6A in 2009.
Minooka opens league play in week three at Plainfield Central. It’s the first of three straight games against District 202 opponents.
Weeks four and five will be at the friendly confines of home against Plainfield East and Plainfield South, respectively. Minooka beat Plainfield South 41-38 in the second round of the Class 7A state playoffs a season ago.
It came just six weeks after a 41-31 loss during SPC play. The game is affectionately known as the Ridge Road Rivalry based on both schools proximity to the north-south thoroughfare in Kendall County.
The Indians begin the second half of the season in week six at Oswego East.
Back-to-back home games against Class 6A qualifier Plainfield North and Romeoville come in wake of a week nine tussle at Oswego, which many are considering to be a top challenger to win the conference championship.
McAsey wins coveted award
Minooka High School graduate Joe McAsey earned nearly 60 percent of the vote to win the 2011 SPC Report Male Athlete of the Year award. The award will be given annually to the top athletes in the Southwest
Prairie Conference.
McAsey, a 2010 graduate headed to the University of Illinois in downstate Urbana, was all-state at the Class 3A boys cross country meet in the fall and won two all-state medals at the Class 3A boys
track and field meet in May in downstate Charleston.
