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Football: H-F Can't Help Looking Ahead to Lincoln-Way East
The Vikings are determined to avenge their only conference loss last year, and they'll get that chance at next Friday night's homecoming showdown with the 3-0 Griffins.
Perhaps was looking ahead to next weekend’s homecoming festivities.
After all, it’s not your ordinary homecoming, as the Vikings will host Lincoln-Way East in a big Southwest Suburban Blue showdown.
Whatever the case, the Vikings played through a sluggish first half on Friday night before
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Now that they’ve taken care of the Knights, the Vikings’ focus turns to the Griffins, a team that beat H-F 31-21 in Week 5 of the 2010 season. It was the Vikings’ lone conference loss a year ago.
“I’m not sure our attention didn’t turn to next week early on in this first quarter,” Homewood-Flossmoor coach Craig Buzea said. “Obviously, it’s a big game just from the standpoint that people are making it a big game.
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“They beat us last year. They’re the team and program to beat, and we aspire to beat them. Because if you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.”
Both teams have routed opponents in the first three weeks of the season and will meet with identical 3-0 records.
For a while on Friday night, it appeared as if the Vikings might have some trouble with The Vikings turned the ball over on their opening possession, but they got the ball right back when the Knights coughed it up for the first of their five turnovers.
“I think in the first half we kind of looked past this team a bit,” H-F quarterback Timothy Williams said. “And they’re not a bad team at all, but we have to remember to take it one game at a time.”
Williams admitted that next week’s game was on his mind, adding that it’s been on the entire team’s mind since last year’s loss.
“We’ve been thinking about them and wanting to get back at them since the clock hit 0:00 in the fourth quarter,” he said. “It was a big loss, but we feel we’ve improved a lot since then.”
The fact that next Friday’s game will be part of homecoming festivities will only make it more exciting.
“We’re going to celebrate this one tonight,” Vikings running back/defensive back Anfernee Roberts said. “It’s on our minds, though. Homecoming night on our home field, so we’ll be ready for that one.”
