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BCR Game Day, Friday, Sept. 15

Bureau Valley's Cameron Lemons lunges for a few extra yards past Hall's Deanthony Weatherspoon on Friday, Sept 8, 2023 at Richard Nesti Stadium.

It’s Game Day for Week 4 of the 2023 football season.

Here’s a last look at tonight’s area matchups under the Friday Night Lights.

The BCR Game of the Week features Kewanee (3-0, 1-0) at Bureau Valley (2-1, 1-0) at 7 p.m. from Storm Stadium.

The other Three Rivers East game of the night has Hall (1-2, 0-1) at Mendota (0-3, 0-1).

Princeton (2-1) will be at Orion (2-1) in a Three Rivers crossover while Newman (2-1) steps out of the circuit to face Rock Island (0-3) of the Western Big Six

In the Three Rivers West, Morrison (3-0) will be at E-P (0-3), Rockridge (2-1) at Sherrard (1-2) and Monmouth-Roseville (2-1, 1-0) at Riverdale (0-3, 0-1).

Locally, St. Bede (2-1, 1-0) will host Norridge Ridgewood (1-2, 0-1) in Chicago Prairie League action at the Academy, LaSalle-Peru (2-1) will host Plano (2-1) in the Kishwaukee River/Interstate 8 and Monmouth United (2-1) will be at Annawan-Wethersfield (2-1) in the Lincoln Trail-Prairieland.

Amboy’s Homecoming game with Peoria Quest Academy (0-3) has been canceled due to sickness within the Quest program.

Other area games

Galesburg (1-2) at Sterling (1-2)

Genoa-Kingston (2-1) at Dixon (3-0)

Rock Falls (0-3) at Rockford Lutheran (1-2)

Stark County (3-0) at Havana (0-3)

Sycamore (3-0) at Ottawa (2-1)

Westmont (1-2) at Ottawa Marquette (2-1)

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin Hieronymus

Kevin has been sports editor of the BCR since 1986 and is Sports Editor of Putnam County Record. Was previously sports editor of the St. Louis Daily News and a contributor for the St. Louis Cardinals magazine. He is a 2021 inductee into the IBCA Hall of Fame (Media) and a 2023 inductee into the Illinois Valley Hall of Fame as "Distinguished Media"