It's among one of the bigger games on the schedule for the Monticello Sages tonight when they travel to Bloomington to take on Central Catholic in Illini Prairie Conference high school football.
Monticello came away with a grinding, if not surprising, 39-6 win over Milwaukee Academy of Science last Friday night. As the Sages get back to the Illini Prairie slate, Coach Cully Welter isn't hiding it from his team - this is a big game on their schedule.
Central Catholic is a proud program that has fallen on hard times in recent memory but this is a team that boasts a lot of size and athleticism. Coach Welter says the Saints will be gunning for them after a couple of close losses the last few times out.
Game time tonight is 7 pm. Hear all the action on 95.9 FM WEZC and online at dewittdailynews.com.
Illini Prairie Conference action tonight...
Prairie Central at Rantoul
Paxton-Buckley-Loda at Pontiac
St. Joseph-Ogden at Illinois Valley Central
Week 4 matchups tonight
8-Man football
Biggsville-West Central at Peoria Heights (Sat.)
Prairie City at Champaign St. Thomas More (Sat.)
Decatur LSA at Flanagan-Cornell-Woodland
Blue Ridge at South Fork (Sat.)
Apollo
Effingham at Mattoon
Mahomet-Seymour at Lincoln
Mt. Zion at Taylorville
Big
Bloomington at Danville
Champaign Centennial at Champaign Central
Normal Community at Peoria
Peoria Richwoods vs. Peoria Notre Dame at Dozer Park
Central State Eight
Chatham-Glenwood at Springfield Southeast
Decatur Eisenhower at Decatur MacArthur
Jacksonville at Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin
Springfield at Normal U-High
Springfield Lanphier at Rochester
Heart of Illinois
Mackinaw Dee-Mack at El Paso-Gridley
Fieldcrest at Eureka
Tremont at Tri-Valley
Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley at LeRoy
Lincoln Prairie
Arcola at Tri-County
Argenta-Oreana at Sangamon Valley
Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond at Toledo-Cumberland
Villa Grove at Cerro Gordo-Bement
Mid-Illini
Dunlap at Limestone
East Peoria at Canton
Morton at Metamora
Washington at Pekin
Sangamo
Athens at Auburn
Petersburg PORTA at Pleasant Plains
Pittsfield at New Berlin
Riverton at Maroa-Forsyth
Olympia at Williamsville
Non-Conference action this week
Salt Fork at Iroquois West
Nokomis at Heyworth
Normal West at Richmond-Burton (Sat.)
Tolono Unity at Paris