While the Mattoon Green Wave has experienced its share of struggles this year, Monticello Coach Cully Welter knows the 5A Apollo Conference team won't be a pushover.

The 1-1 Sages battle the 1-1 Mattoon Green Wave tonight at Monticello High School. Because of the strength of the Illini Prairie Conference this year, Coach Welter knows this is a big game for his team.

Coming out of a 52-14 win over IVC, Coach Welter would like to his line play improve. He feels those are two units that should have a lot of success and feels they've underachieved so far.

Game time tonight is 7 pm. Hear the action starting with the pregame around 6:45 on 95.9 FM WEZC and online at dewittdailynews.com. 

Illini Prairie Conference 

Bloomington Central Catholic at Paxton-Buckley-Loda

Illinois Valley Central at Tolono Unity

Pontiac at Rantoul

St. Joseph-Ogden at Prairie Central

Big Twelve

Champaign Central at Peoria Notre Dame

Normal West at Danville 

Peoria Manual at Bloomington 

Peoria Richwoods at Champaign Centennial

Urbana at Normal Community

Central State Eight 

Chatham-Glenwood at Decatur Eisenhower

Decatur MacArthur at Normal U-High

Rochester at Lincoln

Jacksonville at Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin

Springfield at Springfield Lanphier

Springfield Southeast at Quincy Notre Dame

Lincoln Prairie

Argenta-Oreana at Arcola

Sangamon Valley at Cerro Gordo-Bement

Nokomis at Villa Grove

Oakland Tri-County at Arthur-Lovington-Atwood-Hammond

Toledo-Cumberland at Sullivan-Okaw Valley

Mid-Illini

Limestone at East Peoria

Canton at Morton

Metamora at Washington

Pekin at Dunlap

Sangamo

Auburn at Maroa-Forsyth

Petersburg PORTA at New Berlin 

Pittsfield at Olympia

Pleasant Plains at Athens

Non-conference

Columbia at Taylorville

Decatur St. Teresa at Farmington

Mt. Zion at Salem

Peoria at Morris

Sparta at Central A & M

Sycamore at Mahomet-Seymour

8-Man football

Blue Ridge at Milford