7A Football Semifinal Game Moved to Glenbard South
Glenbard West will face Lake Zurich at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Class 7A football semifinals. But the game will be played at Glenbard South.
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The site of the big game has changed.
Glenbard West (12-0) will face Lake Zurich (10-2) at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Class 7A football semifinals. But the game will be played at Glenbard South rather than on Glenbard West's home field.
The change comes as a result of last Saturday's heavy rains and freezing temperatures overnight this week that made preparing Glenbard West's field difficult, according to an IHSA news release.
"I want to commend the coaching staffs and administrations at both schools for working together on this matter and reaching a decision that was best for the student-athletes," IHSA assistant executive director & football administrator Craig Anderson said.
Glenbard West advanced by nothing a 3-0 victory over Wheaton North in Saturday's Mud Bowl in Glen Ellyn. Lake Zurich ousted Rockford Boylan 21-6.
IHSA will be streaming the game online starting at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Glen Ellyn Parent
7:13 am on Friday, November 16, 2012
Great team. Lousy field.
Janille Palmer Santa Ana
12:20 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
Why does GB West not deserve a great field like GB South ? They should never be forced to play on a field like last weeks game, and they should not have to go borrow the field of a rival school in order to have a decent playing surface. OH, I remember! The local residents will not allow them to have a safe and modern surface. That would mean change. Can't have that!
Jim Burket
2:00 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
Wowweeeeeee, simple solution there, Janille Parker Santa Ana. Just convince the local neighbors and all will be okay! Speak to Glenbard West, District 87, the Glen Ellyn Park District, THE Village of Glen Ellyn (just like OSU . . . sorry, THE OSU), the State of Illinois, and the Illinois EPA . . . and you may as well throw the Army Corps of Engineers in there . . . and then get back to us and tell us if the neighbors around the field are the real problem. I assume all will discuss a solution, but since you most like don't live in the "Duchon" neighborhood nor rub elbows with them, don't pretend to know what "we" are blocking.
Jim Burket
2:12 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
Palmer . . . not Parker. Though I know the Parkers. Good people.
Janille Palmer Santa Ana
4:02 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
So, Jim, do I understand you correctly that you and your good neighbors would not try to block the improvements necessary to bring GB Wests field up to par with GB South?
Jim Burket
4:22 pm on Friday, November 16, 2012
How easy a project do you take this to be, Janille? I understand your enthusiasm (for the record, I would not fight improvements.....nor would most of my neighbors), but this is not a simple case of NIMBY. There are serious issues that need to be worked out. And money is the least of them. I live on a hill in a 1920s house with a cinder block foundation. Never had a drop of aqua iny basement in the close to 20 years I have lived here. It simply won't affect me regardless of what happens at Duchon. But I do worry about those poor saps who leave below the lake. If this was an easy fix, it would have been done years ago.