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McCluer North Football Visits Kirkwood, First Of Five Straight Road Games
By Jim Wieners
McCluer North Football will not be seeing the friendly confines of home for the next five weeks and the Stars will start that road swing Friday, Aug. 28, 7 p.m. at a place where their football season ended twice, Kirkwood, defending Suburban XII Conference South Division champions.
This is the second of three straight Friday games but the game at Kirkwood is the only night game on their schedule and the only game played on artificial turf. McCluer North will have another late Friday game Sept. 4 as the Stars play a 4:15 game at University City.
After that McCluer North will be playing in the Hazelwood School District the next three games, all in the Suburban XII Conference North Division, starting with East (Sept. 12), followed by West (Sept. 19) and Central (Sept. 26) before returning home Oct. 3 to play Riverview Gardens.
Two previous visits to Kirkwood ended McCluer North’s season. The Stars were shut out 34-0 in a 2013 Class Five, District Two semifinal game on the turf. In 2006 on grass Kirkwood, in route to a Class Five runner up finish, won their first ever state semifinal game 28-7, ruining McCluer North’s hopes for an undefeated season.
McCluer North is coming off their eighth straight season-opening loss to Jefferson City, their 10th straight overall, as the 64-34 result Aug 21 was the highest scoring game between two teams. McCluer North got a single-game scoring performance against Jefferson City by Harry Ballard with five touchdowns, three pass receptions and two rushing plays. Jefferson City plays Friday at Class Six State Champion CBC.
Kirkwood, Class Six Semifinalist last year, won their Aug. 21 opener at home 35-7 over Lindbergh. University City, who visits 1-0 McCluer South-Berkeley, won their home opener 23-14 over Hazelwood East.
McCLUER HOSTS PARKWAY NORTH, NORMANDY — McCluer will be playing two more Friday home games at 4:15 as the Comets host a pair of teams nicknamed “Vikings,” first Aug. 28 against Parkway North then Sept. 4 against Normandy, a Collaboratve and a former Suburban North Conference rival over a decade ago. McCluer’s first road game opens Suburban XII North play Sept. 12 against defending league champion Hazelwood Cental.
In the first of three Friday 4:15 home games, Aug. 21 McCluer lost 27-14 to defending Public High League Champion Clyde C. Miller Academy. McCluer got all 14 points from Anthony Williams, who threw two touchdowns and ran for a two-point conversion.
Parkway North opened at home Aug. 21 with a 40-28 victory over Wentzville-Timberland. Normandy, who hosts Parkway Central Saturday, Sept. 29 at 1 p.m., is coming off a 24-16 home loss Sept. 22 to Lift for Life Academy, a Charter School.
TRINITY VISITS DUCHESNE, HOSTS O’FALLON CHRISTIAN — Trinity Catholic will be spending the next four Fridays playing against St. Charles County teams in 7 p.m. games, two of them in Archdiocesan Athletic Association Small Division games. Friday Trinity heads to St. Charles to play Duchesne, both AAA rivals but it is a non-conference game because Duchesne plays in the AAA Large Division. Trinity plays their first two AAA Small games beginning Sept. 4 against defending league champion O’Fallon Christian then heads to St. Peters Sept. 11 against Lutheran-St. Charles County before hosting St. Charles High in a Sept. 18 non-conference game.
Trinity lost 20-18 Aug. 21 to visiting Wright City despite two third quarter touchdown plays from Marcus Washington (one pass, one run). Duchesne lost 28-17 at home Aug 17 to St. Charles while O’Fallon Christian, who hosts Festus
