A few quick notes on tonight’s game:

• The team’s are healthy. Coach Garno said one Whiteford running back had a thumb taped up. Assistant coach Josh Andrews said Whiteford junior Blake Haupricht, who will rotate in for Knorr at running back, is back after spending all but a few minutes of last week’s game on crutches.

• Weather.com has this forecast for kickoff: 77° F and a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms.

• Blissfield has won all three games since the Royals began meeting Whiteford in Week 2 of the season in 2007.

• Blissfield reviews of the Whiteford helmet were mixed at last night’s JV game. “Cool,” said one young boy. “That’s not right,” said one Michigan fan. In general, the older they were, the less they liked it.

Monroe News has an article sharing Whiteford coach Matt Garno’s thoughts about playing Blissfield tomorrow. You can read it here.

"We're close friends, but we're both competitive. We know things change when it's time to play,'' Garno said….

"We hit it off right away,'' Garno said of his relationship with Estes. "We're a lot alike. We have the same sense of humor. We both like to work out like crazy. He's a runner and I'm a weightlifter.''

Here’s what Estes said to The Advance about Thursday’s big game.

When asked what he thought about going against a former member of the Blissfield family, Ron Estes issued a polite correction.

“He’s still a member of our family. He is a good friend of all of ours,” Estes said after the Sand Creek game. “This will be a big game and we know it will be important to him, but we can’t worry about them. We’ll worry about Blissfield.”

Estes said Garno will have certain advantages.

“He knows us better than we know him. I am sure he’ll have something cooked up,” Estes said. “We need to worry about not shooting ourselves in the foot and cutting down on penalties and things like that.”

At this point, I'm guessing that the Whiteford lads have enough of the Blissfield talk. From day one in Whiteford, Garno has used the Blissfield program as a measuring stick, whether its weightlifting or camp drills. And right about now, I'm guessing those Bobcats are highly motivated for tomorrow's game.

From the department of "DUH."

 

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