Buffalo Grove beat Rolling Meadows 14-13 in Week Seven; The Bison host Prospect on Saturday. | Youtube.com
Buffalo Grove beat Rolling Meadows 14-13 in Week Seven; The Bison host Prospect on Saturday. | Youtube.com
7A Second Round
Prospect Knights (8-2) at Buffalo Grove Bison (9-1)
Saturday, Nov. 6.
7:00 p.m.
It's a re-match of the co-Mid Suburban East champions.
Prospect won this year's head-to-head between the two in Week 5 (Sept. 24), 17-14. It was Buffalo Grove's only loss of the season.
That's when Prospect was led by stand-out junior quarterback Frank Covey, IV, who was lost for the season with a back injury in a Week 9 upset by Rolling Meadows.
In their first game, the Bison led 14-0 before surrendering two touchdowns to Covey and a field goal by Ben Sahakian.
Covey's back-up, junior Bradley Vierneisel, played game manager in Prospect's ground-led 28-0 7A first round victory over Palos Heights A.B. Shepard (5-5). Senior RB Matthew Raitano had four touchdowns in the first half and rushed for 122 yards.
In its first round match-up, Buffalo Grove rallied from a 19-7 deficit to beat New Lenox Lincoln Way West (5-5) 22-19. Bison QB Michael Cervantes threw for two touchdown passes. Senior DB Brian Oberman forced a fumble and had an interception to spark the comeback.
Prospect's second loss of the season was to 4A second round qualifier Wheaton St. Francis (8-2) in Week 3, 34-27.
Our Pick: Buffalo Grove -4
Players to Watch | College | |||||||||
Commit | Offers | |||||||||
Joe | Dunka | Prospect | Sr. | 6'0 | 200 | LB | ||||
Drew | Heiss | Prospect | Sr. | 6'4 | 260 | C | ||||
Owen | Walter | Prospect | Sr. | 6'2 | 195 | WR | ||||
Sam | Tsagalis | Prospect | Sr. | 6'4 | 260 | OT | ||||
Ben | Sahakian | Prospect | Sr. | 6'4 | 210 | LB | ||||
Trystan | Anderson | Buffalo Grove | Sr. | 6'5 | 235 | DL | St. Thomas, Drake, Valparaiso | |||
Brian | Oberman | Buffalo Grove | Sr. | 5'10 | 170 | CB | ||||
Michael | Cervantes | Buffalo Grove | Sr. | 5'11 | 165 | QB | ||||
Dane | Cottrell | Buffalo Grove | Sr. | 6'3 | 242 | DE | St. Ambrose | |||
Dominick | Marrazzo | Buffalo Grove | Sr. | 6'0" | 165 | DB | ||||
Jacob | Pond | Buffalo Grove | Sr. | 5'10" | 185 | LB | ||||
Eli | Shereshovech | Buffalo Grove | Sr. | 6'4" | 235 | DL | Valparaiso, Drake |