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Lions Run Out of Magic
Head Coach John Nichols and his staff finally ran out of the magic thread, which they had been using to keep their battered and banged up football team going the past four weeks. The Lions headed east (way east) to take on the defending state champs, and number one ranked
Burlington Cougars on Saturday, November 19, in the state semi-final game. The Lions were down to twenty-eight players that could suit up for the game, while the Cougars had sixty-seven standing on their sideline. But that inequity did not
Lyons Winds Up Winning Despite The WInd
With a constant wind of sixty to seventy miles per hour, and gusts hitting the mid-eighties reigning havoc on the field, and the high school maintenance crew having to bring in a generator because of downed power lines, the Lyons Lions took on their archrival the Akron Rams in a state quarter-final football game last Saturday afternoon (November 12) at John “Jet” Johnson Field. The Lions supplied their own power, as they defeated the Rams in the post season for the second year in a row.
Lions Prey on Panthers; Await Rams
By Gary Gorman
It is November, which means one thing in Lyons! It’s time for the State football playoffs, and it all started last Saturday (November 5), when the Lyons Lions hosted the Peyton Panthers in the first round of play.
Lyons Survives Scare Against Clear Creek
by Joseph Lekarczyk
Conventional wisdom said it would be a cakewalk for the highly touted Lyons Lions football team versus the Clear Creek Gold Diggers last Friday night. Lyons had already won their league title, and the team had secured home field advantage for this week’s play-off game (Saturday, November 5, at 1 p.m., versus Peyton). Added to the festivities, it was also “Senior Night,” at John “Jett” Johnson Field when senior football players, cheerleaders, and their parents were honored at half time. Unfortunately, someone forgot to send the memo to the Gold Diggers.
Christians Thrown To The Lions!
by Gary Gorman
Last Friday night, with the nip of winter in the air, the Cornerstone Christian Bulldogs came to Lyons and got a bite taken out of them by the Lyons football team. The game started with the score 0 - 0, and that was as close as the Bulldogs came to
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