While there are still some schools who opt to play an easier schedule, 6A Coconut Creek Monarch and 1A power Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna are not among them.
But of these south Florida football teams have elevated their schedules through the years and have found that the results have been positive.
These two programs will clash this evening (7:00) in Hollywood and have earned the right to be the Game of the Week.
For the 3-2 Knights, rated No. 7 in south Florida, and veteran head coach Calvin Davis, the objective all along is to be competitive in a classification that is loaded from north Florida right through to Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.
By opening against 2A powerhouse Jacksonville Bolles in the Broward County National Football Showcase to games at Don Bosco Prep in New Jersey and Sanford Seminole, Fl. have certainly gotten this team ready for the stretch run that starts tonight against the 4-1 Lions.
For veteran head coach Dameon Jones and his No. 4 team, winning the state title is indeed a priority every year – and despite losing to national powerhouse St. Frances Academy of Baltimore – they have sharpened themselves for a ninth straight trip to the state title game.
Like Monarch this program has been tested already, and with the Knights and games against Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons and nationally rated Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas there is still work to be done.
COCONUT CREEK MONARCH KNIGHTS
Jacksonville Bolles, L 34-15
Deerfield Beach, W 48-10
Ramsey Don Bosco Prep, New Jersey, L 38-21
Sanford Seminole, W 34-20
Fort Lauderdale, W 54-0
Oct. 3 @ Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna
Oct. 10 Coral Springs
Oct. 17 Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas
Oct. 24 Sunrise Piper
Oct. 30 Pompano Beach Blanche Ely
CHAMINADE-MADONNA LIONS
St. Francis, Maryland, L 42-13
Hollywood McArthur, W 28-14
Plantation American Heritage, W 28-24
Miami Edison, W 56-6
Davie Western, W 56-0
Oct. 3 Coconut Creek Monarch
Oct. 10 Pompano Beach Blanche Ely
Oct. 17 @ Hollywood Avant Garde
Oct. 24 @ Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons
Oct. 31 @ Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas
In addition to the Coconut Creek Monarch and Hollywood Chaminade-Madonna, here is a look at the rest of Friday’s schedule and Week 7:
Boca Raton St. John Paul II at Coconut Creek North Broward Prep, 7
Cocoa vs. Miami Norland (Traz), 7:30
No. 14 Coconut Creek at Hollywood South Broward, 7
Coral Gables at Miami Braddock, 3:30
Coral Springs Charter at Oakland Park Northeast, 6:30
Davie Western at West Boca Raton, 6:30
Doral Academy vs. Homestead (Harris), 7:30
Fort Lauderdale NSU University School at West Palm Beach Oxbridge Academy, 7
No. 1 Fort Lauderdale St. Thomas Aquinas at Hollywood Hills, 4
Fort Lauderdale Westminster Academy at Fort Myers Evangelical Christian, 7
Hallandale at No. 10 Fort Lauderdale Cardinal Gibbons, 7
No. 16 Hollywood McArthur at Deerfield Beach, 7
Homestead South Dade vs. No. 8 Miami Palmetto (Tropical), 7:30
Lauderdale Lakes Boyd Anderson at Sunrise Piper, 7
Miami Archbishop Carroll at Miami Westminster Christian, 3:30
Miami Beach at Miami Ferguson, 3:30
Miami Booker T. Washington at Vero Beach, 7
Miami Coral Park at Miami Sunset, 3:30
Miami Gardens Monsignor Pace at No. 20 Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian, 7
No. 13 Miami Immaculata La Salle at Pembroke Pines Somerset Academy, 7
Miami Country Day at Marco Island Academy, 7
Miami Dr. Krop vs. Hialeah American (Milander), 7
Miami Palmer Trinity at Somerset South Homestead, 7
Miami Ransom Everglades at Miami Springs, 3:30
No. 5 Miami Southridge vs. Miami Edison (Traz), 4
Miramar at North Miami (Curtis), 7
Monsignor Gardens Pace at Fort Lauderdale Calvary Christian, 7
Naples Aubrey Rogers at Miami Florida Christian, 7
North Lauderdale Somerset Prep at West Palm Beach The Kings Academy, 6:30
North Miami Beach at Lake Mary, 7:30
Parkland Douglas vs. Coral Springs Coral Glades (CS Sportsplex), 7
Pembroke Pines Charter at Davie Nova, 7
No. 12 Plantation American Heritage at No. 17 Pembroke Pines Flanagan, 7
South Miami vs. Miami Carol City (Betty Ferguson), 7:30
South Plantation vs. Fort Lauderdale Stranahan (Dillard), 7
Southwest Miami at Miami Belen Jesuit, 7:30
Westland Hialeah at Hialeah Gardens, 3:30
Weston Cypress Bay at Coral Springs, 7
THURSDAY SCORES
Doral Ronald Reagan 14, Miami Varela 13
Miami Christopher Columbus 58, Miami High 0
Miami True North Classical Academy 28, Jacksonville University Christian 8
West Palm Beach Cardinal Newman 28, Miami Lakes Barbara Goleman 7
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
No. 6 Fort Lauderdale Dillard at Pompano Beach Blanche Ely, 3
Hialeah vs. Hialeah Miami Lakes (Milander), 7
No. 2 Miami Northwestern vs. No. 3 Miami Central (Traz), 4:30
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