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What we learned in Week 11 of high school football: Wild finishes highlight strange week of playoffs

Jasmine Lee
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Jasmine Lee
Reporter · Naperville, IL

An experienced business reporter, Jasmine Lee graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has worked with various finance and business publications. With over 4 years of experience, she has a keen eye for trends and developments affecting local businesses in Naperville.

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What we learned in Week 11 of high school football: Wild finishes highlight strange week of playoffs — Joliet Schools news

When Quincy and Goode announced that they’d effectively be opening the second weekend of the IHSA football playoff schedule by playing at 3 p.m. Friday it barely registered.Later, discovery unearthed the following facts: scheduling Chicago Public League venues can be tricky, but Goode has its own field which gave them some flexibility.Then it was learned that Quincy had the day off of school on Friday and also had some flexibility. And considering it is about a 600-mile roundtrip between the two schools, an earlier start might suit everyone.The two schools landed on 3 p.m. because, of course, logically it was believed that a game could get done in three-plus hours, because Goode’s field isn’t equipped with lights.Logic went out the window pretty fast in this one. The two teams were scoring at a ridiculous rate. It seemed innocuous enough when Goode led 22-13 after a quarter, but the second quarter went into a weird bizarro world state. An almost unfathomable 84 points were scored in th

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