All three high schools in southern Labette County will open their football seasons this Friday night, Sept. 3, and one of them is state-ranked.
Oswego High School will host Quapaw High School (Okla) with a 7:30 p.m. kickoff.The Indians will hit the gridiron with plenty of expectations on their shoulders.
Oswego  finished 2009 with an amazing 10-1 record, ending only on a heart-stopping 20-16 loss to Olpe in the second round of the class 2A state playoffs. Pollsters with the online site kansasprepfootball.com have tabbed Oswego as the second-best team in class 2A, according to the pre-seasoen rankings that were released last weekend. Meade, Kan., is picked first, followed by Oswego, Olpe, Pittsburg-Colgan and Centralia.
The game will be aired on Coffeyville radio station KUSN (104.1 FM), which will broadcast the contest as the first “High School Game of the Week” for 2010.
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Labette County High School will play at home against Fort Scott with a 7 p.m. kickoff. See separate story on this page.
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The Green Hornets of Chetopa High School will also play at home for their opener against Midway-Altoona with a 7 p.m. kickoff.