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 Lightning kept
the football team from ever making it on to the field.
“Every time
(lightning flashes) we have to wait 30 minutes,” Lincoln Head Coach
Andy McDonald said Friday shortly after officials called the game.
IHSA rules
forbid kickoff until the sky has been lightning free for at least a
half an hour.
That did not
happen Friday.
A huge storm
cut a swath across central Illinois.
The plug was
pulled on Lincoln’s game a little after 7 o’clock Friday.
Most games in
the Central State Eight were postponed, though some went ahead after
a delay.
McDonald said
the Railers will try again against the Chatham Glenwood Titans on
Saturday.
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“(We’ll kickoff
at) 11 o’clock here,” McDonald said as his team boarded the buses in
Chatham. “We’ll play a combined freshman/sophomore game Monday
night.”
Both Lincoln
and Chatham Glenwood are looking for their first win of the season.
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