Game of the Week preview: There’s more than bragging rights on the line between Skyline and Hillcrest

GAME OF THE WEEK
Hillcrest vs. Skyline, Ravsten Stadium, Friday, 7 p.m.

IDAHO FALLS — It’s conscionable nan 2nd crippled connected nan High Country Conference schedule for some teams, but nan convention title and playoff seeding whitethorn beryllium connected nan statement Friday erstwhile nan Hillcrest Knights and Skyline Grizzlies footwear off.

Defending convention champion Hillcrest High School (1-0, 2-1) person won 2 consecutive and proceed to look crisp connected discourtesy pinch nan improvement of inferior backmost Tyson Sweetwood, who passed for 182 yards and ran for 132 yards and 3 scores successful past week’s triumph complete Thunder Ridge.

Skyline High School (1-2,1-0) has played a reliable schedule and came wrong a 2-point conversion of knocking disconnected 6A unbeaten Madison past week. Also, nan Grizzlies athletics nan apical scoring defense successful nan conference, astatine 18 points per game.

Keys to nan game:

Skyline has not only been nan squad to hit successful conference, nan Grizzlies person been a authorities power, winning titles 3 of nan past 4 years. Last twelvemonth it was nan Knight’s knocking Skyline disconnected its perch, winning a chaotic regular-season crippled pinch a last-second Hail Mary walk for a TD, and past downing nan Grizzlies successful a hard-fought authorities semifinal.

None of that matters connected Friday, different than nan truth that nan victor has nan precocious manus toward a convention title.

Blackfoot and Bonneville already person a convention loss, and Idaho Falls and Shelley person struggled early on.

The bully news is that up to 5 of nan six convention teams person earned postseason berths successful nan past, truthful immoderate triumph is simply a large win.

But barring an upset during nan season, nan Knights and Grizzlies are nan frontrunners and 1 of nan teams will group themselves isolated connected Friday.