Friday night football (Oct. 9): Games to watch, 810 Varsity online games and KC area schedule
Where’s your favorite high school football team playing this week? Check out The Star’s Friday and Saturday schedule, as well as two Friday game previews and a list of Friday games that 810 Varsity will be broadcast online.
Odessa (7-0) at Harrisonville (7-0)
Harrisonville has skated through the first seven weeks of the season unbeaten, and — for a program that has won four state championships since 2003 — that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise.
But Odessa? Well, its undefeated record wasn’t quite so expected.
The Bulldogs had won only six games over a three-year span from 2011-2013 before winning seven last season, and they’ve upped the ante again this fall.
Odessa has a dynamic offense that scores 44.1 points per game, led by running back Kobe Hardin, who has rushed for 100-plus yards in all seven games and has 15 touchdowns this season.
And therein lies the intriguing matchup. Harrisonville has held every opponent this season to 14 or fewer points.
| Sam McDowell, smcdowell@kcstar.com
Shawnee Mission West (4-1) at Olathe East (3-2)
Both teams are coming off big victories and need to keep the momentum going with district play starting next week.
Shawnee Mission West’s one loss came against SM East, the Kansas Class 6A defending state champion, and no other opponent has come within seven points of the Vikings this season. SM West’s defense allowed just seven points in last week’s victory against Olathe South. Kirby Grigsby paces the Vikings’ offense with six rushing touchdowns in the last three games.
Olathe East presents a similar rushing threat in Alex Conley, who scored three touchdowns on the ground last week. The Hawks have won three consecutive games and seem to have found a groove under first-year coach Jesse Owen.
| Kathleen Gier, kgier@kcstar.com
810 VARSITY ONLINE GAMES
810 Varsity will broadcast live high school events in the Kansas City area throughout the 2015-16 school year. Here are tonight’s games that can be watched online at 810Varsity.com.
Blue Valley North at Gardner-Edgerton
Chillicothe at Smithville
Coffeyville at St. James Academy
Lee’s Summit at Raymore-Peculiar
Lee’s Summit West at Blue Springs
Odessa at Harrisonville
St. Thomas Aquinas at Blue Valley
KC AREA SCHEDULE: WEEK 8
(All times 7 p.m. unless noted)
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Belton at Kearney
Bishop Ward at Basehor-Linwood
Blue Springs South at Lee’s Summit North
Blue Valley North at Gardner Edgerton
Blue Valley Southwest at Bishop Miege
Blue Valley West at Blue Valley Northwest
Bonner Springs at Tonganoxie
Center at O’Hara
Central Heights at Osawatomie
Chillicothe at Smithville
Columbia Hickman at Liberty
De Soto at Louisburg
Excelsior Springs at Pleasant Hill
Field Kindley at St. James Academy
Grain Valley at Oak Grove
Harmon at Schlagle
Jefferson City Helias at Rockhurst, 7:30 p.m.
Knob Noster at Richmond
Lawson at Mid-Buchanan
Lee’s Summit at Raymore-Peculiar
Lee’s Summit West at Blue Springs
Liberty North at Fort Osage
Lone Jack at Sweet Springs
Midway at Lighthouse Christian
Mill Valley at Lansing
Oak Park at North Kansas City
Odessa at Harrisonville
Olathe Northwest at SM Northwest
Olathe South at Lawrence
Paola at Baldwin
Park Hill South at Ruskin
Pembroke Hill at Lincoln Prep
Piper at Turner
Platte County at Grandview
Pleasant Ridge at Oskaloosa
Raytown at Staley
St. Joseph Central at Park Hill
St. Pius X at Smith-Cotton
St. Thomas Aquinas at Blue Valley
SM East at Leavenworth
SM South at Lawrence Free State
SM West at Olathe East
Southwest ECC at University Academy
Spring Hill at Eudora
Troy at Immaculata/Maranatha Christian
Truman at William Chrisman
Washington at Sumner Academy
Washington County at McLouth
Wellington-Napoleon at Orrick
West Platte at Plattsburg
Winnetonka at Raytown South
Wyandotte at Atchison
SATURDAY’S GAMES
African Centered at Hogan Prep, 1 p.m.
Gallatin at Summit Christian, 1 p.m.
Van Horn at Central, 1 p.m.
This story was originally published October 8, 2015 at 5:01 PM with the headline "Friday night football (Oct. 9): Games to watch, 810 Varsity online games and KC area schedule."