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Declo-Aberdeen highlight Week 2 of Idaho high school football season – East Idaho News
IDAHO FALLS — Week 2 will feature a pair of conference matchups on the high school gridiron — Skyline at Blackfoot and Declo at Aberdeen. But that is far from the only intriguing games set for this weekend.
Highland will play yet another out-of-state opponent, Summit (OR), Saturday at the Northwest Showdown at Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian. Rigby will also be there, facing Moses Lake (Wash.) Friday night.
Back home in eastern Idaho, fans will have their pick from another full slate of games.
Battle of 3A undefeateds
Declo (2-0) will go to Aberdeen (1-0) for an early undefeated showdown in the 3A South East Idaho Conference.
The Hornets have already scored a pair of road wins, beating Teton, 26-14, and Nampa Christian, 28-7. They are coming off an undefeated regular season — including a 55-28 victory over Aberdeen — and runner-up finish in the 2A state tournament. Aberdeen opened its season last week with a tight 20-18 victory over rival American Falls.
Which team will establish early-season dominance in the only District 5 conference matchup of Week 2.
The other side of that coin
Snake River has started its season with a pair of losses, first to Homedale then in a very one-sided game game to Sugar-Salem, 41-6. The Panthers will go on the road to face Kimberly, another 0-2 team, for a 4A non-conference matchup.
Which of the two will tally its first win of 2024.
3A top dog playing up a division
The West Side Pirates, who have won three of the last four state 2A titles, are now in the 3A division, following a state-wide realignment. They started their season last week with a come-from-behind 33-19 victory over division rival Firth.
This week, West Side will open their home schedule welcoming 4A South Fremont. The Cougars are 1-1, with a Week 0 win at home against Bear Lake and a Week 1 loss at Marsh Valley.
Broncos face tough test in Grizzlies
Blackfoot looks for its second win of the season after holding off Preston in last week’s opener.
The Broncos will get conference power Skyline, which fell in its opener to Morgan (UT).
Look for the passing game to come up big. Morgan passed for 345 yards last week and the Grizzlies’ second-half rally came up short after an early deficit.
Preston’s Carter Perry passed for 316 yards and two touchdowns against the Blackfoot defense, but the Broncos overcame that passing attack.
Schedule change for Titans
Thunder Ridge’s football game, originally scheduled for Friday at Centennial, has been moved to Thunder Ridge due to air quality.
The JV team will play Ridgeview at 2 p.m., followed by the freshman game vs. Centennial at 4:30 p.m.
The Centennial at Thunder Ridge varsity game kicks off at 7 p.m.
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BLACKFOOT — A large contingent of Blackfoot Police officers has cordoned off an area near the Taco Bell on Parkway Drive in Blackfoot.
Police responded around 5 p.m., according to multiple witnesses who contacted EastIdahoNews.com.
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MISSOULA, Mont. — An Idaho Falls angler is back in the Idaho record books after landing a record-setting lake trout at Payette Lake.
Idaho Fish and Game said Dylan Smith caught and released a 43.25-inch lake trout on May 2, setting a new state catch-and-release record for the species. The fish surpassed the previous record of 42 inches.
The catch marks Smith’s second appearance in Idaho’s record books. He previously held the state catch-and-release lake trout record after landing a trophy fish in 2018 before that mark was later broken.
According to Fish and Game, Payette Lake has become one of Idaho’s premier lake trout fisheries thanks to years of management efforts aimed at improving both lake trout and kokanee populations.
Pride Month looks different this June along Boise’s Harrison Boulevard, where a long-standing tradition of hanging Pride flags on lamp posts has been put on hold after a new state law restricted which flags can be flown on government property.
For several years, Pride flags lined lamp posts along Harrison Boulevard in Boise’s North End neighborhood. But Idaho House Bill 561, signed by Gov. Brad Little in March, restricts which flags can be flown on government property, including the City of Boise’s Harrison lamp posts.
In response, a group of neighbors formed Pride North End and launched a distribution effort to help residents show support from their own front yards. The group has been making Pride flags and yard signs available to people who want to display them at home.
“I thought that I would…be a personal example of ‘yes, this is what I do.’ This is what I believe in,” said Edna Schochat, a North End resident.
Pride North End has already distributed more than 900-yard signs and 250 flags. The group’s original donation goal was around $2,000 to order 100 flags and 200 yard signs, but it has exceeded that GoFundMe goal, reaching $10,000 worth of donations.
The group plans to continue holding public flag and sign distributions through the end of the month.
“We cannot just say something without doing something that proves that we mean what we say,” Schochat said.
Pride North End said any leftover funds after materials are distributed will go to local LGBTQ+ nonprofits. A link to the group’s GoFundMe can be found here.
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