POCATELLO — This week’s District 5 Game of the Week will feature a 1A perennial power and a program playing its second game in six years, in a conference showdown.

The Rockland Bulldogs have won their conference each of the last three seasons and are coming off a loss in the second round of last year’s 1A Football State Championships.

The Sho-Ban Chiefs (0-1, 0-1), on the other hand, had to blow the dust off their uniforms when they played the Challis Vikings on the road last week. Sho-Ban High School has not played a high school football game since October 2019, and hasn’t won one since Sept. 15, 2017.

When the two squads meet at Idaho State University’s ICCU Dome at 1 p.m. Friday, it will be this Rockland squad’s first game.

Rockland’s roster includes just 13 names. Among that short

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