Last season, a rigorous nonconference schedule seemed to bend the will of the Glenbard West football team.

Ultimately that led to Glenbard West missing the playoffs in a 4-5 campaign. The early season schedule seemed to set up for a similar scenario to possibly play out again.

But this version of the Glenbard West football team simply isn’t having it.

Faced with significant challenges in each of their first two games, Glenbard West (2-0) has been the one making opponents bend to its will and on Saturday that allowed it to collect a hard-fought 27-21 victory over Joliet Catholic.

“They are resilient. The senior leadership is phenomenal,” Glenbard West coach Chad Hetlet said. “We’ve got a great group of seniors that are just a can do kind of crew. We just have guys who step up and mak

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