After starting 3-0 for the first time in more than a decade, the following three weeks were unkind to the Plainfield East football team. Three consecutive losses and only one of them within a score left the Bengals hungry for a victory.

Likewise, Joliet West was looking to bounce back from a rough loss to Oswego the week before Friday night. Moreover, the Tigers were looking to pick up a big homecoming victory.

In a fight between hungry Bengals and hungry Tigers, it was the Bengals that came out on top.

Plainfield East scored three touchdowns in the first half in a contest that surely won’t score either team any style points, but it amounted to a 27-7 victory for the Bengals all the same. Those 27 points are the only ones that matter to Plainfield East.

“It feels good just going ou

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