The football season didn’t start how Minooka envisioned.

The Indians suffered one-point losses to St. Charles North and Yorkville sandwiched around a two-point win over Neuqua Valley and were sitting at 1-2 after three weeks. They lost returning starter Zane Caves at quarterback to an injury in the Neuqua Valley game.

Since the Yorkville game, though, Minooka has reeled off four straight wins and owns a 5-2 record. The Indians are one of four teams in the Southwest Prairie West with 2-1 league records, along with Oswego East, Yorkville and Bolingbrook.

Friday night’s 10-3 win over Oswego was the fifth time in seven games a Minooka game was decided by one possession.

The Indians are starting to get the hang of winning those games.

“These kids just don’t stop,” Minooka coach Matt Hard

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