Cardinals off to a dominant start heading into conference play

BECKY MALKOW PHOTO The Independent-Register
Gage Boegli lays a lick on an Evansville receiver, breaking up the pass play for an incompletion.

By Trenten Scheidegger, Correspondent

It was 90 degrees and humid just before kickoff on Aug. 27, but the weather was not the hottest thing in Brodhead, as the Cardinals football team is off to a scorching start in their 2021 campaign.

Despite transferring to a new conference, the Southwest Conference, Brodhead-Juda was set to face off with two opponents from their former conference, the Rock Valley Conference, to start the season.

These early season, out-of-conference matchups were supposed to be a test of the Cardinals’ abilities in 2021.  They would make quick work of both week one and week two opponents, however. After toppling the Edgerton Tide 39-0 in week one, the Cards carried that momentum right into week two when they hosted the Evansville Blue Devils on Aug. 27.

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